Sweet Berries

Sweet berries are a food item that are collected from sweet berry bushes.

Sweet berry bushes are a plant used to grow sweet berries.

Natural generation
Berry bushes commonly generate in all taiga variants (,, and ). In all snowy taiga variants (, and ) each chunk has $1/12$ chance to generate sweet berry bushes in patches.

Planting
Placing sweet berries on a grass block, dirt, podzol, coarse dirt or farmland creates a small sweet berry bush that eventually becomes a fully grown sweet berry bush.

Obtaining
Sweet berries can be collected from a sweet berry bush by or  it, which will yield 1–2 sweet berries in its third growth stage, and 2–3 sweet berries in its final growth stage.

Usage
Sweet berry bushes can deal damage every 0.5 seconds to the player or other mobs (except foxes) that move or jump inside them, similar to a cactus, as long as the bush has grown past its first growth stage. Planting bushes around an animal effectively traps them inside and makes it easy to tame them.

Growth
A sweet berry bush grows through four stages after it is planted. Its first growth stage is a small bush without any berries. It becomes a grown plant in its second stage, and produces berries in its third and fourth growth stage. The bush doesn't need any light to grow. Using bone meal on it increases its growth stage by 1. Although the bush can be placed on a 1 block high space, it cannot grow without an open air block above it.

Food
Sweet berries can be eaten as food items, filling  hunger points.

Composting
Placing sweet berries into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Breeding
Sweet berries can be fed to foxes to breed them. The baby fox will trust the player and not run away from them.

Trading
Master-level butcher villagers will buy 10 sweet berries for an emerald.

Entity movement
Sweet berry bushes past stage 1 slow down entities and damage mobs (though foxes are not affected either way). They deal damage every 0.5 seconds to the player or other mobs. Entities that move through sweet berry bushes slow down to about 34.05% of their normal speed (similar to a cobweb, which slows down mobs to 15% of normal speed). This makes it impossible to jump a full block while inside the bush.

Bees
Bees will "pollinate" sweet berry bushes, and will then increase the honey level in beehives and bee nests by 1.

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