Dandelion

A dandelion is a flower that can be crafted into yellow dye, suspicious stew, and golden dandelions​^[upcoming], and used to breed rabbits.

Obtaining

Breaking

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

A dandelion 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.

Natural generation

Dandelions generate naturally on dirt and grass blocks in the following biomes as part of vegetation features:

The following additional biomes are also technically allowed to generate dandelions, although they very rarely or never generate grass blocks on the surface in normal worlds. As a result, dandelions can generate only in edge cases or custom worlds.

In jungles, bamboo jungles, sparse jungles, savannas and savanna plateaus, dandelions are twice as common as in other biomes. In flower forests and meadows, dandelions only generate as part of gradients.

Natural dandelions are found in plains and savanna villages. Potted dandelions can also generate in woodland mansions.

Post-generation

Java Edition

When bone meal is applied to a grass block in one of the biomes listed above (except those marked as ‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}), dandelions have a chance of generating on the targeted block and adjacent grass blocks in a 15×5×15 area. In meadows and flower forests, dandelions can generate only in specific locations depending on the flower gradient. In plains, sunflower plains, dripstone caves, and the deep dark, dandelions cannot generate in tulip-only areas.

Bedrock Edition

When bone meal is applied to a grass block in any biome except swamp, pale garden, and flower forest, dandelions have a chance of generating on the targeted block and adjacent grass blocks in a 7×5×7 area. Unlike Java Edition, bone meal can generate dandelions anywhere within a meadow biome. In plains and sunflower plains, dandelions cannot generate in tulip-only areas.

When bone meal is applied to a dandelion in any biome, more dandelions appear on top of nearby grass blocks. Poppies can also occasionally appear, and dandelions can occasionally appear when bone meal is applied to poppies. The flowers can appear up to 3 blocks away from the original, forming a 7×7 square.

Mob loot

Endermen can pick up dandelions, like any other one-block-tall flower, and drop it if killed while holding it.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Dandelion	Village	Plains house chest	1	22.8% { "item": "Dandelion", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.22790559614142292, "structure": "Village", "container": "Plains house chest" }

Trading

Wandering traders may sell a dandelion for 1 emerald.

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Wandering Trader	Ordinary	7%	7%	Emerald	Dandelion	12	—	—

Usage

Like other flowers, dandelions 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.

Dandelions can also be placed in flower pots.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Golden Dandelion	Gold Nugget + Dandelion		​[upcoming First Drop 2026]
Suspicious Stew	Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl + Dandelion
Yellow Dye	Dandelion

Suspicious stew

Suspicious stew that is created using a dandelion imparts the Saturation effect for 0.35 seconds in Java Edition or 0.3 seconds in Bedrock Edition. The Saturation effect restores an additional 7 () hunger and 14 saturation in Java Edition, or 6 () hunger in Bedrock Edition. The suspicious stew can be crafted using a dandelion or produced by feeding a dandelion to a brown mooshroom and then milking it with a bowl.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl + Dandelion

Bees

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

Breeding

Dandelions can be used to breed, grow, and lead bees and rabbits.

Bee nests

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

Composting

Placing a dandelion into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1. A stack of dandelions 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	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 [upcoming: BE 26.0]	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key [upcoming: BE 26.0]	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	use.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
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.11	1.0
	​Footsteps	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
Dandelion	dandelion	Block & Item	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.dandelion

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Dandelion	dandelion	yellow_flower	37	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.yellow_flower.dandelion.name

