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Small Dripleaf
Utility Blocks

Small Dripleaf

A two-block-tall plant that grows in lush caves and can be cultivated with bone meal into a big dripleaf. It can be planted on clay, moss, or in water.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.17

Item ID

small_dripleaf

Small Dripleaf at a glance

Minecraft files Small Dripleaf under Utility Blocks: a block you get from natural world generation. A single slot takes 64 Small Dripleaf, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest.

Small Dripleaf is instant to break, which is what a hardness of 0 buys you. It sits between Slime Block and Smithing Table in Utility Blocks, number 284 of 340 there.

How to obtain

  • Natural generation

Notes

Cannot be crafted. Harvested with shears, otherwise it drops nothing. Generates in lush caves and can be bought from wandering traders.

Frequently asked questions about Small Dripleaf

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

    How do you get Small Dripleaf in Minecraft?

    Small Dripleaf is obtained through natural world generation. A crafting table will not help you here: Small Dripleaf has no recipe of its own.

  2. Small Dripleaf coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.17

    When was Small Dripleaf added to Minecraft?

    Small Dripleaf was added in version 1.17.

  3. 64 Small Dripleaf drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Small Dripleaf can you stack?

    64 Small Dripleaf to a slot, so a shulker box holds 1,728 and a double chest twice that, at 3,456. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once.

  4. Small Dripleaf on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Small Dripleaf used for?

    A two-block-tall plant that grows in lush caves and can be cultivated with bone meal into a big dripleaf. It can be planted on clay, moss, or in water.

Building with it

Small dripleaf grows in lush caves and, with bone meal, becomes a big dripleaf, which tilts and drops anything standing on it. That makes the big version a trapdoor with no redstone at all, and the small one the way to farm it.