Moss Block

{
 "title": "Moss Block",
 "rows": [
 {
 "field": "<span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #fff; border: 1px solid #888; border-radius: 0.3em; color: transparent; width: 1em; height: 1em; vertical-align: -0.36em; margin-right: -0.1em\"><br></span> </span> Common",
 "label": "(link to Rarity article, displayed as Rarity tier)"
 },
 {
 "field": "Yes",
 "label": "(link to Renewable resource article, displayed as Renewable)"
 },
 {
 "field": "Yes (64)",
 "label": "Stackable"
 },
 {
 "field": "<span class=\"sprite-file\" style=\"height:32px;width:32px;--vertical-align:middle\">(link to File:SlotSprite Hoe Required.png article, displayed as 32x32px|link=|alt=SlotSprite Hoe Required.png: Sprite image for Hoe Required in Minecraft|class=pixel-image|This block can be broken with any tool, but a hoe is the quickest)</span>",
 "label": "Tool"
 },
 {
 "field": "0.1",
 "label": "(link to Explosion#Blast resistance article, displayed as Blast resistance)"
 },
 {
 "field": "0.1",
 "label": "(link to Breaking#Blocks by hardness article, displayed as Hardness)"
 },
 {
 "field": "No",
 "label": "(link to Light article, displayed as Luminous)"
 },
 {
 "field": "No",
 "label": "(link to Opacity article, displayed as Transparent)"
 },
 {
 "field": "No",
 "label": "(link to Flammable article, displayed as Flammable)"
 },
 {
 "field": "No",
 "label": "Catches fire<br>from (link to lava article, displayed as lava)"
 },
 {
 "field": "<span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: rgb(102, 127, 51); border: 1px solid #888; border-radius: 0.3em; color: transparent; width: 1em; height: 1em; vertical-align: -0.36em; margin-right: -0.1em\"><br></span> 27 COLOR<wbr/>_GREEN</span>",
 "label": "(link to Map color article, displayed as Map color)"
 },
 {
 "field": "Default (Harp)",
 "label": "(link to Note Block#Instruments article, displayed as Note block instrument)"
 },
 {
 "field": "Fast Flat",
 "label": "(link to Sulfur Cube#Archetypes article, displayed as Sulfur cube archetype)"
 }
 ],
 "invimages": [
 "Moss Block"
 ],
 "images": [
 "Moss Block.png"
 ]
}

A moss block is a natural block that can be spread to other blocks by using bone meal.

Moss blocks can be mined using any tool or by hand, but a hoe is fastest.

Moss generates on the floor and ceiling within the lush caves biome. They can also be found in trial chambers indicating that a trial spawner can spawn slimes.

An enderman holding a moss block drops the block upon death.

In Bedrock Edition, wandering traders have a chance of 8.5% (increased by 1% per level of Looting) to drop 2 moss blocks when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an emerald.

{ "item": "Moss Block", "stacksize": "1–4", "chance": 0.42061090139687074, "structure": "Shipwreck", "container": "Supply chest" }

{ "item": "Moss Block", "stacksize": "2–5", "chance": 0.20351336037302348, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Supply chest" }

Wandering traders may sell 2 moss blocks for 1 emerald.

When bone meal is used on a moss block, moss spreads to any of the blocks listed below, if they have air blocks immediately above them, in a cornerless 7×11×7 volume centered on the original moss block. Foliage can replace air on any of these blocks.

The following blocks can be replaced with moss blocks:

When a moss block generates with air above it, it has a chance to have grass, an azalea, or a moss carpet growing on it.

In Java Edition, when bone meal is used on a moss block, first the game checks that the block directly above the moss block is air. If successful, maximum X and Z distances are chosen (independently from each other) with a 50% chance of being either 2 or 3. Then, in a rectangular area centered on the moss block restricted to those maximum distances, the game decides independently for each vertical column whether a block is converted to moss. Each corner has a 0% chance to be selected, each edge has a 75% chance, and the rest of the blocks are always selected. If this check succeeds, a scan is started at a y-level one above the moss block to find a block with air above it. If the scan starts in an air block, it searches up to 6 blocks downward. If it starts in a non-air block, it searches up to 4 blocks upward. Both scans stop on the first block with air above it, even if it cannot be converted to moss. The chosen block is converted to moss if possible, and if so (or if it already was a moss block) there is a 60% chance that vegetation generates above it.

Each piece of bone meal used on a flat 7×7 grid of convertible blocks yields on average 27 moss blocks (varies widely), which give about 2.5 bone meal when put through a composter.

In Java Edition, blocks that can be replaced by moss are listed in the moss_replaceable block tag, which includes blocks with the base_stone_overworld, cave_vines and dirt tags. This theoretically also includes blocks such as cave vines and dirt path, which cannot be converted because they do not have a solid top surface aligned with the block grid.​^{[more information needed for Bedrock Edition]}

All plants can be placed on moss except for cacti. Small dripleaves can be placed on moss blocks even outside of water. Nether fungi can also be placed on moss, while mushrooms can be placed only at light level 12 or below. Mushrooms placed on moss blocks can be grown into huge mushrooms.

Placing a moss block into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

A sniffer egg hatches twice as fast as normal when on top of a moss block.

Moss blocks are destroyed and dropped as items when pushed by pistons. They do not stick to sticky pistons, slime blocks or honey blocks.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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

• 👁 A preview of the lush caves with moss blocks from Minecraft Live 2020.
  
  A preview of the lush caves with moss blocks from Minecraft Live 2020.
• 👁 An additional preview from Minecraft Live.
  
  An additional preview from Minecraft Live.
• 👁 A preview of the lush caves with moss blocks, tweeted by LadyAgnes.
  
  A preview of the lush caves with moss blocks, tweeted by LadyAgnes.
• 👁 Another preview of the lush caves with moss blocks, in an interview with LadyAgnes.
  
  Another preview of the lush caves with moss blocks, in an interview with LadyAgnes.

• 👁 Efe approaches a moss block.
  
  Efe approaches a moss block.
• 👁 Efe meeting the snifflet that hatched on the aforementioned moss block.
  
  Efe meeting the snifflet that hatched on the aforementioned moss block.
• 👁 A moss block as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons.
  
  A moss block as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons.

• 👁 Image
  Pale Moss Block
• 👁 Image
  Sculk Catalyst

• Block of the Week: Moss – Minecraft.net on July 1, 2021