Tutorials/Bamboo farming

Bamboo has multiple purposes. Aside from being used as a decoration piece, bamboo can also be used to craft sticks, make scaffolding, bamboo planks/slab/stairs/... and even use it as an alternative fuel source to coal.

Mechanics
You can get bamboo by breaking it with any tool. A sword is the most efficient tool for the job. By not cutting bamboo at the bottom it will regrow just like sugar cane.

Unlike many crops, bamboo does not need water. Also, it can grow far higher than others.

Automatic bamboo farming design
Bamboo can be planted on grass blocks, dirt, coarse dirt, gravel, mycelium, podzol, moss, sand, red sand, or mud. At default random tick speed (3), each plant grows approximately every 4096 ticks. When bone meal is on it, it grows by 1–2 blocks. Bamboo can grow up to 12–16 blocks tall. The top of a bamboo plant requires a light level of 9 or above to grow.

How to build an automatic bamboo farm

 * 1) Place one grass block under light level 9 or higher.
 * 2) Place minecarts with hoppers underneath the grass to collect the items.
 * 3) Put a bamboo shoot on the grass block.
 * 4) Surround the growing area upwards with blocks so broken bamboo falls on the grass block under it.
 * 5) Place a piston two blocks up from the grass facing the bamboo.
 * 6) Put an observer on top of the piston, also facing the bamboo.
 * 7) Then put a piece of Redstone Dust behind the Observer to power the Piston.

How to build a big automatic bamboo farm

 * 1) Mark out the area surrounding it with any immovable light source. Make sure the area inside the boundary isn't big or you may crash your computer or server during harvest.
 * 2) Make a simple two-way flying machine and a way to start it and send it back.
 * 3) Underneath the farm, place hoppers or hopper minecarts to pick up the items and into storage.
 * 4) Place an observer so it looks at one of the places the bamboo grows. The recommended height is 5 blocks high.
 * 5) Connect to the automatic flying machine starting point.
 * 6) Place the bamboo and it grows.
 * 7) When the indicating bamboo reaches the front of the observer, the flying machine breaks the bamboo and it gets collected.

An Infinite Fuel Source
Connect the bamboo farm to a furnace to fuel it indefinitely. Bamboo burns quickly (0.25 items) so it needs a sizable bamboo farm to keep it burning.

Video
Руководства/Ферма бамбука