Glow Berries

Glow berries are a food item obtained from cave vines and can be used to plant them.

Cave vines are a climbable, bonemealable plant that hangs off ceilings and grows glow berries. Cave vines with glow berries produce light.

Obtaining[]

Breaking[]

Cave vines can be instantly broken with any tools or by hand. Cave vines with glow berries drop glow berries when broken or harvested. Cave vines with no glow berries will not drop anything. Fortune has no effect on the number of glow berries dropped.

Natural generation[]

Cave vines can be found in lush caves, hanging from cave ceilings.

Chest loot[]

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Glow Berries	Mineshaft	Chest	3–6	38.7%
Glow Berries	Ancient City	Chest	1–15	23.2%
Bedrock Edition
Glow Berries	Mineshaft	Chest	3–6	38.7%
Glow Berries	Ancient City	Chest	1–15	23.2%

Post-generation[]

Glow berries can be collected from a cave vine by using or breaking the vine. This yields one glow berry when the vine is bearing them and nothing when it is not. A cave vine also breaks if water runs over its location or if a piston extends or pushes a block into its location.

Usage[]

Placement[]

Glow berries can be placed on and grown from the bottom of most blocks. They have no specific lighting requirements. When placed, they can be of any length.

Growth[]

Placing glow berries on the bottom of a block creates a cave vine that grows downward one block at a time as long as air is beneath it, and its age is less than 25. When the glow berry is placed, the vine is given a random age between 0 and 25. As the vine grows, the bottom-most vine increases the vine's age by 1. Once age 25 is reached, the vine stops growing. Breaking the vine will change the vine's age to a random number between 0 and 25. Each newly-grown cave vine block has a 1 in 9 chance of bearing glow berries. Only this tip can ever naturally grow them.‌^{[Java Edition only]}^{[more information needed]}

Using bone meal on a cave vine produces glow berries if the vine was not bearing any.

In Java Edition, cave vines stop growing if shears are used on the tip (the age of the vine will be set to 25).

In Bedrock Edition, if placing glow berries in the Nether, cave vines are able to grow and produces glow berries.

Food[]

To eat glow berries, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores 2 () hunger and 0.4 hunger saturation points, like sweet berries.

Light[]

When bearing glow berries, cave vines give off a light level of 14.

Composting[]

Placing glow berries into a composter by using them on it has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Breeding[]

Glow berries can be fed to foxes to breed them. Foxes are similar to cats when being fed as a wild animal; a sudden movement by the player may cause the fox to flee even if the player holds glow berries. The resulting baby fox trusts the player and does not flee.

Glow berries can be used on baby foxes to reduce the time until they grow by 10%.

Sounds[]

Glow berries[]

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Eating	Players	While a player is eating something	`entity.generic.eat`	`subtitles.entity.generic.eat`	varies ^{[sound 1]}	0.8-1.2	16
Eating	Friendly Creatures	When a player finishes eating something	`entity.generic.eat`	`subtitles.entity.generic.eat`	1.0	0.6-1.4	16
Burp	Players	When a player finishes eating something	`entity.player.burp`	`subtitles.entity.player.burp`	0.5	0.9-1.0	16

↑ Can be 0.5, 1.0, or 1.5

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Players	While a player is eating something	`random.eat`	0.5-1.1	0.8-1.2
	Players	When a player finishes eating something	`random.burp`	0.5	0.9-1.0

Cave vines[]

Generic[]

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.cave_vines.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	0.8	16
Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.cave_vines.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	0.8	16
Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`block.cave_vines.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.5	16
None^{[sound 1]}	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.cave_vines.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	16
Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.cave_vines.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
Blocks	Once the block has broken	`dig.cave_vines`	1.0	0.8-1.0
Blocks	When the block is placed	`dig.cave_vines`	1.0	0.8-1.0
Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`hit.cave_vines`	0.3	0.5
Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	`fall.cave_vines`	0.4	1.0
Players	Walking on the block	`step.cave_vines`	0.3	1.0
Players	Jumping from the block	`jump.cave_vines`	0.12	1.0
Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.cave_vines`	0.22	1.0

Unique[]

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Berries pop	Blocks	When glow berries are picked	`block.cave_vines.pick_berries`	`subtitles.item.berries.pick`	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	Plant cropped	Blocks	When the tip of cave vines are cropped with shears	`block.growing_plant.crop`	`subtitles.block.growing_plant.crop`	1.0	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	When glow berries are picked	`pick_berries.cave_vines`	1.0	0.8-1.2

