Short Grass

Short Grass

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Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	Yes (60)
Catches fire from lava	Yes

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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.

Obtaining

Breaking

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 seeds.

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

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.

Generated loot

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

Post-generation

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

Usage

Placement

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.

Grazing

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.

Composting

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

Bone meal

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

List of colors

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

Biome	Category	Rainfall	Grass color	Temperature affects	Render
					Short grass	Tall grass	Fern	Large fern	Potted fern
Badlands	Mesa	No	#90814d	No
Beach	Beach	Rain	#91bd59
Birch Forest	Forest	Rain	#88bb67
Cold Ocean	Ocean	Rain	#8eb971
Dark Forest	Forest	Rain	#507a32
Deep Cold Ocean	Ocean	Rain	#8eb971
Deep Frozen Ocean	Ocean	Rain	#8eb971
Deep Lukewarm Ocean	Ocean	Rain	#8eb971
Deep Ocean	Ocean	Rain	#8eb971
Desert	Desert	No	#bfb755
End Barrens	The End	No	#8eb971
End Highlands	The End	No	#8eb971
End Midlands	The End	No	#8eb971
Eroded Badlands	Mesa	No	#90814d	No
Flower Forest	Forest	Rain	#79c05a
Forest	Forest	Rain	#79c05a
Frozen Ocean	Ocean	Snow	#80b497
Frozen River	River	Snow	#80b497
Ice Spikes	Icy	Snow	#80b497
Jungle	Jungle	Rain	#59c93c
Lukewarm Ocean	Ocean	Rain	#8eb971
Mushroom Fields	Mushroom	Rain	#55c93f
Nether	Nether	No	#bfb755
Ocean	Ocean	Rain	#8eb971
Old Growth Birch Forest	Forest	Rain	#88bb67
Old Growth Pine Taiga	Taiga	Rain	#86b87f
Old Growth Spruce Taiga	Taiga	Rain	#86b783
Plains	Plains	Rain	#91bd59
River	River	Rain	#8eb971
Savanna	Savanna	No	#bfb755
Savanna Plateau	Savanna	No	#bfb755
Small End Islands	The End	No	#8eb971
Snowy Beach	Beach	Snow	#83b593
Snowy Taiga	Taiga	Snow	#80b497
Snowy Plains	Icy	Snow	#80b497
Sparse Jungle	Jungle	Rain	#64c73f
Stony Shore	None	Rain	#8ab689
Sunflower Plains	Plains	Rain	#91bd59
Swamp	Swamp	Rain	#6a7039	If temperature below -0.1, used  #4c763c.	/	/	/	/	/
Taiga	Taiga	Rain	#86b783
The End	The End	No	#8eb971
The Void	None	No	#8eb971
Warm Ocean	Ocean	Rain	#8eb971
Windswept Forest	Extreme Hills	Rain	#8ab689
Windswept Gravelly Hills	Extreme Hills	Rain	#8ab689
Windswept Hills	Extreme Hills	Rain	#8ab689
Windswept Savanna	Savanna	No	#bfb755
Wooded Badlands	Mesa	No	#90814d	No

Sounds

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

Data values

ID

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

History

Java Edition Beta
1.6			Test Build 3				Added grass.[1]
							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.
			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.[2]
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			Pre-release 1				Grass now generates in mushroom fields.[3]
1.20.3			Pre-Release 1				"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.
v0.8.0			build 1				The tint 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.[4]
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.[5]
			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				The texture of grass has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added grass.

• 
  The first image of grass.

Data history

Issues

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

Trivia

• 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.^[6]
• 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 has the tag #sword_efficient even though it breaks instantly.

Gallery

Renders

• 
  Plains short grass.
• 
  Taiga short grass.
• 
  Snowy plains short grass.
• 
  Jungle short grass.
• 
  Desert short grass.
• 
  Swamp short grass.
• 
  Badlands short grass.

Screenshots

• 
  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.

See also

• Shrub

References

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