Bamboo

Not to be confused with Sugar Cane, which was colloquially known as Bamboo.

Bamboo

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tools
Blast resistance	1
Hardness	1
Luminant	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	Bamboo: Yes (60) Shoot: No
Catches fire from lava	Yes

Bamboo is a plant found in jungles, and can be used as fuel for smelting or cooking, or to breed pandas, and craft scaffolding, or sticks. Bamboo is the fastest growing plant in Minecraft.

Obtaining

Bamboo can be mined with any tool, but the fastest tool to break them is a sword or an axe. In Java Edition, a sword breaks bamboo almost instantly, and in Bedrock Edition, a sword breaks bamboo faster than an axe, though not instantly.

Block	Bamboo
Hardness	1
Tool
Breaking time
Default	1.5
Wooden	0.75
Stone	0.4
Iron	0.25
Diamond	0.2
Netherite	0.2
Golden	0.15
Sword	0.05

Bamboo shoots cannot be obtained through vanilla means. In Bedrock Edition, they can be obtained through add-ons or inventory editing. In Java Edition, they are completely unobtainable.

Natural generation

Bamboo generates in widely scattered single shoots within jungle biomes. Bamboo generates much more densely in the bamboo variants of jungles, covering large areas of the landscape.

Pandas

In Java Edition, a panda drops 1 bamboo when killed. In Bedrock Edition, a panda drops 0-2 bamboo when killed. Looting increases the drop by 1 per level.

Fishing

Bamboo can be found while fishing in jungle biomes as a junk item.

Chest loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Bamboo	Jungle temple	Chest	1–3	51%
	Shipwreck	Supply chest	1–3	15.6%
Bedrock Edition
Bamboo	Jungle temple	Chest	1–3	50.9%
	Shipwreck	Supply chest	1–3	15.6%

Usage

When broken, any bamboo block placed or grown above it is also broken. A bamboo block drops itself as an item if a piston pushes it or moves a block into its space. When bamboo is first placed as a shoot it's not solid and can be destroyed by water flowing into it. After growing at least one block taller it transforms into another kind of bamboo block that is solid and can't be destroyed by water. To transform a bamboo shoot into a solid bamboo block place another bamboo on top of it.

Farming

Bamboo can be planted on grass blocks, dirt, coarse dirt, gravel, mycelium, podzol, sand, or red sand. At default random tick speed (3), each plant grows approximately every 4096 game ticks (204.8 seconds). When bone meal is used on it, it grows by 1–2 blocks. Bamboo can grow up to 12–16 blocks tall. The top of a bamboo plant requires a light level of 9 or above to grow.

Since bamboo breaks in almost the same way as sugar canes, a sugar cane farm can be easily adapted to this use. While water is not needed with such a farm, some spacing is recommended if the harvest is done manually as mature stalks are solid.

Pandas

Bamboo items are eaten by pandas and can be used to speed up the growth of baby pandas. Bamboo can also be used to breed pandas when at least 8 blocks of bamboo are within 5 blocks of the pandas, making the panda the only animal in the game to have extra breeding requirements. At this point, the player can feed them bamboo and they mate to have a baby.

Fuel

Bamboo can be used as fuel in furnaces. Each bamboo item smelts 0.25 items. Crafting two bamboo into a stick and using that as fuel is equivalent, smelting 0.5 items. With the addition of string, it is more efficient to craft six bamboo into scaffolding, which can smelt 12 items in Java Edition or 36 items in Bedrock Edition, instead of 1.5 items from the original six bamboo.

Flower pots

Bamboo can be placed in a flower pot, where it retains the design it has in its item form.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Scaffolding	Bamboo + String	6
Stick	Bamboo

Appearance

The different stages of bamboo growth.

