Bamboo

Bamboo

Transparent	No
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	5
Tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	Yes (60)
Catches fire from lava	Yes
Drops	Itself
Namespaced ID	See § Data values

Bamboo is a type of plant found in jungles, used to breed pandas and craft scaffolding.

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.

Farming

Bamboo can be planted on grass, sand or gravel. Bamboo is the fastest growing plant in Minecraft. At default random tick speed, each plant grows approximately every 204.8 seconds. In order to grow, bamboo plants require a light level of 9 or higher.

Obtaining

Bamboo can be mined with any tool, but the fastest way to break them is using a sword.

Block	Bamboo
Hardness	0
Tool	Any
Breaking time
Hand	3
Any sword	0
Any axe	0.375

Pandas

In Java Edition, pandas drop 1 bamboo when killed. In Bedrock Edition, pandas drop 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

Bamboo can be found in 15.6% of shipwreck supply chests and 51.0% of jungle temple chests in stacks of 1–3.

In Bedrock Edition they can be found in 50.9% of jungle temple chests in stacks of 1–3.

Usage

When mined, any other bamboo block placed above it is also destroyed. 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 sapling 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. If the player needs to transform a bamboo sapling into a solid bamboo block they can place another bamboo on top of it.

Farming

Bamboo can be placed, and grows, on grass blocks, dirt, sand, gravel, mycelium, podzol, coarse dirt, or red sand. When bone meal is used on it, it grows 1–2 blocks taller. Bamboo can grow to a maximum of 12–16 blocks tall. Bamboo needs a light level of 9 or above to grow.

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 mob 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.

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, and ferns are the only plants that change their hit boxes as they grow.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Attenuation distance
	Block breaking	block.bamboo.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	Blocks	?	1	16
	Block broken	block.bamboo.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	Blocks	?	0.8	16
	Block placed	block.bamboo.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	Blocks	?	0.8	16
	Footsteps	block.bamboo.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	Blocks	2, 5 = 0.7 1, 3, 4, 6 = ?	1	16
	No subtitle	block.bamboo.fall	(Unknown playing conditions)	Blocks	?	1	16
	Block breaking	block.bamboo_sapling.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	Blocks	?	0.8	16
	Block broken	block.bamboo_sapling.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	Blocks	?	0.9	16
	Block placed	block.bamboo_sapling.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	Blocks	?	0.85	16

Data values

ID

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID‌[BE only]
Bamboo	bamboo	418
Bamboo Sapling	bamboo_sapling	419

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.

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	Zoologist	Breed two Pandas with bamboo.		No	PS4	Yes	No	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.
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 now been updated to match Java Edition.
PlayStation 4 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 very fast, it takes only 500 plants in an automatic farm to produce more items than a hopper can collect. A single hopper can move only enough items to keep 6.25 furnaces running.
• Bamboo, poisonous potatoes, and dead bushes are the only three plants that a composter cannot process.
• Flowing water breaks bamboo saplings, but is blocked by mature bamboo stalks.

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.

Blocks

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Items

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