Pile
A pile is a feature that generates up to 25 specific blocks, the type of which correspond to the theme of a given village.
Piles may generate anywhere inside the village and the amount of piles that spawn in a village varies.
There are five variants of a pile: hay, ice, melon, pumpkin, and snow.
Not to be confused with Pie.
| Biomes | See  Village
|
|---|---|
| Generates in existing chunks |
No |
| Consists of | Hay Pile:
Ice Pile: Melon Pile: Pumpkin Pile: Snow Pile: |
A pile is a feature that generates up to 25 specific blocks, the type of which correspond to the theme of a given village.
Piles may generate anywhere inside the village and the amount of piles that spawn in a village varies.
There are five variants of a pile: hay, ice, melon, pumpkin, and snow.
Generation
Piles generate only inside villages.
Hay piles contain hay bales; ice piles contain packed ice and sometimes blue ice; melon piles contain melon blocks; pumpkin piles contain pumpkin blocks and sometimes jack o'lanterns; and snow piles contain snow layers. Up to 25 blocks can be in a given pile.
The variants of the pile spawn naturally in the following villages:
| Village type
|
Pile variant | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Hay Bale
|
 Packed Ice
|
 Melon
|
 Pumpkin
|
 Snow
| |
| Plains Village |
Yes | ||||
 Desert Village |
Yes | ||||
 Savanna Village |
Yes | Yes | |||
 Snowy Village |
Yes | Yes | |||
 Taiga village |
Yes | ||||
Data values
ID
| Feature type | Identifier |
|---|---|
| [No displayed name] | block_pile |
| Configured feature | Identifier |
|---|---|
 [No displayed name] | pile_hay |
| [No displayed name] | pile_ice |
| [No displayed name] | pile_melon |
| [No displayed name] | pile_pumpkin |
| [No displayed name] | pile_snow |
| Feature | Identifier |
|---|---|
| [No displayed name] | hay_pile_feature |
| [No displayed name] | ice_pile_feature |
| [No displayed name] | melon_pile_feature |
| [No displayed name] | pumpkin_pile_feature |
| [No displayed name] | snow_pile_feature |
Config
- [NBT Compound / JSON Object] config
- [NBT Compound / JSON Object] state_provider The block to use.
- Block state provider see Template:Nbt inherit/block state provider/template
- [NBT Compound / JSON Object] state_provider The block to use.
{
"type": "minecraft:block_pile",
"config": {
"state_provider": {
"type": "minecraft:rotated_block_provider",
"state": {
"Name": "minecraft:hay_block",
"Properties": {
"axis": "y"
}
}
}
}
}
History
Java Edition
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.14 | 18w48a | Added hay pile. | |||||
| 18w49a | Added melon pile, ice pile, and snow pile. | ||||||
| 18w50a | Added pumpkin pile. | ||||||
Bedrock Edition
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.10.0 | ? | Added hay pile. | |||||
| ? | Added ice pile. | ||||||
| ? | Added melon pile. | ||||||
| ? | Added pumpkin pile. | ||||||
| ? | Added snow pile. | ||||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Pile" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
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