The appearance of bamboo changes as it grows. When first placed, it takes the form of a small shoot. When it grows one block taller it grows to 2 pixels in length and width and the top block has leaves coming off it. At 3 blocks, the top 2 blocks have leaves and at 4 blocks the bamboo expands to 3×3 pixels. At 5 blocks tall, the top 3 blocks have leaves on them. As the bamboo grows, the leaves move up and stay at the top 3 blocks. Destroying a block of bamboo does not change the appearance of the blocks below it. Bamboo is oriented at a random position in the block that it is in. Bamboo, grass, sweet berry bushes, and ferns are the only plants that change their hit boxes as they grow.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block breaking	Blocks	?	block.bamboo.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	1.0	?	16
	Block broken	Blocks	?	block.bamboo.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	0.8	?	16
	Block placed	Blocks	?	block.bamboo.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	0.8	?	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	?	block.bamboo.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	1.0	?	16
	None	Blocks	?	block.bamboo.fall	Is not actually played when remaining blocks collapse above broken block	1.0	?	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	?	block.bamboo_sapling.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.8	?	16
	Block broken	Blocks	?	block.bamboo_sapling.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	0.9	?	16
	Block placed	Blocks	?	block.bamboo_sapling.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	0.85	?	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Block tags (JE)	Translation key
Bamboo	bamboo	bamboo_plantable_on	block.minecraft.bamboo
Bamboo Shoot	bamboo_sapling	bamboo_plantable_on	block.minecraft.bamboo_sapling

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Bamboo	bamboo	418	tile.bamboo.name
Bamboo Sapling	bamboo_sapling	419	tile.bamboo_sapling.name

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:
Bamboo

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
age	0	0 1	The age of the bamboo, if this is 1 the bamboo appears thicker.
leaves	none	large none small	The size of the leaves on this bamboo block.
stage	0	0 1	The stage is incremented at random intervals. At stage 1, bamboo may try to grow more bamboo above it.

Bedrock Edition:
Bamboo

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
age_bit	0	0 1	The stage is incremented at random intervals. At stage 1, bamboo may try to grow more bamboo above it.
bamboo_leaf_size	no_leaves	large_leaves no_leaves small_leaves	The size of the leaves on this bamboo block.
bamboo_stalk_thickness	thin	thick thin	The age of the bamboo, if this is 1 the bamboo appears thicker.

Bamboo Sapling

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
age_bit	false	false true	Specifies the sapling's growth stage.
sapling_type	oak	acacia birch dark_oak jungle oak spruce	Unused.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
		Zoologist	Breed two pandas with bamboo.	—	40G	Gold

History

September 29, 2018					Bamboo is announced at MINECON Earth 2018.
Java Edition
1.14		18w43a			Added bamboo.
					Bamboo as an item can be dropped by bamboo and planted to grow bamboo.
					Added bamboo jungles, where bamboo naturally generates.
1.16		20w06a			"Bamboo Sapling" has been renamed to "Bamboo Shoot".
Bedrock Edition
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.8			Added bamboo.
					Bamboo as an item can be dropped by bamboo and planted to grow bamboo.
1.9.0		beta 1.9.0.0			Bamboo can now generate in jungle biomes in single shoots.
					Added bamboo jungles, where bamboo naturally generates.
1.12.0		beta 1.12.0.3			The bamboo texture brightness has been updated to match Java Edition.
Legacy Console Edition
		1.83			Added bamboo.
					Bamboo as an item can be dropped by bamboo and planted to grow bamboo.

Issues

Issues relating to "Bamboo" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Because bamboo grows quickly (on average 1 growth per 200 seconds), just 500 plants in an automatic farm produce more items than a hopper can collect (2.5 items per second). A single hopper can move only enough items to keep 6.25 furnaces running.
• Bamboo is one of the few plants that cannot be processed by a composter, along with poisonous potatoes, chorus fruit, and dead bushes.
• Flowing water breaks bamboo shoots but is blocked by mature bamboo stalks.
• Like in Minecraft, bamboo is the fastest-growing plant known in real life.

Gallery

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  The first image featuring bamboo, from MINECON Earth 2018.

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  A group of pandas eating bamboo, shown at MINECON Earth 2018.

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  Planted bamboo growing.

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  A bamboo shoot growing through a tree.

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  Bamboo seen in a jungle biome variant.

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  Bamboo Jungle in Amplified world at 1.16.1.

References

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