Sugar Cane
Transparent |
Yes |
---|---|
Luminance |
0 |
Blast resistance |
0 |
Tool |
Any tool |
Renewable |
Yes |
Stackable |
Yes (64) |
Flammable |
No |
Catches fire from lava |
No |
Drops |
Itself |
Data values |
See § Data values |
Namespaced ID |
See § Data values |
Sugar cane is a block found as 1–4-block-tall plants near water in the Overworld. As an item, it is an important crafting ingredient.
Contents
Natural generation[edit]
Sugar cane can generate naturally near water, as two (11⁄18 chance), three (5⁄18 chance), or four (2⁄18 chance) blocks tall. Rare taller sugar canes can be found if generation chooses to generate another on top of one already generated.
Sugar canes are five times more likely to generate in desert biome variants than in other biomes.
Obtaining[edit]
Sugar cane can be mined instantly with anything.
When the spot a sugar cane block is placed in becomes unsuitable, such as when the supporting block is removed, the sugar cane block uproots and drops as an item. Sugar cane does not immediately uproot when all adjacent water is removed, but does so when it next receives a block update or random tick. In Bedrock Edition, sugar cane uproots immediately after all adjacent water is removed.
A sugar cane block 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.
Trading[edit]
Wandering traders can sell sugar cane for an emerald.[BE, JE & PS4 only]
Usage[edit]
Due to its water-displacing properties, sugar cane can interestingly be used to create underwater paths, allowing players to move at normal speed and breathe if it is two blocks in height.
Sugar cane takes on a different shade of green depending on the biome in which it is placed.
Crafting ingredient[edit]
Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
---|---|---|
Paper | Sugar Cane | |
Sugar | Sugar Cane |
Farming[edit]
Sugar cane can generate naturally up to four blocks tall, but short plants grow only to a height of three blocks, adding a block of height when the top sugar cane block has received 16 random ticks (i.e. on average every 18 minutes, but the actual rate can vary widely). In Bedrock Edition, New 3DS Edition and Legacy Console Edition, bone meal can be used to grow sugar canes to the maximum height.
Sugar cane must be planted on a grass block, dirt, sand, podzol, coarse dirt or red sand that is directly adjacent to water or frosted ice (not merely above or diagonal to water), or on top of another sugar cane block. The adjacent water block can be covered with another block, whether opaque or transparent, and sugar cane can still be placed and grow next to it. Sugar cane grows regardless of light level, even in complete darkness.
Composting[edit]
Placing sugar cane into a composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
List of colors[edit]
Java Edition[edit]
These values are generated by the biome dyeing algorithm. See Biome colors for more information.
Biome | Category | Rainfall | Grass Color | Temperature Affects | Render |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Badlands | Mesa | No | #90814d | No | ![]() |
Badlands Plateau | Mesa | No | #90814d | No | ![]() |
Beach | Beach | Rain | #91bd59 | ![]() | |
Birch Forest | Forest | Rain | #88bb67 | ![]() | |
Birch Forest Hills | Forest | Rain | #88bb67 | ![]() | |
Cold Ocean | Ocean | Rain | #8eb971 | ![]() | |
Dark Forest | Forest | Rain | #507a32 | ![]() | |
Dark Forest Hills | Forest | Rain | #507a32 | ![]() | |
Deep Cold Ocean | Ocean | Rain | #8eb971 | ![]() | |
Deep Frozen Ocean | Ocean | Rain | #8eb971 | ![]() | |
