What is Dead Tube Coral in Minecraft?
Dead tube coral is a small, non solid block that looks like a colorless, stony version of the living tube coral. It has the same shape of a cluster of thin tubes but is a uniform gray color. The main purpose of dead tube coral is for decoration. It is what you get when a living tube coral dies from being out of water. Players use dead tube coral to create scenes of decay or to build fossilized reefs and ancient, underwater ruins. Its pale, stony appearance is perfect for adding a sense of age and lifelessness to a build. It is a simple but effective block for telling a story with your environment, contrasting sharply with the vibrant colors of the living coral found in warm oceans.
How to get Dead Tube Coral in Minecraft
There are two main ways to get dead tube coral. The first and most direct way is to find living tube coral in a warm ocean biome and mine it without the right tool. Living tube coral grows on coral reefs. If you break it with your hand, or any tool that does not have the Silk Touch enchantment, it will break and you will get nothing. To get the dead block, you need to make it die first. To do this, you must first collect the living tube coral using a Silk Touch pickaxe. Then, simply place the living tube coral block anywhere outside of water. After a few seconds, it will lose its blue color and turn into a gray dead tube coral block. You can then mine this dead block with any pickaxe to collect it.
How to use Dead Tube Coral in Minecraft
The only use for dead tube coral is for building and decoration. It is a fantastic block for creating a specific mood or atmosphere. You can use it to build the floor of a spooky, dried up seabed or to decorate the outside of a haunted shipwreck. It is also perfect for creating fossil displays in a museum build or for adding texture to a gray, stony landscape. When mixed with other dead coral types and blocks like stone and gravel, you can create very realistic and detailed scenes of ancient, fossilized reefs. You can also place dead tube coral in a flower pot. This creates a tiny, stony decoration that looks great on a shelf or table in a study or a wizard's tower. It has no other functions, but its unique look is very valuable for creative builders.
How to craft Dead Tube Coral in Minecraft
No recipes for this block.
What can Dead Tube Coral make in Minecraft
No items can be crafted.