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This is the index for every block and item guide on the wiki, more than 350 pages. The big families (ores, building blocks, utility blocks, tools) have their own pages linked first. Everything else, from crops and flowers to sculk and powder snow, is listed below by group.

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Plants, crops, and farming blocks

  • Allium: Allium in Minecraft: Where to Find It, Uses, and How to Farm It
  • Azalea Block: Azalea Block Guide: Where to Find It, How to Grow It, and Best Uses
  • Azure Bluet: Azure Bluet in Minecraft: Where to Find It, Uses, and Suspicious Stew Effect
  • Bamboo: Bamboo in Minecraft: Where to Find It, How to Farm It, and Every Use Explained
  • Beetroot: Minecraft Beetroot Guide: Farming, Seeds, Uses, and Best Tips
  • Big Dripleaf: Minecraft Big Dripleaf Guide: How to Find, Grow, and Use It
  • Blue Orchid: Minecraft Blue Orchid Guide: Locations, Uses, and Best Tips
  • Brain coral: How to find, collect, place, and build with brain coral in Minecraft, covering the coral, block, and fan forms plus all three dead variants.
  • Bubble coral: How bubble coral works in Minecraft: where it generates, the coral, block, and fan forms, why it dies out of water, silk touch rules, and build uses.
  • Cactus: Learn how to find cactus in Minecraft, build a cactus farm, smelt it for green dye, set up a trash incinerator, and avoid common growing mistakes.
  • Cake: Learn how to craft cake in Minecraft, what each slice restores, why you can't pick it back up, and how candles turn it into a birthday block.
  • Carrots: Learn how to find carrots in Minecraft, plant them on farmland, craft golden carrots and carrot on a stick, and use them to breed pigs and rabbits.
  • Carved pumpkin: Learn how to carve a pumpkin in Minecraft with shears, wear it to outsmart endermen, and use it to summon iron and snow golems.
  • Cave vines: Learn where to find cave vines in Minecraft, plant glow berries on the ceiling, climb them like ladders, and harvest berries safely.
  • Cherry leaves: Learn how to find cherry leaves in Minecraft, harvest them with shears, get cherry saplings, and use the pink leaves in builds.
  • Clay: Learn where to find clay in Minecraft, what it drops, how to smelt it into terracotta, craft bricks, and the best biomes for clay farming.
  • Coarse dirt: Learn how to craft coarse dirt in Minecraft, where it spawns, how it stops grass, and the best ways to use it for paths, farms, and clean builds.
  • Composter: Learn how to craft a composter in Minecraft, fill it with the right plants, get bone meal fast, and use it for villager farms and auto-farming.
  • Cornflower: Learn where cornflowers grow in Minecraft, how to craft blue dye from them, and how cornflower suspicious stew gives jump boost.
  • Dandelion: Learn where dandelions spawn in Minecraft, how to make yellow dye, brew suspicious stew, attract bees, and farm them with bone meal.
  • Dirt: How dirt works in Minecraft: how to get it, what it does, how to convert it to farmland or dirt path, and the differences between dirt variants.
  • Dirt and grass blocks: Learn how dirt and grass blocks work in Minecraft, how to mine them, make farmland and dirt paths, and keep grass from dying or spreading.
  • Dirt path: Learn how to make dirt path in Minecraft, where it spawns, how it behaves, and the best ways to use it for villages, farms, and bases.
  • Dried Kelp Block: Learn how to craft the Dried Kelp Block in Minecraft, use it as renewable fuel for furnaces, and store kelp efficiently with a working farm.
  • Farmland: How farmland works in Minecraft: making it with a hoe, hydration, crop growth, trampling protection, and Java vs Bedrock notes.
  • Fire coral: How fire coral works in Minecraft: where it generates, the coral, block, and fan forms, how coral dies, Silk Touch rules, placement, and build uses.
  • Flower pot: Learn how to craft a flower pot in Minecraft from three bricks, which plants fit inside, and where pots spawn naturally in witch huts and igloos.
