Grass Block

Grass Block
A Grass Block is a block that was introduced very early in-game. In most biomes Grass is used as the top-most block, including Forests, Savannahs and mountanious areas. Grass Blocks act very similar to Dirt, where they are best dug with shovel and drop a dirt resource.

In a Cold Taiga biomes snow will formon the Grass Block this will turn the side textures white.

Grass blocks will spawn spontaeniously on map generation, afterwards the grass blocks will take about a day to grow to other dirt blocks. Dirt blocks can become Grass Blocks if there is a high enough light level (9 or over). Grass can also grow 1 level up, 3 levels down and sometimes diagonally.

A grass block will eventually die if an opaque blocks is placed on top of it. It can also die if there is water on it.

Animals will tend to spawn on it if there is a light level of 9 or more. Most other animals are created when the map is created. Animals will also walk towards Grass Blocks, and sheep will eat the Grass turning it back to Dirt.