Sweet Berries

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminant	No
Transparent	Yes
Restores	2 ()
Flammable	Yes (60 java, 30 bedrock)
Catches fire from lava	No

Sweet berries are a food item that are collected from sweet berry bushes.

Sweet berry bushes are thorny plants used to grow sweet berries.

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 all taiga variants (Taiga, Taiga Hills, and Taiga Mountains), and all snowy taiga variants (Snowy Taiga, Snowy Taiga Hills and Snowy Taiga Mountains). Each chunk has ¹⁄₁₂ chance to generate sweet berry bushes in random patches. They also generate in all giant tree taiga variants. Sweet berry bushes also generate in less scattered patches in mountain meadow.

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, or farmland 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[]

Sweet berry bushes past stage 1 slow down entities (except items) and damage mobs (though foxes are not affected either way). They deal 1 damage every 0.5 seconds to the player or other mobs. Entities that move through sweet berry bushes slow down to about 34.05% of their normal speed (similar to a cobweb, which 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	Namespaced ID	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
None^{[sound 1]}	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.grass.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	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
Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.sweet_berry_bush.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	0.8	0.8	16
Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	`block.grass.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

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Bedrock Edition:^{[more information needed]}

Item[]

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Eating	?	Eating one single food	`entity.generic.eat`	`subtitles.entity.generic.eat`	?	?	?
	Burp	?	Eating a singular food	`entity.generic.burp`	`subtitles.entity.generic.burp`	?	?	?

Bedrock Edition:^{[more information needed]}

Unique[]

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Berries pop	Blocks	Harvesting sweet berries	`item.sweet_berries.pick_from_bush‌^{[until JE 1.17]}`	`subtitles.item.berries.pick`	?	?	16
	Player hurts	Players	Player being damaged by sweet berry bush	`entity.player.hurt_sweet_berry_bush`	`subtitles.entity.player.hurt`	?	?	16

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Block tags (JE)	Item tags (JE)	Form	Translation key
Sweet Berry Bush	`sweet_berry_bush`	`azalea_log_replaceable` `bee_growables`	—	Block	`block.minecraft.sweet_berry_bush`
Sweet Berries	`sweet_berries`	—	`fox_food`	Item	`item.minecraft.sweet_berries`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Sweet Berry Bush	`sweet_berry_bush`	`462`	Block	`tile.sweet_berry_bush.name`
Sweet Berries	`sweet_berries`	`477`	Item	`item.sweet_berries.name`

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

Advancements[]

Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
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 21 mobs: Axolotl Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep 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 breed-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if any, can be bred, but 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 21 mobs: Axolotl Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep 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 breed-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if any, 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, if any, 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		Berries are showcased 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 berries.
	18w50a	Sweet berries can now be found within taiga village loot chests.
	18w50a	Added sweet berry bushes.
	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]
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]
1.16.220	beta 1.16.220.50	Sweet berry bushes now generate in mountain meadow biome.
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[]

Sweet berry bushes absorb fall damage like water.
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.