Tulip

Tulip

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	JE: Yes (60) BE: Yes (30)
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	7 PLANT
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

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Tulips are a kind of flower found in plains and flower forests that come in multiple colored variants: red, orange, white, and pink. They yield dyes of their respective colors, with the exception of white tulips, which yield light gray dye, and all of them are used to craft suspicious stew.

Obtaining

Breaking

A tulip can be broken instantly with any item or by hand, dropping itself.

A tulip also breaks if water or lava runs over its location, if a piston extends or pushes a block into its location, or if a block under the plant is moved or destroyed.

Block	Tulip
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	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

Tulip/Non-tulip gradient in plains

Tulips of any color generate naturally on dirt and grass blocks in plains and sunflower plains, exclusively in rare tulip-only areas. All kinds of tulips also generate in flower forest biomes as part of the gradient. In Java Edition, tulips are also technically capable of growing in dripstone caves and deep dark biomes, though it is very unlikely because grass blocks are rare in these biomes.

Potted red and white tulips can also be found in woodland mansions.

All kinds of tulips can generate as part of abandoned camps in flower forests.

Post-generation

When bone meal is applied to a grass block in a plains, sunflower plains, and flower forest biome (as well as dripstone caves and deep dark biomes in Java Edition), tulips have a chance of generating on the targeted block and adjacent grass blocks in a 15×5×15 area in Java Edition, or a 7×5×7 area in Bedrock Edition. In flower forests, whether a tulip can generate and the specific color depend on the flower gradient. In plains and sunflower plains (as well as dripstone cave and deep dark in Java Edition), tulips of any color can generate exclusively in tulip-only areas.

In Bedrock Edition, when bone meal is applied to a tulip in any biome, more tulips of the same color appear on top of nearby grass blocks. The flowers can appear up to 3 blocks away from the original, forming a 7×7 square.

Mob loot

In Java Edition, endermen can pick up tulips, like any other one-block-tall flower, and drop it if killed while holding it.

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

Trading

Wandering traders may sell a tulip of any color for 1 emerald.

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Wandering Trader	Ordinary	6%	6%	Emerald	Red Tulip	12	—	—
		6%	6%	Emerald	Orange Tulip	12	—	—
		6%	6%	Emerald	White Tulip	12	—	—
		6%	6%	Emerald	Pink Tulip	12	—	—

Usage

Like other flowers, tulips can be used as decoration and planted on grass blocks, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, farmland, podzol, mycelium, moss blocks, mud, or muddy mangrove roots.

Tulips can also be placed inside flower pots.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Light Gray Dye	White Tulip
Orange Dye	Orange Tulip
Pink Dye	Pink Tulip
Red Dye	Red Tulip
Suspicious Stew	Red Mushroom or  Brown Mushroom or  Shelf Mushroom + Bowl + White Tulip or  Pink Tulip or  Orange Tulip or  Red Tulip		Any combination of brown, red, or shelf mushrooms can be used.

Suspicious stew

Suspicious stew that is created using any tulip imparts the Weakness effect for 7 seconds. It can be crafted using a tulip or produced by feeding a tulip to a brown mooshroom and then milking it with a bowl.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Red Mushroom or  Brown Mushroom or  Shelf Mushroom + Bowl + Any Tulip

Bees

Bees engage in a pollinating behavior with tulips, increasing the honey level in beehives and bee nests by 1.

Breeding

Tulips can be used to breed, grow, and lead bees.

Bee nests

Oak, birch, and cherry trees grown from saplings that are within 2 blocks of a tulip have a 5% chance to grow with a bee nest and 2-3 bees in it.

Composting

Placing a tulip into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1. A stack of tulips yields an average of 5.94 bone meal.