  • Flowering azalea: How flowering azalea works in Minecraft: where to find it, how to grow it into a tree, why bees love it, and what it says about caves nearby.
  • Glow berries: How glow berries grow on cave vines in Minecraft, how to harvest and farm them, the light they emit, and how to use them to breed foxes.
  • Grass block: How the Minecraft grass block spreads, what it drops, and how to keep it from turning back to dirt. Mechanics, mistakes, and FAQ.
  • Gravel: Learn how to mine gravel in Minecraft, get flint, find suspicious gravel, and use it for coarse dirt, concrete powder, and arrows.
  • Hanging roots: Learn what hanging roots are in Minecraft, where they spawn in lush caves, how to mine them with shears, and how to use them in builds.
  • Honey block: Learn how to craft a honey block in Minecraft, how its slide and fall-damage rules work, and how it pairs with slime in piston builds.
  • Honeycomb block: How to craft the honeycomb block in Minecraft, how to farm honeycomb safely, what the block does, and how it differs from honey blocks.
  • Horn coral: How horn coral works in Minecraft: where it generates, the coral, block, and fan forms, dead variants, Silk Touch rules, waterlogging, and build uses.
  • Kelp: Where kelp grows in Minecraft, how to farm it underwater, and why dried kelp blocks are one of the cheapest renewable furnace fuels in the game.
  • Leaves: Learn how Minecraft leaves work, including decay rules, drops by type, and the fastest way to harvest them with shears and hoes.
  • Lilac: Lilac is a tall flower in Minecraft that grows in flower forests and crafts into magenta dye when placed in a crafting grid.
  • Lily of the valley: Where to find lily of the valley in Minecraft, how to use it for white dye, and the suspicious stew recipe that turns it into poison.
  • Lily pad: Learn how to find lily pads in Minecraft, place them on water, walk across them, get them from fishing or witches, and use them in builds.
  • Mangrove propagule: Learn how to get a mangrove propagule in Minecraft, plant it on land or underwater, and grow it into a full mangrove tree with roots.
  • Mangrove roots: How to find, craft, and build with mangrove roots in Minecraft, plus the differences between regular and muddy mangrove roots.
  • Melon: Where melons spawn in Minecraft, how to farm them with seeds and stems, what slices do, and how to craft glistering melon for potions.
  • Melon stem: How the melon stem works in Minecraft, including growth stages, light and water needs, bone meal effects, and the best layout for farming melons.
  • Moss block: Find moss block in lush caves, spread it with bone meal, and use it to craft mossy cobblestone, mossy stone bricks, and moss carpet.
  • Moss carpet: Moss carpet in Minecraft: where to find it in lush caves, how to craft it from moss blocks, and how to use it in builds.
  • Mud: How to find mud in Minecraft, make it from dirt, convert it into clay or packed mud, and build with mud bricks.
  • Muddy mangrove roots: Muddy mangrove roots are a swamp block from the 1.19 update. Here's where they spawn, how to break them, and how to use them in your builds.
  • Mycelium: Learn how to find mycelium in Minecraft, mine it with Silk Touch, spread it like grass, grow mushrooms on it, and stop it from disappearing.
  • Nether Wart: Minecraft Nether Wart Guide: How to Find, Farm, and Use It
  • Orange tulip: Learn where the orange tulip spawns in Minecraft, how to farm it with bone meal, and how to turn it into orange dye and suspicious stew.
  • Oxeye daisy: Learn where to find the oxeye daisy in Minecraft, how to grow it with bone meal, and how to use it for light gray dye and suspicious stew.
  • Packed Mud: Learn how to make packed mud in Minecraft from mud and wheat, what it's used for, and how it leads to mud bricks for building.
  • Peony: Learn where peony spawns in Minecraft, how to duplicate it with bone meal, and how to turn it into pink dye for your builds.
  • Pink Petals: Learn how to find pink petals in Minecraft cherry groves, place up to four in one block, harvest them, and craft pink dye.
