Talk:Tutorials/Sugar cane farming

Sugar cane is farmed often on sand or a beach area –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 142.177.123.7 (talk) at 19:19, 3 July 2012‎ (UTC). Please sign your posts with


 * This is a talk page, is it supposed to be an article? LB 19:43, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, no. (didn't see the "Talk:" --Kumasasa 19:48, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I think that this is a better article: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Sugar_Cane_farming       00:32, 23 May 2014 (UTC)~

Jack o'lanterns
As best as I can tell, jack o'lanterns (as well as sea lanterns and glowstone) continue to emit light while submerged. So will a torch when covered by a transparent block such as glass or glass pane. --Jaqque (talk) 03:51, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
 * That is correct, but how does it relate to sugar cane farming? Also, please use "Add topic", or at least include a section header. The BlobsPaper.png 04:07, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
 * \#Limitations_and_mitigation specifically mentions glowstone and sea lanterns, but omits jack o lanterns. Before I update it to include jack o'lanterns, I'd like some sort of confirmation. Later it does mention placing jack o'lanterns above water, but not below the water source. --Jaqque (talk) 07:14, 8 January 2017 (UTC)


 * The Jack o'Lantern page mentions using them as underwater light sources, so it should be fine to add that to the page. Also, using internal links (e.g., Tutorials/Sugar cane farming ) will avoid triggering the spam filters. -- Orthotopetalk 07:40, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I added jack o'lanterns. The BlobsPaper.png 16:16, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Moving to Bamboo and sugar cane farming

 * . I don't think that bamboo and sugar cane farming are similar enough to warrant putting them on the same page. While some of the designs would be shared, the unique aspect of each would create confusing differences. Sugar cane, for example, requires water, can be grown with bonemeal in Bedrock, and has diffrent zero ticking methods. Bamboo on the other hand, requires light to grow, can grow taller, and can't be walked through. jahunsbe (talk) 03:11, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Weak support. I suspect the underlying thought behind this move proposal was that any place you could farm sugar cane, you can also farm bamboo if the light is sufficient. Bamboo has a couple extra block types that it can grow on. Sugar cane needs water but no light, bamboo needs light but no water, and there are plenty of locations with both. Given an environment compatible with both, the farming would be identical for both, but both have differences that could result in divergent farm designs. Given that there isn't any bamboo farming tutorial right now, I could support a version of this tutorial that outlines the common features of farming both, with a section on the differences. ~ Amatulic (talk) 21:01, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * This page should not have been moved as consensus has not been reached. I still think that it would be better to create a separate bamboo page. If we are going to have bamboo and sugar cane farms on the same page, shouldn't we have kelp farms here too? If a farm works for sugar cane and bamboo, it should work for kelp as well with a different collection system. I think it is more organized to keep the pages separate even if they are similar. jahunsbe (talk) 14:37, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

25% Increase
the uhm, schematic of the automatic observer farm individually takes out the sugarcane compared to taking all when first one reaches top. (On Java) This design makes it around 25%-30% faster, so should the speedup be recognised on the main page? I never see anyone use it atleast. 37.119.152.45 14:08, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * It should be mentioned.
 * I have to say, an automatic sugar cane farm is overkill in my opinion. The stuff grows so fast and easily, a manually-harvested farm has always given me more sugarcane than I need, so an automatic farm with improved performance wouldn't make any difference in a survival environment. The intellectual exercise of inventing these things is the only thing that makes them worthwhile, from my point of view. ~ Amatulic (talk) 16:23, 5 August 2020 (UTC)