CHANNELING

Channeling is an enchantment that can only be used on the trident, and has only one level. A Channeling trident will call forth a bolt of lightning that strikes your target as it is also hit by the trident. The lightning strike will change creepers into charged creepers, pigs into zombie pigmen, and villagers into witches. This spectacular attack will only happen on dry land open to the sky and during thunderstorms. The Channeling enchantment cannot be used with the Riptide enchantment.

See also: Riptide, Trident.

CICHLID

The cichlid is one of Minecraft’s twenty-two named tropical fish. In Minecraft’s color and pattern scheme, it is a blue-gray sunstreak. In real life, cichlids are a very large group of more than 1,500 species of fish, including food fish like tilapia and colorful tropical fish. The cichlid family of fish shares a unique jaw structure that distinguishes them from other fish.

See also: Red Cichlid, Tropical Fish.

CLAY

Clay is one of the four main blocks that form the ocean floor, along with gravel, sand, and dirt. It’s also found at the bottoms and sides of swamps, lakes, and rivers.

You’ll find patches of clay usually closer to the surface and borders of oceans, and by beaches and islands where sand also is found. When you break clay, you’ll get four balls of clay, which you can craft back, four at a time, into blocks. If you smelt clay balls, you’ll get bricks that can be crafted into brick blocks or flowerpots. If you smelt clay blocks, you’ll get terra-cotta building blocks. You can dye the terra-cotta to make stained terra-cotta blocks, and then further smelt these stained blocks to get colorfully patterned glazed terra-cotta.

CLOWNFISH

The clownfish is one of Minecraft’s tropical fish named for a real-life fish. In Minecraft’s color and pattern scheme, it is an orange-white kob (see page 157). In real life, they’re a type of anemonefish, a bright orange color with white stripes. They are known for being born male, with the ability to change into females.

See also: Anemone, Tomato Clownfish, Tropical Fish.

COD

Cod is one of the four types of fish mobs in Minecraft, along with salmon, tropical fish, and pufferfish. They’re found in any ocean biome except Warm Ocean and Frozen Ocean biomes. They are spawned in groups of four to seven fish and will swim in schools of up to nine cod. Cod can be eaten raw or smelted for a very nutritious in-game food.

Top to bottom: The mob cod, the raw cod item, and the cooked cod item.

In real life, cod are a common ocean fish popular as food and as a source of cod liver oil, which contains a variety of important nutrients and vitamins.

See also: Fish.

COLD OCEAN

The Cold Ocean Biome has brilliant deep blue surface waters. You can find kelp, seagrass, ruins, and shipwrecks here. Mobs that spawn underwater in the Cold Ocean Biome are cod, dolphins, drowned, salmon, and squid. The Deep Cold Ocean Biome is about twice as deep, allowing ocean monuments to spawn, with their guardians and elder guardians.

A Deep Cold Ocean Biome, deep enough for an ocean monument to spawn.

CONDUIT

A conduit is a special block—a block entity—that you use to create Conduit Power. You craft it from eight nautilus shells around one heart of the sea. You can use any tool to break it, although a pick is fastest. Conduits give off a light level of fifteen.

Conduits are used to produce Conduit Power, and to do so must be activated. To activate a conduit, you must place it in water and surround it with a specially configured frame of blocks. The full frame consists of three overlapping 5x5 square “rings,” each centered around one of the three axes (x, y, and z) of the conduit. The only blocks that can be used for the frame are prismarine, prismarine brick, dark prismarine, and sea lanterns. The entire frame uses forty-two blocks, and this will activate Conduit Power for a range of ninety-six blocks in all directions.

However, you don’t need a full frame to activate the conduit. You just need a minimum of sixteen blocks of the frame filled in, and for each seven blocks added to the frame, Conduit Power will extend another sixteen blocks from the conduit. This means that for fourteen blocks of frame (not activated until sixteen are placed), the Conduit Power range will be thirty-two blocks. With twenty-one blocks filled in, the range will be forty-eight blocks; with twenty-eight blocks the range is sixty-four blocks, and so on.

To activate a conduit, you must place three rings of prismarine or sea lanterns around it.

A fully framed, activated conduit will also deal damage to any nearby hostile mobs at a rate of four health (two hearts) every two seconds. Again, this only works if the mobs are in water or rain.