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Cave Vines	`cave_vines`	Block	`cave_vines` `lush_plants_replaceable`	—	`block.minecraft.cave_vines`
Cave Vines Plant	`cave_vines_plant`	Block	`cave_vines` `lush_plants_replaceable`	—	`block.minecraft.cave_vines_plant`
Glow Berries	`glow_berries`	Item	—	`fox_food`	`item.minecraft.glow_berries`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
Cave Vines	`cave_vines`	`577`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.cave_vines.name`
Cave Vines Body With Berries	`cave_vines_body_with_berries`	`630`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.cave_vines_body_with_berries.name`
Cave Vines Head With Berries	`cave_vines_head_with_berries`	`631`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.cave_vines_head_with_berries.name`
Glow Berries	`glow_berries`	`638`	Item	—	`item.glow_berries.name`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Available with /give command.
↑ ^a ^b ^c The block's direct item form has the same id as the block.

Block states[]

Java Edition:
Cave Vines:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
berries	`false`	`false` `true`	Whether this cave vine has berries.
age	`0`	`0` `1` `2` `3` `4` `5` `6` `7` `8` `9` `10` `11` `12` `13` `14` `15` `16` `17` `18` `19` `20` `21` `22` `23` `24` `25`	How old this cave vine is.

Cave Vines Plant:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
berries	`false`	`false` `true`	Whether this cave vine has berries.

Bedrock Edition:
Cave Vines, Cave Vines Body With Berries, Cave Vines Head With Berries:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
growing_plant_age	Not Supported	`0`	`0` `1` `2` `3` `4` `5` `6` `7` `8` `9` `10` `11` `12` `13` `14` `15` `16` `17` `18` `19` `20` `21` `22` `23` `24` `25`	`Unsupported`	How old this cave vine is.

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	—	Consume anything that can be consumed.	`husbandry/root`
	A Balanced Diet	Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you	A Seedy Place	Eat each of these 40 foods: Apple Baked Potato Beetroot Beetroot Soup Bread Carrot Chorus Fruit Cooked Chicken Cooked Cod Cooked Mutton Cooked Porkchop Cooked Rabbit Cooked Salmon Cookie Dried Kelp Enchanted Golden Apple Glow Berries Golden Apple Golden Carrot Honey Bottle Melon Slice Mushroom Stew Poisonous Potato Potato Pufferfish Pumpkin Pie Rabbit Stew Raw Beef Raw Chicken Raw Cod Raw Mutton Raw Porkchop Raw Rabbit Raw Salmon Rotten Flesh Spider Eye Steak Suspicious Stew Sweet Berries Tropical Fish Other foods and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.	`husbandry/balanced_diet`

History[]

Java Edition
October 3, 2020		Cave vines (named as glow berries) are shown as part of lush caves at Minecraft Live 2020.
1.17	21w05a	Added glow berries.
	21w05a	Added cave vines.
	21w11a	Renamed from "cave vines head" and "cave vines body" to "cave vines" and "cave vines plant", respectively.
		The IDs have also changed.
		Cave vines now always give 14 light, regardless of the type of part.
		Now slow down the player.
		Can now be climbed.
	21w13a	Glow berries now generate as loot in mineshaft chest minecarts.
1.18	Experimental Snapshot 1	With the implementation of cave biomes including lush caves, caves vines can now generate in normal worlds.
	21w37a	Cave vines stop growing if shears are used on the tip.
	21w41a	Changed cave vines plant texture.
1.19	22w13a	Glow Berries may now be found in ancient city chests.
Bedrock Edition
Caves & Cliffs (experimental)	beta 1.16.220.52	Added glow berries.
Caves & Cliffs (experimental)	beta 1.16.220.52	Added cave vines.
1.17.0	beta 1.16.230.54	Glow Berries now generate as loot in mineshaft chest minecarts.
1.17.0	beta 1.17.0.52	Glow Berries are now available without enabling experimental gameplay.
1.17.20	beta 1.17.20.20	Cave Vines can now be pollinated by bees.
1.18.10	beta 1.18.10.20	Changed cave vines plant texture.
1.19.20	beta 1.19.20.20	Cave vines can now be destroyed by ravagers.

Concept art for the lush caves and vegetation including Glow Berries.
A view of the lush caves with glow berries from Minecraft Live 2020.
Lush cave in MINECON.
A view of the lush caves with glow berries, tweeted by LadyAgnes.
Another view of the lush caves with glow berries, in an interview with LadyAgnes.
A fox under a glow berry vine.

Cave vines "item"[]

The following content is transcluded from Technical blocks/Cave Vines.

Bedrock Edition
1.16.220		beta 1.16.220.52			Added cave vines as an item, with an unknown texture. They can be obtained via pick block.
1.17.0		beta 1.16.230.50			Cave Vines can no longer be obtained via pick block.