Fungus Rock

Fungus Rock

Fungus Rock from the open sea, south-west
Maltese	Il-Ġebla tal-Ġeneral
Island	Gozo
Type	Sea stack with a sea arch
In Minecraft
Coordinates Block X / Z: -17240 / -12985 /tp @s -17240 114 -12985
In save	Gozo full (11 October 2026)
Real world
Lat / lon 36.0469° N, 14.1887° E
Built from	15 cm 2018 survey (the rock), 2012 land and seabed survey, photos and a photogrammetry model (the arch)

Fungus Rock (Maltese: Il-Ġebla tal-Ġeneral) is a 50 m high sea stack at the mouth of the bay at Dwejra, Gozo, with a flat top and a sea arch through its northern end. It is named after the "Maltese fungus", a rare dark-red plant that grows on its top. In Malta in Minecraft it is a mushroom island: no hostile mobs spawn on it.

How it differs from vanilla

• A mushroom island that doesn't look like one. The rock has the mushroom fields biome's behaviour: no hostile mobs spawn on it, and mooshrooms can. But there is no mycelium. The top is grass, coarse dirt and bare rock like the cliffs around it, with podzol patches carrying brown and red mushrooms.
• Crimson fungus and crimson roots stand in for the real Maltese fungus. Outside the Nether, this is the only place in the world where they grow.
• Real rock layers. The walls show the same Lower Coralline Limestone as the Dwejra cliffs behind it, in horizontal beds, with a wave-cut notch at the waterline all round.
• Fallen blocks in the shallows. Boulders lie in the water within a few metres of the foot of the cliffs, a few of them breaking the surface.

How it differs from the real place

• The arch is modelled. A survey flown overhead sees only the top of the rock, so the opening through the northern end is cut into the rock and shaped from photos.
• The Maltese fungus is crimson fungus, the closest block in the game.

What to see

The sea arch, from the bay side

What	Size in the world
Height	50 m above the sea (the top is at y 113). Popular sources say 60 m, but the 15 cm survey measures 50 m.
Footprint	about 7,700 m², about 100 by 155 blocks
Shape	a sheer west wall, a ledge 31–39 m up, a step to the flat top, then a steep east face down to the lower, rounded northern end
Sea arch	about 14 m wide at its widest and about 40 m through the rock. The top of the opening is about 15–18 m above the water
Under the arch	mostly water, with a pile of fallen boulders at each end, so you can't swim straight through
Water on the bay side	about 8–10 m deep, sand and seagrass
Water on the seaward side	drops to about 60 m within 100 m of the rock

• Look through the arch: from the bay, the opening is a rounded window that narrows at the bottom into stacked boulders, with light coming through the gaps. At sunset the sun sets behind it.
• Climb to the top for the mushrooms and the crimson fungus, and a view over the bay to the Azure Window.

Coordinates

• On top: /tp @s -17255 114 -12978
• The arch, from the bay: /tp @s -17160 63 -12982

• 
  The arch at sunset
• 
  On top: mushrooms and crimson fungus
• 
  From above, with Dwejra Bay
• 
  At sunset, from the cliffs to the south-east

Sources

• Shape and height: the 15 cm survey from 2018, kept sharp so the walls stay sheer.
• Sea arch: modelled from photos taken in 2017 and a drone photogrammetry model of the rock published by T. Borg (2022). Its height is not published.
• Seabed around it: the 2012 seabed survey.

Trivia

• The Knights of St John prized the "fungus" as a medicine. In 1746 Grand Master Pinto had the rock's sides smoothed so nobody could climb up to steal it.

See also

• Dwejra: the bay, with the Azure Window, the Inland Sea and the Blue Hole
• Blue Hole: the diving shaft on the other side of the point
• Lower Coralline Limestone: the rock it is made of
• Seabed: the real sea floor around it