  • Pink tulip: Learn where the pink tulip grows in Minecraft, how to farm it with bone meal, and how to craft pink dye from it.
  • Pitcher plant: Learn how to grow a pitcher plant in Minecraft, from sniffer-dug pitcher pods to a full two-block flower, plus why bone meal won't speed it up.
  • Podzol: Learn how to get podzol in Minecraft with Silk Touch or giant spruce trees, what it does, and why mushrooms grow on it at any light level.
  • Poppy: Learn where the poppy grows in Minecraft, how to collect it, and how to use it for red dye, suspicious stew, and breeding bees.
  • Potatoes: Learn how to grow potatoes in Minecraft, bake them for food, handle the poisonous kind, and use them to breed pigs.
  • Pumpkin: Learn where to find pumpkins in Minecraft, how to farm them from seeds, carve them with shears, and use them for golems, jack o'lanterns, and pie.
  • Pumpkin stem: Learn how a pumpkin stem grows in Minecraft, why it needs an empty dirt block nearby to fruit, what it drops, and how to build a working farm.
  • Red sand: Learn where to find red sand in Minecraft, how to mine it, and how to craft red sandstone, glass, TNT, and concrete powder.
  • Red tulip: Learn where red tulips spawn in Minecraft, how to grow them with bone meal, craft red dye, and use them in suspicious stew.
  • Rooted dirt: Learn where rooted dirt spawns in Minecraft, how to mine it, how to get hanging roots, and how to grow azalea trees on it.
  • Rose bush: Learn where the rose bush grows in Minecraft, how to harvest it without shears, and how to turn it into red dye.
  • Sand: Learn how to find sand in Minecraft, mine it with a shovel, handle its gravity, and use it to make glass, sandstone, TNT, and concrete.
  • Saplings: Learn how to get saplings in Minecraft, where to plant them, how light and bone meal affect growth, and how much space each tree type needs.
  • Sea pickle: Learn what a sea pickle does in Minecraft, how much light it gives, where to find it, and how to farm sea pickles with bone meal.
  • Seagrass: Learn how to find seagrass in Minecraft, harvest it with shears, spread it with bone meal, and use it to breed turtles.
  • Small dripleaf: Learn how to find small dripleaf in Minecraft, plant it on clay or moss, shear it to keep it, and bone meal it into a big dripleaf.
  • Spore blossom: Learn where to find spore blossom in Minecraft, how to harvest it with shears, where it can be placed, and the green particles it sprinkles below.
  • Sugar cane: Learn where sugar cane grows in Minecraft, how to plant it next to water, build a simple farm, and craft sugar and paper from it.
  • Sunflower: Find sunflowers in the Sunflower Plains biome, craft yellow dye, use the always-east compass trick, and bone-meal grass for renewable sunflowers.
  • Sweet berry bush: Find sweet berry bushes in Minecraft taigas. Learn how to plant them, harvest berries, avoid damage, and use them as a free mob trap.
  • Tall seagrass: Learn how to find tall seagrass in Minecraft, harvest it with shears, grow it with bone meal, and use it to feed and breed turtles.
  • Torchflower: Learn how to grow torchflower in Minecraft from sniffer seeds, breed sniffers with it, craft orange dye, and brew suspicious stew for night vision.
  • Tube coral: How tube coral works in Minecraft: where it generates, the coral, block, and fan forms, why coral dies out of water, Silk Touch drops, and building ideas.
  • Vines: Learn how vines work in Minecraft: where they spawn, how to get them with shears, how to climb them, and how to use them in jungle and lush builds.
  • Wheat: How to plant wheat in Minecraft, grow a fast farm, bake bread, breed cows and sheep, and craft hay bales for animal food and compact storage.
  • White tulip: Find white tulips in Minecraft, craft light gray dye, brew suspicious stew for Weakness, and farm them with bone meal in plains and flower forests.
  • Wither rose: Wither roses in Minecraft drop when the wither kills another mob. Here's how to get one, what it damages, and the easiest way to farm them.

