Sugar cane is a block found as 1–4-block-tall. It plants near water in the Overworld. As an item, it is an important crafting ingredient.
Obtaining[]
Sugar cane can be mined instantly with anything.
When the spot on which a sugar cane block is placed becomes unsuitable, such as when the supporting block is removed, the sugar cane block uproots and drops as an item. In Bedrock Edition, sugar cane uproots immediately after all adjacent water is removed. In Java Edition, sugar cane uproots on the next block update or random tick.
A sugar cane block drops itself as an item if a piston tries to push it (trying to pull it does nothing) or moves a block into its space.
Natural generation[]
Sugar cane can generate naturally near water and ice, as two (11⁄18 chance), three (5⁄18 chance), or four (2⁄18 chance) blocks tall. Rare taller sugar canes can be found if the world generator places two smaller canes on top of each other. It generates in approximately 0.8 sugar cane per chunk seeing as how they only generate near bodies of water.
Sugar canes attempt to generate 10 times in any Overworld biome, which requires water. An extra 10 attempts are made in swamp biomes, and 50 in desert biomes, which makes sugar cane twice as frequent in swamps and six times as frequent in desert biomes, making the banks of rivers that cut through deserts lined with sugar canes. Sugar canes do not grow faster in swamps or deserts they only spawn a increased amount.
Sugar cane cannot generate in caves in Java Edition.[1]
Trading[]
Wandering traders can sell sugar cane for an emerald.
Usage[]
Due to its water-displacing properties, sugar cane can interestingly be used to create underwater paths, allowing players to move at normal speed and breathe if it is two blocks in height.[Java Edition only][2]
Sugar cane takes on a different shade of green depending on the biome in which it is placed.
Crafting ingredient[]
Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
---|---|---|
Paper | Sugar Cane | |
Sugar | Sugar Cane |
Farming[]
Sugar cane can generate naturally up to any number of blocks tall, but grow only to a height of three blocks, adding a block of height when the top sugar cane block has received 16 random block ticks (i.e. on average every 18 minutes on Java Edition or 54 minutes on Bedrock Edition, but the actual rate can vary widely). Sugar cane must be planted on a grass block, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, podzol, mycelium, sand, red sand, suspicious sand, moss block, or mud that is directly adjacent to water, waterlogged block, or frosted ice (not merely above or diagonal to water), or on top of another sugar cane block. The adjacent water block can be covered with another block, whether opaque or transparent, and sugar cane can still be placed and grow next to it. Sugar cane grows regardless of light level, even in complete darkness.
In Bedrock Edition, bone meal can be used to instantly grow sugar cane to three blocks. Only one bone meal is consumed. In Java Edition, bone meal cannot be used on sugar cane.[3]
On average, it takes 18 minutes for a single block of sugar cane to grow 3 blocks tall.
Composting[]
Placing sugar cane into a composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
List of colors[]
Java Edition[]
These values are generated by the biome dyeing algorithm. See Biome colors for more information.
