What Can You Use Kelp for in Minecraft

This article is about the constitute. For the stale variant, see Stale Kelp.

Kelp is an underwater plant that generates in nigh oceans.

1 Occurrence
- ane.one Natural generation
2 Obtaining
- 2.1 Breaking
- 2.2 Trading
3 Usage
- three.1 Cooking ingredient
- 3.ii Composting
- 3.iii Growth mechanics
- iii.4 Farming
4 Sounds
five Data values
- 5.1 ID
- 5.ii Cake states
6 History
seven Issues
8 Trivia
9 Gallery
10 References

Occurrence [ ]

Natural generation [ ]

Kelp naturally generates in any ocean biomes (except in frozen, deep frozen and warm), most and effectually seagrass. Each chunk has ¹⁄_eighteen chance to generate a random patch of kelp.

Obtaining [ ]

Breaking [ ]

Kelp tin be mined instantly with any tool or with the player's fist. Breaking one office of a kelp stalk destroys all kelp blocks higher up it. Each block drops a kelp item.

Trading [ ]

Kelp tin can exist bought from wandering traders for 3 emeralds.

Usage [ ]

Kelp can be placed underwater by mitt, or anywhere by the use of commands such as /setblock. Placing it past hand gives it a random historic period value between 0 and 24. Kelp can be placed only in h2o source blocks or down-flowing water, not horizontally flowing water.

When placed in downward-flowing water, the flowing water transforms into a h2o source block, which tin exist useful for faster bubble cavalcade elevator creation.

Any building cake can be placed on top of a kelp found, which is useful for building structures over a deep ocean without needing to build from the ocean floor.

Blocks of stale kelp can exist used as fuel for furnaces.

Dried kelp can be used as a food source for the player.

Cooking ingredient [ ]

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Stale Kelp	Kelp + Any fuel	0.ane

Composting [ ]

Placing kelp into a composter has a xxx% gamble of raising the compost level by 1.

Growth mechanics [ ]

Kelp tin can be planted on a wide variety of blocks. Information technology grows underwater if it has either a source block of water or flowing water in a higher place it. If flowing water is above it, the kelp plant transforms the flowing water into a water source cake when the plant grows into it. Neither players nor dispensers can remove the water source block a kelp grows in without breaking the kelp first.

Kelp tin abound in complete darkness and does not require any calorie-free level to grow. Kelp too grows without having sky access. Bone meal can exist used to abound kelp by i block on each utilise.

Kelp, when planted, is generated with a randomly chosen historic period value, which can be checked when pressing F3‌^{[ Coffee Edition only ]}. The age value of a newly planted kelp plant varies randomly from 0 to 24. Each time the kelp grows in height past one cake, the newly generated superlative of the kelp plant increases its age by i. When the top cake of the kelp plant reaches an historic period of 25, it stops growing. This ways that kelp can naturally grow to a top between ii (if the first kelp plant had an age of 24) and 26 blocks (if the starting time kelp plant had an age of 0).

When a kelp establish block is cleaved, the age of the kelp found cake underneath is randomized to a value from 0 to 24 and the kelp continues growing until it reaches age 25. Information technology is possible to use this mechanic to cultivate a kelp constitute to increment its growth meridian beyond its natural maximum superlative of 26 blocks. This tin can be washed by breaking the acme-most block of the kelp plant each time information technology reaches age 25. A kelp found cultivated past a player in this way repeatedly grows until it reaches the water surface.

Each fourth dimension it receives a random tick, kelp has a 14% chance of growing.

If shears are used on the topmost block of kelp, that block will automatically ready its age value to 25 and stop growing.‌^{[ Java Edition only ]}

Farming [ ]

Kelp farming is similar to farming sugar cane, although kelp must exist placed underwater. Automation of harvest is easier considering items float upwardly in h2o.

