place a wet sponge using setblock command

Does someone know how to place a wet sponge?

I tried to get the dataTag but it doesn't have a dataTag so I tried /setblock ~ ~ ~ wet_sponge and that also didn't work.

2 Answers

Wet sponges are sponges with a data value of 1, so use sponge 1 for a wet sponge:

/setblock ~ ~ ~ sponge 1

In Minecraft 1.13 and later versions, the Flattening happpened so wet sponges now have the ID of just wet_sponge and the command given in the question will work.