Biome | Category | Rainfall | Sugarcane Color | Temperature Affects | Render |
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Badlands | Mesa | No | #90814d | No | |
Beach | Beach | Rain | #91bd59 | ||
Birch Forest | Forest | Rain | #88bb67 | ||
Cold Ocean | Ocean | Rain | #8eb971 | ||
Dark Forest | Forest | Rain | #507a32 | ||
Deep Cold Ocean | Ocean | Rain | #8eb971 | ||
Deep Frozen Ocean | Ocean | Rain | #8eb971 | ||
Deep Lukewarm Ocean | Ocean | Rain | #8eb971 | ||
Deep Ocean | Ocean | Rain | #8eb971 | ||
Desert | Desert | No | #bfb755 | ||
End Barrens | The End | No | #8eb971 | ||
End Highlands | The End | No | #8eb971 | ||
End Midlands | The End | No | #8eb971 | ||
Eroded Badlands | Mesa | No | #90814d | No | |
Flower Forest | Forest | Rain | #79c05a | ||
Forest | Forest | Rain | #79c05a | ||
Frozen Ocean | Ocean | Snow | #80b497 | ||
Frozen River | River | Snow | #80b497 | ||
Old Growth Spruce Taiga | Taiga | Rain | #86b783 | ||
Old Growth Pine Taiga | Taiga | Rain | #86b87f | ||
Ice Spikes | Icy | Snow | #80b497 | ||
Jungle | Jungle | Rain | #59c93c | ||
Sparse Jungle | Jungle | Rain | #64c73f | ||
Lukewarm Ocean | Ocean | Rain | #8eb971 | ||
Windswept Hills | Extreme Hills | Rain | #8ab689 | ||
Mushroom Fields | Mushroom | Rain | #55c93f | ||
Nether | Nether | No | #bfb755 | ||
Ocean | Ocean | Rain | #8eb971 | ||
Plains | Plains | Rain | #91bd59 | ||
River | River | Rain | #8eb971 | ||
Savanna | Savanna | No | #bfb755 | ||
Savanna Plateau | Savanna | No | #bfb755 | ||
Windswept Savanna | Savanna | No | #bfb755 | ||
Small End Islands | The End | No | #8eb971 | ||
Snowy Beach | Beach | Snow | #83b593 | ||
Snowy Taiga | Taiga | Snow | #80b497 | ||
Snowy Plains | Icy | Snow | #80b497 | ||
Stony Shore | None | Rain | #8ab689 | ||
Sunflower Plains | Plains | Rain | #91bd59 | ||
Swamp | Swamp | Rain | #6A7039 | If temperature below -0.1, used #4C763C. | / |
Taiga | Taiga | Rain | #86b783 | ||
Old Growth Birch Forest | Forest | Rain | #88bb67 | ||
The End | The End | No | #8eb971 | ||
The Void | None | No | #8eb971 | ||
Warm Ocean | Ocean | Rain | #8eb971 | ||
Wooded Badlands | Mesa | No | #90814d | No | |
Windswept Forest | Extreme Hills | Rain | #8ab689 |
Bedrock Edition[]
Sounds[]
Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
None[sound 1] | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig | 0.7 | 0.8-1.0 | |
Blocks | When the block is placed | dig | 0.8 | 0.8-1.0 | |
Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
Players | Walking on the block | step | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
Players | Jumping from the block | jump | 0.11 | 1.0 | |
Players | Falling on the block without fall damage | land | 0.21 | 1.0 |
Data values[]
ID[]
Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
---|---|---|---|
Sugar Cane | sugar_cane | Block & Item | block.minecraft.sugar_cane |
Sugar Cane | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Block | reeds | None | 83 | Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2] | item.reeds | tile.reeds.name |
Item | sugar_cane | reeds | 385 | Item | — | item.reeds.name |
Block states[]
Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
---|---|---|---|
age | 0 | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | A freshly planted cane – and a cane that has just grown cane above it – each have an age of 0. The age is incremented at random intervals. At age 15, a cane may try to grow more cane above it. |
Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
age | 0x1 0x2 0x4 0x8 | 0 | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | A freshly planted cane – and a cane that has just grown cane above it – each have an age of 0. The age is incremented at random intervals. At age 15, a cane may try to grow more cane above it. |
Video[]
- Note: This video was made before sugar cane had a different shade of green depending on the biome.
History[]
The specific instructions are: Appearance when affected by MC-48831
Java Edition Alpha | |||||
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v1.0.11 | Added reeds in the Seecret Friday Update 6. | ||||
Reeds are informally referred to as "bamboo" or "papyrus" by many players. | |||||
Since reeds can be washed away with water currents or instantly destroyed by removing the water adjacent to them, automated reed farms can be made. | |||||
Reeds can be used to craft paper. | |||||
Java Edition Beta | |||||
1.2 | Notch has retconned reeds into sugar cane so that it can now be crafted into sugar, included in the recipe for the cakes. | ||||
1.6 | Test Build 3 | Arrows no longer stick to sugar cane, and instead, they pass through. However, snowballs still come into contact with any sugar cane blocks, as if they are solid. | |||
1.8 | Pre-release | Sugar cane can now grow and be placed onto sand as long as they are adjacent to water. This update allows sugar canes to appear next to water ponds in desert biomes. | |||
Sugar cane is now available in the creative inventory in both block and item forms. | |||||
Java Edition | |||||
1.0.0 | ? | The sugar cane block has been removed from the creative inventory. | |||
1.7.2 | 13w36a | Sugar cane is now tinted depending on the biome it's in. | |||
The item texture remained unchanged, however, and still used the color palette from Alpha to 1.6.4.[4] | |||||
1.9 | 15w43a | Sugar cane no longer breaks if its adjacent water is turned to frosted ice. | |||
1.13 | 17w47a | The ID of sugar cane has now been changed from reeds to sugar_cane .