History

Java Edition

Java Edition Classic
0.0.20a							Added dandelions.
							Dandelions can be placed on all block types, including lava and on top of a rose or another dandelion. Dandelions can also "float" when the block beneath them is broken.
August 25, 2009							Notch showed dandelions generating naturally in worlds.
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST							Added dandelions to world generation.
Java Edition Indev
0.31			20091223-0040				Dandelions now have a stretched model with wider texture planes.
Java Edition Infdev
20100327							Dandelions can no longer generate, due to changes in the terrain generator.
20100616-1808							Dandelions can now naturally generate again.
Java Edition Beta
1.0							The addition of tooltips has given dandelions their official names - they are currently generically called "Flower".
1.2							Dandelions can now be crafted into 2 dandelion yellow dyes.
1.6.6							Dandelions can now be regrown.
							Bone meal can now generate dandelions when used on a grass block.
1.8			Pre-release				Dandelions have now become more abundant.
Java Edition
1.4.2			12w34a				Dandelions can now be placed inside flower pots.
1.7.2			13w36a				"Flower" has been renamed to "Dandelion".
							Dandelions are now discentered like grass.
							Dandelions are now flammable.
			13w37a				Each dandelion now only yields 1 dye, instead of 2.[1]
1.8			14w04a				Dandelions no longer generate as a massive group at the world origin.[2]
			14w07a				Dandelion texture planes are no longer stretched by a factor of sqrt2.
			14w17a				Dandelion texture planes are now the same size as they were before 14w07a.
							Dandelions now generate in flower forest biomes.
			14w25a				Dandelions are now affected by the same shading full blocks are.
			14w26a				Dandelions are no longer subject to shading.
			14w27a				Dandelions can now be used to breed tamed rabbits.
1.8.1			pre1				Rabbits now follow players holding dandelions.[3]
1.11			16w39a				Dandelions now generate in flower pots in woodland mansions.
July 19, 2017							Jeb tweets image of new dandelion textures.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of dandelions has been changed.
							Dandelions can now be used to craft suspicious stew, giving it the Saturation effect.
			18w48a				Dandelions now generate in the updated plains villages.
							Dandelions can now be found in chests in plains village houses.
			18w49a				Dandelions now generate in the updated savanna villages.
			19w03a				Placing a dandelion into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
			19w05a				Dandelions now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
							Added wandering traders, which sell dandelions.
1.15			19w34a				Dandelions can now be used to breed bees.
							Bees can now pollinate dandelions.
1.18			Experimental Snapshot 1				Added meadows, in which dandelions can generate in.
Upcoming Java Edition
26.1			snap5				Dandelions can now be used to craft golden dandelions.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release							Added dandelions.
v0.3.0							Added dye recipe for dandelions.
v0.8.0			build 5				The position of dandelions is now randomized.
v0.12.1			build 1				Dandelions can now occupy the same space as snow layers.
v0.13.0			build 1				Whether or not a dandelion is created using bone meal now depend on the biome.
							Dandelions can now be used to breed tamed rabbits.
			build 3				The hitbox of dandelions no longer occupies the entire block.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Dandelions now generate in woodland mansions.
							Dandelions are no longer craftable, except in the Classic UI.[4]
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0			beta 1.2.0.2				The dye recipe for dandelions has been re-added, except in the Classic UI.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of dandelions has been changed.
							Dandelions now generate in new villages.
							Dandelions can now be sold by the wandering trader.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Dandelions can be used to fill a composter.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.9				Dandelions can now be used to make suspicious stew, giving it the Saturation effect.
1.14.0			beta 1.14.0.1				Dandelions can now be used to breed bees.
							Bees can now pollinate dandelions.
1.16.220 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.16.220.50				Added meadows, in which dandelions can generate in.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.21				Dandelions no longer appear mirrored when viewed from certain angles.[5]
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
26.10			Preview 26.10.21				Dandelions can now be used to craft golden dandelions.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added dandelions.
TU14		1.04					Dandelions can now be placed inside flower pots.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Dandelions can now be used to breed rabbits.
							"Flower" has been renamed to "Dandelion".[is this the correct version?]
							Each dandelion now only yields 1 dye, instead of 2.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Dandelions now generate in flower pots in woodland mansions.
			1.90				The texture of dandelions has been changed.
			1.91				Dandelions now generate in new villages.
							Added wandering traders, which sell dandelions.
							Dandelions can be used to fill a composter.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added dandelions.
1.9.19							Dandelions now generate in flower pots in woodland mansions.

Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education
1.0							Added dandelions.[is this the correct version?]
1.12							The texture of dandelions has been changed.

Data history

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.8			14w06a				Dandelions 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 ID of dandelions has been changed from yellow_flower to dandelion.
							Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral IDs was 37.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0			?				Dandelions with a damage/metadata value of 1+ would display the following name in-game: tile.flower1..name.
v0.15.0			?				Dandelions with a damage/metadata value of 1+ now display the following name in-game: tile.yellow_flower..name.
Bedrock Edition
1.21.20			Preview 1.21.20.21				The ID of dandelions has been changed from yellow_flower to dandelion.

Issues

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

Trivia

• In real life, a dandelion is any member of the Taraxacum genus of flowering plants.
• When Notch made the dandelion (the texture in the Programmer Art pack), he used the rose as a base for its texture.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  A dandelion that generated deep underground.
• 
  A dandelion found in a mineshaft underground.

References

External links

• Taking Inventory: Dandelion – Minecraft.net on July 12, 2019

Navigation

v t e Flower
Tiny	Pink Petals Wildflowers
Normal	Dandelion Golden​[upcoming First Drop 2026] Poppy Blue Orchid Allium Azure Bluet Oxeye Daisy Cornflower Lily of the Valley Torchflower Tulips Red Orange White Pink Wither Rose Eyeblossom Closed Open
Tall	Rose Bush Lilac Peony Pitcher Plant Sunflower
Other	Cactus Flower Cherry Leaves Chorus Flower Flowering Azalea Leaves Mangrove Propagule Spore Blossom

