Tall Dry Grass

Tall Dry Grass

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	Yes
Catches fire from lava	Yes
Map color	18 COLOR_YELLOW
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

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Tall dry grass is the tall variant of dry grass. Unlike other tall variants of foliage, this block is only one-block tall. It generates frequently in deserts and all types of badlands, and looks like a more full version of short dry grass. It also grows on sand and terracotta, and can be eaten by sheep.

Obtaining

Breaking

Tall dry grass can be broken instantly with any item or by hand. If broken with shears or any tool enchanted with Silk Touch it drops itself, otherwise it drops nothing.

Block	Tall Dry Grass
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Shears	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)

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

Tall dry grass generates in deserts and badlands.

Post generation

Using bone meal on short dry grass turns it into tall dry grass.

Trading

Wandering traders may sell 1 tall dry grass for 1 emerald.

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Wandering Trader	Ordinary	6%	6%	Emerald	Tall Dry Grass	12	—	—

Mob loot

In Bedrock Edition, wandering traders have a chance of 25% (increased by 1% per level of Looting) to drop 1 tall grass when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an emerald.

Usage

Tall dry grass can be used for aesthetic decoration. Tall dry grass can be placed on any of the following blocks:

• Grass Block
• Mycelium
• Podzol
• Dirt
• Coarse Dirt
• Rooted Dirt
• Farmland
• Terracotta
• Sand
• Suspicious Sand
• Red Sand
• Mud
• Muddy Mangrove Roots
• Moss Block
• Pale Moss Block

In Bedrock Edition, tall dry grass can be snowlogged.

When a sheep eats tall dry grass, the block is removed, and a sheared sheep regrows its wool. Baby sheep graze tall dry grass 20 times more often than adults and mature 1 minute faster when grazing.

Fuel

When used in a furnace as fuel, a piece of tall dry grass lasts 5 seconds (smelting half an item).

Composting

Placing tall dry grass into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1, the lowest chance possible. On average, a stack of tall dry grass yields 2.74 bone meal.

Bone meal

Bone meal can be used on tall dry grass to place a short dry grass on a neighboring block if possible.

Ambience

If placed on sand, red sand or a terracotta block of any kind with at least one more corresponding block underneath it, tall dry grass occasionally produces ambient sounds reminiscent of wind howling. These ambient sounds can play anywhere if the given conditions are met, and naturally play in the badlands and desert biomes due to the abundance of dry grass on top of said blocks.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

v t e grass sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	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​[until: JE 26.4]	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	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.grass	subtitles.block.generic.break​	0.7	0.8–1.0
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.grass	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.8	0.8–1.0
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.grass	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.3	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.3	1.0
	​Shovel flattens	Blocks	When a shovel creates a dirt path	use.grass	subtitles.item.shovel.flatten​	1.0	0.8
	​Footsteps​[until: BE 26.70]	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.11	1.0
	​Footsteps​[until: BE 26.70]	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.21	1.0

Unique

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Windy sounds	Ambient/Environment	Randomly when there is a short or tall dry grass above 2 blocks of sand, terracotta, or red sand.	block.dry_grass.ambient	subtitles.block.dry_grass.ambient​	?	?	?

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Tall Dry Grass	tall_dry_grass	Block & Item	replaceable replaceable_by_mushrooms replaceable_by_trees	block.minecraft.tall_dry_grass

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
Tall Dry Grass	tall_dry_grass	1284	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -1029)	tile.tall_dry_grass.name

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.21.5			25w06a				Added tall dry grass.
			25w09a				Tall dry grass is now randomly offset within the block it is on.
1.21.6			25w15a				Dry grass now makes ambient wind sounds when there are 2 blocks of sand, red sand, or terracotta below it.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.21.70 Experiment Drop 1 2025			Preview 1.21.70.22				Added tall dry grass.
1.21.70			Preview 1.21.70.23				All features behind the "Drop 1 2025" experimental toggle have now been fully implemented.
1.21.90			Preview 1.21.90.21				Dry grass now makes ambient wind sounds when there are 2 blocks of sand, red sand, or terracotta below it.

Issues

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

Gallery

Mojang screenshots

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  Short and tall dry grass

In other media

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  Tall dry grass as it appears in AI Adventurers