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"Sugar Canes" have now been renamed to "Sugar Cane". | |||||
Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 83, and the item's 338. | |||||
1.14 | 18w43a | The texture of the sugar cane item has been changed. | |||
19w03a | Placing sugar cane into a composter has a 20% chance of raising the compost level by 1. | ||||
19w05a | Sugar cane now has a 50% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1. | ||||
Added wandering traders, which sell sugar cane. | |||||
1.16 | 20w13a | Sugar cane has been moved from the Miscellaneous tab to the Decoration Blocks tab in the Creative inventory.[5] | |||
1.17 | 21w11a | The texture of the sugar cane item has been changed, so that it actually matches the color it uses when placed again.[4] | |||
Pre-release 1 | Sugar cane now generates in mushroom fields.[6] | ||||
1.19 | 22w15a | Sugar cane can now be planted on mud. | |||
1.20 | 23w14a | Sugar cane can now be planted on suspicious sand. | |||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
Pre-release | Added sugar cane. | ||||
v0.2.0 | Despite being visible in the inventory, sugar cane does not drop anything when mined, making it unobtainable in Survival mode. | ||||
v0.2.1 | Survival players now start with an infinite stack of sugar cane in the inventory. | ||||
v0.3.0 | Sugar cane now drops its item form when mined. | ||||
Survival players no longer start with an infinite stack of sugar cane in the inventory. | |||||
v0.5.0 | Sugar cane can now be grown on sand. | ||||
Sugar cane can now be obtained after activating the nether reactor. | |||||
v0.8.0 | build 5 | Bone meal can now grow sugar cane to maximum height. | |||
v0.9.0 | build 1 | The color of sugar cane now changes depending on the biome they are in. | |||
Using bone meal on sugar cane is no longer able to break blocks above it. | |||||
v0.12.1 | build 1 | Sugar cane is no longer available from the nether reactor. | |||
Pocket Edition | |||||
1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Due to a bug, sugar canes no longer change color depending on the biome. | |||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.2.13 | beta 1.2.13.5 | The color of sugar canes now changes depending on the biome, once again. | |||
1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | The texture of the sugar cane item has been changed. | |||
Sugar cane can now be bought from wandering traders. | |||||
1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Sugar canes can now be used to fill up composters. | |||
1.17.0 | beta 1.17.0.50 | The texture of the sugar cane item has been changed, so that it actually matches the color it uses when placed again. | |||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||
TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added sugar canes. |
Sugar canes are solid, making it useful for growable walls. Unlike on Java Edition, they were never renamed to Sugar Cane. | |||||
TU2 | Sugar canes are no longer solid, and arrows pass through them. | ||||
TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | The color of sugar cane now changes depending on the biome they're in. | |
TU60 | CU51 | 1.64 | Patch 30 | 1.0.11 | Sugar cane can now be grown with bonemeal. |
1.90 | The texture of the sugar cane item has been changed. | ||||
1.91 | Sugar cane can now be bought from wandering traders. | ||||
Sugar canes can now be used to fill up composters. | |||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
0.1.0 | Added sugar cane. |
Sugar cane "item"[]
- The following content is transcluded from Technical blocks/Sugar Cane.
