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Cherry Leaves in Minecraft | MinecraftBible
Cherry Leaves is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4, dropping Cherry Leaves.
What is Cherry Leaves?
Cherry Leaves is a Minecraft block classified under the leaves;mineable/hoe material group. It has a hardness of 0.2 and a blast resistance of 0.2. It stacks up to 64 per inventory slot. It is a transparent block, meaning it doesn't fully block light or vision. Cherry Leaves does not emit light. Cherry Leaves filters 1 levels of light passing through it, even though it is technically transparent.
Namespaced identifier: minecraft:cherry_leaves. Command: /give @p minecraft:cherry_leaves 1.
How to mine Cherry Leaves
Cherry Leaves can be broken with any tool, or even by hand.
Break times (unenchanted, no Haste or Mining Fatigue):
- With the correct tool: approximately 0.3 seconds
- By hand (no tool): approximately 1 seconds
Using an Efficiency-enchanted tool, Haste beacons, or a Diamond/Netherite tier drastically reduces these times. Water and being airborne slow mining by 5×.
Cherry Leaves drops
When broken, Cherry Leaves drops:
Silk Touch preserves the block itself; Fortune increases quantity of ore-style drops but has no effect on ordinary blocks.
Block tags & properties
- Transparent
- Hand-Mineable
Cherry Leaves technical properties
- Waterloggable: Yes
- Flammable: Yes — spreads fire
- Burns from lava: Yes
- Renewable: Yes
- Emits light: No (luminance 0)
- Map color: * Oak Leaves Jungle Leaves Acacia Leaves Dark Oak Leaves Mangrove Leaves: Foliage tint * Spruce Leaves Birch Leaves Azalea Leaves Flowering Azalea Leaves Leaves * Cherry Leaves Cherry Leaves * Pale Oak Leaves Pale Oak Leaves * Red Poplar Leaves Red upcoming * Orange Poplar Leaves Orange upcoming * Yellow Poplar Leaves Yellow upcoming
Values sourced from Minecraft Wiki: Leaves (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Verified for Java Edition 1.21.4.
Cherry Leaves natural generation
- Generates in biomes / dimensions: Overworld
Technical properties
- Namespaced ID: minecraft:cherry_leaves
- Material family: leaves;mineable/hoe
- Hardness: 0.2
- Blast resistance: 0.2
- Stack size: 64
- Transparent: Yes
- Blocks light: 1
- Emits light: 0
- Diggable: Yes
- Craftable: No
- /give command: /give @p minecraft:cherry_leaves 1
Overview
Cherry Leaves is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4. This page covers mining requirements, real drop data, and crafting relevance.
Step-by-step walkthrough
- Cherry Leaves can be broken by hand or with any tool, though using a tool is usually faster.
- With the correct tool this takes about 0.3s to break (unenchanted); by hand it's roughly 1s.
- Cherry Leaves is transparent, so light passes through and adjacent blocks won't be shaded by it.
Pro tips
- Use /give @p minecraft:cherry_leaves 1 in creative mode to prototype builds before committing resources.
- No special tool is required, so hand-mining is a valid fallback in an emergency.
Difficulty and time commitment
- Difficulty: Easy
- Estimated time per run: 1-5 min
Frequently Asked Questions
What tool do I need to mine Cherry Leaves?
Cherry Leaves can be broken by hand or with any tool - no specific tool tier is required.
What does Cherry Leaves drop when mined?
Breaking Cherry Leaves drops Cherry Leaves, Cherry Sapling, Stick.
How hard is Cherry Leaves to mine?
Cherry Leaves has a hardness value of 0.2. That works out to roughly 0.3s with the correct tool or 1s by hand (unenchanted, no Haste/Mining Fatigue).
What is the internal Minecraft ID for Cherry Leaves?
The namespaced ID is minecraft:cherry_leaves, usable with /setblock, /fill, and /give.