Sea Pickle

Sea Pickle

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Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	Yes, when waterlogged 1 sea pickle: 6 2 sea pickles: 9 3 sea pickles: 12 4 sea pickles: 15
Transparent	Yes
Waterloggable	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color (JE)	27 COLOR_GREEN

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A sea pickle is a small block that emits light underwater, and is typically found in colonies of up to four sea pickles.

Obtaining

Breaking

Sea pickles can be broken instantly with any tool including hands. Each colony drops 1-4 sea pickles, depending on how many are in the colony (so a colony of 3 pickles drops 3 pickles).

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

Sea pickle colonies generate on the bottom of warm oceans and are found on top of coral blocks in coral reefs. Each chunk has ¹⁄₆ chance to generate sea pickle colonies. They can be found in groups of 1 up to 4.

Sea pickles may also be found in desert village houses as decorative blocks that resemble pottery.

Trading

Sea pickles can be sold by wandering traders for 2 emeralds.

Post-generation

Using bone meal on an underwater sea pickle placed on top of a living coral block creates more sea pickles. Specifically, the colony to which bone meal is applied increases in size, and any living coral block within a taxicab distance of 2 blocks (horizontally from either the coral block or the sea pickle itself) can generate 1-3 sea pickles. They do not grow or spread naturally, and do not require light.

Usage

Placing

Sea pickles can be placed on top of most solid blocks, as well as non-solid blocks, up to four per block, similar to turtle eggs or candles. More information regarding placement on transparent blocks can be found at Opacity/Placement.

In Bedrock Edition, unlike turtle eggs, sea pickles can only be placed on complete blocks.

Light emission

Sea pickles produce light when underwater. A single pickle produces a light level of 6, and a colony produces an additional 3 levels per pickle (so 4 sea pickles produces a light level of 15). When they produce light, there is a pale green glow at the end of the pickle.

Sea pickles		Light level
1		6
2		9
3		12
4		15

Growing

Bone meal can be used on sea pickles if they are underwater and planted on living coral blocks. This increases their number on that block, and they spread to empty areas underwater above other living coral blocks. They can spread to the original sea pickle's level or one level below, out to a horizontal taxicab distance of 2. Bone meal can be used on sea pickles planted on other blocks, or outside of water, but nothing happens and the bone meal is still consumed.^[1]

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe	Description
Lime Dye	+ Any fuel	0.1	‌
Lime Dye	+ Any fuel	0.2	‌

Composting

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

Sounds

Java Edition:

v t e slime_block sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.slime_block.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.slime_block.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.slime_block.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.slime_block.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.slime_block.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e slime sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Hostile Creatures‌ Hostile Mobs​	Once the block has broken	mob.slime.big	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Hostile Creatures‌ Hostile Mobs​	When the block is placed	mob.slime.big	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.slime	0.25	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.slime	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.slime	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.slime	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.slime	0.22	1.0

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		One Pickle, Two Pickle, Sea Pickle, Four	Place four in a group	—	20	Bronze

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Sea Pickle	sea_pickle	Block & Item	block.minecraft.sea_pickle

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Sea Pickle	sea_pickle	411	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.sea_pickle.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

History

Java Edition
1.13			18w14b				Added sea pickles.
			18w16a				Sea pickles can now be placed on top of non-solid blocks.
			18w22a				If the player is inside the hitbox of sea pickle, and another is attempted to be placed, the placement now fails, as with most other blocks.
							Sea pickles now make placement sounds when the amount in a stack is increased.
							More sea pickles can now be added to a stack when aiming at adjacent blocks instead of requiring the player to target the pickle stack directly
							Sea pickles now require a supporting block underneath.
1.14			18w50a				Sea pickles may now generate in desert village houses.
			19w03a				Placing a sea pickle into the new composter block has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
			19w05a				Sea pickles now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
							Added wandering traders, which sell sea pickles.
1.16			20w15a				Walls now connect to the bottom of sea pickles.
1.16.2			20w28a				Sea pickles can now be placed on soul sand.
1.17			21w13a				The model of the tentacles of the sea pickles has been tweaked that the backside textures are mirrored.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.20.1				Added sea pickles.
1.7.0			beta 1.7.0.3				Sea pickles now break instantly when destroyed in Survival mode.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Sea pickles can now be bought from wandering traders.
							2 sea pickles now generate in one of new desert village small houses.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Sea pickles can now be used to fill up composters.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Added sea pickles.
			1.91				Added wandering traders, which sell sea pickles.

Issues

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

Trivia

• Sea pickles are based on real-life sea pickles, which are free-floating colonial tunicates with blue-green bioluminescence, more properly known as pyrosomes. Unlike the Minecraft version, they are not stationary organisms and are an entirely different species.^[2]

Gallery

Renders

Textures

• 
  Texture file of the sea pickle.

Screenshots

• 
  Sea pickles out of water.
• 
  Sea pickles in water.
• 
  Sea pickles on a warm ocean bed in a coral reef.
• 
  Sea pickles that generate on top of a coral structure.
• 
  Sea pickles from above the surface.
• 
  A comparison on how much light sea pickles emit.
• 
  Sea pickles illuminating a coral reef.

See also

• Underwater torch
• Tutorials/Sea Pickle farming

References

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