Nether Wart

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

| Renewable |
Yes |
|---|---|
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
| Tool |
Any tool |
| Blast resistance |
0 |
| Hardness |
0 |
| Luminous |
No |
| Transparent |
Yes |
| Flammable |
No |
| Catches fire from lava |
No |
| Map color (JE) |
|
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Nether wart is a fungus harvested from Nether wart crops and is used to plant them. It is an essential ingredient in almost every potion.
Nether wart crops are found in Nether fortresses and bastion remnants and used to grow Nether wart in soul sand.
Obtaining
Breaking
Nether wart can be mined instantly with any tool. A fully mature Nether wart crop yields 2–4 Nether wart. This is increased by one for each level of Fortune, this allows for a maximum of 7 Nether warts dropping from one crop. Less mature stages drop one Nether wart, even with the Fortune enchantment.
| Block | ||
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 0 | |
| Breaking time (secs) | ||
| Default | 0.05 | |
- 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
Nether wart can generate in Nether fortresses in soul sand gardens around stairwells or in chests. Nether wart can also generate in the courtyards of housing unit bastion remnants. Because it only spawns in these specific structures, it's possible for a Nether fortress or bastion remnant to generate without Nether wart, though Nether wart may still be in chests in the fortress or bastion.
| Location | Description | Image |
|---|---|---|
| Nether Fortress | Twenty Nether wart plants can be found growing near stairwells in small soul sand gardens. | ![]() |
| Bastion Remnant | Nether wart plants can be found growing in the central courtyard of each of the sections of housing unit bastion remnants. These will always generate exactly 1, 5, or 6 plants. | ![]() |
Generated loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition and Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Chest | 3–7 | 19%{ "item": "Nether Wart", "stacksize": "3–7", "chance": 0.1903699481480795, "structure": "Nether Fortress", "container": "Chest" }
| ||
Usage
Brewing ingredient
Nether wart's primary purpose is to brew the awkward potion, the base for all potions, but optional for Weakness.
| Name | Ingredients | Brewing recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Awkward Potion | + Water Bottle |
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nether Wart Block | The Nether wart block cannot be crafted back into Nether wart. | ||
| Red Nether Bricks | + Nether Brick |
Trading
Cleric villagers have a chance to trade an emerald for 22 Nether wart at the master level.
Farming
When planted on soul sand, Nether wart grows through four stages, though the middle two stages use the same texture (the hitbox of stage 3 is three pixels taller). In Java Edition, the exact age can be seen using the debug screen, and the ages range from 0 to 3. Each random tick, Nether wart has a 10% chance of growing one stage. At default random tick speed, each Nether wart grows one age step approximately every 13653 game ticks (11.3775 minutes) on average, and fully grows from planting to harvest every 40960 game ticks (34.133333333333 minutes) on average. The growth rate is not affected by light or any other environmental factors. Bone meal cannot be used on the Nether wart.
Nether wart can only be planted on soul sand. It cannot be planted on soul soil. It can grow in any dimension.
Nether wart is ready to harvest when it reaches its fourth stage (age:3). Breaking a fully grown Nether wart drops 2 to 4 Nether wart, while an immature one drops a single Nether wart. Using a tool enchanted with fortune increases the maximum number of Nether wart dropped by 1 per level, for a maximum of 7 for a tool enchanted with Fortune III.
Composting
Placing a Nether wart into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
Note that one should preferably not craft Nether wart blocks for composting purposes. Using 9 Nether warts gives almost 95% chance of raising the compost level at least 4 times, while using a Nether wart block gives an 85% chance of raising it once.
