Lily Pad

Lily Pad

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)	7 PLANT

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A lily pad is a short, flat solid block that can be found naturally growing only on water, in swamps and wheat farm rooms in woodland mansions.

Obtaining

Breaking

Lily pads can be broken instantly with anything. They also break from collisions with boats.

Block	Lily Pad
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

Axes are considered the preferred tool, and swords would also increase the breaking speed, however these ultimately have no impact due to the instant default mining speed.

Natural generation

Lily pads can be found naturally on water in swamps and wheat farm rooms of woodland mansions.

Fishing

Lily pads are obtainable through fishing, with a 1.7% chance per attempt. See fishing for more details.

Trading

Wandering traders can sell lily pads in sets of 5 for one emerald.

Usage

Lily pads can be used to make paths over water without having to build bridges or use full blocks. Mobs cannot spawn on lily pads. A lily pad is broken and drops as an item when water flows on it.

Normal blocks can be placed on the bottom side of lily pads (from below). This breaks the lily pad (dropping it as an item), but leaves the block in place. Blocks can also be placed on top of lily pads, though the placed block appears to hover over the pad rather than rest on it.

A lily pad can be used as a starting point for construction on an ocean surface without having to build up from the ocean floor (see also kelp for this purpose).

Lily pads are the only solid block that doesn't prevent fishing treasure items from water near it.

Placement

Lily pads can be placed only on top of water, ice or frosted ice. Lily pads occupy the block above water and are not part of the water block itself.

Lily pads must be directly planted on the top of a water, ice or frosted ice block; unlike most blocks, targeting the side of a block that would result in it being placed on top of a valid block does not allow it to be placed. Similarly, targeting the sides or bottom of a block that can support a lily pad will place the lily pad on top. In Java Edition, lily pads can be placed on waterlogged blocks, including top half slabs.

A lily pad faces a consistent direction that depends on its location; it is unaffected by the direction the player faces. Replacing a lily pad does not change the direction.

In Bedrock Edition, unlike most blocks entities can collide with, lily pads can be placed directly inside players.

Composting

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

Appearance

• In the inventory, lily pads have the color:
   #71c35c.
• Otherwise, lily pads have the color:
   #208030.

Sounds

Java Edition:

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

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] 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	[hide]Translation key
Lily Pad	lily_pad	Block & Item	block.minecraft.lily_pad

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	[hide]Translation key
Lily Pad	waterlily	111	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.waterlily.name

History

[hide]Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease				Added lily pads.
							They have no in-game name.
							Placement of lily pads require that the side of a block be targeted, with this block being one meter above the water level - they cannot be placed simply by aiming at water
							Lily pads can be placed only in swamp biomes.
							Lily pads are currently the shortest block in the game, at 1⁄64 of a block tall, and have no collision with entities.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5				Lily pads are now tinted in the inventory, when held in first person, and when dropped.
							Lily pads have a name in item form
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6				Lily pads are now solid blocks.
							Lily pads no longer are restricted to being placed in swamps.
							Lily pads can now be placed by aiming at water.
							Lily pads are now available in the Creative inventory.
1.3.1			12w21a				Boats no longer break when they collide at high speed with lily pads. Instead, the lily pad is destroyed.
1.4.4			1.4.3				Lily pads no longer appear grayscale when held in third person.
1.7.2			13w36a				Lily pads can now be caught in fishing as treasure, making it renewable.
1.8			14w25a				Lily pads have now been tinted with the inventory color  #71c35c in the inventory instead of the Overworld color  #208030.
1.9			15w43a				Lily pads can now be placed on ice and frosted ice.
			15w45a				Height of lily pads has now been increased from 1⁄4 of a pixel (1⁄64 of a block) to 1 pixel (1⁄16 of a block).
							Due to the height change of lily pads, they are no longer the shortest block in the game.
			15w49a				Height of lily pads has now been decreased from 1 pixel (1⁄16 of a block) to 15⁄16 of a pixel (15⁄256 of a block), and the width has now been changed to be inset from three edges of the block by 1 pixel (1⁄16 of a block).
			15w50a				Added a sound to lily pads: block.waterlily.place.
							Lily pads now play this sound when placed on water.
			16w04a				Height of lily pads has now been increased to 11⁄2 pixels (3⁄32 of a block), and is now inset 1 pixel (1⁄16 of a block) on all sides.
1.11			16w39a				Lily pads now generate in woodland mansions.
1.13			17w50a				Lily pads now play a different sound when they are placed on top of ice.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of lily pads has now been changed.
			19w03a				Placing a lily into the brand-new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
			19w05a				Lily pads now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
							Added wandering traders, which sell lily pads.
1.15			19w37a				Lily pads now display a hand animation when placed in third person mode, like other blocks.
1.16			20w12a				Lily pads can now only be obtained from fishing in open water like any other treasure item.
			20w21a				Lily pads when fished is now considered as junk loot instead of treasure loot, meaning it can be obtained caught even when not fishing in open water again.
			20w22a				Lily pads can no longer be placed inside entities.
1.19.3			22w44a				Lily pads now use the same sounds as big dripleaves instead of grass.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0			build 1				Added lily pads.
			build 3				Lily pads are now brighter in the inventory.
v0.11.0			build 1				Lily pads can now be caught in fishing as treasure.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Lily pads now generate in woodland mansions.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of lily pads has now been changed.
							Lily pads can now be bought from wandering traders.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Lily pads can now be used to fill up composters by an unknown amount.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.21				The hitbox of lily pads has been changed to match Java Edition.
			Preview 1.21.60.23				Lily pads generate more frequently in swamps and mangrove swamps.
[hide]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	Added lily pads.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Lily pads can now be caught in fishing as treasure, making it renewable.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Height of lily pads has now been increased from 1⁄4 of a pixel ((1⁄64 of a block)) to 15⁄16 of a pixel (15⁄256 of a block), and the width has now been changed to be inset from three edges of the block by 1 pixel (1⁄16 of a block).
							Added a sound for placing lily pads.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Lily pads now generate in woodland mansions.
			1.90				The texture of lily pads has now been changed.
			1.91				Lily pads can now be bought from wandering traders.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added lily pads.
1.9.19							Lily pads now generate in woodland mansions.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				The ID of lily pads has now been changed from waterlily to lily_pad.
							Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 111.

Trivia

• When lily pads are placed on water source blocks that do not take up the space of the entire block (when the water is flowing to the block next to it), the lily pad appears floating above the water source block.
• Lily pads are the only block whose height is not an integer multiple of 1/16 (size of one pixel on the default texture pack). It is 1.5 pixels high, or 0.09375 or 3/32 blocks high.
• If the player sprints or falls on lily pads, they appear to give off water particles. This is because the game thinks the player is technically on the water below the lily pad.

Issues

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

Gallery

Screenshots

• 

  Lily pads in a swamp biome.

• 

  A lily pad generated in cave under a swamp biome.

• 

  Lily pads generated in a frozen ocean, due to a neighboring swamp.

• 

  Four lily pads on flowing water.

• 

  A walkway of lily pads in a farm of melons and pumpkins that allows easy harvesting.