Cactus
Renewable |
Yes |
---|---|
Stackable |
Yes (64) |
Tool |
Any tool |
Blast resistance |
0.4 |
Hardness |
0.4 |
Luminant |
No |
Transparent |
Yes |
Flammable |
No |
Catches fire from lava |
No |
A cactus is a plant block that generates naturally in dry areas.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Breaking[edit]
A cactus can be mined by hand without taking damage. The tool used to mine the cactus does not affect mining speed.
Block | Cactus | |
---|---|---|
Hardness | 0.4 | |
Breaking time | ||
Default | 0.6 |
When the spot a cactus is placed in becomes unsuitable, such as when a solid block is placed next to it or its supporting block is removed, the cactus block uproots and drops as an item.
A cactus also removes and drops itself as an item, if a piston tries to push it (trying to pull it does nothing) or moves a block into its space.
Using a sign on the side of a cactus causes both the sign and the cactus to drop as items.
Natural generation[edit]
Cacti naturally occur in desert and badlands biomes (twice more common in desert than in badlands). They generate as one (11⁄18 chance), two (5⁄18 chance), or three (2⁄18 chance) blocks tall. Rarely taller cacti can be found if generation chooses to generate another on top of one already generated (although not as commonly as sugar cane).
A potted cactus can also be found in an igloo with a basement. Potted cacti and 3 block cactus can also be found in some desert village buildings.
Chest loot[edit]
Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
---|---|---|---|---|
Java Edition | ||||
Cactus | Village | Desert house chest | 1–4 | 80.6% |
Bedrock Edition | ||||
Cactus | Bonus chest | Chest | 1–2 | 60% |
Village | Desert house chest | 1–4 | 80.6% |
Trading[edit]
Wandering traders sell a cactus for three emeralds in Java Edition or five emeralds in Bedrock Edition.
Usage[edit]
A cactus block may be placed only on sand, red sand or another cactus block. A cactus breaks itself (and drops as an item) if any block with a solid material, or lava, occupies any of the 4 horizontally adjacent blocks. It also breaks if on the sand and the block above is water or lava.
When any entity, including players and mobs, touches a cactus, 1 damage is taken every 0.5 seconds. Damage from touching a cactus is reduced by armor, but touching it also damages the armor. Mobs do not avoid cacti when they pathfind.
Cacti destroy any items that come into contact with them, including cactus blocks harvested above them.
When a minecart hits a cactus block, the minecart drops as an item and is often destroyed, although a hopper can pick it up faster.
A cactus can also be placed in a flower pot, where it is rendered harmless.
A cactus (excluding its spikes) is 7⁄8 of a block in width (the same as chests) and a full block in height, however the collision box is 15⁄16 of a block high.
Farming[edit]
Cactus naturally grow to a height of three blocks, adding a block of height when the top cactus block has received 16 random ticks (i.e. on average every 18 minutes, but the actual rate can vary widely). Bonemeal does not work on cacti to speed their growth. A cactus does not need light to grow and is non-flammable. If a cactus has space directly above it, it grows even if the newly-grown block would immediately break due to adjacent blocks.
Smelting ingredient[edit]
Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Green Dye | Cactus + Any fuel |
[Java Edition only] | |
Green Dye | Cactus + Any fuel |
[Bedrock Edition only] |
Composting[edit]
Placing a cactus into a composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
Sounds[edit]
Sound | Subtitle | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Block broken | Blocks | Breaking the block | block.cloth.break | subtitles.block.generic.break | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
None[sound 1] | Blocks | Falling on the block with fall damage | block.cloth.fall | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
Block breaking | Blocks | Mining the block | block.cloth.hit | subtitles.block.generic.hit | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
Block placed | Blocks | Placing the block | block.cloth.place | subtitles.block.generic.place | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
Footsteps | Blocks | Walking on the block | block.cloth.step | subtitles.block.generic.footsteps | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
Sound | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Volume | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
? | Blocks | Breaking the block | dig.cloth | 1.0 | 0.8 |
? | Blocks | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall.cloth | 0.4 | 1.0 |
? | Blocks | Mining the block | hit.cloth | 0.35 | 0.5 |
? | Blocks | Jumping from the block | jump.cloth | 0.12 | 1.0 |
? | Blocks | Falling on the block without fall damage | land.cloth | 0.18 | 1.0 |
? | Blocks | Walking on the block | step.cloth | 0.3 | 1.0 |
? | Blocks | Placing the block | dig.cloth | 1.0 | 0.8 |
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
Name | Namespaced ID | Block tags (JE) | Translation key |
---|---|---|---|
Cactus | cactus | enderman_holdable | block.minecraft.cactus |
Name | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID | Translation key |
---|---|---|---|
Cactus | cactus | 81 | tile.cactus.name |
Block data[edit]
In Bedrock Edition, cacti use the following data values:
Value | Meaning |
---|---|
0 | Freshly planted cactus. |
1 to 15 | The data value is incremented at random intervals. When it becomes 15, a new cactus block is created on top as long as the total height does not exceed 3. |
Block states[edit]
Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
---|---|---|---|
