As the title suggests you can not place sea plants such as sea pickles in non water source blocks.
Step to reproduce
1. Create a tank that is at least 2 blocks tall and 3 blocks wide
2. Fil the top block of tank with water
3. Try and place a sea plant in the bottom block of the tank.
You will see that the plant texture eithers bugs with coral or with other plants like sea grass it breaks. Unlike the java edition where you can place theese plants in non water source blocks.
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Confirmed. Placing any of the following in flowing water will cause them to break:
Sea pickle (Breaks, drops item)
Kelp (Breaks, drops item)
Coral Plant (Breaks after block update, does not drop as an item)
Coral Fan (Breaks, does not drop as an item)
Seagrass (Breaks, does not drop as an item)
The workaround for this is to fill an area with water source blocks, these can then be placed successfully.
None of these blocks can be placed in downward-flowing Java water either, except for sea pickles, which create an air pocket.
None of these blocks can be placed in downward-flowing Java water either, except for sea pickles, which create an air pocket.
Current behaviour for placing items in flowing water:
Bedrock (1.6 beta):
Sea pickle - Breaks, drops item
Kelp - Breaks, drops item
Coral Plant - Breaks after block update, does not drop as an item
Coral Fan - Breaks, does not drop as an item
Seagrass - Breaks, does not drop as an item
Java (1.13-pre2):
Sea pickle - Can be placed, creates air pocket
Kelp - Can't be placed
Coral Plant - Can't be placed
Coral Fan - Can't be placed
Seagrass - Can't be placed
Current behaviour for placing items in flowing water:
Bedrock (1.6 beta):
Sea pickle - Breaks, drops item
Kelp - Breaks, drops item
Coral Plant - Breaks after block update, does not drop as an item
Coral Fan - Breaks, does not drop as an item
Seagrass - Breaks, does not drop as an item
Java (1.13-pre2):
Sea pickle - Can be placed, creates air pocket
Kelp - Can't be placed
Coral Plant - Can't be placed
Coral Fan - Can't be placed
Seagrass - Can't be placed
Related problem: Kelp will grow upwards into a flowing water block, then instantly break at that point. Discovered this when trying to build automated kelp farm... in Java, pistons can be used to break a long strand of kelp just above the base to harvest the drops, but in Bedrock, when the piston retracts, it leaves flowing water in its place instead of source water. After that point, the kelp will continue to break every time it tries to grow.
This bug can be exploited to build silent pistonless kelp farms, but also means a lack of parity between Java and Bedrock.
Related problem: Kelp will grow upwards into a flowing water block, then instantly break at that point. Discovered this when trying to build automated kelp farm... in Java, pistons can be used to break a long strand of kelp just above the base to harvest the drops, but in Bedrock, when the piston retracts, it leaves flowing water in its place instead of source water. After that point, the kelp will continue to break every time it tries to grow.
This bug can be exploited to build silent pistonless kelp farms, but also means a lack of parity between Java and Bedrock.
Confirmed. Placing any of the following in flowing water will cause them to break:
Sea pickle (Breaks, drops item)
Kelp (Breaks, drops item)
Coral Plant (Breaks after block update, does not drop as an item)
Coral Fan (Breaks, does not drop as an item)
Seagrass (Breaks, does not drop as an item)
The workaround for this is to fill an area with water source blocks, these can then be placed successfully.