Deep Lukewarm Ocean | Ocean | Rain | #8eb971 | ![]() | |
Deep Ocean | Ocean | Rain | #8eb971 | ![]() | |
Deep Warm Ocean | Ocean | Rain | #8eb971 | ![]() | |
Desert | Desert | No | #bfb755 | ![]() | |
Desert Hills | Desert | No | #bfb755 | ![]() | |
Desert Lakes | Desert | No | #bfb755 | ![]() | |
End Barrens | The End | No | #8eb971 | ![]() | |
End Highlands | The End | No | #8eb971 | ![]() | |
End Midlands | The End | No | #8eb971 | ![]() | |
Eroded Badlands | Mesa | No | #90814d | No | ![]() |
Flower Forest | Forest | Rain | #79c05a | ![]() | |
Forest | Forest | Rain | #79c05a | ![]() | |
Frozen Ocean | Ocean | Snow | #80b497 | ![]() | |
Frozen River | River | Snow | #80b497 | ![]() | |
Giant Spruce Taiga | Taiga | Rain | #86b783 | ![]() | |
Giant Spruce Taiga Hills | Taiga | Rain | #86b783 | ![]() | |
Giant Tree Taiga | Taiga | Rain | #86b87f | ![]() | |
Giant Tree Taiga Hills | Taiga | Rain | #86b87f | ![]() | |
Gravelly Mountains | Extreme Hills | Rain | #8ab689 | ![]() | |
Gravelly Mountains+ | Extreme Hills | Rain | #8ab689 | ![]() | |
Ice Spikes | Icy | Snow | #80b497 | ![]() | |
Jungle | Jungle | Rain | #59c93c | ![]() | |
Jungle Edge | Jungle | Rain | #64c73f | ![]() | |
Jungle Hills | Jungle | Rain | #59c93c | ![]() | |
Lukewarm Ocean | Ocean | Rain | #8eb971 | ![]() | |
Modified Badlands Plateau | Mesa | No | #90814d | No | ![]() |
Modified Jungle | Jungle | Rain | #59c93c | ![]() | |
Modified Jungle Edge | Jungle | Rain | #64c73f | ![]() | |
Modified Wooded Badlands Plateau | Mesa | No | #90814d | No | ![]() |
Mountain Edge | Extreme Hills | Rain | #8ab689 | ![]() | |
Mountains | Extreme Hills | Rain | #8ab689 | ![]() | |
Mushroom Fields | Mushroom | Rain | #55c93f | ![]() | |
Mushroom Field Shore | Mushroom | Rain | #55c93f | ![]() | |
Nether | Nether | No | #bfb755 | ![]() | |
Ocean | Ocean | Rain | #8eb971 | ![]() | |
Plains | Plains | Rain | #91bd59 | ![]() | |
River | River | Rain | #8eb971 | ![]() | |
Savanna | Savanna | No | #bfb755 | ![]() | |
Savanna Plateau | Savanna | No | #bfb755 | ![]() | |
Shattered Savanna | Savanna | No | #bfb755 | ![]() | |
Shattered Savanna Plateau | Savanna | No | #bfb755 | ![]() | |
Small End Islands | The End | No | #8eb971 | ![]() | |
Snowy Beach | Beach | Snow | #83b593 | ![]() | |
Snowy Mountains | Icy | Snow | #80b497 | ![]() | |
Snowy Taiga | Taiga | Snow | #80b497 | ![]() | |
Snowy Taiga Hills | Taiga | Snow | #80b497 | ![]() | |
Snowy Taiga Mountains | Taiga | Snow | #80b497 | ![]() | |
Snowy Tundra | Icy | Snow | #80b497 | ![]() | |
Stone Shore | None | Rain | #8ab689 | ![]() | |
Sunflower Plains | Plains | Rain | #91bd59 | ![]() | |
Swamp | Swamp | Rain | #6A7039 | If temperature below -0.1, used #4C763C. | ![]() ![]() |
Swamp Hills | Swamp | Rain | #6A7039 | If temperature below -0.1, used #4C763C. | ![]() ![]() |
Taiga | Taiga | Rain | #86b783 | ![]() | |
Taiga Hills | Taiga | Rain | #86b783 | ![]() | |
Taiga Mountains | Taiga | Rain | #86b783 | ![]() | |
Tall Birch Forest | Forest | Rain | #88bb67 | ![]() | |
Tall Birch Hills | Forest | Rain | #88bb67 | ![]() | |
The End | The End | No | #8eb971 | ![]() | |
The Void | None | No | #8eb971 | ![]() | |
Warm Ocean | Ocean | Rain | #8eb971 | ![]() | |
Wooded Badlands Plateau | Mesa | No | #90814d | No | ![]() |
Wooded Hills | Forest | Rain | #79c05a | ![]() | |
Wooded Mountains | Extreme Hills | Rain | #8ab689 | ![]() |
Bedrock Edition[edit]
This section needs more information. Information requested: See Water#Color - can we get analogous color lists for both Java Edition and Bedrock Edition?
