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.
Contents
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, 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[]
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[]
Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
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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 |
Bedrock Edition:[more information needed]
Item[]
Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | 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[]
Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | 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[]
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 |
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 |
Block states[]
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. |
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 sets the growth back to 2. |
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
|
![]() | The Parrots and the Bats | Breed two animals together | Husbandry | Breed a pair of any of these 22 mobs:
| husbandry/breed_an_animal
|
![]() | Two by Two | Breed all the animals! | The Parrots and the Bats | Breed a pair of each of these 21 (22[upcoming: JE 1.19]) mobs:
| 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:
| husbandry/balanced_diet
|
History[]
September 26, 2018 | Berries are announced to be part of the biome vote at MINECON Earth 2018. | ||||
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September 29, 2018 | Taiga wins the biome vote, meaning berries are to be added to the game first. | ||||
Java Edition | |||||
December 3, 2018 | Cojomax99 tweets an image of some berries. | ||||
1.14 | 18w49a | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
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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. | ||||
Added sounds for sweet berry bushes. | |||||
19w05a | Sweet berries now have a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1. | ||||
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. | |||
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 | ![]() | |||
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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 | ![]() | ||||
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Sweet berry bush "item"[]
- The following content is transcluded from Technical blocks/Sweet Berry Bush.
Bedrock Edition | |||||
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? | Sweet berry bushes exist as an item. | ||||
Despite their sprite, they cannot be eaten, and do not stack with actual berries. |
Appearances[]
Bedrock Edition | |||||
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? | ![]() |
Names[]
- ? - ?: 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 (confirmed to be a bug[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.