Sign

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 "title": "Sign",
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 "field": "Yes",
 "label": "(link to Renewable resource article, displayed as Renewable)"
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 {
 "field": "Yes (16)",
 "label": "Stackable"
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 "field": "<span class=\"sprite-file\" style=\"height:32px;width:32px;--vertical-align:middle\">(link to File:SlotSprite Axe Required.png article, displayed as 32x32px|link=|alt=SlotSprite Axe Required.png: Sprite image for Axe Required in Minecraft|class=pixel-image|This block can be broken with any tool, but an axe is the quickest)</span>",
 "label": "Tool"
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 {
 "field": "1",
 "label": "(link to Explosion#Blast resistance article, displayed as Blast resistance)"
 },
 {
 "field": "1",
 "label": "(link to Breaking#Blocks by hardness article, displayed as Hardness)"
 },
 {
 "field": "No",
 "label": "(link to Light article, displayed as Luminous)"
 },
 {
 "field": "Yes",
 "label": "(link to Opacity article, displayed as Transparent)"
 },
 {
 "field": "Yes",
 "label": "(link to Waterlogging article, displayed as Waterloggable)"
 },
 {
 "field": "No",
 "label": "(link to Flammable article, displayed as Flammable)"
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 "field": "'''(link to Java Edition article, displayed as JE):''' Yes, except <span class=\"sprite-file\" style=\"\">(link to File:BlockSprite crimson-sign.png article, displayed as 16x16px|link=|alt=BlockSprite crimson-sign.png: Sprite image for crimson-sign in Minecraft|class=pixel-image|)</span> Crimson and <span class=\"sprite-file\" style=\"\">(link to File:BlockSprite warped-sign.png article, displayed as 16x16px|link=|alt=BlockSprite warped-sign.png: Sprite image for warped-sign in Minecraft|class=pixel-image|)</span> Warped Signs<br>'''(link to Bedrock Edition article, displayed as BE):''' Yes",
 "label": "Catches fire<br>from (link to lava article, displayed as lava)"
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 {
 "field": "(values exceeds 1000 characters...)",
 "label": "(link to Map color article, displayed as Map color)"
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 {
 "field": "Bass",
 "label": "(link to Note Block#Instruments article, displayed as Note block instrument)"
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 "invimages": [
 "Oak Sign",
 "Spruce Sign",
 "Birch Sign",
 "Jungle Sign",
 "Acacia Sign",
 "Dark Oak Sign",
 "Mangrove Sign",
 "Poplar Sign",
 "Cherry Sign",
 "Pale Oak Sign",
 "Crimson Sign",
 "Warped Sign"
 ],
 "images": [
 "Oak Sign.png",
 "Oak Wall Sign.png",
 "Spruce Sign.png",
 "Spruce Wall Sign.png",
 "Birch Sign.png",
 "Birch Wall Sign.png",
 "Jungle Sign.png",
 "Jungle Wall Sign.png",
 "Acacia Sign.png",
 "Acacia Wall Sign.png",
 "Dark Oak Sign.png",
 "Dark Oak Wall Sign.png",
 "Mangrove Sign.png",
 "Mangrove Wall Sign.png",
 "Poplar Sign.png",
 "Poplar Wall Sign.png",
 "Cherry Sign.png",
 "Cherry Wall Sign.png",
 "Pale Oak Sign.png",
 "Pale Oak Wall Sign.png",
 "Bamboo Sign.png",
 "Bamboo Wall Sign.png",
 "Crimson Sign.png",
 "Crimson Wall Sign.png",
 "Warped Sign.png",
 "Warped Wall Sign.png"
 ]
}

A sign is a non-solid block that can display text, and can be placed on the top or side of other blocks. The text of signs can be customized with dyes and glow ink sacs, and they can be waxed to prevent its text from being edited by any player.

Signs can be broken with any tool or without a tool, but an axe is fastest.

A sign also breaks and drops itself as an item if the block the sign is attached to is moved, removed or destroyed.

An oak sign can be found in igloo basements. Spruce signs can be found in taiga village houses, as part of a chair but the sign says nothing.

{ "item": "Spruce Sign", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.09723883474496142, "structure": "Village", "container": "Taiga house chest" }

{ "item": "Oak Sign", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.10665831307875395, "structure": "Village", "container": "Taiga house chest" }

Signs can be used to display text; they can be used to label storage, display information to other players or note areas of interest. Signs are also not destroyed by water or lava and therefore may be used to control the flow of these fluids.

Signs may be placed on the top or side of other blocks (including semi-solid and non-solid blocks such as fences, trapdoors and other signs). To place a sign, use a sign item while pointing at the block the sign should be attached to, enter the desired text (or none), and click the "Done" button,‌^{[JE only]} press anywhere outside the sign texture,‌^{[BE only]}, press "escape" on a keyboard, or 👁 B button
on an Xbox controller, 👁 Circle button
on a PlayStation controller, or 👁 B Button
on a Nintendo Switch controller. Closing the virtual keyboard on a mobile device also exits the typing menu. To place a sign on a block that can be interacted with by the use control (for example, chests, note blocks, etc.), sneak while placing the sign.

Signs on the top of a block stand on a short post and face toward the player who placed it, in any of 16 different directions. Signs placed on the side of a block simply float there, even if the block doesn't make contact with the sign.

For more information about the blocks signs can be placed on, see Opacity/Placement.

Placing a sign opens an editor interface resembling a magnified view of the sign. Up to four lines of text can then be entered using a keyboard (hardware or on-screen). The editor supports limited editing, including moving the cursor and inserting and deleting characters. In Bedrock Edition, formatting codes with § can also be used to apply decorative effects such as color, bold, italic and obfuscated to various bits of the text.

