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For the large variant, see Large Fern.
Fern
Fern.png: Infobox image for Fern the block in Minecraft
Invicon Fern.png: Inventory sprite for Fern in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Fern
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Renewable

Yes

Stackable

Yes (64)

Tool

Blast resistance

0

Hardness

0

Luminous

No

Transparent

Yes

Flammable

Yes (60)

Catches fire
from lava

Yes

Map color (JE)


 7 PLANT 

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Ferns are a non-solid plant block found only in certain biomes and have the same characteristics as grass.

Obtaining

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Breaking

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When broken normally, ferns have a 12.5% chance of dropping 1 unit of wheat seeds when destroyed. This is affected by the Fortune enchantment, dropping 1-3, 1-5, or 1-7 wheat seeds respectively with Fortune I, II, and III.

Ferns can be obtained as an item if mined by shears. Large ferns also drop two ferns when broken using shears.

Block Fern
Hardness 0
Breaking time (secs)
Default 0.05
ItemSprite shears.png: Sprite image for shears in MinecraftShears 0.05
Legend
  • incorrect tool, drops nothing
  • correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
  • correct tool, drops the block itself
  • italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

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Ferns occur naturally only in jungle, taiga, snowy taiga and old growth taiga biomes.

Generated loot

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Item Structure Container Quantity Chance
Java Edition
Fern Village Taiga house chest 1 18.6%
{ "item": "Fern", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.18575629348123335, "structure": "Village", "container": "Taiga house chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Fern Village Taiga house chest 1 20.3%
{ "item": "Fern", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20281509304744794, "structure": "Village", "container": "Taiga house chest" }

Trading

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Wandering traders may sell ferns for 1 emerald.

VillagerProbabilityVillager wantsPlayer receivesTrades in
stock		Villager
experience		Price
multiplier
JEBE
Wandering TraderOrdinary7%7%EmeraldFern12——

Post-generation

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In Bedrock Edition, bone meal can be used on a grass block to grow ferns.

Usage

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Placement

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Ferns can be placed on grass blocks, podzol, mycelium, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, mud, muddy mangrove roots, moss blocks, pale moss blocks and farmland.

Ferns can also be placed in flower pots.

All the blocks that ferns can be placed on.

Grazing

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When a sheep eats a fern, the block is destroyed, and a sheared sheep regrows its wool. Baby sheep graze grass and ferns much more often than adults and mature 1 minute faster when grazing.

Composting

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

Bone meal

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Bone meal can be used on a fern to create a large fern.

Color

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The coloration of ferns and potted ferns is dependent on the biome they are in. A block always uses the color set to its location, regardless of how it was placed or of its source. This affects the side and top of the block.

In Bedrock Edition, biome colors also appear on maps.[1]

Item

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In Java Edition, fern items use biome color with temperature 0.5, downfall 1.0, and as a result is colored
 #7cbd6b. In Bedrock Edition, this color is coded in the item's texture.

Biome colors

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These values are generated by the biome dyeing algorithm. See biome colors for more information.

Biome Color Block
Fern Potted Fern
Badlands
 #90814D
Eroded Badlands
Wooded Badlands
Badlands Plateau‌[BE only]
Modified Badlands Plateau‌[BE only]
Modified Wooded Badlands Plateau‌[BE only]
Cherry Grove
 #B6DB61
Desert
 #BFB755
Savanna
Savanna Plateau
Windswept Savanna
Nether Wastes
Soul Sand Valley
Crimson Forest
Warped Forest
Basalt Deltas
Desert Hills‌[BE only]
Desert Lakes‌[BE only]
Shattered Savanna Plateau‌[BE only]
 #82C245
Stony Peaks
 #9ABE4B
Jungle
 #59C93C
Bamboo Jungle
Jungle Hills‌[BE only]
Modified Jungle‌[BE only]
Bamboo Jungle Hills‌[BE only]
Sparse Jungle
 #64C73F
Modified Jungle Edge‌[BE only]
Lush Caves‌[BE only]
 #B9B75B
Mushroom Fields
 #55C93F
Mushroom Field Shore‌[BE only]
Swamp
 #6A7039[n 1]
Mangrove Swamp