Sounds
nether_wart sound type | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 0.9 | 0.72 | 16 | |
| Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | item[sound 1] | subtitles | 0.9 | 0.8/0.896 | 16 | |
| Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| Something falls on a block | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | subtitles | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 | |
nether_wart sound type | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
| Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | When the block is placed | dig | 0.7 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit | 0.32 | 0.5 | |
| Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Walking on the block | step | 0.17 | 1.0 | |
| Blocks | Jumping from the block | jump | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
| Blocks | Falling on the block without fall damage | land | 0.14 | 1.0 | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
nether_wart | Block & Item | blockitem |
| Nether Wart | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nether_wart | 115 | Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2] | item.nether_wart | tile | |
nether_wart | 294 | Item | — | item |
Block states
| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| age | 0
| 0 | |
12 | |||
3 |
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| age | 0x10x2 | 0
| 0 | 0 | |
12 | 12 | ||||
3 | 3 | ||||
456789101112131415 | Unsupported | Unused |
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() | A Seedy Place | Plant a seed and watch it grow | Plant one of these 7 crops: Other crops and plants can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement. |
History
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease | ||||||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 | Nether wart can now be brewed in a water bottle to create an awkward potion. | ||||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w27a | Nether wart can now grow outside of the Nether. | |||||
| 1.3 | |||||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w36a | Nether wart can now be used to breed chickens. | |||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w18a | Nether wart is now found in the new chests in Nether fortresses. | |||||
| 1.8 | 14w06a | ||||||
| 14w10b | |||||||
| 14w25a | |||||||
| 14w27a | |||||||
| 14w34d | Nether wart can no longer be used to breed chickens. | ||||||
| 1.9 | 15w43a | The average yield of Nether wart from Nether fortress chests has now been slightly decreased. | |||||
| 15w49a | The hitbox of planted Nether warts now adjusts depending on their growth state.[2] | ||||||
| 1.10 | 16w20a | Nether wart can now be used to craft the new red Nether brick blocks and Nether wart blocks. | |||||
| 1.12 | 17w18b | Placing a Nether wart in soul sand now gives the player the "A Seedy Place" advancement. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||||
| 19w03a | Placement and breaking sounds have now been added to Nether wart. Before this version, Nether wart made stone sounds. | ||||||
| 19w11a | Cleric villagers now buy 22 Nether wart for 1 emerald. | ||||||
| Nether wart can now be planted by aiming against the sides and underside of blocks, rather than just the top surface of the soul sand.[3] | |||||||
| Nether wart can now replace replaceable blocks when placed by the player. | |||||||
| 1.16 | 20w15a | Nether wart can now be composted. | |||||
| 20w16a | Nether wart now generates as part of bastion remnants. | ||||||
| 1.17 | 21w13a | ||||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | ||||||
| Nether wart uses a cross model instead of the "hash" shape associated with crops. | |||||||
| v0.15.0 | build 1 | ||||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.1.3 | alpha 1.1.3.0 | Nether wart can now be used to craft red Nether bricks and Nether wart blocks. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||||
| Placement and breaking sounds have now been added to Nether wart. | |||||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Nether wart can now be sold to cleric villagers. | |||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Nether wart now generates as part of bastion remnants. | |||||
| The placement and breaking sounds for Nether wart have been changed to match Java Edition. | |||||||
| Nether wart can now be composted. | |||||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU7 | CU1 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| Nether warts can be used to breed chickens. | |||||||
| TU9 | Nether wart now spawns randomly wherever soul sand is generated in the Nether. | ||||||
| Nether fortresses have now been changed to make Nether wart rooms more likely. | |||||||
| Nether wart can now grow outside of the Nether. | |||||||
| TU19 | CU7 | 1.12 | 1.12 | 1.12 | Nether wart is now found in the new chests in Nether fortresses. | ||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Nether wart can no longer be used to breed chickens. | |
| TU43 | CU33 | 1.36 | 1.36 | 1.36 | Patch 13 | Nether wart can now be used to craft the new red Nether brick blocks and Nether wart blocks. | |
| TU46 | CU36 | 1.38 | 1.38 | 1.38 | Patch 15 | The hitbox of planted Nether warts now adjusts depending on their growth state. | |
| 1.90 | |||||||
| 1.91 | Nether wart can now be sold to cleric villagers. | ||||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||||
Data history
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | 14w06a | Crop blocks now have dedicated model json files; previously the geometry was defined in the game code itself. | |||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 115, and the item's 372. | |||||
| 1.17 | 21w19a | minecraft:nether_wart 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:nether_wart has been removed from the block tags #minecraft:mineable/axe and #minecraft:sword_efficient. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Nether Wart" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Trivia
- Nether wart's stage changes cannot be detected by a block update detector, but can by an observer block.
- Unlike other crimson "plants", Nether wart doesn't have a warped equivalent. This is also the case with Nether sprouts, which lack a crimson equivalent.
Gallery
Renders
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Nether wart growing next to stairs in a Nether fortress
Screenshots
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Nether wart found in a Nether fortress. -
Another example of Nether wart found in a Nether fortress. -
The three different sizes of the Nether wart as viewed from the side.
References
- ↑ MC-250679 — Some pixels of Nether wart are hidden inside of the block — resolved as "Won't Fix".
- ↑ MC-55942 — Nether wart, wheat, carrot, and potato hitboxes reflect only first stage — resolved as "Fixed".
- ↑ MC-135157 — Crops cannot be planted by aiming at the side of a block — resolved as "Fixed".
- ↑ MC-199242 — Texture planes of crop models appear incorrectly mirrored from behind — resolved as "Fixed".
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