Dead Coral
A dead coral is the dead variant of coral. There are five variants total: tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn.
Local game data
Dead Horn Coral
A dead coral is the dead variant of coral. There are five variants total: tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn.
Breaking
Dead coral can be broken instantly with any tool. It can only be obtained with any Silk Touch enchanted tool or a Silk Touch enchanted pickaxe .
Post-generation
Dead coral is created when coral is placed out of water. When live coral is placed outside of water, it dies and transforms into its respective dead coral after 3 to 5 seconds. Coral dies even when the game rule is set to .
Usage
Dead coral can be used as a building or decoration block in and outside of water. Dead coral cannot be turned back into living coral.
Pushing with pistons
dead coral can be moved by pistons as long as it's still "supported" in the new position (not floating).
Trivia
On the Legacy Console Edition (except Xbox One and Nintendo Switch), only the live variants of coral are available. This is due to dead coral being added on Bedrock Edition in Bedrock Edition 1.13.0, several weeks after the last final update was released on PlayStation 4. Although dead coral is unavailable on Legacy Console Edition, dead variants of coral blocks and coral fans are available on the respective platforms with Update Aquatic or newer.