Can you make sea pickles in Minecraft?

A sea pickle is a small block that emits light underwater, and is typically found in colonies of up to four sea pickles.

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Obtaining[]
Natural generation[]
Post-generation[]
Smelting ingredient[]
Composting[]
Achievements[]
Data values[]
Block states[]
References[]
How do you get sea pickles in Minecraft?
Can you smelt sea pickles in Minecraft?

Obtaining[]

Sea pickles can be broken instantly. Each colony drops 1-4 sea pickles, depending on how many are in the colony (so a colony of 3 pickles drops 3 pickles).

Natural generation[]

Sea pickle colonies generate on the bottom of warm oceans and are found on top of coral blocks in coral reefs. Each chunk has 1⁄6 chance to generate sea pickle colonies. They can be found in groups of 1 up to 4.

Sea pickles may also be found in desert village houses as decorative blocks that resemble pottery.

Post-generation[]

Using bone meal on an underwater sea pickle placed on top of a living coral block creates more sea pickles. Specifically, the colony to which bone meal is applied increases in size, and any coral block within a radius of 2 blocks (rectilinear distance, horizontally from either the coral block or the sea pickle itself) can generate 1-3 sea pickles. They do not grow or spread naturally, and do not require light.

Trading[]

Sea pickles are sold by wandering traders for 2 emeralds.

Usage[]

Sea pickles can be placed on top of most solid blocks, as well as non-solid blocks, up to four per block, similar to turtle eggs or candles. More information regarding placement on transparent blocks can be found at Opacity/Placement.

Sea pickles produce light when underwater. A single pickle produces a light level of 6, and a colony produces an additional 3 levels per pickle (so 4 sea pickles produces a light level of 15). When they produce light, there is a pale green glow at the end of the pickle.

Bone meal can be used on sea pickles if they are underwater, and planted on living coral blocks. This increases their number on that block, and they spread to empty areas underwater above other living coral blocks. They can spread to the original sea pickle's level or one level below, out to a horizontal taxicab distance of 2. Bone meal can be used on sea pickles planted on other blocks, or outside of water, but nothing happens and the bone meal is still consumed.[1]

Smelting ingredient[]

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Lime Dye	Sea Pickle + Any fuel	0.1

Composting[]

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

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.slime_block.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
None[sound 1]	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.slime_block.fall	None[sound 1]	0.5	0.75	16
Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.slime_block.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.slime_block.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.slime_block.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

↑ a b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
Hostile Creatures	Once the block has broken	mob.slime.big	1.0	0.8-1.0
Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.slime	0.4	1.0
Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.slime	0.25	0.5
Players	Jumping from the block	jump.slime	0.12	1.0
Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.slime	0.22	1.0
Players	Walking on the block	step.slime	0.3	1.0
Hostile Creatures	When the block is placed	mob.slime.big	1.0	0.8-1.0

Achievements[]

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other
		One Pickle, Two Pickle, Sea Pickle, Four	Place four Sea Pickles in a group	—	20G	Bronze

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Sea Pickle	sea_pickle	Block & Item	block.minecraft.sea_pickle

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Sea Pickle	sea_pickle	411	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.sea_pickle.name

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Available with /give command.
↑ The block's direct item form has the same id with the block.

Block states[]

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
pickles	1	1 2 3 4	Number of pickles.
waterlogged	true	false true	Whether or not there's water in the same place as these pickles.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
cluster_count	0x1 0x2	0	0 1 2 3	0 1 2 3	Number of additional pickles.
dead_bit	0x4	false	false true	0 1	True if there's no water in the same place as these pickles.

History[]

Java Edition
1.13	18w14b	Added sea pickles.
18w16a	Sea pickles can now be placed on top of non-solid blocks.
18w22a	If the player is inside the hitbox of sea pickle, and another is attempted to be placed, the placement now fails, as with most other blocks.
Sea pickles now make placement sounds when the amount in a stack is increased.
More sea pickles can now be added to a stack when aiming at adjacent blocks instead of requiring the player to target the pickle stack directly
Sea pickles now require a supporting block underneath.
1.14	18w50a	Sea pickles may now generate in desert village houses.
19w03a	Placing a sea pickle into the new composter block has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
19w05a	Sea pickles now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
Added wandering traders, which sell sea pickles.
1.16	20w15a	Walls now connect to the bottom of sea pickles.
1.16.2	20w28a	Sea pickles can now be placed on soul sand.
1.17	21w13a	The model of the tentacles of the sea pickles has been tweaked that the backside textures are mirrored.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0	beta 1.2.20.1	Added sea pickles.
1.7.0	beta 1.7.0.3	Sea pickles now break instantly when destroyed in Survival mode.
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3	Sea pickles can now be bought from wandering traders.
2 sea pickles now generate in one of new desert village small houses.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.1	Sea pickles can now be used to fill up composters.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38	Added sea pickles.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Sea Pickle" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

Sea pickles are real-life tunicates with blue-green bioluminescence, more properly known as pyrosomes.

Gallery[]

Sea pickles out of water.
Sea pickles in water.
Sea pickles that generate on top of a coral structure.
Sea pickles from above the surface.
A comparison on how much light sea pickles emit.
Texture file of the sea pickle.

References[]

↑ MC-127995

How do you get sea pickles in Minecraft?

Sea pickle colonies generate on the bottom of warm oceans and are found on top of coral blocks in coral reefs. Each chunk has ¹⁄₆ chance to generate sea pickle colonies. They can be found in groups of 1 up to 4. Sea pickles may also be found in desert village houses as decorative blocks that resemble pottery.

Can you smelt sea pickles in Minecraft?

Lime Dye can also be extracted from sea pickles by smelting them at a furnace with a charcoal fuel source. Sea pickles can also be used for composting, and possess a 65% chance to raise the compost level of a composter by one.