 #4C763C[n 2]
Swamp Hills‌[BE only]
Plains
 #91BD59
Sunflower Plains
Beach
Dripstone Caves‌[JE only]
Deep Dark
Forest
 #79C05A
Flower Forest
Wooded Hills‌[BE only]
Tall Birch Hills‌[BE only]
Dark Forest
 #507A32
Dark Forest Hills‌[BE only]
Pale Garden
 #878D76
Birch Forest
 #88BB67
Old Growth Birch Forest
Birch Forest Hills‌[BE only]
Ocean
 #8EB971
Deep Ocean
Warm Ocean
Deep Warm Ocean‌[BE only]
Lukewarm Ocean
Deep Lukewarm Ocean
Cold Ocean
Deep Cold Ocean
Deep Frozen Ocean
River
Lush Caves‌[JE only]
The End
Small End Islands‌[JE only]
End Barrens‌[JE only]
End Midlands‌[JE only]
End Highlands‌[JE only]
The Void‌[JE only]
Meadow‌[JE only]
 #83BB6D
Meadow‌[BE only]
 #86B87F
Old Growth Pine Taiga
Giant Tree Taiga Hills‌[BE only]
Giant Spruce Taiga Hills‌[BE only]
Taiga
 #86B783
Old Growth Spruce Taiga
Taiga Hills‌[BE only]
Taiga Mountains‌[BE only]
Dripstone Caves‌[BE only]
 #8DB58A
Windswept Hills
 #8AB689
Windswept Gravelly Hills
Windswept Forest
Stony Shore
Gravelly Mountains+‌[BE only]
Mountain Edge‌[BE only]
Snowy Beach
 #83B593
Snowy Plains
 #80B497
Ice Spikes
Snowy Taiga
Frozen Ocean
Frozen River
Grove
Snowy Slopes
Frozen Peaks
Jagged Peaks
Snowy Mountains‌[BE only]
Legacy Frozen Ocean‌[BE only]
Snowy Taiga Hills‌[BE only]
Snowy Taiga Mountains‌[BE only]
  1. ↑ Above -0.1 temperature.
  2. ↑ Below -0.1 temperature.

Sounds

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Java Edition:

BlockSprite short-grass.png: Sprite image for short-grass in Minecraft grass sound type
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokenblock.grass.breaksubtitles.block.generic.break​1.00.816
​Block placedBlocksWhen the block is placedblock.grass.placesubtitles.block.generic.place​1.00.816
​Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenblock.grass.hitsubtitles.block.generic.hit​0.250.516
​Something falls on a blockEntity-DependentFalling on the block with fall damageblock.grass.fallsubtitles.block.generic.fall​0.50.7516
​FootstepsEntity-DependentWalking on the blockblock.grass.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.151.016

Bedrock Edition:

BlockSprite short-grass.png: Sprite image for short-grass in Minecraft grass sound type
SoundClosed captions
[upcoming]		SourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation key
[upcoming]		VolumePitch
​Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokendig.grasssubtitles.block.generic.break​0.70.8–1.0
​Block placedBlocksWhen the block is placeduse.grass​
place.grass​[upcoming BE 26.10]​		subtitles.block.generic.place​0.80.8–1.0
​Shovel flattensBlocksWhen a shovel creates a dirt pathuse.grasssubtitles.item.shovel.flatten​1.00.8
​Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenhit.grasssubtitles.block.generic.hit​0.30.5
​FootstepsPlayersFalling on the block with fall damagefall.grasssubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.41.0
​FootstepsPlayersWalking on the blockstep.grasssubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.31.0
​FootstepsBlocksJumping from the blockjump.grasssubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.111.0
​FootstepsBlocksFalling on the block without fall damageland.grasssubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.211.0

Data values

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ID

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Java Edition:

NameIdentifierFormBlock tags Translation key
BlockSprite fern.png: Sprite image for fern in Minecraft FernfernBlock & Itemenchantment_power_transmitter
replaceable
replaceable_by_trees		 block.minecraft.fern

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierAlias ID Numeric ID FormItem ID[i 1] Translation key
BlockSprite fern.png: Sprite image for fern in Minecraft Fernferntallgrass / 21103Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -848)		 tile.tallgrass.fern.name
  1. ↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
  2. ↑ Available with /give command.
  3. ↑ The block's direct item form has the same ID as the block.

