Dead Bush

Dead Bush
Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Waterloggable	JE: No; BE: Yes
Flammable	JE: Yes (60); BE: No
Catches fire; from lava	Yes
Map color (JE)	; 13 WOOD

A dead bush is a non-solid plant block found in deserts, badlands, swamps and old growth taigas. It can only be obtained with shears, and otherwise drops sticks when broken.

Obtaining

Breaking

Dead bushes drop 0–2 sticks when broken without shears, or when the block below it is removed. When shears are used, a dead bush drops itself.

Block
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	0.05
Shears	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

Dead bushes generate in deserts, badlands, wooded badlands, eroded badlands, swamps, mangrove swamps, old growth pine taigas, and old growth spruce taigas. They generate on sand, red sand, terracotta, grass blocks, podzol, dirt, coarse dirt, and mud.

Dead bushes generate twice as commonly in desert biomes as they do in old growth taigas, and 10 times more often in badlands than they do in deserts (ratio of 1:2:20 – taiga:desert:badlands).

Dead bushes generate in some entrance rooms of trial chambers, next to a cactus. They can also be found inside flower pots inside some desert village houses and in trial chambers.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	2.2% { "item": "Dead Bush", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.022222222222222254, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
	Village	Desert house chest	1–3	26.6% { "item": "Dead Bush", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.2662680947537841, "structure": "Village", "container": "Desert house chest" }
Bedrock Edition
	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	2.2% { "item": "Dead Bush", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.021739130434782594, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
	Village	Desert house chest	1–3	26.6% { "item": "Dead Bush", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.2662680947537841, "structure": "Village", "container": "Desert house chest" }

Usage

Dead bushes can be used for aesthetic decoration, as a source of sticks and a fuel source. A dead bush can be placed on any kind of sand, terracotta, dirt, podzol and mud; they can also be placed on grass blocks, mycelium, and moss blocks. They can also be planted in flower pots. Dead bushes do not spread, and cannot be grown using bone meal.

Unlike most plants, dead bushes cannot be composted.^[1]

Fuel

Dead bushes can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.5 items per dead bush.

Ambience

If placed on sand, red sand or a terracotta block of any kind with at least one more corresponding block underneath it, dead bushes produce ambient sounds reminiscent of dry leaves rustling, wind howling and insects rattling. These ambient sounds can play anywhere if the given conditions are met, and naturally play in the badlands and desert biomes due to the abundance of dead bushes on top of said blocks.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

v t e `grass` sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	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	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`dig.grass`	0.7	0.8–1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	`use.grass`	0.8	0.8–1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`hit.grass`	0.3	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	`fall.grass`	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	`step.grass`	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	`jump.grass`	0.11	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.grass`	0.21	1.0

Unique

Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Dry sounds	Ambient/Environment	Randomly when placed on terracotta, sand or red sand	`block.deadbush.idle`	`subtitles.block.deadbush.idle`	?	?	?
	Dry sounds	Ambient/Environment	Randomly when placed on terracotta, sand or red sand	`block.deadbush.idle`	`subtitles.block.deadbush.idle`	?	?	?
	Dry sounds	Ambient/Environment	Randomly when placed on terracotta, sand or red sand	`block.deadbush.idle`	`subtitles.block.deadbush.idle`	?	?	?
	Dry sounds	Ambient/Environment	Randomly when placed on terracotta, sand or red sand	`block.deadbush.idle`	`subtitles.block.deadbush.idle`	?	?	?
	Dry sounds	Ambient/Environment	Randomly when placed on terracotta, sand or red sand	`block.deadbush.idle`	`subtitles.block.deadbush.idle`	?	?	?
	Dry sounds	Ambient/Environment	Randomly when placed on terracotta, sand or red sand	`block.deadbush.idle`	`subtitles.block.deadbush.idle`	?	?	?
	Dry sounds	Ambient/Environment	Randomly when placed on terracotta, sand or red sand	`block.deadbush.idle`	`subtitles.block.deadbush.idle`	?	?	?

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Dead Bush	`dead_bush`	Block & Item	`block.minecraft.dead_bush`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
Dead Bush	`deadbush`	`32`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.deadbush.name`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Available with /give command.
↑ The block's direct item form has the same ID as the block.

