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The Sponge icon exactly as it appears in Minecraft 26.3, as a transparent PNG. The original texture is 16×16 pixels, and here you can scale it up without it going blurry.
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Open in the icon editorThe Minecraft sponge: how to drain water
A sponge soaks up the water around it as soon as you place it next to water or water reaches it. Doing so turns it into a wet sponge, which absorbs nothing more until you dry it. As an item in your inventory it absorbs nothing.
It reaches up to 6 blocks in each direction, counted in block steps, which gives a diamond shape rather than a cube, and removes at most 118 water blocks at a time, both sources and flowing water. It is the key tool for draining areas under the sea, such as the inside of an ocean monument.
To reuse it you have to dry it. A furnace dries it, and an empty bucket in the fuel slot fills up with that water. Placed in the Nether it dries instantly in a puff of steam, and in Bedrock it also dries on its own in dry Overworld biomes.
It is only found in ocean monuments: in their sponge rooms, with about 30 wet sponges each, or as loot from elder guardians. Anything breaks it, but a hoe is fastest.
Sources: minecraft.wiki/Sponge
How to get Sponge
Obtained by smelting:
- Wet Sponge
Mined with a hoe.
Recipe and drops taken from the Minecraft 26.3 data pack.
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