Sweet Berries

Sweet berries are a food item obtained from sweet berry bushes and are used to plant them.

Sweet berry bushes are quick-growing, bonemealable plants that grow sweet berries, and damage and slow players and most mobs moving through them. They can be found naturally in taiga and snowy taiga biomes.

Obtaining[]

Breaking[]

Sweet berry bushes can be mined instantly with any tool or by hand. A mature sweet berry bush yields 2–3 sweet berries. On its third growth stage, it yields 1–2 sweet berries. Each level of Fortune can increase the amount of drops by 1.

Natural generation[]

Berry bushes commonly generate in taiga and snowy taiga biomes. Each chunk has ¹⁄₁₂ chance to generate sweet berry bushes in random patches. They also generate in both old growth pine taiga and old growth spruce taiga.

Chest loot[]

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Sweet Berries	Village	Taiga house chest	1–7	40.6%

Post-generation[]

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

Usage[]

Placement[]

Placing sweet berries on a grass block, dirt, podzol, coarse dirt, farmland‌^{[Java Edition only]}, or moss block creates a small sweet berry bush that eventually becomes a fully grown sweet berry bush.

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 needs to be in light level 9 or greater to grow. Using bone meal on it increases its growth stage by one, and at full maturity, ejects the sweet berry item. The bush can be placed on a 1 block high space, but it cannot grow with a full, non-transparent block immediately above it.

Food[]

To eat sweet berries, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores 2 () hunger and 0.4‌^{[JE only]} / 1.2‌^{[BE only]} hunger saturation.

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. 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 sweet berries. A baby fox bred by a player trusts the player and does not flee.

Trading[]

Master-level butcher villagers offer to buy 10 sweet berries for an emerald.

Entity movement[]

A sweet berry bush (at any stage) slows down all entities (except items) passing through it. At stage 1 and higher, it causes damage. Foxes are immune to both characteristics, however. Sweet berry bushes deal 1 damage every 0.5 seconds, only if the entity is moving in the hitbox of the bush. Entities that move through sweet berry bushes slow down to about 34.05% of their normal speed, similar to how a cobweb slows down mobs to 15% of normal speed. This makes it impossible to jump a full block while inside the bush.

Mobs at standard block height in a minecart are not damaged when the minecart is pushed through sweet berries. Players in a sweet berry bush take no damage except from horizontal movement, but are unable to jump out of the bush, similar to a cobweb.

Bees[]

Bees pollinate sweet berry bushes, and then increase the honey level in beehives and bee nests by 1.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Sounds[]

Generic[]

Block[]

Java Edition:

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

Item[]

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

Unique[]

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Berries pop	Blocks	When sweet berries are picked by a player	`block.sweet_berry_bush.pick_berries`	`subtitles.item.berries.pick`	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
Berries pop	Blocks	When sweet berries are picked by a fox	`block.sweet_berry_bush.pick_berries`	`subtitles.item.berries.pick`	1.0	1.0	16
Player hurts	Players	When a player is damaged by touching a sweet berry bush	`entity.player.hurt_sweet_berry_bush`	`subtitles.entity.player.hurt`	1.0	0.8-1.2	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	When sweet berries are picked	`block.sweet_berry_bush.pick`	1.0	1.0
	Blocks	When a player is damaged by touching a sweet berry bush	`block.sweet_berry_bush.hurt`	1.0	1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Sweet Berry Bush	`sweet_berry_bush`	Block	`azalea_log_replaceable` `bee_growables`	—	`block.minecraft.sweet_berry_bush`
Sweet Berries	`sweet_berries`	Item	—	`fox_food`	`item.minecraft.sweet_berries`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
Sweet Berry Bush	`sweet_berry_bush`	`462`	Block & Ungiveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.sweet_berry_bush.name`
Sweet Berries	`sweet_berries`	`287`	Item	—	`item.sweet_berries.name`

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

Block states[]

