Cattails

Cattails is a Fabric mod for Minecraft Java 26.1.2 and 26.2, made with MCreator. It adds the cattail (Typha), the marsh plant that grows along the water’s edge, with its brown, sausage-shaped seed head. Requires Fabric API.

The plant

• Grows 1 to 4 blocks tall, with a base, stems and the brown seed head on top. Each block changes its look on its own to match the plant’s height.
• Can grow in shallow water and keeps the water in its block, like kelp.
• You can walk through it, and flowing water won’t break it.

Where it grows

• Only on grass blocks and sand, with water no more than 2 blocks away.
• In the wild, it spawns in dense clumps along rivers, swamps and small ponds, but not in oceans or on beaches.
• Wild cattails are 2 to 4 blocks tall.
• If the ground under a plant is changed, the plant eventually dies.

Biome colors

• 5 shades, from darkest (dark forest, swamp, mangrove) to brightest (savanna, desert, badlands).
• The green blends grass, wheat and dirt tones, which gives a natural olive look.

Placing and growing

• Place one block at a time, then stack more on top to make it taller, up to 4 blocks.
• It grows on its own over time, at about the same speed as sugar cane, as long as there is water near its base.
• Each broken block drops 1 cattail, and any blocks above it break too.

Uses

• 6 cattails make 1 paper, in two rows of 3 on a crafting table.
• It can be composted and it burns.
• Found in the “Natural Blocks” creative tab, after sugar cane.