A lily pad is a short, flat non-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 instantly mined with anything. They also break from collisions with boats.
Natural generation[]
Lily pads can be found naturally on water in swamps and wheat farm rooms of woodland mansions.
Fishing[]
Lily pads can be obtained as a "treasure"[Bedrock Edition only] or "junk"[Java Edition only] item while fishing.
Trading[]
Wandering traders can sell lily pads in sets of 2 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.[1]
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).
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.[2] 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.[3][4]
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[]
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| None[sound 1] | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig | 0.7 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | When the block is placed | dig | 0.8 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
| Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Walking on the block | step | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Jumping from the block | jump | 0.11 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Falling on the block without fall damage | land | 0.21 | 1.0 |
- ↑ Due to MCPE-114160, only the break sound occurs for this block.
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lily Pad | lily_pad | Block & Item | block.minecraft.lily_pad |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lily Pad | waterlily | 111 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile.waterlily.name |
History[]
| 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.[more information needed]
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| 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 lads can now be placed by aiming at water. | ||||
| ? | Lily pads are now available from 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. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 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 | 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. | |||||
| 17w50a | Lily pads now play a different sound when they are placed on top of ice.[5] | ||||
| 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.[6] | |||
| 1.16 | 20w21a | Lily pads when fished is now considered as junk loot instead of treasure loot. | |||
| 20w22a | Lily pads can no longer be placed inside entities.[7] | ||||
| 1.19.3 | 22w44a | Lily pads now use the same sounds as big dripleaves instead of grass.[8] | |||
| 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. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Lily pads now generate in woodland mansions. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | [verify] 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. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU7 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | [verify] Added lily pads. | |
| 1.90 | [verify] The texture of lily pads has now been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | [verify] Added lily pads. | ||||
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[verify] 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.[9][10]
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Lily Pad" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery[]
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.
