Short Grass

Short grass is a non-solid plant block that may drop wheat seeds when broken. Its color is biome-dependent, and matches the color of grass blocks.

When broken normally, short grass has 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.

Short grass can be obtained as an item by destroying it with shears. Tall grass also drops two units of short grass when broken using shears.

Placing any block on short grass breaks the grass, and it does not drop anything.

Short grass generates in the form of random patches, on grass blocks in most biomes with grassy soil, like plains or forests.

Short grass may generate on top of farmland in the "wheat farm" room of woodland mansions in place of wheat crops.

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Short Grass	Village	Savanna house chest	1	45.9% { "item": "Short Grass", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.4586286582688752, "structure": "Village", "container": "Savanna house chest" }

Bone meal can be used on a grass block or moss block to grow short grass.

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

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

Placing short grass into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Bone meal can be used on short grass to create tall grass.

The coloration of grass plants is dependent on the biome they are in. A short grass 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]

In Java Edition, grass 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.

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

Biome	Color	Block
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]

Java Edition:

v t e grass sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.grass.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.grass.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.grass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.grass.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.grass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e grass sound type
Sound	Closed captions [upcoming]	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key [upcoming]	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.grass	subtitles.block.generic.break​	0.7	0.8–1.0
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.grass​ place.grass​[upcoming BE 26.10]​	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.8	0.8–1.0
	​Shovel flattens	Blocks	When a shovel creates a dirt path	use.grass	subtitles.item.shovel.flatten​	1.0	0.8
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.grass	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.3	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.3	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.11	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.21	1.0

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Short Grass	short_grass	Block & Item	enchantment_power_transmitter replaceable replaceable_by_trees	block.minecraft.short_grass

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Short Grass	short_grass	tallgrass / 0	31	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.tallgrass.grass.name

Java Edition Beta
1.6			Test Build 3				Added grass.[2]
							The item form, unobtainable by normal means, has no name, does not have a tint applied, and places shrubs instead of grass even if its damage value is 1 as expected.
1.6.6							Bone meal can now be used to instantly grow grass on grass blocks.
1.8			Pre-release				Grass can now be harvested with shears, allowing for its legitimate acquisition.
							The item now appears with the correct sprite in the inventory, and is also tinted with  #7cbd6b.
							The grass item (damage=1) now places grass instead of shrubs.
			Pre-release 2 ;)				The item is now called "Grass" in the inventory.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6				The tint used for grass as an item has changed to  #48b518.
							Grass is now available in the Creative inventory.
1.1			11w49a				Grass can now be grazed on by sheep, destroying it.
1.2.1			12w05a				Placing a block while selecting grass now overwrite the grass, similar to snow. Previously, grass had to be broken to place blocks in that space.
1.4.2			12w38a				The sounds used for grass-type blocks have been changed.
1.4.4			1.4.3				Grass no longer appears grayscale when held in third person.
1.8			14w07a				The texture planes and pixels of grass are now completely square.
			14w17a				The texture planes and pixels of grass are now stretched and rectangular again.
			14w25a				The texture for grass has been made slightly brighter. However, this version also applies directional shading to cross models, making grass appear darker as a result.
			14w31a				Crosses are no longer subject to directional shading.[3]
1.14			18w43a				The texture of grass has been changed.
			18w49a				Grass items can now be found in chests in savanna village houses.
			18w50a				The texture of grass has been changed.
			19w03a				Placing grass into the new composter now has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
			19w05a				Grass now has a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
1.17			pre1				Grass now generates in mushroom fields.[4]
1.20.3			pre1				"Grass" has been renamed to "Short Grass".
1.21.5			25w02a				Short grass now generates slightly sparser in meadows.

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0							Added grass. Only obtainable through inventory editors.
v0.5.0							Grass now drops seeds, despite remaining unobtainable.
September 1, 2013							Aron Nieminen shows grass to generate naturally.
v0.8.0			build 1				The tint and model of grass has been changed.
							Grass is now available in the creative inventory.
			build 5				Bone meal can now be used to instantly grow grass on grass blocks.
v0.9.0			build 1				Grass now generates naturally.
							The tint of grass now changes depending on the biome.
							The grass texture has been brightened.
			build 3				Bone meal can now be applied to grass to create double tallgrass.
v0.11.0			build 14				Grass now has a random height.
v0.12.1			build 1				Grass can now be snowlogged.
v0.14.0			build 3				The hitbox no longer occupies an entire block.
v0.15.0			build 1				The texture is now 44×44, instead of 16×16. Whether this results in any visible changes in-game is unknown.
			?				Worlds now generate less grass.[5]
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of grass has been changed.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Grass can now be used to fill a composter.
							Grass can now be found in savanna village house chests.
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.22				Changed name from "Grass" to "Short Grass" to match Java Edition.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.21				Short grass no longer appears mirrored when viewed from certain angles.[6]
			Preview 1.21.60.23				Short grass now generates more frequently and in larger amounts in plains, savannas, meadows, and sparse jungles.

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
1.66.0016.0	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added tall grass.
TU7							"Tall Grass" has been renamed to "Grass Block".
TU12							Grass can now be directly overwritten by placed blocks, like snow and water can, rather than having to be broken beforehand.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			"Grass Block" has been renamed back to "Tall Grass".
			1.90				[verify] The texture of grass has been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added grass.

Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				The different block states for the tallgrass ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
							"Grass" now has a new ID: grass.
							Prior to The Flattening, the block's numeral ID was 31, with metadata 1.
1.17			21w19a				minecraft:grass 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]
1.20.3			Pre-Release 1				The ID of "Grass", now "Short Grass", has been changed from grass to short_grass.
1.21.5			25w10a				minecraft:short_grass has been removed from the block tags #minecraft:mineable/axe and #minecraft:sword_efficient.

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

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

• Short grass cannot be directly set on fire from lightning. However, fire from nearby blocks can spread to it. The top of short grass can be lit but it does not burn this way.
• Short grass is slightly offset from the block it is sitting on (as seen in the second screenshot). This causes fields of short grass to appear more contiguous.
  • This offset is solely determined by x and z coordinates, regardless of dimension or world seed. Based on this feature, it is possible to calculate the coordinates where a screenshot is taken, if the screenshot includes enough short grass.
  • This can sometimes cause short grass to clip horizontally or vertically through block corners.^[7]
• Short grass can appear in caves on dirt, even if there's no light source nearby.
• Using bone meal on a grass block in a spawn-protected area on a server still produces grass and flowers.
• The original texture for short grass was based on the grass texture from an early version of one of Notch's games, Prelude Of The Chambered.

• 
  Short grass and ferns.
• 
  Short grass appears slightly offset from a grass block.
• 
  Short grass growing in an mineshaft.
• 
  Short grass that generated on sand.
• 
  Short grass that generated inside a village house.
• 
  Short grass generated on stone, due to a lava lake replacing the dirt.
• 
  Short grass generated near an underground lava lake.

• 
  The first image of grass.
• 
  The first image of grass to generate naturally in Pocket Edition.

• Shrub

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