Sounds

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

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Red Tulip	red_tulip	Block & Item	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.red_tulip
Orange Tulip	orange_tulip	Block & Item	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.orange_tulip
White Tulip	white_tulip	Block & Item	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.white_tulip
Pink Tulip	pink_tulip	Block & Item	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.pink_tulip

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
Red Tulip	red_tulip	red_flower / 4	1088	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -833)	tile.red_flower.tulipRed.name
Orange Tulip	orange_tulip	red_flower / 5	1089	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -834)	tile.red_flower.tulipOrange.name
White Tulip	white_tulip	red_flower / 6	1090	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -835)	tile.red_flower.tulipWhite.name
Pink Tulip	pink_tulip	red_flower / 7	1091	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -836)	tile.red_flower.tulipPink.name

Block states

Bedrock Edition

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
flower_type	0x1 0x2 0x4 0x8	poppy	poppy	0	Poppy
			orchid	1	Blue Orchid
			allium	2	Allium
			houstonia	3	Azure Bluet
			tulip_red	4	Red Tulip
			tulip_orange	5	Orange Tulip
			tulip_white	6	White Tulip
			tulip_pink	7	Pink Tulip
			oxeye	8	Oxeye Daisy
			cornflower	9	Cornflower
			lily_of_the_valley	10	Lily of the Valley

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.7.2			13w36a				Added tulips.
1.8			14w04a				Flowers no longer generate as a massive group at the world origin.
			14w07a				Tulip texture planes are no longer stretched by a factor of sqrt2.
			14w10c				Tulip texture planes are now stretched a bit more than they were previously - were the texture full, it would reach the corners of the block.
			14w17a				Tulip texture planes are now the same size as they were before 14w07a.
			14w25a				Tulips are now affected by the same shading full blocks are.
			14w26a				Tulips are no longer subject to shading.
1.11			16w39a				Red and white tulips can now generate in woodland mansions.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of tulips have been changed.
							Tulips can now be used to make suspicious stew, giving it the Weakness effect.
			19w03a				Placing a tulip into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
			19w05a				Tulips now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
							Added wandering traders, which sell tulips.
1.15			19w34a				Tulips can now be used to breed bees.
							Bees can now pollinate tulips.
26.3			snap1				Tulips can now generate as part of abandoned camps in flower forests.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0			build 1				Added tulips.
			build 3				Added dye recipes for tulips.
v0.12.1			build 1				Tulips can now occupy the same space as snow layers.
v0.13.0			build 1				The flowers created using bone meal now depend on the biome.
v0.14.0			build 3				Hitbox of tulips no longer occupy the entire block.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Red and white tulips now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of tulips have been changed.
							Tulips can now be sold by the wandering trader.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Tulips can be used to fill a composter.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.1				Applying bone meal to a tulip now creates now creates other tulips of the same type instead of dandelions and poppies.
			beta 1.13.0.9				Tulips can now be used to make suspicious stew, giving it the Weakness effect.
1.14.0			beta 1.14.0.1				Tulips can now be used to breed bees.
							Bees can now pollinate tulips.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.21				Tulips no longer appear mirrored when viewed from certain angles.
26.40 Experiment Drop 3 of 2026			Preview 26.40.27				Tulips can now generate as part of abandoned camps in flower forests.
26.50			Preview 26.50.22				All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3	1.0.1	Added tulips.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Red and white tulips can now generate in woodland mansions.
			1.90				The textures of tulips have been changed.
			1.91				Added wandering traders, which sell tulips.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added tulips.

Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education
1.0							Added tulips.[is this the correct version?]
1.12							The textures of tulips have been changed.

Data history

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.8			14w06a				All four tulips now use the newly-implemented model json file models/block/flower.json; previously the geometry was defined in the game code itself.
1.13			17w47a				The different block states for the red_flower ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
							Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 38.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.20.80			Preview 1.20.80.23				The different block states for the red_flower ID have now been split up into their own IDs.

Issues

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

Trivia

• In real life, a tulip is any member of the Tulipa genus of flowering plants.
• Despite its name, white tulips give light gray dye when crafted instead of white dye.
• There are two separate textures for all tulips, which are mirrored on the orange and pink tulips to create four unique textures.
• In merchandise there exists yellow, maroon, light blue, and blue tulips that are not seen in-game. They all have the same stem texture, which is unique from existing tulips.

Gallery

• 
  Tulips grown using bone meal in a dripstone cave in Java Edition
• 
  Yellow tulip shown on merchandise
• 
  Maroon tulip shown on merchandise
• 
  Light blue tulip shown on merchandise
• 
  Blue tulip shown on merchandise

External links

• "Taking Inventory: Tulip" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, May 24, 2019.