Dead Bush

Dead bushes are transparent blocks in the form of an aesthetic plant.

Obtaining

Breaking

Dead bushes drop 0–2 sticks when broken without shears, or when the block below it is removed. When shears are used, a dead bush drops itself.

Natural generation

Dead bushes generate on sand, red sand, podzol, dirt, coarse dirt and terracotta in deserts, badlands, and old growth taigas. Dead bushes generate twice as commonly in desert biomes as they do in old growth taigas, and 10 times more often in badlands than they do in deserts (ratio of 1:2:20 – taiga:desert:badlands). Dead bushes can also generate in swamp biomes.

Dead bushes can be found as a block and inside flower pots in some desert village houses.

Chest loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Dead Bush	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	2.2%
Dead Bush	Village	Desert house chest	1–3	26.6%
Bedrock Edition
Dead Bush	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	2.2%
Dead Bush	Village	Desert house chest	1–3	26.6%

Usage

Dead bushes can be used for aesthetic decoration, as a source of sticks and a fuel source. They can be placed on any kind of sand, terracotta, dirt, podzol and mud; they can also be placed on grass blocks, mycelium, and moss blocks. They can also be planted in flower pots. Dead bushes do not spread, and cannot be grown using bone meal.

Unlike most plants, dead bushes cannot be composted.^[1]

Smelting

Dead bushes can be used as fuel, smelting one item per dead bush.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	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
None^{[sound 1]}	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.grass.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	16
Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.grass.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
Blocks	Once the block has broken	`dig.grass`	0.7	0.8-1.0
Blocks	When the block is placed	`dig.grass`	0.8	0.8-1.0
Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`hit.grass`	0.3	0.5
Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	`fall.grass`	0.4	1.0
Players	Walking on the block	`step.grass`	0.3	1.0
Players	Jumping from the block	`jump.grass`	0.11	1.0
Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.grass`	0.21	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Dead Bush	`dead_bush`	Block & Item	`block.minecraft.dead_bush`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
Dead Bush	`deadbush`	`32`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.deadbush.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 as the block.

History

Java Edition Beta
1.6		Test Build 3			Added dead bushes.
1.8		Pre-release			Dead bushes can now be placed in Creative mode.
1.8		Pre-release 2 ;)			Dead bushes now have an official name.
Java Edition
1.2.1		12w05a			Dead bushes can now be obtained using shears.
1.4.2		12w34a			Can now be placed in flower pots.
1.7.2		13w36a			Dead bushes can now be placed on all 17 types of hardened clay as well as dirt.
		13w36a			Dead bushes can now spawn in mesa biomes.
		13w39a			Dead bushes can now be placed on red sand.
1.8		14w04a			Dead bushes are now flammable.
1.9		15w31a			Dead bushes now drop 0–2 sticks when broken.
1.13		18w22b			Dead bush bounding box has been shrunk.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of dead bushes has been changed.
		18w43a			Dead bushes can now be used as fuel.
		18w50a			Potted dead bushes can now be found in desert villages.
		18w50a			Dead bush items can now be found in chests in desert village houses.
1.17		21w16a			Dead bushes can now be placed on grass blocks.
1.19		22w14a			Dead bushes can now be placed on mud.
1.20 (Experimental)		23w07a			Dead bushes can now be placed on suspicious sand.
1.20		23w12a			Dead bush can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in trail ruins.
		23w16a			Dead bush no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins.
		23w16a			Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for the suspicious gravel within the trail ruins; dead bush now is in the common loot.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.8.0		build 1			Added dead bushes to Creative mode.
v0.8.0		build 1			Dead bushes can only be placed on sand.
v0.9.0		build 1			Dead bushes now spawn naturally.
v0.9.0		build 1			Added red sand and hardened clay, which dead bushes can be placed on.
v0.12.1		build 1			Dead bushes now drop 0–2 sticks when broken.
v0.12.1		build 1			Dead bushes can now be placed on podzol.
?					Dead bushes can now be placed on dirt.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of dead bushes has been changed.
					Potted dead bushes now generate in the new desert villages.
					Dead bushes can now be used as fuel in a furnace.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Dead bushes can now be found in desert village house chests.
1.19.0		beta 1.19.0.20			Dead bushes can now be placed on mud.
1.20.0		beta 1.20.0.20			Dead bushes can now be placed on grass blocks, moss blocks and mycelium.
1.20.0		beta 1.20.0.20			Dead bushes can now be found in swamp biomes.
Legacy Console Edition
TU7	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added dead bushes.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3	1.0.1	Dead bushes can now be placed on terracotta.
		1.90			The texture of dead bushes has been changed.
		1.90			Dead bushes can now be used as fuel in a furnace.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added dead bushes.

Data history

Java Edition
1.13		17w47a			The ID for dead bushes has been changed from `deadbush` to `dead_bush`.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 32.

Trivia

Dead bushes dropping sticks is based on a suggestion by Reddit user pedroff_1.^[2]
Other than spore blossoms, dead bushes are the only plant-like blocks that are non-renewable.