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Vines in Minecraft | MinecraftBible

Vines is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4, dropping Vines.

What is Vines?

Vines is a Minecraft block classified under the vine or glow lichen;plant;mineable/axe 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. Vines does not emit light. Vines filters 0 levels of light passing through it, even though it is technically transparent.

Namespaced identifier: minecraft:vine. Command: /give @p minecraft:vine 1.

How to mine Vines

Vines 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×.

Vines drops

When broken, Vines drops:

Vines

Silk Touch preserves the block itself; Fortune increases quantity of ore-style drops but has no effect on ordinary blocks.

What Vines is used to craft

Vines appears as an ingredient in 3 known Minecraft recipes:

Block tags & properties

Transparent
Hand-Mineable
Crafting Material

Vines technical properties

Waterloggable: Yes
Flammable: Yes — spreads fire
Burns from lava: Yes
Renewable: Yes
Emits light: No (luminance 0)
Map color: Foliage tint

Values sourced from Minecraft Wiki: Vines (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Verified for Java Edition 1.21.4.

Technical properties

Namespaced ID: minecraft:vine
Material family: vine or glow lichen;plant;mineable/axe
Hardness: 0.2
Blast resistance: 0.2
Stack size: 64
Transparent: Yes
Blocks light: 0
Emits light: 0
Diggable: Yes
Craftable: No
/give command: /give @p minecraft:vine 1

Overview

Vines is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4. This page covers mining requirements, real drop data, and crafting relevance.

Step-by-step walkthrough

Vines 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.
Vines is transparent, so light passes through and adjacent blocks won't be shaded by it.

Pro tips

Use /give @p minecraft:vine 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 Vines?

Vines can be broken by hand or with any tool - no specific tool tier is required.

What does Vines drop when mined?

Breaking Vines drops Vines.

How hard is Vines to mine?

Vines 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).