An activated conduit opens up to show a reddish “eye” at its center and attracts tiny particles that look like miniature hearts of the sea.

Placed in water, a conduit attracts particles that look like tiny hearts of the sea with eyes. When a conduit activates, it opens and slowly bobs up and down, its tiny frame twisting around a heart of the sea at its center. The conduit makes a humming sound combined with a beating heart sound. When a conduit is fully activated, with a forty-two-block frame, the heart of the sea shows a pupil of orange and red and looks more like an eye.

Block Entity

Block entities are blocks that have more properties or abilities than ordinary blocks like cobblestone. They don’t always use the cube model of an ordinary block. Block entities include banners, beds, brewing stands, cauldrons, chests, flowerpots, furnaces, monster spawners, redstone comparators, and signs, among others.

See also: Conduit Power

CONDUIT POWER

Activated conduits produce a combination of special effects called Conduit Power. Conduit Power gives players the effects of Water Breathing, Night Vision, and Haste while they are within range of the activated conduit. Conduit Power only works when a player is in water (or rain).

See also: Conduit

CORAL

Coral are one of the three types of Minecraft blocks that make up coral reefs, along with coral blocks and coral fans. Although coral in real life are animals, in Minecraft they look like and are similar to ferns or flowers, being non-solid or transparent blocks with a non-cube shape. There are five types of coral: brain coral, bubble coral, fire coral, horn coral, and tube coral. Each has a slightly different shape and color, but all can only grow or be placed on the top of blocks. You can only gather coral with a Silk Touch enchanted tool; otherwise, it will disappear when broken.

Live and dead tube coral.

If you place coral outside of water it will “die” within a moment, turning into gray dead coral. You can place it above water and keep it alive as long as one side of it is touching water. One way to do this is to put a slab on the upper half of a block of water (so the slab is now “waterlogged”) and then place the coral on top of this slab.

Bubble coral.

Brain coral.

Fire coral.

Horn coral.

You can also grow coral in Warm Ocean Biomes by using bone meal on dirt, gravel, or sand. Bone mealing the warm ocean floor will produce seagrass as well.

CORAL BLOCKS

Coral blocks are solid blocks of coral that generate in coral structures, forming coral reefs. They come in the same five varieties as coral and coral fans: brain, bubble, fire, horn, and tube. They will die (turn gray) if they are broken with a pick that is not enchanted with Silk Touch, or if they are placed without at least one side touching water.

See also: Coral Fans, Coral.

Coral blocks compared with their “dead” counterparts. From left to right: tube coral, brain coral, bubble coral, fire coral, horn coral.

CORAL FANS

Coral fans, like coral, are non-solid blocks that are generated in Minecraft as part of coral reef structures. They come in the same five variants as coral and coral block and have the same coloring as their coral and coral block counterparts. They can grow or be placed on the sides and tops of blocks. On the sides of blocks, they take a fan-like shape, and on the tops of blocks, the fans spread out into a flattened shape. They behave in all other circumstances like coral, and they can only be broken with Silk Touch picks. They will die unless at least one side is touching water.

See also: Coral.

From left to right, side and top versions of fire, horn, bubble, tube, and brain coral.

CORAL REEFS

Coral reefs are structures resembling real coral reefs, and generate in random configurations in Warm Ocean Biomes. They’re composed of multiple configurations of coral blocks, coral, and coral fans, some branching like trees, others in blocky clumps. Sea pickles and seagrass grow on and around coral. Tropical fish and pufferfish spawn here, swimming in small groups around the reefs. Coral reefs can be small, consisting of just a few clumps of coral structures, or range up to hundreds of blocks in either direction.

Each type of coral has five variants: brain coral, bubble coral, fire coral, horn coral, and tube coral. These correspond to real-world types of coral. There are no real-world “blocks” of coral, but some coral does have a fan-like appearance.

See also: Coral, Coral Blocks, Coral Fans.

COTTON CANDY BETTA

The cotton candy betta is one of Minecraft’s twenty-two tropical fish that are based on real-life fish. In Minecraft’s color and pattern scheme, it is a rose-sky spotty. In real life, this fish is part of the betta family of fish, many of which have spectacular coloring and fins. Bettas with iridescent blue and pink colorings are often referred to as “Cotton Candy” bettas.

See also: Tropical Fish.