Dirt

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Dirt is a block found abundantly in most biomes under a layer of grass blocks at the top of the Overworld as well as in patches underground.

Dirt can be broken with any tool, but a shovel is the quickest. Dirt drops itself when it's destroyed.

Dirt comprises the majority of the upper terrain layers in most Overworld biomes, bridging the gap between stone and grass blocks in various thicknesses.

There are approximately 1,850 dirt blocks per chunk in plains, forest, snowy plains, jungle, and windswept hills biomes. In villages, dirt generates naturally as part of several different structures. In woodland mansions, dirt generates in several types of rooms. Four blocks of dirt generates as part of each ancient city near the center. Dirt can also generate in trail ruins and at the base of trees in trial chambers entrances.

Dirt can generate in the Overworld in the form of ore blobs. Dirt attempts to generate 7 times per chunk in blobs of size 0–160 at Y=0–160, in all biomes. It can replace stone, granite, andesite, diorite, polished granite‌^{[BE only]}, polished andesite‌^{[BE only]}, polished diorite‌^{[BE only]}, tuff‌^{[JE only]}, and deepslate‌^{[JE only]}.

An enderman that picks up and holds a dirt block drops it upon death.

Farmland, dirt paths, grass blocks, mycelium, and podzol drop dirt if broken without Silk Touch. Farmland and dirt paths‌^{[JE only]} drop dirt even if broken with Silk Touch.

Farmland turns into dirt if either a mob jumps on it, a solid block is placed over it, or nothing is planted on it and it is not within four blocks of water.

A dirt path immediately turns into dirt if a solid block is placed over it.

Coarse dirt can be tilled with a hoe to become dirt.

Tilling rooted dirt with a hoe turns it into normal dirt and yields a hanging roots item.

Grass blocks and mycelium can die under various circumstances (Most often when a solid, opaque block is placed on top of them). When they die, they turn into dirt.

By tilling coarse dirt, the player can convert gravel into dirt. Two blocks each of gravel and dirt become four blocks of coarse dirt, which can then be placed and tilled. Since gravel is renewable through bartering with piglins, this makes a renewable source of dirt.

Another way to obtain renewable dirt makes use of moss blocks. Azalea converts the moss block below it into rooted dirt when grown into a tree. In Bedrock Edition, most saplings will convert the moss directly below it into dirt, sometimes a minute after it's grown into a tree. In Java Edition, large spruce trees convert up to about 100 moss blocks into podzol when grown. Since moss can be converted from stone using bone meal, and stone can be renewably generated with water and lava, dirt can be renewably created as long as there is access to water, lava and moss blocks.

A third way to obtain renewable dirt is by buying podzol or rooted dirt from wandering traders. However, only 18 blocks of podzol or 10 blocks of rooted dirt can be purchased from each trader, so this method cannot be performed on a large scale.

Dirt's primary use is for farming, but due to its abundance, it can also be used as a highly available building block or as temporary scaffolding.

Dirt has the ability to grow saplings, sugar cane, mushrooms, sweet berries, and bamboo, which can be planted directly in dirt under appropriate conditions.

Using a hoe on dirt turns it into farmland, enabling wheat seeds, pumpkin seeds, melon seeds, potatoes, carrots, beetroot seeds, pitcher pods, and torchflower seeds to be planted on it.

Using a shovel on dirt turns it into a dirt path.

When a dirt block is adjacent to a grass block and is exposed to a light level of at least 4, it is eventually converted into a grass block at random intervals.

Mycelium spreads in a similar fashion, but requires a light level of at least 9.

Using a water bottle, splash water bottle or lingering water bottle will convert the dirt into mud.

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Issues relating to "Dirt" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• 👁 A cave entrance containing multitudes of dirt.
  
  A cave entrance containing multitudes of dirt.
• 👁 Grass spreading on a square of dirt.
  
  Grass spreading on a square of dirt.

• 👁 Unimplemented dirt slabs.
  
  Unimplemented dirt slabs.
• 👁 A castle made of dirt.
  
  A castle made of dirt.

• 👁 A human standing on a dirt pillar in a snowy taiga.
  
  A human standing on a dirt pillar in a snowy taiga.
• 👁 Dirt as it appeared in Minecraft Earth
  
  Dirt as it appeared in Minecraft Earth
• 👁 Melissa Benoist grabbing a dirt block
  
  Melissa Benoist grabbing a dirt block
• 👁 A realistic dirt block featured in Ten Things You Probably Didn't Know About Minecraft
  
  A realistic dirt block featured in Ten Things You Probably Didn't Know About Minecraft
• 👁 Steve building a house with Dirt in A Minecraft Movie
  
  Steve building a house with Dirt in A Minecraft Movie
• 👁 Kai pointing at Efe's dirt hut
  
  Kai pointing at Efe's dirt hut

• "Block of the Week: Dirt" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, February 23, 2018.