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Sugar is a food ingredient and brewing ingredient made from sugar canes.

Obtaining[]

Mob loot[]

Witches have a chance of dropping 0–2 sugar upon death. This is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0–5 sugar.

Crafting[]

Name Ingredients Crafting recipe
Sugar Sugar Cane

Sugar Honey Bottle

3

Compound creation[]

Sugar can be created from its base elements, using the compound creator.‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]

Name Elements Example recipe
Sugar 6 Carbon
12 Hydrogen
6 Oxygen

Usage[]

Crafting ingredient[]

Name Ingredients Crafting recipe Description
Cake Milk Bucket +
Sugar +
Egg +
Wheat

Empty buckets remain in the crafting grid after crafting the cake.
Fermented Spider Eye Brown Mushroom +
Sugar +
Spider Eye


Pumpkin Pie Pumpkin +
Sugar +
Egg


Brewing ingredient[]

Name Ingredients Brewing recipe
Mundane Potion Sugar +
Water Bottle



Potion of Swiftness Sugar +
Awkward Potion



Horses[]

Sugar can be fed to horses to heal 1♥, speed growth by 30 seconds, and increase taming probability by 3%.

Achievements[]

Icon Achievement In-game description Actual requirements (if different) Gamerscore earned Trophy type (PS4)
PS4 Other
The LieBake a cake using: wheat, sugar, milk, and eggs.Pick up a cake from a crafting table output.30GBronze

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierFormTranslation key
SugarsugarItemitem.minecraft.sugar

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID FormTranslation key
Sugarsugar416Itemitem.sugar.name

Video[]

History[]

Java Edition Beta
1.2Sugar JE1 BE1 Sugar has been introduced as an ingredient for cake.
Java Edition
1.0.0Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2Sugar is now used to craft fermented spider eyes.
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3Sugar can now be brewed in a water bottle to create a Mundane Potion, or in an Awkward Potion to create a Potion of Swiftness.
1.4.212w37aSugar is now used to make pumpkin pie.
12w38bWitches can now drop sugar.
1.1317w47aPrior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 353.
1.1418w43aSugar JE2 BE2 The texture of sugar has been changed.
1.1519w34aSugar can now can be created using 1 honey bottle.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.0Sugar JE1 BE1 Added sugar. It is currently unobtainable and serves no purpose.
v0.3.0Sugar is now craftable using sugar cane.
v0.7.0Sugar is now used to craft cake.
v0.8.0build 1Sugar is now used to craft pumpkin pie.
v0.12.1build 1Sugar has been added to the creative inventory.
Sugar is now used to craft fermented spider eyes.
Sugar can now be used for brewing, to get mundane potions and potions of Swiftness.
v0.14.0build 1Added witches, which can drop sugar upon death.
v0.15.0build 1Sugar can now be used to feed horses, which can increase their temper, heal them, and speed up the growth of foals.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0beta 1.2.20.1Sugar can now be created using 6 Carbon, 12 Hydrogen, and 6 Oxygen in the compound creator.
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3Sugar JE2 BE2 The texture of sugar has been changed.
1.14.0beta 1.14.0.1Sugar can now be created using 1 honey bottle.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1CU1 1.0 Patch 11.0.1Sugar JE1 BE1 Added sugar.
Sugar is used to craft cake.
TU7Sugar is now used to craft fermented spider eyes.
Sugar can now be brewed in a water bottle to create a Mundane Potion, or in an Awkward Potion to create a Potion of Swiftness.
TU14 1.04 Sugar is now used to make pumpkin pie.
TU19CU7 1.12 Witches can now drop sugar.
1.90 Sugar JE2 BE2 The texture of sugar has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0Sugar JE1 BE1 Added sugar.

Issues[]

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