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Sounds[edit]
Sound | Subtitle | Namespaced ID | Subtitle ID | Source | Pitch | Volume | Attenuation distance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Block breaking | block.grass.hit
|
subtitles.block.generic.hit
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Blocks | 0.5 | 0.25 | 16 | |
Block broken | block.grass.break
|
subtitles.block.generic.break
|
Blocks | 0.8 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Block placed | block.grass.place
|
subtitles.block.generic.place
|
Blocks | 0.8 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Footsteps | block.grass.step
|
subtitles.block.generic.footsteps
|
Blocks | 1.0 | 0.15 | 16 | |
No subtitle | block.grass.fall
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(Plays when fallen on from a height) | Blocks | 0.75 | 0.5 | 16 |
Video[edit]
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
Sugar Cane | Namespaced ID |
---|---|
Sugar Cane | sugar_cane
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Sugar Cane | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID |
---|---|---|
Block | reeds
|
83 |
Item | 338 |
Block data[edit]
In Bedrock Edition, sugar cane uses the following data values:
Value | Meaning |
---|---|
0 | Freshly planted sugar cane. |
1 to 15 | The data value is incremented at random intervals. When it becomes 15, a new sugar cane 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 cane – and a cane which has just grown cane above it – each have an age of 0. The age is incremented at random intervals. At age 15, a cane may try to grow more cane above it. |
History[edit]
Java Edition Alpha | |||||
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v1.0.11 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
Java Edition Beta | |||||
1.2 | Notch retconned reeds into sugar cane so that it can now be crafted into sugar, included in the recipe for the cakes. | ||||
1.6 | ? | Arrows no longer stick to sugar cane(s), and instead, they pass through. However, snowballs still come into contact with any sugar cane blocks, as if they are solid. | |||
1.8 | Pre-release | Sugar cane can now grow and be placed onto sand as long as they are adjacent to water. This update allows sugar canes to appear next to water ponds in desert biomes. | |||
Sugar cane's block form (Sugar cane) and item form (Sugar Canes) are now both available in the Creative inventory. | |||||
Java Edition | |||||
1.7.2 | 13w36a | ![]() | |||
13w37a | The item form of block ID 83 (sugar cane) has now been removed from the game. It can no longer exist in inventories, only as a block in the world. | ||||
1.9 | 15w43a | Sugar cane no longer breaks if its adjacent water is turned to frosted ice. | |||
1.13 | 17w47a | The ID has now been been changed from reeds to sugar_cane .
| |||
Renamed to sugar cane. | |||||
Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 83, and the item's 338. | |||||
1.14 | 18w43a | ![]() | |||
19w03a | Placing sugarcane into a composter has a 20% chance of raising the compost level by 1. | ||||
19w05a | Sugar cane now has a 50% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1. | ||||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
0.1.0 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
0.5.0 | Sugar cane can now be grown on sand. | ||||
Sugar cane can now be obtained after activating the Nether reactor. However, player can obtain its block form from it. | |||||
0.6.0 | Player can now obtain sugar cane's item form correctly from the Nether reactor rathan than its block form. | ||||
0.9.0 | build 1 | ![]() | |||
0.12.1 | build 1 | Sugar cane is no longer available from the Nether reactor. | |||
Pocket Edition | |||||
1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | ![]() | |||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.2.13 | beta 1.2.13.5 | ![]() | |||
1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ![]() | |||
Sugar cane can now be bought from wandering traders. | |||||
1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Sugar canes can now be used to fill up composters. | |||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||
TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | ![]() ![]() | |
TU2 | Sugar canes are no longer solid, and arrows pass through them. | ||||
TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | ![]() | |
PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
1.90 | ![]() |
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Sugar Cane" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[edit]
- When a sugar cane is broken at the second level, the time resets (for example, if a two-block high sugar cane is broken, but is just about to grow to the third stage, it would reset that time).
- By placing more sugar canes on top of a sugar cane plant, it is possible to create very tall sugar canes (up to y=255, the maximum height for building), although they do not naturally grow this high.
- Sugar canes usually try to spawn more often on the Legacy Console Edition to ensure that the limited world have some sugar canes to find.
- Before sugar cane received an official name, they were sometimes referred to as bamboo, a block added 9 years later. Other names were "reeds" and "papyrus".
Gallery[edit]
A large sugar cane farm using 2×2 water holes.
A cactus and sugar cane stalk generated next to each other.
A sugar cane spawning naturally in a cave underground.
Sugar cane found at the bottom of a ravine.
Reeds generated in the winter mode.
Sugar cane growing between biomes.
Sugar cane generated in a swamp biome.
Sugar cane growing in a savanna biome.
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