Cornflower

Cornflower
Cornflower.png: Infobox image for Cornflower the block in Minecraft
Invicon Cornflower.png: Inventory sprite for Cornflower in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Cornflower
Renewable

Yes

Stackable

Yes (64)

Tool

Any tool

Blast resistance

0

Hardness

0

Luminous

No

Transparent

Yes

Flammable

JE: Yes (60)
BE: Yes (30)

Catches fire
from lava

No

A cornflower is a flower that can be crafted into blue dye and suspicious stew.

Obtaining

Breaking

A cornflower can be broken instantly with any item or by hand, dropping itself.

A cornflower also breaks if water or lava runs over its location, if a piston extends or pushes a block into its location, or if a block under the plant is moved or destroyed.

Block
Hardness 0
Breaking time (secs)
Default 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

Cornflowers generate naturally on dirt and grass blocks in plains, sunflower plains, flower forest, and meadow biomes as part of vegetation features. In Java Edition, they are also technically capable of growing in dripstone caves and deep dark biomes, though it is very unlikely due to lack of grass blocks in these biomes. In flower forests and meadows, cornflowers only generate as part of gradients.

Natural cornflowers are also found in plains villages.

Post-generation

Java Edition

When bone meal is applied to a grass block in a plains, sunflower plains, flower forest, meadow, dripstone caves, or deep dark biome, cornflowers have a chance of generating on the targeted block and adjacent grass blocks in a 15×5×15 area. In meadows and flower forests, cornflowers can generate only in specific locations depending on the flower gradient. In plains, sunflower plains, dripstone caves, and the deep dark, cornflowers cannot generate in tulip-only areas.

Bedrock Edition

When bone meal is applied to a grass block in a plains, sunflower plains, or flower forest biome, cornflowers have a chance of generating on the targeted block and adjacent grass blocks in a 7×5×7 area. In flower forests, cornflowers can generate only in specific locations depending on the flower gradient. In plains and sunflower plains, cornflowers cannot generate in tulip-only areas.

When bone meal is applied to a cornflower that has been placed on top of a grass block in any biome, more cornflowers appear on top of nearby grass blocks. The flowers can appear up to 3 blocks away from the original, forming a 7×7 square.

Mob loot

In Java Edition, endermen can pick up cornflowers, like any other one-block-tall flower, and drop it if killed while holding it.

Trading

Wandering traders may sell a cornflower for a single emerald.

Usage

Main article: Flower § Usage

Like other flowers, cornflowers can be used as decoration and planted on grass blocks, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, farmland, podzol, mycelium, moss blocks, mud, or muddy mangrove roots.

Cornflowers can also be placed in flower pots.

Crafting ingredient

Name Ingredients Crafting recipe
Blue Dye
Invicon Cornflower.png: Inventory sprite for Cornflower in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Cornflower
Invicon Blue Dye.png: Inventory sprite for Blue Dye in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Blue Dye with description: Blue Dye
Suspicious Stew Red Mushroom +
Brown Mushroom +
Bowl +
Invicon Red Mushroom.png: Inventory sprite for Red Mushroom in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Red Mushroom with description: Red MushroomInvicon Brown Mushroom.png: Inventory sprite for Brown Mushroom in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Brown Mushroom with description: Brown MushroomInvicon Bowl.png: Inventory sprite for Bowl in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Bowl with description: BowlInvicon Cornflower.png: Inventory sprite for Cornflower in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Cornflower
Invicon Suspicious Stew.png: Inventory sprite for Suspicious Stew in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Suspicious Stew with description: Suspicious Stew

Suspicious stew

Main article: Suspicious Stew

Suspicious stew that is created using a cornflower imparts the Jump Boost effect for 5 seconds. It can be crafted using a cornflower or produced by feeding a cornflower to a brown mooshroom and then milking it with a bowl.

Ingredients Crafting recipe
Red Mushroom +
Brown Mushroom +
Bowl +
Invicon Red Mushroom.png: Inventory sprite for Red Mushroom in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Red Mushroom with description: Red MushroomInvicon Brown Mushroom.png: Inventory sprite for Brown Mushroom in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Brown Mushroom with description: Brown MushroomInvicon Bowl.png: Inventory sprite for Bowl in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Bowl with description: BowlInvicon Cornflower.png: Inventory sprite for Cornflower in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Cornflower
Invicon Suspicious Stew.png: Inventory sprite for Suspicious Stew in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Suspicious Stew with description: Suspicious Stew

Bees

Bees engage in a pollinating behavior with cornflowers, increasing the honey level in beehives and bee nests by 1.

