Nether Wart

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Nether wart is a fungus harvested from Nether wart crops and is used to plant them. It is an essential ingredient in almost every potion. Unlike other crimson plants, Nether wart doesn't have a warped equivalent, although warped wart blocks exist.

Nether wart crops are found in Nether fortresses and bastion remnants and used to grow Nether wart, which only requires soul sand to grow.

Nether wart can be mined instantly with any tool. A fully mature Nether wart crop yields 2–4 Nether wart. This is increased by one for each level of Fortune, this allows for a maximum of 7 Nether warts dropping from one crop. Less mature stages drop one Nether wart, even with the Fortune enchantment.

Nether wart can generate in Nether fortresses in soul sand gardens around stairwells or in chests. Nether wart can also generate in the courtyards of housing unit bastion remnants. Because it only spawns in these specific structures, it's possible for a Nether fortress or bastion remnant to generate without Nether wart.

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Nether wart's primary purpose is to brew the awkward potion, the base for all potions, but optional for Weakness.

When planted on soul sand, Nether wart grows through four stages, though the middle two stages use the same texture (the hitbox of stage 3 is three pixels taller). In Java Edition, the exact age can be seen using the debug screen, and the ages range from 0 to 3. Each random tick, Nether wart has a 10% chance of growing one stage. At default random tick speed, each Nether wart grows one age step approximately every 13653 game ticks (11.3775 minutes) on average, and fully grows from planting to harvest every 40960 game ticks (34.133333333333 minutes) on average. The growth rate is not affected by light or any other environmental factors. Bone meal cannot be used on the Nether wart.

Nether wart can only be planted on soul sand. It cannot be planted on soul soil. It can grow in any dimension.

Nether wart is ready to harvest when it reaches its fourth stage (age:3). Breaking a fully grown Nether wart drops 2 to 4 Nether wart, while an immature one drops a single Nether wart. Using a tool enchanted with fortune increases the maximum number of Nether wart dropped by 1 per level, for a maximum of 7 for a tool enchanted with Fortune III.

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

Note that one should preferably not craft Nether wart blocks for composting purposes. Using 9 Nether warts gives almost 95% chance of raising the compost level at least 4 times, while using a Nether wart block gives an 85% chance of raising it once.

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

• Nether wart's stage changes cannot be detected by a block update detector, but can by an observer block.

• 👁 Nether wart growing next to stairs in a Nether fortress
  
  Nether wart growing next to stairs in a Nether fortress

• 👁 Nether wart found in a Nether fortress.
  
  Nether wart found in a Nether fortress.
• 👁 Another example of Nether wart found in a Nether fortress.
  
  Another example of Nether wart found in a Nether fortress.
• 👁 The three different sizes of the Nether wart as viewed from the side.
  
  The three different sizes of the Nether wart as viewed from the side.