Sculk, trial chambers, and pale garden blocks

  • Calibrated sculk sensor: Learn how to craft a calibrated sculk sensor in Minecraft, tune it to a specific vibration frequency with redstone, and use it in custom contraptions.
  • Creaking heart: Learn how the creaking heart works in Minecraft, where it spawns in the pale garden, how to mine it, and how it summons the Creaking mob at night.
  • Heavy Core: Find out where Heavy Core spawns in Minecraft, how to open ominous vaults to get one, and how to combine it with a Breeze Rod to craft a Mace.
  • Ominous Trial Spawner: Learn how an ominous trial spawner works in Minecraft, how to trigger one with Bad Omen, what mobs it spawns, and the better loot it drops.
  • Reinforced deepslate: Reinforced deepslate in Minecraft only generates in ancient cities and has no Survival drop. Learn where to find it and how to get it.
  • Sculk: Learn where to find sculk in Minecraft's Deep Dark, how to mine it with a hoe and Silk Touch, and how sculk catalysts spread it for easy XP farms.
  • Sculk: Learn what sculk is in Minecraft, where to find it in the deep dark, how it spreads, every block in the family, and how it ties to the warden.
  • Sculk catalyst: Learn how the sculk catalyst works in Minecraft, where to find it in the deep dark, how it spreads sculk from mob deaths, and how to use it for XP.
  • Sculk sensor: How the Minecraft sculk sensor detects vibrations, what redstone signal it emits, how to mine it with Silk Touch, and how to block it with wool.
  • Sculk shrieker: Learn how the sculk shrieker works in Minecraft, why it summons the Warden, how to mine it with Silk Touch, and how to survive an ancient city.
  • Sculk vein: Learn what sculk vein is, how to get it with Silk Touch, where it spawns in the deep dark, and why it has no gameplay effect.
  • Trial spawner: The trial spawner runs timed waves of mobs in Minecraft trial chambers and drops a trial key when you win. Here's how it works and what to do.
  • Vault: Learn how the vault block works in Minecraft, how to find one in a trial chamber, unlock it with a trial key, and what loot it drops.

Light sources

  • Candle: Learn how to craft a candle in Minecraft, dye it any color, stack up to four in one block, light it, and put one on a cake.
  • Copper bulb: Learn how to craft the Minecraft copper bulb, how oxidation affects light, and why it's a useful redstone toggle.
  • End rod: Learn how to craft an end rod in Minecraft, what light level it emits, how directional placement works, and where to find them in End cities.
  • Froglight: How froglight works in Minecraft, what each frog color produces, and the fastest way to farm pearlescent, verdant, and ochre froglights.
  • Glowstone: Learn where glowstone spawns in the Nether, how to mine it for glowstone dust, and how to use it for potions, redstone lamps, and light.
  • Jack o'Lantern: Learn how to craft a jack o'lantern in Minecraft, what it lights up, how it builds iron and snow golems, and the Enderman helmet trick.
  • Lantern: How to craft a lantern in Minecraft, how light levels and mob spawning work, what soul lanterns do, and the best ways to use them in builds.
  • Lightning Rod: Learn how to craft a lightning rod in Minecraft, where to place it, how it diverts lightning strikes, and the protection it gives your build.
  • Sea lantern: Learn how to craft a sea lantern in Minecraft, where to find them in ocean monuments, and how to use the light-15 block underwater.
  • Shroomlight: Learn how to find shroomlight in the Nether, farm it from huge fungi, and use the light-level-15 block to brighten builds and stop mob spawns.
  • Soul lantern: Learn how to craft a soul lantern in Minecraft, scare piglins with its cyan flame, hang it from blocks, and use it as a dim 10-light decoration.
  • Torch: How to craft a torch in Minecraft, how light level 14 stops mob spawning, where torches can be placed, and how they compare to soul and redstone torches.

