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Poppy
Utility Blocks

Poppy

A common red flower that generates across many grassy biomes. It can be placed for decoration or crafted into red dye.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

Indev

Item ID

poppy

Poppy at a glance

Utility Blocks holds Poppy: a block out of natural world generation and bone meal on grass blocks. A single slot takes 64 Poppy, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest.

Poppy additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Red Dye. There is no waiting on Poppy: its hardness is 0, so it pops the moment you start. Generated chests only ever hold Poppy in one place: plains village houses (about 12%). It sits between Polished Tuff and Prismarine in Utility Blocks, number 249 of 340 there.

Used to craft

Poppy goes into one recipe, Red Dye, and the link below shows the grid for it. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Poppy.

How to obtain

  • Natural generation
  • Bone meal on grass blocks

Mobs that drop it

Killing a Iron Golem leaves 0 to 2 behind.

Notes

Crafts into 1 red dye. Also dropped by iron golems.

Frequently asked questions about Poppy

  1. Poppy as it appears in the game, the item this answer is about

    How do you get Poppy in Minecraft?

    Poppy is obtained through natural world generation, and Poppy from bone meal on grass blocks. It is not craftable, but it is an ingredient in 1 recipe.

  2. 64 Poppy drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Poppy can you stack?

    Poppy at 64 a slot, and Red Dye takes 1 per craft, so a full slot is 64 Red Dye with nothing left over. A shulker box of Poppy comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

  3. Poppy turning into Red Dye, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Poppy used for?

    Poppy is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Red Dye.

  4. A chest beside Poppy, the loot this answer lists

    Where do you find Poppy in chests?

    Poppy is chest loot in one place and one only: plains village houses (about 12%). No other generated chest lists it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.

  5. Poppy coming forward out of the past, in the game since Indev

    When was Poppy added to Minecraft?

    Poppy was added in version Indev.

  6. Several Poppy at once, the way a kill drops them

    Which mobs drop Poppy?

    Killing a Iron Golem leaves 0 to 2 behind.

Building with it

Poppies give red dye, grow nearly everywhere grass does, and drop from iron golems when they are killed, which is the game's quiet way of making the golem seem sorry about it. Made into a suspicious stew they grant night vision.

Related Astroworld Resources

Villager trades for Poppy

What villagers ask for Poppy on Astroworld Trades

Iron Golem drops Poppy

The Iron Golem page on Astroworld Mobs, where Poppy is listed as a drop

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