The placement and breaking sounds for nether wart have been changed to match Java Edition. Nether wart can now be sold to cleric villagers. Placement and breaking sounds have now been added to nether wart. Nether wart can now be used to craft red nether bricks and nether wart blocks. Nether wart now uses a more conventional crop model. Nether wart uses a cross model instead of the 'hash' shape associated with crops. The 'crop' template model has changed such that pixels appear in the same physical positions on opposite sides of texture planes, changing the nether wart crop's appearance in the process. Nether wart now generates as part of bastion remnants. Nether wart can now be planted by aiming against the sides and underside of blocks, rather than just the top surface of the soul sand. Before this version, nether wart made stone sounds. The textures of nether wart crops have changed. Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 115, and the item's 372. Placing a nether wart in soul sand now gives the player the 'A Seedy Place' advancement. Nether wart can now be used to craft the new red nether brick blocks and nether wart blocks. The average yield of nether wart from nether fortress chests has now been slightly decreased. Nether wart can no longer be used to breed chickens. Nether wart crops are no longer subject to directional shading. Nether wart crops are now darker and subject to directional shading. In addition, they are now offset downwards by one pixel once more, hiding the bottom row of pixels again. Nether wart crops of all ages no longer have a model. Previously they were offset one pixel downwards like the other crops (wheat, carrots potatoes) to match farmland, although in nether wart's case such a downwards offset hides some pixels of the texture inside of the soul sand. Nether wart crops are now a pixel higher, likely as an accidental result of model conversion. Nether wart is now found in the new chests in nether fortresses. Nether wart can now be used to breed chickens. Nether wart can now grow outside of the Nether. Nether wart can now be brewed in a water bottle to create an awkward potion. Other crops and plants, if any, can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement. Confirmed to be intentional by Mojang, see MC-177459 ↑ Unlike all other block placement sound events, these are listed under items.While the block is in the process of being broken Placing a nether wart into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1. Using a tool enchanted with fortune increases the maximum number of nether wart dropped by 1 per level, for a maximum of 7 for a tool enchanted with Fortune III. Breaking a fully grown nether wart drops 2 to 4 nether wart, while an immature one drops a single nether wart. Nether wart is ready to harvest when it reaches its fourth stage (age:3). Nether wart can only be planted on soul sand, though not soul soil. Bone meal cannot be used on the nether wart. The growth rate is not affected by light or any other environmental factors. At default random tick speed, each nether wart grows one age step approximately every 13653 game ticks (11.3775 minutes) on average, and fully grows from planting to harvest every 40960 game ticks (34.133333333333 minutes) on average. Each random tick, nether wart has a 10% chance of growing one stage.

In Java Edition, the exact age can be seen using the debug screen, and the ages range from 0 to 3. When planted on soul sand, nether wart grows through four stages, though the middle two stages use the same texture (the hitbox of stage 3 is three pixels taller). Main article: Tutorials/Nether Wart farming Nether wart's primary purpose is to brew the awkward potion, the base for all potions, but optional for Weakness. Nether wart growing in a bastion remnant. Nether wart can be found growing in the central courtyard of each of the sections of piglin housing unit bastions. Nether wart growing in a nether fortress. Nether wart can be found growing near stairwells in small soul sand gardens.

Due to only spawning in these specific structures, it's entirely possible for a nether fortress or bastion remnant to generate without nether wart (though they may still appear in the chests that generate in the fortress).

Nether wart can also generate in the courtyards of housing unit bastion remnants. Nether wart can generate in nether fortresses in soul sand gardens around stairwells.

Nether bastion