Bamboo

Bamboo is a type of plant found in jungles, used to breed pandas and craft scaffolding.

Obtaining
Bamboo can be mined with any tool, but the fastest way to break them is using an sword. $$, a sword breaks bamboo instantly, while $$, a sword breaks bamboo faster than an axe.

Natural generation
Bamboo generates in widely scattered single shoots within jungle biomes. Bamboo generates much more densely in the bamboo variants of jungles, covering large areas of the landscape.

Farming
Bamboo can be planted on grass, sand or gravel. Bamboo is the fastest growing plant in Minecraft. At default random tick speed, each plant grows approximately every 4096 ticks. In order to grow, bamboo plants require a light level of 9 or higher.

Pandas
$$, a panda drops 1 bamboo when killed. $$, a panda drops 0-2 bamboo when killed. Looting increases the drop by 1 per level.

Fishing
Bamboo can be found while fishing in jungle biomes as a junk item.

Usage
When mined, any other bamboo block placed above it is also destroyed. A bamboo block drops itself as an item if a piston pushes it or moves a block into its space. When bamboo is first placed as a sapling it's not solid and can be destroyed by water flowing into it. After growing at least one block taller it transforms into another kind of bamboo block that is solid and can't be destroyed by water. If the player needs to transform a bamboo sapling into a solid bamboo block they can place another bamboo on top of it.

Farming
Bamboo can be placed, and grows, on grass blocks, dirt, sand, gravel, mycelium, podzol, coarse dirt, or red sand. When bone meal is on it, it grows 1–2 blocks taller. Bamboo can grow to a maximum of 12–16 blocks tall. The growing tips of bamboo require a light level of 9 or above to grow.

Pandas
Bamboo items are eaten by pandas and can be used to speed up the growth of baby pandas. Bamboo can also be used to breed pandas when at least 8 blocks of bamboo are within 5 blocks of the pandas, making the panda the only mob in the game to have extra breeding requirements. At this point, the player can feed them bamboo and they mate to have a baby.

Fuel
Bamboo can be used as fuel in furnaces. Each bamboo item smelts 0.25 items.

Flower pots
Bamboo can be placed in a flower pot, where it retains the design it has in its item form.

Appearance


The appearance of bamboo changes as it grows. When first placed, it takes the form of a small shoot. When it grows one block taller it grows to 2 pixels in length and width and the top block has leaves coming off it. At 3 blocks, the top 2 blocks have leaves and at 4 blocks the bamboo expands to 3×3 pixels. At 5 blocks tall, the top 3 blocks have leaves on them. As the bamboo grows, the leaves move up and stay at the top 3 blocks. Destroying a block of bamboo does not change the appearance of the blocks below it. Bamboo is oriented at a random position in the block that it is in. Bamboo, grass, and ferns are the only plants that change their hit boxes as they grow.

Trivia

 * Because bamboo grows very fast (on average 1 growth per 200 seconds), it takes only 500 plants in an automatic farm to produce more items than a hopper can collect. A single hopper can move only enough items to keep 6.25 furnaces running.
 * Bamboo is one of the few plants that cannot be processed by a composter, along with poisonous potatoes, chorus fruit, and dead bushes.
 * Flowing water breaks bamboo saplings, but is blocked by mature bamboo stalks.

Gallery
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