Dirt Path is a decorative top-textured block created by right-clicking grass block, dirt, coarse dirt, podzol, mycelium, or rooted dirt with any shovel in Minecraft. Dirt Path stands 15/16 of a full block tall, identical to farmland, so player and entity feet sit slightly lower when walking across Dirt Path. Mojang renamed Grass Path to Dirt Path in Minecraft 1.17 (Caves & Cliffs Part I), unifying the name across Java Edition and Bedrock Edition. Dirt Path cannot be obtained as an item through normal Survival means: mining Dirt Path with a shovel drops a dirt block, and only Pick Block in Creative mode or the /give command yields the actual Dirt Path block. Dirt Path generates naturally throughout villages, forming the walkways between houses, farms, and meeting points in plains, savanna, taiga, and snowy villages. Builders rely on Dirt Path for garden walkways, parkland trails, and village expansions because Dirt Path is trample-safe and never reverts when jumped on, unlike farmland. Placing any solid block directly above Dirt Path forces Dirt Path to revert to a regular dirt block, so leave the space above the Dirt Path open. Crops cannot be planted directly on Dirt Path; tilling Dirt Path with a hoe converts it back to farmland first.