Text can be added to the back side of a sign by interacting with that side of the sign after placing it and editing the front.

Signs can be waxed by using a honeycomb on it. Once waxed, a sign cannot be unwaxed or edited without being broken and placed down again or by using commands like /data

After placing and affixing text on a sign, a player can change the text color by using a dye on it. When colored with dye, the text color may differ from any color specified by formatting codes. These values are hard-coded in the game's code, each dye color maps to one of these. The dye color on the sign's face is applied to all 4 lines of text. Any text that has been colored with text component format overwrites this color, effectively making the 'dye' color be used as a base color for any unstyled text.

A player can use a glow ink sac on a sign to make its text glow and have an outline. The glowing text is not affected by lighting. The player can use a regular black ink sac on the sign to remove the glowing effect. If the text has been colored with text component format the glow outline still shows the default white or the color of underlying dye that was used on the sign.

In Creative mode, the combination + pick block on Windows/Linux, or + pick block on macOS, can be used to copy an already-placed sign, including its text (with decorations), into the player's inventory.

A dyed sign facing east or west has text that appears more saturated and bright than a sign facing north or south. However, it is actually the sign that is dimmer, because Minecraft's lighting engine uses side lighting to make the world appear less flat, but the text on signs is not affected by this.

In Bedrock Edition and on Java Realms, inappropriate words or phrases in a sign's text are displayed as hashtags if the "Filter Profanity" setting is enabled.

In Java Edition, signs can be created with text components, which allows complex formatting (colors, bold, italic, etc.), hover and click events, localized translation (for Minecraft technical terms, like "Redstone Repeater", otherwise translations must be provided in language files in resource packs), and the incorporation of scoreboard values into text. Use the /data merge block command to create or alter text component-based signs.

Example: /data merge block ~ ~1 ~ {front_text: {color: "green", messages: [{selector: "@p", bold: false, italic: false, underlined: false, strikethrough: false, obfuscated: false, text: "First Line"}, 'Second Line', '', '']}}

Signs can post the success count of text hover and click events to scoreboard objectives. The objectives to be used can be specified by running the /execute store command or by modifying the sign's NBT data directly with the /data merge block command.

Signs can be edited after being placed by using them, which opens the edit sign message GUI.

Signs are destroyed and drop as an item when pushed by a piston.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Signs are non-solid and have no collision, so items and mobs can move through sign blocks. Other blocks (including other signs) can be placed on any edge of a sign.

Water and lava flow around signs. Lava can create fire in air blocks next to signs as if the signs were flammable, but the signs do not burn (and cannot be burned by other methods either, except in Bedrock Edition).

Overworld signs can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting an item per sign. Nether signs (crimson and warped), cannot be used as fuel in a furnace.

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Standing

Wall

Bedrock Edition:

Standing

Wall

A sign has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

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

• 👁 All signs and hanging signs.
  
  All signs and hanging signs.
• 👁 Test of signs in early Java Edition Classic.
  
  Test of signs in early Java Edition Classic.
• 👁 Oak sign with glow ink in the dark in Java Edition 21w03a.
  
  Oak sign with glow ink in the dark in Java Edition 21w03a.
• 👁 Difference in visibility of a lime text, from left to right, in a lit birch sign, unlit birch sign, lit dark oak sign, and unlit dark oak sign.
  
  Difference in visibility of a lime text, from left to right, in a lit birch sign, unlit birch sign, lit dark oak sign, and unlit dark oak sign.
• 👁 The comparison between glow text and non-glow text.
  
  The comparison between glow text and non-glow text.
• 👁 Shading differences
  
  Signs being different shades depending on orientation.
• 👁 All sixteen colors of glow text.
  
  All sixteen colors of glow text.
• 👁 Showcase of different ways to style a sign using a dye and a glow ink, text formatting and a set of Unicode characters to use as an alternative font.
  
  Showcase of different ways to style a sign using a dye and a glow ink, text formatting and a set of Unicode characters to use as an alternative font.

• 👁 Another early sign image.
  
  Another early sign image.
• 👁 First image of sign blocks during Infdev.
  
  First image of sign blocks during Infdev.
• 👁 First image of signs on Pocket Edition.
  
  First image of signs on Pocket Edition.
• 👁 First image of editing text on PE iOS.
  
  First image of editing text on PE iOS.
• 👁 First image of editing text on PE Android.
  
  First image of editing text on PE Android.
• 👁 Image
  
• 👁 A sign placed on a door.
  
  A sign placed on a door.
• 👁 A sign being broken.
  
  A sign being broken.
• 👁 A dark oak sign with black text.
  
  A dark oak sign with black text.
• 👁 A dark oak sign with white text.
  
  A dark oak sign with white text.
• 👁 A sign using blockdata to dynamically change.
  
  A sign using blockdata to dynamically change.
• 👁 First image of a sign using JSON text.
  
  First image of a sign using JSON text.
• 👁 First image of a sign using width based character limits.
  
  First image of a sign using width based character limits.
• 👁 Signs with glowing ink in several colors.
  
  Signs with glowing ink in several colors.
• 👁 More signs with glowing ink.
  
  More signs with glowing ink.
• 👁 Image
  
• 👁 Image
  
• 👁 Crafting signs.
  
  Crafting signs.
• 👁 Image
  

• 👁 A sign in A Minecraft Movie.
  
  A sign in A Minecraft Movie.
• 👁 A copper golem holding up a sign promoting Minecraft LIVE – September 2025.
  
  A copper golem holding up a sign promoting Minecraft LIVE – September 2025.

• Chalkboard
• Hanging Sign

• "Taking Inventory: Sign" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, January 9, 2020.