History

Java Edition Beta
1.6			Test Build 3				Added dead bushes.
1.8			Pre-release				Dead bushes can now be placed in Creative mode.
1.8			Pre-release 2 ;)				Dead bushes now have an official name.
Java Edition
1.2.1			12w05a				Dead bushes can now be obtained using shears.
1.4.2			12w34a				Can now be placed in flower pots.
1.7.2			13w36a				Dead bushes can now be placed on all 17 types of hardened clay as well as dirt.
			13w36a				Dead bushes can now spawn in mesa biomes.
			13w39a				Dead bushes can now be placed on red sand.
1.8			14w04a				Dead bushes are now flammable.
			14w25a				Dead Bushes are now affected by the same shading full blocks are.
			14w26a				Dead Bushes are no longer subject to shading.
1.9			15w31a				Dead bushes now drop 0–2 sticks when broken.
1.13			18w22b				Dead bush bounding box has been shrunk.
?							This texture of dead bush was shown at some point.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of dead bushes has been changed.
			18w43a				Dead bushes can now be used as fuel.
			18w50a				Potted dead bushes can now be found in desert villages.
			18w50a				Dead bush items can now be found in chests in desert village houses.
1.17			21w16a				Dead bushes can now be placed on grass blocks.
1.19			22w14a				Dead bushes can now be placed on mud.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Dead bushes can now be placed on suspicious sand.
1.20			23w12a				Dead bushes can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in trail ruins.
			23w16a				Dead bushes no longer generate in suspicious sand in trail ruins.
			23w16a				Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for the suspicious gravel within the trail ruins; dead bush now is in the common loot.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w45a				Dead bushes and potted dead bushes now generate in trial chambers.
1.21.5			25w05a				Dead bushes now make ambient sounds when placed on top of two blocks of sand, red sand or any color of terracotta.
1.21.5			25w09a				Can now be placed on farmland.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.8.0			build 1				Added dead bushes to Creative mode.
v0.8.0			build 1				Dead bushes can only be placed on sand.
v0.9.0			build 1				Dead bushes now spawn naturally.
v0.9.0			build 1				Added red sand and hardened clay, which dead bushes can be placed on.
v0.12.1			build 1				Dead bushes now drop 0–2 sticks when broken.
v0.12.1			build 1				Dead bushes can now be placed on podzol.
Unknown
?							Dead bushes can now be placed on dirt.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of dead bushes has been changed.
							Potted dead bushes now generate in the new desert villages.
							Dead bushes can now be used as fuel in a furnace.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Dead bushes can now be found in desert village house chests.
1.19.0			beta 1.19.0.20				Dead bushes can now be placed on mud.
1.20.0			Preview 1.20.0.20				Dead bushes can now be placed on grass blocks, moss blocks and mycelium.
1.20.0			Preview 1.20.0.20				Dead bushes can now be found in swamp biomes.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.21				Dead bushes no longer appear mirrored when viewed from certain angles.^[2]
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.23				Dead bushes generate more frequently in deserts and badlands.
1.21.70 Experiment Drop 1 2025			Preview 1.21.70.20				Dead bushes now make ambient sounds when placed on top of two blocks of sand, red sand or any color of terracotta.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added dead bushes.
TU14	CU1	1.04	1.00	1.00	Patch 1		Can now be placed in flower pots.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Dead bushes can now be placed on terracotta.
TU48	CU38	1.41	1.41	1.41	Patch 17		Dead bushes now drop 1 stick when broken.
			1.90				The texture of dead bushes has been changed.
			1.90				Dead bushes can now be used as fuel in a furnace.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added dead bushes.

Data history

Java Edition
1.8	14w06a	Dead bushes now use the newly-implemented model json file `models/block/cross.json`; previously the geometry was defined in the game code itself.
1.13	17w47a	The ID for dead bushes has been changed from `deadbush` to `dead_bush`.
1.13	17w47a	Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 32.
1.17	21w19a	`minecraft:dead_bush` 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.
1.21.5	25w10a	`minecraft:dead_bush` has been removed from the block tags `#minecraft:mineable/axe` and `#minecraft:sword_efficient`.