Water, ice, and snow

  • Blue Ice: Minecraft Blue Ice Guide: How to Get It, Craft It, and Use It
  • Bubble Column: Minecraft Bubble Column Guide: How to Make Fast Water Elevators
  • Frosted ice: Frosted ice in Minecraft forms from Frost Walker boots and melts in four stages. Here's how it works on Java and Bedrock.
  • Ice: How ice forms, melts, and behaves in Minecraft, including packed ice, blue ice, slipperiness, and tricks for mining ice without losing it.
  • Lava: A practical guide to lava in Minecraft: where to find it, how to collect it safely, what it does to blocks and mobs, and how to survive falling in.
  • Packed Ice: Learn how packed ice works in Minecraft, where to find it, how to mine it with Silk Touch, and why it never melts.
  • Powder snow: Learn how powder snow works in Minecraft, why it freezes and traps mobs, how to collect it with a bucket, and how leather boots let you walk on top.
  • Snow: Learn how snow layers form in Minecraft, where they spawn, how to mine them, what melts them, and how to farm snowballs with a snow golem.
  • Snow and powder snow: Learn how snow and powder snow work in Minecraft, how to collect each, why powder snow freezes you, and the best ways to use both.
  • Snow block: Learn how to craft a snow block in Minecraft from four snowballs, mine it for snow, and use it to build snow golems and farm renewable snowballs.
  • Sponge: Find sponge in Minecraft inside ocean monuments, use it to soak up water, dry wet sponges in a furnace or the Nether, and stock up for big drains.
  • Water: Minecraft Water Explained: Infinite Sources, Farming, Elevators, and Pro Tips
  • Wet sponge: Learn how to get wet sponge in Minecraft from elder guardians and ocean monuments, how to dry it in a furnace or the Nether, and reuse it.

Nether and End blocks

  • Basalt: Minecraft Basalt Guide: Where to Find It, How to Farm It, and Best Uses
  • Blackstone: Minecraft Blackstone Guide: Recipes, Uses, and Where It Spawns
  • Chiseled nether bricks: Learn how to craft chiseled nether bricks in Minecraft from nether brick slabs or a stonecutter, where to find them, and how to use them in builds.
  • Chiseled polished blackstone: Learn how to craft chiseled polished blackstone in Minecraft from polished blackstone slabs, where to find it, and how to use it in builds.
  • Cracked nether bricks: Learn how to make cracked nether bricks in Minecraft by smelting regular nether bricks, where they spawn, and the best ways to use them in builds.
  • Cracked polished blackstone bricks: Smelt polished blackstone bricks in Minecraft to get the cracked variant. Find them in bastion remnants and use them as weathered building blocks.
  • Crying obsidian: Find crying obsidian in Minecraft in ruined portals and bastions, mine it with a diamond pickaxe, and use it to craft a respawn anchor.
  • Dragon Egg: Minecraft Dragon Egg Guide: How to Get It, Use It, and Not Lose It
  • End gateway: Learn how the end gateway works in Minecraft, how to enter it with an ender pearl, and how to get back from the outer End islands.
  • End Portal: How the End Portal works in Minecraft, how to find one in a stronghold, and how to activate it with 12 Eyes of Ender.
  • End portal frame: Learn what the end portal frame in Minecraft does, where to find one, how eyes of ender activate it, and the Java vs Bedrock differences.
  • End Stone: End stone fills the End dimension and resists the Ender Dragon. Here is where to find end stone, how to mine it, and what to build with it.
  • End stone bricks: How to craft end stone bricks in Minecraft, where they spawn in End cities, their properties, and the best ways to use them in your builds.
  • Gilded Blackstone: Gilded blackstone only generates in bastion remnants and can drop gold nuggets when mined. Spawn spots, drop rates, and the best tools.
  • Hyphae: Learn how hyphae works in Minecraft, where to find crimson and warped variants, how to craft them from stems, and why they don't catch fire.
  • Nether bricks: Everything to know about nether bricks in Minecraft: how to craft them, variants, fence quirks, and the best uses.
  • Nether sprouts: Learn what nether sprouts are, where they grow in the warped forest, how to harvest them with shears, and the best ways to use them in builds.
  • Nether wart block: How to craft the nether wart block in Minecraft, where it appears in the Nether, and how players use it for storage and decoration.
  • Netherrack: Learn what netherrack is in Minecraft, how to mine it, the eternal fire trick, smelting it to nether brick, and the best uses for it.
  • Obsidian: How to make and mine obsidian in Minecraft, and what to do with it once you've got a stack, from Nether portals to beacons.
  • Polished Blackstone: Learn how to craft polished blackstone in Minecraft, what it makes, and how its button and pressure plate work for redstone builds.
  • Polished Blackstone Bricks: Learn how to craft polished blackstone bricks in Minecraft, where to find them, and how the slab, stair, wall, and cracked variants work.
  • Purpur block: Learn how to get the purpur block in Minecraft, craft it from popped chorus fruit, and build with purpur slabs, stairs, and pillars.
  • Purpur pillar: Learn how to craft a purpur pillar in Minecraft from purpur blocks, find them in End cities, and use the purple column block in builds.
  • Red nether bricks: Learn how to craft red nether bricks in Minecraft from nether wart and nether brick, the slab and stairs variants, and the best build ideas.
  • Smooth basalt: Learn how to make smooth basalt in Minecraft by smelting basalt, where to find it in amethyst geodes, and the best ways to build with it.
  • Soul sand: Find soul sand in Minecraft, mine it with a shovel, grow nether wart, build a bubble elevator, and use it to summon the Wither.
  • Soul soil: Find soul soil in soul sand valleys in the Nether, mine it with a shovel, and use it for blue soul fire, soul torches, and Soul Speed boots.
  • Stems: Learn what crimson and warped stems are in Minecraft, how to find them, mine them with an axe, and craft planks, stairs, and signs from them.
  • Stripped hyphae: Learn how to make stripped hyphae in Minecraft, strip crimson and warped hyphae with an axe, craft nether planks, and build with fireproof wood.
  • Stripped stems: Strip a crimson or warped stem with any axe in Minecraft. Learn the recipe, the fireproof trait, and the best ways to build with both colors.
  • Twisting vines: Learn how to find twisting vines in Minecraft, climb them like ladders, harvest them with shears, and grow a renewable farm from one warped nylium block.
  • Warped wart block: Find warped wart block in Minecraft inside warped forests, mine it fast with a hoe, compost it for bone meal, and use the cyan block in builds.
  • Weeping vines: Learn how to find weeping vines in Minecraft, harvest them with shears, climb them like ladders, and grow a renewable farm in the crimson forest.