Breeding

Cornflowers can be used to breed, grow, and lead bees.

Bee nests

Oak, birch, and cherry trees grown from saplings that are within 2 blocks of a cornflower have a 5% chance to grow with a bee nest and 2-3 bees in it.

Composting

Placing a cornflower into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1. A stack of cornflowers yields an average of 5.94 bone meal.

Sounds

Java Edition:

BlockSprite short-grass.png: Sprite image for short-grass in Minecraft grass sound type
SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokenblock.grass.breaksubtitles.block.generic.break1.00.816
​Block placedBlocksWhen the block is placedblock.grass.placesubtitles.block.generic.place1.00.816
​Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenblock.grass.hitsubtitles.block.generic.hit0.250.516
​Something falls on a blockEntity-DependentFalling on the block with fall damageblock.grass.fallsubtitles.block.generic.fall0.50.7516
​FootstepsEntity-DependentWalking on the blockblock.grass.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps0.151.016

Bedrock Edition:

BlockSprite short-grass.png: Sprite image for short-grass in Minecraft grass sound type
SoundSourceDescriptionResource locationVolumePitch
BlocksOnce the block has brokendig.grass0.70.8–1.0
BlocksWhen the block is placeduse.grass0.80.8–1.0
BlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenhit.grass0.30.5
PlayersFalling on the block with fall damagefall.grass0.41.0
PlayersWalking on the blockstep.grass0.31.0
BlocksJumping from the blockjump.grass0.111.0
BlocksFalling on the block without fall damageland.grass0.211.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierFormBlock tagsItem tagsTranslation key
BlockSprite cornflower.png: Sprite image for cornflower in Minecraft CornflowercornflowerBlock & Itemflowers
small_flowers
flowers
small_flowers
block.minecraft.cornflower

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierAlias ID Numeric ID FormItem ID[i 1]Translation key
BlockSprite cornflower.png: Sprite image for cornflower in Minecraft Cornflowercornflowerred_flower / 9-838Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]tile.red_flower.cornflower.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

Java Edition
1.1418w43a Added cornflowers.
When updating to 1.14, the flower gradient is updated for all flower forests. This means that it is possible to find cornflowers in flower forests that were generated prior to 1.14 by applying bone meal on grass blocks.
18w48aCornflowers now generate in the updated plains villages.
19w03aPlacing a cornflower into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
19w05aCornflowers now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
Added wandering traders, which sell cornflowers.
1.1519w34aCornflowers can now be used to breed bees.
Bees can now pollinate cornflowers.
Bedrock Edition
1.9.0beta 1.9.0.0Added cornflowers.
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3Cornflowers now generate in the updated plains villages.
Cornflowers can now be sold by the wandering trader.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.1Cornflowers can be used to fill a composter.
1.13.0beta 1.13.0.1Applying bone meal to a cornflower now creates other cornflowers instead of dandelions and poppies.
beta 1.13.0.9Cornflowers can now be used to make suspicious stew, giving it the Jump Boost effect.
1.14.0beta 1.14.0.1Cornflowers can now be used to breed bees.
Bees can now pollinate cornflowers.
1.16.220
Experiment
Caves and Cliffs
beta 1.16.220.50Added meadows, in which cornflowers can generate in.
1.21.60Preview 1.21.60.21Cornflowers no longer appear mirrored when viewed from certain angles.[1]
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.88 Added cornflowers.

Data history

Bedrock Edition
1.20.80Preview 1.20.80.23The different block states for the red_flower ID have now been split up into their own IDs.

Issues

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

Trivia

  • In real life, cornflowers got their name because they used to be a common weed on crop fields.[2]

Gallery

Screenshots

References

  1. MCPE-40646 — Cross models are displayed wrongly from east and west sides — resolved as "Fixed".
  2. "Taking Inventory: Cornflower" – Minecraft.net, November 24, 2022.

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