Sweet Berries

Sweet Berries

Transparent	Yes
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	0
Tool	Any tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	Yes (60 java, 30 bedrock)
Catches fire from lava	No
Drops	Sweet Berries (1–2) (age 2) Sweet Berries (2–3) (age 3)
Data values	See § Data values
Namespaced ID	See § Data values
Tags	#bee_growables

Sweet berries are a food item that are collected from sweet berry bushes.

Sweet berry bushes are a plant used to grow sweet berries.

Natural generation

Berry bushes commonly generate in all taiga variants (Taiga, Taiga Hills, and Taiga Mountains). In all snowy taiga variants (Snowy Taiga, Snowy Taiga Hills and Snowy Taiga Mountains) each chunk has ¹⁄₁₂ chance to generate sweet berry bushes in patches. They also generate in all giant tree taiga variants.

Planting

Placing sweet berries on a grass block, dirt, podzol, coarse dirt or farmland creates a small sweet berry bush that eventually becomes a fully grown sweet berry bush.

Obtaining

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.

Natural generation

Sweet berries can be found in 40.6% of taiga village house chests in stacks of 1–7.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Usage

Sweet berry bushes can deal 1 damage every 0.5 seconds to the player or other mobs (except foxes) that move or jump inside them, similar to a cactus, as long as the bush has grown past its first growth stage. Planting bushes around an animal effectively traps them inside and makes it easy to tame them.

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 doesn't need any light to grow. Using bone meal on it increases its growth stage by 1. Although the bush can be placed on a 1 block high space, it cannot grow without an open air block above it.

Food

Sweet berries can be eaten as food items, filling 2 () hunger points.

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. The baby fox 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. Note that in Bedrock Edition, entities may not take damage, due to MCPE-56142. 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.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Attenuation distance
	Block breaking	block.grass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	Blocks	0.5	0.25	16
	Block broken	block.sweet_berry_bush.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	Blocks	0.8	0.8	16
	Block placed	block.sweet_berry_bush.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	Blocks	0.8	0.8	16
	Footsteps	block.grass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	Blocks	1.0	0.15	16
	No subtitle	block.grass.fall	(Plays when fallen on from a height)	Blocks	0.75	0.5	16
	Eating	entity.generic.eat	subtitles.entity.generic.eat	?	?	?	16
	Burp	entity.player.burp	subtitles.entity.player.burp	?	?	?	16
	Berries pop	item.sweet_berries.pick_from_bush	subtitles.item.berries.pick	?	?	?	16
	No subtitle	entity.player.hurt_sweet_berry_bush	(Plays when player is damaged by bush)	?	?	?	16

Data values

ID

Name	Namespaced ID	Numerical ID‌[BE only]
Block	sweet_berry_bush	462
Item	sweet_berries	477

Block states

See also: Block states

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
age	0	0	Young plant
		1	No berries
		2	Some berries, using the bush will give 1-2 sweet berries and set the age back to 1.
		3	Full berries, using the bush will give 2-3 sweet berries and set the age back to 1.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
growth	0	0 1	Young plant
		2 3	No berries
		4 5 6	Some berries, using the bush will give 1-2 sweet berries and set the age back to 1.
		7	Full berries, using the bush will give 2-3 sweet berries and set the age back to 1.

History

September 26, 2018					Berries are announced to be part of the biome vote at MINECON Earth 2018.
September 29, 2018					Berries are showcased at MINECON Earth 2018.
September 29, 2018					Taiga wins the biome vote, meaning berries are to be added to the game first.
December 3, 2018					Cojomax99 tweets an image of some berries.
Java Edition
1.14		18w49a			Added sweet berries.
		18w50a			Sweet berries can now be found within taiga village loot chests.
					Added sweet berry bushes.
		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 now been changed.
		19w07a			Sweet berries can now be fed to foxes to breed them.
1.15		19w34a			Bees can now pollinate sweet berry bushes.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Added sweet berries, which are available only through Experimental Gameplay.
					Added sweet berry bushes, available only through Experimental Gameplay.
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 now 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.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.91					Added sweet berries.
					Added sweet berry bushes.

Issues

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