Transport and navigation items

  • Boats and chest boats: How to craft boats and chest boats in Minecraft, every wood type, how to steer them on water and ice, and the fastest way to travel long distances.
  • Clock: Learn how to craft a clock in Minecraft, where to find one, how the sun and moon display works, and why it spins in the Nether and End.
  • Compass: Learn how to craft a compass in Minecraft, why it points to world spawn instead of your bed, and how to bind one to a lodestone or echo shard.
  • Elytra: Elytra in Minecraft: How to Find, Use, Repair, and Fly Faster
  • Ender pearl: Learn how to get an ender pearl in Minecraft, how throwing and teleporting works, the damage and cooldown, and how to craft it into an eye of ender.
  • Eye of Ender: How to craft an eye of ender, throw it to track down a stronghold, and fill the End portal frame so you can reach the End.
  • Firework rockets for elytra: Learn how to craft firework rockets for elytra in Minecraft, how flight duration sets your boost, and why travel rockets should skip firework stars.
  • Lead: Learn how to craft a lead in Minecraft, which mobs you can leash, how to tie them to a fence, and how to get free leads from wandering traders.
  • Map: Learn how to craft a map in Minecraft, fill it in, zoom it out at a cartography table, copy it, lock it, and mark spots with banners.
  • Minecart types: Learn every minecart type in Minecraft, including chest, hopper, TNT, and furnace carts, how to craft each one, and when to use them.
  • Name tag: Learn how to get a name tag in Minecraft, rename it on an anvil, use it on mobs, and the secret names like jeb_ and Dinnerbone.
  • Spyglass: Learn how to craft a spyglass in Minecraft with copper and amethyst, zoom in to scout terrain and structures, and where it works best.

Food

  • Enchanted golden apple: Learn how to find the enchanted golden apple in Minecraft, the effects it gives, the best chest loot to look in, and whether you can still craft one.
  • Food: Learn how food works in Minecraft, how hunger and saturation differ, which foods restore the most, and how eating keeps your health going.
  • Golden apple: Learn how to craft a golden apple in Minecraft, what its effects do, and how the enchanted golden apple differs from the regular one.