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
age	`0`	`0`	Young plant
		`1`	No berries
		`2`	Some berries, using the bush gives 1–2 sweet berries and sets the age back to 1.
		`3`	Full berries, using the bush gives 2–3 sweet berries and sets the age back to 1.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
growth	`0x1` `0x2` `0x4`	`0`	`0` `1`	`0` `1`	Young plant
			`2` `3`	`2` `3`	No berries
			`4` `5` `6`	`4` `5` `6`	Some berries, using the bush gives 1–2 sweet berries and sets the growth back to 2.
			`7`	`7`	Full berries, using the bush gives 2–3 sweet berries and sets the growth back to 2.

Advancements[]

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`
The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	Breed a pair of any of these 25 mobs: Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Trader Llama Turtle Wolf A mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs are ignored for this advancement.	`husbandry/breed_an_animal`
Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed a pair of each of these 25 mobs: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.	`husbandry/bred_all_animals`
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
September 26, 2018		Berries are announced to be part of the biome vote at MINECON Earth 2018.
September 29, 2018		Taiga wins the biome vote, meaning berries are to be added to the game first.
December 3, 2018		Cojomax99 tweets an image of some berries.
1.14	18w49a	Added sweet berry bushes.
	18w49a	Added sweet berries.
	18w50a	Sweet berries can now be found within taiga village loot chests.
	19w03a	Placing a sweet berry into the new composter has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
	19w03a	Added sounds for sweet berry bushes.
	19w05a	Sweet berries now have a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
	19w05a	The sound for planting sweet berries has been changed.
	19w07a	Sweet berries can now be fed to foxes to breed them.
	19w11a	Butcher villagers now buy sweet berries.
1.15	19w34a	Bees can now pollinate sweet berry bushes.
1.15	Pre-Release 2	Sweet berries now generate in giant tree taiga biomes.
1.16	Pre-release 1	Sweet berry bushes no longer prevent mob spawning inside them.
1.17	21w20a	The sound event for picking berries has been changed as to align better with that of glow berries.^[1]
1.18	1.18-pre5	Sweet berry bushes in taigas are about 4 times more common than in previous snapshots.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3	Added sweet berries, which are available only through Experimental Gameplay.
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3	Added sweet berry bushes, available only through Experimental Gameplay.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.1	Sweet berries can now be used to fill composters.
	beta 1.11.0.3	Sweet berries and sweet berry bushes have been fully implemented and are now separate from Experimental Gameplay.
	beta 1.11.0.4	Sweet berries can now be sold to butcher villagers.
1.13.0	beta 1.13.0.1	Sweet berries can now be fed to foxes to breed them.
1.14.0	beta 1.14.0.1	Bees can now pollinate sweet berry bushes.
1.16.100	beta 1.16.100.54	Sweet berry bushes now properly damage entities.^[2]
1.17.0	beta 1.17.0.56	Bees no longer gather nectar from sweet berry bushes.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.91		Added sweet berries.
1.91		Added sweet berry bushes.

Sweet berry bush "item"[]

The following content is transcluded from Technical blocks/Sweet Berry Bush.

Bedrock Edition
?					Sweet berry bushes exist as an item.
?					Despite their sprite, they cannot be eaten, and do not stack with actual berries.

Appearances[]

Bedrock Edition
?					Sweet berry bushes use this texture.^[3]

Names[]

Bedrock Edition

? - ?: Sweet Berry Bush

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Berry", "Berries", "Sweet berry", "Sweet berries", "Berry bush", or "Sweet berry bush" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

In Java Edition, sweet berry bushes absorb fall damage like water.^[4]
Foxes harvest mature sweet berry bushes that have grown into their third or fourth stage. Unlike how carrots eaten by rabbits are destroyed and not dropped as items, sweet berry bushes harvested by foxes drop as items, although the fox may pick up one of the dropped berries. The bush remains intact, allowing for automatic sweet berry farms.