v t e Blocks
Structural Wood/Hypha Logs Stripped Wood Stripped Stems Stripped Hyphae Stripped Block of Bamboo Stripped Bamboo Mosaic Planks Stone-based Stone Cobblestone Mossy Smooth Stone Stone Bricks Chiseled Cracked Mossy Granite Polished Diorite Polished Andesite Polished Deepslate Chiseled Cobbled Polished Deepslate Bricks Cracked Deepslate Tiles Cracked Tuff Chiseled Polished Tuff Bricks Chiseled Overworld Bricks Packed Mud Mud Bricks Block of Resin Resin Bricks Chiseled Sandstone Chiseled Cut Smooth Red Sandstone Chiseled Cut Smooth Prismarine Bricks Dark The Nether Netherrack Nether Bricks Chiseled Cracked Red Blackstone Polished Blackstone Chiseled Polished Blackstone Bricks Cracked Basalt Polished Smooth The End End Stone Bricks Purpur Block Pillar Ore/Mineral Block of Quartz Bricks Chiseled Pillar Smooth Block of Copper Chiseled Cut Grate Block of Iron Block of Gold Raw Block of Amethyst Block of Coal Block of Diamond Block of Emerald Block of Lapis Lazuli Block of Netherite Block of Redstone
Ornamental Decorative Crying Obsidian Gilded Blackstone Honeycomb Block Reinforced Deepslate Partial Blocks Bars Iron Copper Chains Iron Copper Dirt Path Fences Wooden Nether Brick Slabs Cut Copper Wooden Stairs Cut Copper Wooden Walls Dyeable/Dyed Wool Carpets Terracotta Stained Glazed Concrete Powder Glass Pane Tinted Stained Glass Pane Lighting Candle Dyed End Rod Froglight Glowstone Jack o'Lantern Lantern Copper Soul Sea Lantern Torch Copper Soul BE & edu only Colored Torches Elements Hardened Glass Pane Hardened Stained Glass Pane
Natural Sediment/Soil Clay Dirt Coarse Grass Block Mycelium Podzol Rooted Gravel Mud Nylium Crimson Warped Sand Red Soul Sand Soil Misc. rock Bedrock Magma Block Obsidian Calcite Pointed Dripstone Block Ore/Mineral Amethyst Bud Cluster Budding Amethyst Ancient Debris Coal Ore Deepslate Copper Ore Deepslate Raw Block Diamond Ore Deepslate Emerald Ore Deepslate Gold Ore Deepslate Nether Iron Ore Deepslate Raw Block Lapis Lazuli Ore Deepslate Nether Quartz Ore Redstone Ore Deepslate Plant Azalea Flowering Bamboo Shoot Beetroots Big Dripleaf Small Bush Cactus Carrots Cave Vines Chorus Plant Flower Cocoa Creaking Heart Dead Bush Fern Large Firefly Bush Hanging Roots Leaf Litter Leaves Lily Pad Mangrove Propagule Mangrove Roots Muddy Melon Stem Moss Block Carpet Pale Hanging Moss Pale Moss Block Carpet Potatoes Pumpkin Carved Stem Resin Clump Saplings Seagrass Tall Short Dry Grass Tall Short Grass Tall Sugar Cane Sweet Berry Bush Vines Wheat Crops Hay Bale Flower Allium Azure Bluet Blue Orchid Cactus Flower Cornflower Dandelion Golden​[upcoming First Drop 2026] Eyeblossom Closed Open Lilac Lily of the Valley Oxeye Daisy Peony Pink Petals Pitcher Plant Crop Poppy Rose Bush Spore Blossom Sunflower Torchflower Crop Tulips Wildflowers Wither Rose Fungus & Related Nether Fungi Crimson Warped Glow Lichen Mushrooms Brown Red Blocks Stem Nether Sprouts Nether Wart Wart Block Nether Warped Crimson Roots Warped Roots Shroomlight Twisting Vines Weeping Vines Fauna & algae Coral Dead Coral Blocks Dead Coral Fans Dead Dried Ghast Kelp Dried Block Sea Pickle Fauna/Related Bee Nest Bone Block Cobweb Dragon Egg Frogspawn Infested Blocks Sniffer Egg Turtle Egg Sculk Sculk Sculk Catalyst Sculk Sensor Calibrated Sculk Shrieker Sculk Vein Fluid & Related Lava Water Bubble Column Ice Blue Packed Snow Powder Block Non-physical Air Cave‌[JE only] Void‌[JE only] Invisible Bedrock‌[BE & edu only] Fire Soul
