Weeping Vines

Weeping vines are climbable downwards-growing vegetation blocks found in the Nether in crimson forests.

Obtaining

Breaking

Weeping vines can be broken instantly using any tool. They have a 33% chance to drop a single weeping vine when broken, increased to 55% with Fortune I, 77% with Fortune II, and 100% with Fortune III. They always drop a single weeping vine when broken using shears or a tool enchanted with Silk Touch. Any segments left unsupported from above break with a 33% drop chance, regardless of the tool used. Accordingly, weeping vines are best harvested starting from the topmost block down.

Natural generation

Weeping vines generate naturally inside crevices within the ceilings, or on huge crimson fungi in the crimson forest biome.

Post-generation

A huge fungus grown by using bone meal on a crimson fungus generates weeping vines growing on it.

Each random tick, weeping vines have a 10% chance of growing one block downward. At default random tick speed, each fungus grows approximately every 13653 game ticks (11.3775 minutes). Weeping vines stop growing once they reach the ground or when the block reaches an age block state of 25, whichever is first.

Bone meal can be used to extend weeping vines and can be used anywhere in the chain to extend the whole chain. This can be useful for getting down from a high place in the nether.

Usage

Weeping vines can be placed on, and grow from, the bottom of a block. The top-most vine block always has a starting age value of 0, which increments every time the block grows. If the bottom-most vine block has an age below 25, it continues to grow provided that there is free space below the vine. When the vine does grow, a new vine block with an incremented age value is placed beneath it.

Weeping vines stop growing if shears are used on the tip.‌‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Climbing

Weeping vines can be climbed by standing in them and holding the jump key. If there is a solid block behind the weeping vines, the walk forwards key can also be used.

Compost

Weeping vines can also be used on a composter, with a 50% chance to raise the compost level by 1.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.weeping_vines.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	0.8	16
Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.weeping_vines.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	0.8	16
Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`block.weeping_vines.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.5	16
None^{[sound 1]}	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.weeping_vines.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	16
Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.weeping_vines.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.roots`	1.0	0.8-1.0
Blocks	When the block is placed	`dig.roots`	1.0	0.8-1.0
Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`hit.roots`	0.3	0.5
Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	`fall.roots`	0.4	1.0
Players	Walking on the block	`step.roots`	0.15	1.0
Players	Jumping from the block	`jump.roots`	0.12	1.0
Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.roots`	0.14	1.0

Unique

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Footsteps	Blocks	While something is climbing on a weeping vine	`block.vine.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16
	Plant cropped	Blocks	When the tip of weeping vines are cropped with shears	`block.growing_plant.crop`	`subtitles.block.growing_plant.crop`	1.0	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition: None ^[1]

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Weeping Vines	`weeping_vines`	Block & Item	`climbable`	`block.minecraft.weeping_vines`
Weeping Vines Plant	`weeping_vines_plant`	Block	`climbable`	`block.minecraft.weeping_vines_plant`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
Weeping Vines	`weeping_vines`	`486`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.weeping_vines.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.

Block states

Java Edition
Weeping Vines:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
age	`0`	`0` `1` `2` `3` `4` `5` `6` `7` `8` `9` `10` `11` `12` `13` `14` `15` `16` `17` `18` `19` `20` `21` `22` `23` `24` `25`	Increments for every block the weeping vine grows.

Bedrock Edition

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
weeping_vines_age	`0x1` `0x2` `0x4` `0x8` `0x10`	`0`	`0` `1` `2` `3` `4` `5` `6` `7` `8` `9` `10` `11` `12` `13` `14` `15` `16` `17` `18` `19` `20` `21` `22` `23` `24` `25`	`0` `1` `2` `3` `4` `5` `6` `7` `8` `9` `10` `11` `12` `13` `14` `15` `16` `17` `18` `19` `20` `21` `22` `23` `24` `25`	Increments for every block the weeping vine grows.

History

Java Edition
November 30th, 2019		Weeping vines were showed off in a video by Minecraft's Twitter.
1.16	20w06a	Added weeping vines.
	20w09a	Weeping vines can now be climbed.
	20w11a	Weeping vines now play sounds when climbed.
	20w11a	Weeping vines can now be grown with bone meal.
	20w15a	Weeping vines can now be composted.
	20w18a	The loot table for weeping vines has been changed to only allow 1 to be dropped.
1.18	21w37a	Weeping vines stop growing if shears are used on the tip.
Bedrock Edition
1.16.0	beta 1.16.0.51	Added weeping vines.
1.16.0	beta 1.16.0.57	Weeping vines can now be composted.
1.16.20	beta 1.16.20.50	Weeping vines now play sounds when climbed.
Minecraft Dungeons
1.8.0.0		Weeping vines are visible in the Flames of the Nether DLC.
1.8.0.0		A Warped Variant occurs in the Warped Forest level.