Sounds [ ]

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Clarification	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation altitude
Block cleaved	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.wet_grass.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	i.0	0.viii	16
None ^{[sound one]}	Blocks	Falling on the cake with fall harm	`cake.wet_grass.fall`	None ^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	16
Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being cleaved	`block.wet_grass.hit`	`subtitles.cake.generic.hit`	0.25	0.5	16
Block placed	Blocks	When the cake is placed	`block.wet_grass.place`	`subtitles.cake.generic.place`	1.0	0.8	16
Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the cake	`block.wet_grass.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.xv	ane.0	16

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Bedrock Edition:^{[ more information needed ]}

Data values [ ]

ID [ ]

Coffee Edition:

Proper name	Resource location	Class	Translation key
Kelp	`kelp`	Block & Item	`block.minecraft.kelp`
Kelp Plant	`kelp_plant`	Cake	`block.minecraft.kelp_plant`

Bedrock Edition:

Kelp	Resource location	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
Item	`kelp`	`335`	Item	—	`item.kelp.name`
Block	`kelp`	`393`	Block & Invalid Item	`detail.kelp`	—

Block states [ ]

Java Edition:
Summit kelp block:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
age	`0`	`0` `1` `two` `3` `4` `5` `half-dozen` `7` `8` `9` `10` `11` `12` `thirteen` `14` `xv` `xvi` `17` `eighteen` `19` `20` `21` `22` `23` `24` `25`	A freshly planted kelp starts with a random age betwixt 0 and 24. Below age 25, a kelp may attempt get abound more than kelp higher up it with the same age value incremented by ane. Kelp stops growing at historic period 25.

Bedrock Edition:

Proper name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metabeta $.25	Clarification
kelp_age	`0x1` `0x2` `0x4` `0x8`	`0`	`0` `one` `ii` `3` `4` `5` `six` `7` `8` `9` `10` `eleven` `12` `13` `14` `15`	`0` `i` `two` `3` `4` `5` `vi` `7` `eight` `9` `10` `xi` `12` `13` `xiv` `15`	The age of the kelp. The kelp renders equally a non-top piece if there's another kelp above it.
kelp_age	`0x1` `0x2` `0x4` `0x8`	`0`	`sixteen` `17` `18` `19` `20` `21` `22` `23` `24` `25`	`Unsupported`	Unused

History [ ]

Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009			Notch shows interest in adding a "seaweed" cake.
Java Edition
November 18, 2017			Kelp plants were shown in a clip of MineCon World.
i.13	18w07a		Added kelp.
	18w07b		Kelp at present behaves more like water, meaning mobs can no longer spawn within the found under water nor tin can they replenish their breath past swimming through it.
	18w10a		The texture for kelp has been overhauled.
	18w14a		Top of the kelp textures have been shifted slightly downward.
	18w14a		The generation rules for kelp have been changed, it now mainly generates in cold body of water biomes and can no longer generate in warm oceans.
	18w20a		The "kelp_top" has been changed ID to "kelp" and "kelp" has been changed to "kelp_plant", for both the block and item forms.
	pre2		Kelp is now destroyed by sponges.^[1]
	pre6		Added five new audio events that apply to kelp: `block.wet_grass.suspension`, `block.wet_grass.fall`, `block.wet_grass.hit`, `block.wet_grass.place`, and `block.wet_grass.step`.
one.xiv	19w03a		Placing kelp into the new composter has a 10% chance of raising the compost level past 1.
	19w05a		Kelp now has a 30% run a risk of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
	19w05a		Added wandering traders, which sell kelp.
1.16	20w11a		Kelp can now be grown with bone repast.
1.17	20w46a		Kelp no longer generates on magma blocks.^[2]
1.xviii	21w37a		Kelp volition now stop growing if shears are used on the tip.
Bedrock Edition
ane.4.0	beta i.2.14.2		Added kelp.
ane.4.0	beta one.two.xx.ane		The kelp item texture has been updated to the Java Edition's.
ane.v.0	beta 1.5.0.4		The texture of the kelp plant has been updated.
ane.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3		Kelp tin can at present be bought from wandering traders for iii emeralds.
one.eleven.0	beta one.eleven.0.1		Kelp can now be used to fill composters.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69	1.76	Patch 38	Added kelp.

Issues [ ]

Issues relating to "Kelp" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues in that location.

Trivia [ ]

In real life, kelp is not considered a plant. It is classified past scientists as a brown algae.

Gallery [ ]

Kelp shown in a clip from MINECON World 2017.
Naturally generated kelp in an bounding main biome.
Naturally generated kelp near the shore.
An ocean with kelp visible in the far distance.
Kelp placed outside of water using the /setblock command before 18w07b.
What kelp looks like without water (water removed using a resources pack).
Kelp that generated in mid-air due to an ocean monument's water cutting through it.
Multiple kelps.
Without obstacle, kelps can grow all the manner to building limit.