Utility Interactable Anvil Chipped Damaged Barrel Beacon Brewing Stand Cartography Table Chest Ender Copper Crafting Table Enchanting Table Furnace Blast Smoker Grindstone Lectern Loom Shulker Box Dyed Sign Hanging Smithing Table Stonecutter Utilizable Banners Ominous Beehive Beds Bell Bookshelf Cake with Candle Campfire Soul Cauldron Chiseled Bookshelf Composter Conduit Copper Golem Statue Decorated Pot End Gateway End Portal End Portal Frame Farmland Fletching Table Flower Pot Frosted Ice Heads Skeleton Wither Skeleton Zombie Creeper Piglin Dragon Heavy Core Jukebox Ladder Lodestone Monster Spawner Nether Portal Respawn Anchor Scaffolding Shelf Sponge Wet Suspicious Gravel Suspicious Sand TNT Trial Spawner Ominous Vault Ominous Redstone/ Mechanical Buttons Wooden Stone Polished Blackstone Copper Bulb Crafter Daylight Detector Dispenser Dropper Doors Copper Iron Wooden Honey Block Hopper Lever Lightning Rod Note Block Observer Piston Sticky Pressure Plates Wooden Stone Polished Blackstone Heavy Weighted Light Weighted Rail Activator Detector Powered Redstone Lamp Redstone Wire Comparator Repeater Torch Slime Block Target Trapped Chest Trapdoors Copper Iron Wooden Fence Gates Tripwire Hook Tripwire BE & edu only Allow Border Chalkboards Compound Creator Deny Element Constructor Heat Block Item Frame Glow Lab Table Material Reducer Underwater TNT Underwater Torch
Creative or commands only All editions Barrier Command Block Chain Repeating Jigsaw Block Light Petrified Oak Slab Player Head Structure Block Void Java Edition only Test Block Test Instance Block China Edition only mod_ore micro_block
Removed All editions Grassless Dirt Seamless Stone Slab Java Edition only Cloth Dead Coral Block Gear Lava Spawner Locked chest Rose Potted Shrub Water Spawner Bedrock Edition only Blue Rose grass_carried leaves_carried Fern Fern Smooth Stone Bricks Structure Air mysterious_frame_slot MinecraftEdu only Big Sign Border block Build allow block Build disallow block Foundation block Home Block Information block Information Sign Number Block Spawn Block Teleport Block Minecraft 4k only XOR Block
Unused Bedrock Edition only Chalkboard BE & edu only Camera Block Chiseled Purpur tile.client_request_placeholder_block.name Deprecated Anvil tile.deprecated_purpur_block_2.name Glowing Obsidian tile.info_update.name tile.info_update2.name Nether Reactor Core tile.reserved6.name Stonecutter (old) Unknown
Unimplemented All editions Blue Berries Branches Copper Button Colored Planks Coral Slab Dead Dirt Slab Empty Barrel Fish Barrel Furniture Paeonia Sand Layer Sculk Jaw Spike Block Wax Block
Joke April Fools 2013 Block of Coal Etho Slab Tinted Glass Torch (Burnt-out) April Fools 2016 USB Charger Block April Fools 2020 An Ant Box of Infinite Books Cursor Funky Portal Leftover Swaggiest stairs ever April Fools 2022 How did we get here? April Fools 2023 Cheese Copper Sink Filled Copper Spleaves Golden Chest Other Portal Packed Air Pickaxe Block Place Block April Fools 2024 Baked Potato Bricks Expired Charred Big Brain Block of Amber Block of Potato Peels Corrupted Floatater Floatato Frying Table Gravtater Pedestal Peelgrass Block Corrupted Poison Farmland Poison Path Poisonous Mashed Potato Poisonous Potato Block Compressed Double Compressed Triple Compressed Quadruple Compressed Poisonous Potato Cutter Poisonous Potato Head Block Poisonous Potato Headpiece Poisonous Potato Ore Deepslate Potato Battery Potato Bud Potato flower Potato Fruit Potato Leaves Potato Pedicule Potato Portal Potato Refinery Potato Sprouts Potato Stem Planks Slab Stairs Door Trapdoor Button Pressure Plate Sign Hanging Sign Fence Fence Gate Potone Copper Ore Diamond Ore Gold Ore Iron Ore Lapis Lazuli Ore Redstone Ore Resin Ore Powerful Potato Strong Roots Taterstone Terre de Pomme Vicious Potato Weak Roots April Fools 2025 Dimension Control Mine Travelling Block Mine Revisitor Mine Crafter Mob Trophy Shimmering Door Sky Trophy
Extreme metadata variants All editions Directionless Hopper Seamless Stone Slab Six-sided Hay Bale Six-sided Piston Java Edition only Faceless Furnace Faceless Jack o'Lantern Green Shrub Potted Invisible stairs Misaligned torch Redstone Nether portal post Overripe Melon Stem Attached Overripe Pumpkin Stem Attached Overgrown Cocoa Overeaten Cake Overgrown Wheat Crops Potted non-flower block Snowy Dirt Coarse Strange buttons Others Bedrock Edition only Bell Stand Diorite Bell Granite Bell Polished Six-sided Bone Block Six-sided Purpur Pillar Six-sided Quartz Pillar Smokeless Campfire