Horn Coral Fan - Minecraft Block Guide | Properties, Recipe & Uses (2025)

What is Horn Coral Fan in Minecraft?

A horn coral fan is a beautiful, yellow, plant like block that grows in the warm oceans of Minecraft. It has a delicate, flat, fan like shape, similar to a sea fan in the real world. Its main purpose is for decoration, adding a splash of sunny, cheerful color and a delicate texture to the underwater world. It is one of five types of coral fans and helps make the coral reefs look lush and alive. Players seek out horn coral fans to decorate their aquariums and underwater bases. To keep its beautiful yellow color, it must always be touching water. If it is not, it will quickly die and turn a lifeless gray.

How to get Horn Coral Fan in Minecraft

Getting a living horn coral fan requires a special tool and a bit of care. First, you need to find a coral reef, which generates in warm ocean biomes. These reefs are full of colorful life, including the yellow horn coral fan, which grows on top of the coral blocks. To collect the fan without it breaking, you must mine it with a pickaxe that has the Silk Touch enchantment. If you try to mine it with a regular pickaxe or your hand, it will break and you will get nothing. It is also very important that the horn coral fan is in water when you mine it. If you drain the water around it first, it will die and turn into a dead coral fan. So, the key is to swim down to the reef and use your Silk Touch pickaxe to carefully collect the living horn coral fan.

How to use Horn Coral Fan in Minecraft

The main use for a horn coral fan is for decoration. To keep it alive and yellow, you must place it on the top or side of a block that is underwater. This makes it perfect for adding fine details to your custom coral reefs in an aquarium or for decorating the walls of an underwater cave. If you place a horn coral fan on land with no water nearby, it will quickly lose its color and turn into a dead horn coral fan. This can also be used for decoration if you are going for a fossilized or ruined look. You can also place a horn coral fan in a flower pot, but it will immediately turn into the dead version, creating a small, gray, stony decoration that looks like a dried out sea fan.

How to craft Horn Coral Fan in Minecraft

No recipes for this block.

What can Horn Coral Fan make in Minecraft

No items can be crafted.

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