Moss Block - Minecraft Block Guide | Properties, Recipe & Uses (2025)

What is Moss Block in Minecraft?

A moss block is a unique, natural block that looks like a block of dirt completely covered in a soft, green moss. Its main purpose is to be a decorative block and a catalyst for growing other lush cave plants. It has a vibrant, organic texture that is perfect for landscaping and creating natural looking builds. A very special property of the moss block is that when you use bone meal on it, it will spread moss to nearby stone and dirt blocks, and it will also grow a random assortment of lush cave vegetation, like moss carpets, azaleas, and grass. This makes it a key block for creating your own lush, green environments.

How to get Moss Block in Minecraft

There are a few ways to get a moss block. The first way is to find one. Moss blocks generate in large patches on the floors and ceilings of lush cave biomes, which are the beautiful, green caves found underground. You can mine a moss block with any tool, but a hoe is the fastest. You can also find moss blocks in the chests of shipwreck structures. Another great way to get moss blocks is by trading with a Wandering Trader. This special merchant will sometimes offer to sell two moss blocks for one emerald. This is often the easiest way to get your first moss block if you cannot find a lush cave.

How to use Moss Block in Minecraft

The main use for a moss block is its unique interaction with bone meal. If you place a moss block down and use bone meal on it, it will convert a radius of nearby blocks (like stone, dirt, and cave vines) into more moss blocks. It will also grow a layer of moss carpet, grass, and azalea bushes on top of the new moss. This is an amazing tool for terraforming and landscaping, allowing you to quickly cover an ugly stone area with beautiful green moss. You can also craft a moss block with cobblestone or stone bricks to create their mossy variants. For builders, the moss block itself is a great decorative block for creating soft, natural looking floors or for adding an overgrown look to a build. It can also be crafted into a moss carpet.

How to craft Moss Block in Minecraft

No recipes for this block.

What can Moss Block make in Minecraft

Moss Carpet

Mossy Stone Bricks

Mossy Cobblestone

My Story

How This All Started

So basically, I was playing Minecraft one night after a long day doing deliveries, and I was trying to remember what drops what and how to craft certain things. Every website I went to was either dead slow, missing loads of stuff, or just looked terrible. I thought "bloody hell, surely I can do better than this?"

By the way, this My Story section is something new I've only just started adding things here! Most of the site was actually built before I ever wrote this part. Now that the website is live, I'm running into problems galore! So if things look a bit rough or unfinished, bear with me I'm updating and adding as I go.

That was probably a mistake.

A half finished story, oh well. I'll keep adding more as I go!

Learning the Hard Way

I knew absolutely nothing about making websites. Like, properly nothing. I didn't even know what PHP was. But I'm stubborn as anything, so I just started watching YouTube tutorials and reading random stuff online while I was on my breaks.

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The worst part is when you spend hours trying to figure out why something doesn't work, and it turns out you missed a semicolon. Or when everything works fine on your computer but looks like complete rubbish on someone else's. Fun times.

The Reality of It

Look, I'm not gonna lie this has been a right pain sometimes. I work full time doing deliveries, so most of this gets done late at night when I should probably be sleeping. I've had way too many energy drinks and definitely not enough sleep.

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Here's the thing I want this to be your go to place for everything Minecraft. Not just blocks and items, but proper guides, build tutorials, maybe even schematics you can download. Server info, community stuff, the lot.

I know it doesn't look like much right now, and there's loads missing. But I'm working on it. It takes time when you're learning as you go and doing it around a full time job. But I'd rather take my time and do it properly than rush it and end up with something rubbish.

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Why I Keep Going

Honestly? Because every time someone uses this site or gives me feedback, it reminds me why I started. I love Minecraft, I love building things (both in game and apparently websites), and I love the community.

Plus, I've learned loads doing this. Sure, I've wanted to give up more times than I can count, but seeing it slowly come together is pretty satisfying. And if it helps other people find what they're looking for without having to trawl through ten different outdated websites, then that's worth it.

So yeah, bear with me while I figure this all out. It's going to take a while, but it'll get there eventually. Thanks for checking it out, and if you spot anything broken or have suggestions, let me know. I'm still learning, but I'm determined to make this work.