Coral

Breaking

s]] Coral can be broken instantly by hand, but can be obtained only when mined with a Silk Touch enchanted tool. Mining coral does not decrease the Silk Touch tool's durability.

Natural generation

Coral naturally generates in coral reef structures found in warm ocean biomes.

Post-generation

When using bone meal on dirt, coarse dirt, sand, red sand, gravel, or clay in warm ocean biomes, coral generates in place of some of the seagrass in a 5×5 area. , the same can happen in any biome as long as bone meal is used in a water source above the aforementioned solid blocks.

Usage

Coral can be used as a building or decoration block.

Placement

In order for coral to stay alive, at least one of the blocks surrounding it must be water or a waterlogged block. If placed outside of water, it dies and transforms into its respective dead coral after 3 to 4.95 seconds or 2 to 9.95 seconds. Coral dies even when the game rule is set to . Once a coral turns into its dead variant, it is not possible to turn it back into a live variant.

''Java Edition''

1.2_02 secret coral.png|Unused code for a coral block can be found in a developer fork of Beta 1.2_02. This is an example of how it would look in-game using the unused texture from Infdev 20100629.