History

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Java Edition

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Java Edition Beta
1.6Test Build 3 Added ferns.[2]
The item form, unobtainable by normal means, has no name, uses the grass texture, does not have a tint applied, and places shrubs instead of ferns even if its damage value is 2 as expected.
1.8Pre-releaseFerns can now be harvested with shears, allowing for their legitimate acquisition.
The item now appears with the correct sprite in the inventory, and is also tinted with
 #7cbd6b.
The fern item (damage=2) now places ferns instead of shrubs.
Swamp biomes have been redesigned and rainforest biomes have been removed entirely, so ferns no longer generate.
Pre-release 2 ;)The item is now called "Grass" in the inventory.
Java Edition
1.0.0Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 The tint used for ferns as items has changed to
 #48b518.
The item is now called "Fern" in the inventory.
Ferns are now available in the creative inventory.
1.2.112w03aFerns now generate in jungle biomes.
12w05aPlacing a block while targeting a fern now overwrite the fern, similar to snow. Previously, ferns had to be broken to place blocks in that space.
1.4.212w34aThe ability to place ferns in flower pots has been added.
12w38aThe sounds used for grass-type blocks have been changed.
1.4.41.4.3Ferns no longer appear grayscale when held in third person.
1.7.213w36aFerns now spawn in taiga and cold taiga biomes.
A fern can now be bone mealed into a large fern, which drops two fern items when broken with shears, making ferns renewable for the first time.
1.814w07a The texture planes and pixels of ferns are now completely square.
14w17a The texture planes and pixels of ferns are now stretched and rectangular again.
14w25a Cross models, including ferns, are now subject to directional shading.
14w31a Crosses are no longer subject to directional shading.[3]
1.1418w43a The texture of ferns has been changed.
18w50aFern items can now be found in chests in taiga village houses.
19w03aPlacing a fern into the composter now has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
19w05aFerns now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level by 1.
Wandering traders can now sell a fern for 1 emerald.
1.21.525w08aSheep can now graze on ferns.

Bedrock Edition

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Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.8.0build 1 Added ferns.
build 5Bone meal can now be used to instantly grow ferns on grass blocks.
v0.9.0build 1Ferns now generate naturally.
The tint of ferns now changes depending on the biome.
The fern texture has been brightened.
build 3Bone meal can now be applied to ferns to create large ferns.
v0.11.0build 14Ferns now have a random height.
v0.12.1build 1Ferns can now be snowlogged.
v0.14.0build 3The hitbox no longer occupies an entire block.
v0.15.0build 1The texture is now 44×44, instead of 16×16. Whether this results in any visible changes in-game is unknown.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3[verify] The texture of ferns has been changed.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.1Ferns can now be used to fill composters.
Ferns can now be found in taiga and snowy taiga village house chests.
1.16.0beta 1.16.0.57Wandering traders can now sell a fern for 1 emerald.
1.21.60Preview 1.21.60.21Ferns no longer appear mirrored when viewed from certain angles.[4]
Preview 1.21.60.23Ferns generate more frequently in taigas, old growth spruce taigas, old growth pine taigas, and sparse jungles.

Legacy Console Edition

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Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
1.66.0016.0CU11.001.001.00Patch 11.0.1[verify] Added ferns.
The item form is named "Tall Grass".
TU7The item form is now named "Fern".
TU12Ferns can now be directly overwritten by placed blocks, like snow and water can, rather than having to be broken beforehand.
TU141.04The ability to place ferns in flower pots has been added.
1.90 [verify] The texture of ferns has been changed.
1.91Wandering traders can now sell a fern for 5 emeralds.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

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New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0[verify] Added ferns.

Data history

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Java Edition

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Java Edition
1.1317w47aThe different block states for the tallgrass ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
"Fern" now has a new ID: fern.
Prior to The Flattening, the block's numeral ID was 31, with metadata 2.
1.1721w19aminecraft:fern has been added to the newly-implemented #minecraft:mineable/axe block tag. This, however, has no effect in-game, since the block breaks instantly anyway regardless of tool used or active effects.[check the code]
1.21.525w10aminecraft:fern has been removed from the block tags #minecraft:mineable/axe and #minecraft:sword_efficient.

Bedrock Edition

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Bedrock Edition
1.21.0Preview 1.21.0.20The different block states for the tallgrass ID have now been split up into their own IDs.

Issues

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

Trivia

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  • Even though ferns do not produce seeds in real life, as they emit spores instead, they can drop seeds if broken.

References

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  1. ↑ "[MC-130658] Grass/foliage colors on maps still use the colors from Alpha v1.1.2_01 and earlier / do not change color with biomes - Jira" – Mojira.
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/0/http://notch.tumblr.com/post/5775170768/the-changelist-for-1-6
  3. ↑ MC-57159
  4. ↑ MCPE-40646 — Cross models are displayed wrongly from east and west sides — resolved as "Fixed".
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