Sarraflu pond

Sarraflu pond

The pond among the fields and garrigue near Kerċem
Maltese	L-Għadira ta' Sarraflu
Island	Gozo
Type	Freshwater pond
In Minecraft
Coordinates Block X / Z: -14590 / -12950 /tp @s -14590 189 -12950
In save	Gozo full (11 October 2026)
Real world
Lat / lon 36.0466° N, 14.2181° E
Built from	2012 land survey, OpenStreetMap (outline), a University of Malta study (2020)

Sarraflu pond (Maltese: L-Għadira ta' Sarraflu) is a small freshwater pond near Kerċem, Gozo. It is one of the few ponds on the islands that hold water all year, and its water is green with algae. In Malta in Minecraft it has its own biome, with green water, a mud floor and lily pads.

How it differs from vanilla

• Its own biome (maltamc:ghadira_alka_pond on the F3 screen): olive-green water, like the real pond's algae, instead of the blue of a vanilla pond.
• Frogs spawn round it, as in a swamp, but there are no swamp oaks or vines, and slimes don't spawn at the surface. It is a farmland pond, not a swamp.
• Shallow, with soft banks. The water is one block deep over a mud floor, and the grassy banks step down to it in low one-block steps instead of dropping as stone walls.
• Lily pads cover about one block in twelve.

What to see

The green water and lily pads, from the south-west bank

What	Size in the world
Water surface	about 940 m², about 30 by 40 blocks
Depth	1 block, over mud
Height above the sea	about 124 m (the water is at y 187)
Banks	grass, with a little mud at the water's edge, with terraced fields and garrigue round about

Coordinates

• On the pond: /tp @s -14590 189 -12950

Sources

• Shape and height: the 2012 land survey. The pond's outline: OpenStreetMap.
• Green water and algae: a University of Malta study (2020), which describes dense algal blooms in this pond that holds water all year.
• Depth: no measured depth is published. The world keeps the water just under the lowest point of the banks.

See also

• Trees: the Maltese trees in the fields round the pond
• Rock layers: the rock under the fields
• Seabed: the islands' other water biomes