age | 0 | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | A freshly-planted cactus – and a cactus that has just grown cactus above it – each have an age of 0. The age is incremented at random intervals. At age 15, a cactus may try to grow more cactus above it. |
History[edit]
Java Edition Alpha | |||||
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v1.0.6 | ![]() | ||||
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Player receives 1![]() | |||||
The cactus is a full block and acts identically to any one. | |||||
v1.0.11 | Cacti can now be placed only on sand, and now have the requirement that the space around it has to be empty. Previously, cacti could be placed to form a damaging floor: both players and mobs would take half a heart of damage when they walk on a cactus block. This made it useful for traps, such as a hallway with a cactus block floor that would kill all mobs that walked on it. | ||||
Collecting cacti no longer hurts the player. | |||||
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Java Edition Beta | |||||
1.2 | Cactus can now be smelted, giving cactus green. | ||||
1.8 | Pre-release | When dropped onto the world, the cactus item is no longer slightly larger than most other blocks, despite the fact that they are visibly smaller when placed, a bug shared with many other items. This is because it used the larger 'item' size, rather than the 'block' size. | |||
Java Edition | |||||
1.9 | 15w49a | Cacti now break if adjacent to lava, or if on sand and the block above is water or lava. | |||
1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 81. | |||
1.14 | 18w43a | ![]() | |||
18w44a | ![]() | ||||
19w03a | Placing a cactus into the new composter has a 20% chance of raising the compost level by 1. | ||||
19w05a | Cacti now has a 50% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1. | ||||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
v0.1.3 | ![]() | ||||
v0.2.0 | ![]() | ||||
v0.4.0 | ![]() | ||||
Cacti now obey regular placement exceptions when being placed underwater or on snow. | |||||
v0.5.0 | Cacti are now available from the nether reactor. | ||||
v0.8.0 | build 2 | ![]() | |||
build 4 | ![]() | ||||
v0.12.1 | build 1 | Cacti are no longer available from the nether reactor. | |||
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Pocket Edition | |||||
1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Potted cacti now generate in the basements of igloos. | |||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Cacti are now found inside bonus chests. | |||
1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ![]() | |||
A 3 block tall cactus and potted cactus now generates in new desert village houses. | |||||
Cacti can now be bought from wandering traders. | |||||
1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Cactus can now be found desert village house chests. | |||
Cactus can now be used to fill composters. | |||||
1.16.0 | beta 1.15.0.51 | Cactus once again deals damage to mobs and items standing on top of it. | |||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||
TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | ![]() |
PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
1.90 | ![]() | ||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
0.1.0 | ![]() |
In older versions, endermen could place cacti on any block.
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Cactus" or "Cacti" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[edit]
- Cacti can be placed underwater, provided they are placed on sand, and they grow if they break the surface.
- Cacti can be placed next to saplings, but the cactus breaks when the tree grows.
- Endermen could move and place cacti. Thus, they can increase the cactus population in deserts by moving cactus blocks as they grow.
- Signs can be placed on top of cacti. Paintings can also be placed on the sides of cacti, creating a nasty trap for anyone that tries to go through paintings.
- It is possible for cacti to generate on blocks other than sand due to terrain generation; refer to the gallery for examples.
- Cactus can be used in the desert to see if the player is in a newly generated area. If most of the cacti around the player is only one block high, then it is most likely new land.
- Dying from touching a cactus displays "[playername] was pricked to death" in the chat messages.
- Blocks can be placed on top of a cactus, including other cactus blocks.
- It is possible to place redstone next to a cactus block without destroying it.
- A 20 block tall cactus can be found on the seed 43931985876593125 at coordinates (-9711824 , ~ , 7726416) and more recently a 22 block tall one on seed 11343195073417814 at coordinates (14955936 , ~ , -3750655), in Java Edition, must be on 1.14.4 version. These seeds were found by the Minecraft@Home research project.[1]
- A cactus is the only thing in the game that destroys all blocks and items, including nether stars, which are immune to explosions, and all netherite items, which are immune to lava.
- Thus, cacti can be used as a better disposal bin for trash and other useless items than lava, and it is also safer, considering it deals far less damage than lava does.
- Top Snow can be placed next to cacti without breaking the cacti, no matter how many Top Snow layers stack.
Gallery[edit]
Natural cactus generated against a village house.
Heights[edit]
A natural nineteen-block tall cactus.[2]
A natural twenty block tall cactus.[3]
A natural twenty-two block tall cactus, the tallest known cactus.[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://twitter.com/minecraftathome/status/1275401340731232256
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/minecraftseeds/comments/g7u4ld/a_year_of_brute_force_work_to_find_a_19_tall/
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/minecraftseeds/comments/henko3/recordbreaking_20_block_tall_cactus_found_by/
- ↑ https://minecraftathome.com/minecrafthome/forum_thread.php?id=4