Java Edition Alpha | |||||
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v1.0.11 | Sugar cane has an extra, unobtainable item form corresponding to its block ID. It can be obtained via inventory editors with numeric item ID 83. | ||||
Java Edition Beta | |||||
1.6 | Test Build 3 | Sugar cane items can be obtained from the newly added debug chests, mainly from the 25th slot of the 3rd chest from the left, and the 9th slot of the 7th chest from the left. | |||
release | Debug chests no longer spawn, preventing sugar cane items from being obtained this way. | ||||
1.8 | Pre-release | The block form of sugar cane is available in the Creative inventory, alongside its usually-obtainable item form. | |||
Pre-release 2 ;) | Added pick block functionality. This will change the currently selected slot to any containing this otherwise-unobtainable sugar cane item, but will not allow it to be obtained if not already in the hotbar. | ||||
Java Edition | |||||
? | The direct block form of sugar cane is no longer available in the Creative inventory. | ||||
1.2.5 | pre | Pick Block now returns the actually obtainable sugar cane item. | |||
1.3.1 | 12w15a | Sugar cane items can now be obtained via Pick Block in creative. | |||
12w16a | Pick Block once again returns the actually obtainable sugar cane item.
Sugar cane items can now be obtained in singleplayer worlds via the /give command using the respective numeric ID. | ||||
1.7.2 | 13w37a | The direct item form of sugar cane has been removed from the game. It can no longer exist as an item in any way, only as a placed block. | |||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
Pre-release | Sugar cane exists as an item. | ||||
The sugar cane block item is currently available in the Creative inventory. | |||||
v0.2.1 | Survival players now start out with an infinite stack of the sugar cane block item in their inventory. | ||||
v0.3.0 | Survival players no longer start out with an infinite stack of the sugar cane block item in their inventory. | ||||
v0.5.0 | The sugar cane block item is given by the Nether reactor. | ||||
v0.6.0 | The correct sugar cane item is now given by the nether reactor and the creative inventory, making the block item no longer obtainable without inventory editing.[7] |
Appearances[]
Java Edition Alpha | |||||
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v1.0.11 | The sugar cane item uses this texture in inventories, when held in first person view, or as a dropped item. | ||||
? | The sugar cane item uses the aforementioned texture when held in third person. | ||||
Java Edition | |||||
1.4.2 | 12w34a | The sugar cane item uses the aforementioned texture when in an item frame. | |||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
Pre-release | The sugar cane item uses this texture in inventories, when held in first person view, or as a dropped item. | ||||
v0.6.0 | The sugar cane block item now renders with a red background in the inventory. | ||||
v0.6.1 | The sugar cane block item no longer renders with a red background in the inventory.[8] |
Names[]
Item names did not exist prior to Beta 1.0.
- Beta 1.0 - Beta 1.6 Test Build 3: Reeds
- Beta 1.6 - ?: Sugar cane
Uncraftable items did not have visible displayed names prior to v0.5.0 alpha.
- v0.5.0 alpha - ?: Sugar cane
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Sugar Cane" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[]
- When a sugar cane is broken at the second level, the time resets (for example, if a two-block high sugar cane is broken, but is just about to grow to the third stage, it would reset that time).
- By placing more sugar canes on top of a sugar cane plant, it is possible to create tall sugar canes (up to y=319, the maximum height for building), although they do not naturally grow this high.
- Before sugar cane received an official name, they were sometimes referred to as bamboo, a block added 9 years later. Other names were "reeds" and "papyrus".
Gallery[]
Renders[]
In-game[]
A large sugar cane farm using 2×2 water holes.
A cactus and sugar cane stalk generated next to each other.
Sugar cane found in the ravine.
Reeds generated in the winter mode.
Sugar cane growing between biomes.
Sugar cane generated in a swamp biome.
Sugar cane growing in a savanna biome.
Sugar cane growing in a forest biome.
A sugar cane plant that generated in an underground water lake.
Heights[]
Four-block tall sugar cane in a plains biome.
References[]
- ↑ MC-214959 — "Sugar cane generated in cave" — resolved as "Fixed".
- ↑ MC-929 — "Sugar cane can be placed underwater" — resolved as "Works As Intended".
- ↑ MC-73963 — "Can't use bonemeal on cacti or sugar cane" — resolved as "Works As Intended".
- ↑ a b MC-216227
- ↑ https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-174434
- ↑ MC-226683
- ↑ MCPE-883 — "Wrong sugarcane drop from the reactor and creative mode" — resolved as "Fixed".
- ↑ MCPE-1231 — "sugar cane has a red texure in the survival inventory" — resolved as "Fixed".