Golden Dandelion
The Golden Dandelion is a craftable decorative flower that does not appear naturally anywhere in the world. To obtain one, players must combine gold nuggets with a regular dandelion at a crafting table, or trade for it with a wandering trader. The Golden Dandelion is fully renewable and stacks up to 64 per inventory slot.
The Golden Dandelion has a unique interaction with baby mobs: feeding one to most growing animals (villagers excluded) locks their age, halting growth and preventing them from despawning, accompanied by downward-drifting particles. Applying a second Golden Dandelion to the same baby resumes aging and produces upward-moving particles instead. The flower is consumed on use and triggers a 2 second cooldown per mob, internally toggling the AgeLocked tag in Java Edition or GrowthPaused in Bedrock Edition.
As a decorative block, the Golden Dandelion behaves much like other flowers. It can be displayed in flower pots and planted on grass blocks, dirt, podzol, mycelium, moss, mud, and farmland. Unlike standard flora, however, it cannot be placed in a composter and is ignored by bees for pollination. Piglins find the item interesting and will sprint toward dropped ones to inspect before stowing them away. Oak, birch, and cherry saplings planted within 2 blocks of one have a 5% chance to grow with a bee nest holding 2–3 bees.
Recipe-wise, a Golden Dandelion can be converted into yellow dye, or combined with a bowl, red mushroom, and brown mushroom to produce suspicious stew that grants a brief Saturation effect.
