How to get coral fans in Minecraft

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Part of this topic falls beyond the scope of the Feed The Beast Wiki. The main article can be found at Minecraft Wiki: Coral Fan.

Dead Coral Fan is a block added by vanilla Minecraft. It can be obtained by placing a Coral Fan outside of water. It has to be broken with a tool enchanted with Silk Touch, otherwise it will drop nothing.

Usage[edit]

Dead Coral Fan has no known uses in crafting.

Here are the crafting recipes for the following items in Minecraft: dead fire coral fan, dead tube coral fan, dead horn coral fan, dead bubble coral fan and dead brain coral fan. Detailed descriptions and step-by-step instructions provided on the Minecraft-Max.net website will help you easily understand how to make these items in Minecraft.

This Minecraft tutorial explains how to craft a blue coral fan called a Tube Coral Fan with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

In Minecraft, a tube coral fan is an item that you can not make with a crafting table or furnace. Instead, you need to find and gather this item in the game. Gathering a tube coral fan is a bit tricky in Minecraft because you need to mine it with a tool that is enchanted with Silk Touch.

Let's explore how to add a tube coral fan to your inventory.

Supported Platforms

A tube coral fan is available in the following versions of Minecraft:

Platform	Supported (Version*)
Java Edition (PC/Mac)	Yes (1.13)
Pocket Edition (PE)	Yes (1.4.0)
Xbox 360	Yes (TU69)
Xbox One	Yes (1.4.0)
PS3	Yes (1.76)
PS4	Yes (1.76)
Wii U	Yes (Patch 38)
Nintendo Switch	Yes (1.5.0)
Windows 10 Edition	Yes (1.4.0)
Education Edition	Yes (1.4.0)

* The version that it was added or removed, if applicable.
NOTE: Pocket Edition (PE), Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Windows 10 Edition are now called Bedrock Edition. We will continue to show them individually for version history.

Where to find Tube Coral Fan in Creative Mode

How to get a Tube Coral Fan in Survival Mode

You can add a tube coral fan to your inventory in Survival mode by finding them growing in a Warm Ocean biome and mining them with a tool with Silk Touch. So, let's get started!

1. Find a Tube Coral Fan

First, you need to find a tube coral fan in your Minecraft world. A tube coral fan is a blue coral fan that is usually found growing underwater in a Coral Reef in the Warm Ocean biome.

This is what a tube coral fan looks like:

2. Hold a Tool with Silk Touch

To mine the tube coral fan, you need to use a tool with Silk Touch such as pickaxe, shovel, or axe:

Pickaxe

Shovel

Axe

In this example, we are going to use a diamond pickaxe that is enchanted with Silk Touch.

3. Mine the Tube Coral Fan

The game control to mine the tube coral fan depends on the version of Minecraft:

• For Java Edition (PC/Mac), left click and hold on the tube coral fan.
• For Pocket Edition (PE), you tap and hold on the tube coral fan.
• For Xbox 360 and Xbox One, press and hold the RT button on the Xbox controller.
• For PS3 and PS4, press and hold the R2 button on the PS controller.
• For Wii U, press and hold the ZR button on the gamepad.
• For Nintendo Switch, press and hold the ZR button on the controller.
• For Windows 10 Edition, left click and hold on the tube coral fan.
• For Education Edition, left click and hold on the tube coral fan.

You will need to continue to mine until the tube coral fan breaks and a smaller tube coral fan appears floating in the water. If you wait too long, the tube coral fan will float to the top of the water.

4. Pick up the Tube Coral Fan

Make sure you pick up the tube coral fan before it disappears.

Once you pick up the tube coral fan, it will appear in your hotbar.

A tube coral fan is a useful item and should be kept in your inventory to be used later.

Item ID and Name

Give Command for Tube Coral Fan

Other Coral

There are other types of coral in Minecraft such as: