How Long Does Sugarcane Take To Grow In Minecraft

Sugar cane is a block plant as 1–4-block-tall plants nigh water in the Overworld. As an item, it is an of import crafting ingredient.

Obtaining [ ]

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. In Bedrock Edition, saccharide pikestaff uproots immediately after all adjacent water is removed. In Coffee Edition, sugar cane uproots on the next block update or random tick.

A sugar cane cake drops itself as an detail if a piston tries to push it (trying to pull it does aught) or moves a block into its space.

Natural generation [ ]

Naturally-occurring saccharide cane near a river.

Carbohydrate pikestaff can generate naturally near water, as two (¹¹⁄₁₈ chance), 3 (⁵⁄₁₈ chance), or 4 (²⁄₁₈ chance) blocks tall. Rare taller sugar canes tin can be establish if the world generator places two smaller canes on top of each other. It generates in approximately 0.8 sugar cane per chunk seeing as how they just generate most bodies of water.

Saccharide canes attempt to generate 10 times in any overworld biome, which requires water. An extra 10 attempts are made in swamp biomes, and 50 in desert biomes, which makes sugar cane twice as frequent in swamps and six times as frequent in desert biomes, but h2o is more rare in the desert, except in desert lakes.

Sugar cane cannot generate in caves in Coffee Edition.^[i]

Trading [ ]

Wandering traders can sell sugar cane for an emerald.

Usage [ ]

Due to its water-displacing backdrop, sugar cane can interestingly exist used to create underwater paths, allowing players to move at normal speed and exhale if it is two blocks in acme.‌^{[ Java Edition but ]}

Carbohydrate pikestaff takes on a dissimilar shade of green depending on the biome in which it is placed.

Crafting ingredient [ ]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Paper	Sugar Cane	three
Sugar	Sugar Cane

Farming [ ]

An clandestine saccharide pikestaff farm

Sugar pikestaff can generate naturally up to four blocks tall, but short plants grow only to a height of three blocks, adding a block of top when the superlative carbohydrate cane cake has received sixteen random block ticks (i.e. on average every 18 minutes on Java Edition or 54 minutes on Bedrock Edition, but the bodily charge per unit can vary widely). Sugar cane must be planted on a grass block, clay, coarse clay, rooted dirt, podzol, mycelium, sand, cherry sand, moss block or mud that is straight adjacent to water, waterlogged cake, or frosted ice (not only above or diagonal to water), or on acme of another sugar pikestaff cake. The adjacent water block can be covered with some other block, whether opaque or transparent, and saccharide cane can all the same be placed and grow next to information technology. Carbohydrate pikestaff grows regardless of light level, even in complete darkness.

In Bedrock Edition, bone repast can exist used to instantly abound carbohydrate cane to three blocks. Only one bone meal is consumed. In Java Edition, bone meal cannot exist used on carbohydrate cane.^[ii]

Composting [ ]

Placing carbohydrate cane into a composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by i.

Listing of colors [ ]

This article is missing information near Bedrock Edition colors (see Water#Color^{[ verify ]}).

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Coffee Edition [ ]

These values are generated by the biome dyeing algorithm. See Biome colors for more than information.

Bedrock Edition [ ]

This section of the article is empty.

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Sounds [ ]

Coffee Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Clarification	Resource location	Translation fundamental	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation altitude
Block broken	Blocks	One time the block has broken	`block.grass.break`	`subtitles.cake.generic.interruption`	one.0	0.8	16
None ^{[audio one]}	Blocks	Falling on the cake with fall damage	`block.grass.fall`	None ^{[audio i]}	0.v	0.75	sixteen
Cake breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the procedure of being broken	`block.grass.hit`	`subtitles.cake.generic.hit`	0.25	0.five	16
Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.grass.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	i.0	0.viii	16
Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	`block.grass.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.xv	1.0	sixteen

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Boulder Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resources location	Volume	Pitch
?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`dig.grass`	0.vii	0.8
?	Blocks	Falling on the block with autumn damage	`fall.grass`	0.4	one.0
?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`striking.grass`	0.iii	0.5
?	Blocks	Jumping from the cake	`jump.grass`	0.11	1.0
?	Blocks	Falling on the cake without autumn harm	`country.grass`	0.21	ane.0
?	Blocks	Walking on the block	`step.grass`	0.iii	1.0
?	Blocks	When the block is placed	`employ.grass`	0.8	0.8

Video [ ]

Note: This video was made before sugar cane had a different shade of green depending on the biome.

Data values [ ]

ID [ ]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation central
Sugar Cane	`sugar_cane`	Block & Item	`cake.minecraft.sugar_cane`

Bedrock Edition:

Carbohydrate Pikestaff	Identifier	Allonym ID	Numeric ID	Course	Item ID^{[i i]}	Translation cardinal
Block	`reeds`	None	`83`	Block & Ungiveable Item^{[i 2]}	`item.reeds`	`tile.reeds.name`
Particular	`sugar_cane`	`reeds`	`385`	Item	—	`item.reeds.proper name`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Unavailable with /give command

Block states [ ]

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
age	`0`	`0` `1` `2` `3` `4` `5` `6` `seven` `eight` `ix` `10` `11` `12` `xiii` `14` `15`	A freshly planted cane – and a pikestaff that has just grown cane above it – each take an age of 0. The historic period is incremented at random intervals. At historic period 15, a cane may try to abound more pikestaff higher up information technology.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Clarification
historic period	`0x1` `0x2` `0x4` `0x8`	`0`	`0` `1` `2` `3` `iv` `5` `6` `vii` `8` `9` `10` `11` `12` `thirteen` `fourteen` `fifteen`	`0` `i` `2` `iii` `iv` `5` `6` `7` `viii` `nine` `10` `11` `12` `13` `xiv` `fifteen`	A freshly planted cane – and a cane that has only grown pikestaff to a higher place 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 information technology.

History [ ]

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Java Edition Blastoff
v1.0.11					Added reeds in the Seecret Friday Update half-dozen.
					Reeds are informally referred to as "bamboo" or "papyrus" past many players.
					Since reeds can be washed abroad with water currents or instantly destroyed by removing the water next to them, automated reed farms can be made.
					Reeds can be used to craft paper.
Coffee Edition Beta
i.ii					Notch has retconned reeds into sugar cane so that information technology can now be crafted into sugar, included in the recipe for the cakes.
ane.half dozen		Examination Build 3			Arrows no longer stick to sugar cane, and instead, they pass through. However, snowballs notwithstanding come into contact with any saccharide pikestaff blocks, as if they are solid.
one.viii		Pre-release			Sugar cane can now grow and be placed onto sand as long as they are side by side to water. This update allows carbohydrate canes to appear next to h2o ponds in desert biomes.
one.viii		Pre-release			Sugar cane is at present bachelor in the creative inventory.
Java Edition
1.7.2		13w36a			Sugar cane is now tinted depending on the biome it's in.
1.7.2		13w36a			The particular texture remained unchanged, even so, and even so used the colour palette from Blastoff to 1.6.4.^[3]
ane.9		15w43a			Sugar pikestaff no longer breaks if its next h2o is turned to frosted water ice.
i.13		17w47a			The ID of sugar cane has now been changed from `reeds` to `sugar_cane`.
					"Carbohydrate Canes" have now been renamed to "Sugar Cane".
					Prior to The Flattening, this cake'southward numeral ID was 83, and the item's 338.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of the sugar cane item has been changed.
		19w03a			Placing saccharide cane into a composter has a 20% risk of raising the compost level past 1.
		19w05a			Sugar cane now has a l% hazard of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
		19w05a			Added wandering traders, which sell sugar cane.
1.17		21w11a			The texture of the sugar cane item has been changed, so that it actually matches the color it uses when placed again.^[3]
1.xix		22w15a			Sugar cane at present tin can exist plant on mud.^[4]
Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release					Added sugar cane.
v0.2.0					Despite being visible in the inventory, sugar cane does not driblet anything when mined, making information technology unobtainable in Survival manner.
v0.ii.one					Survival players now kickoff with an space stack of sugar cane in the inventory.
v0.three.0					Sugar cane now drops its item form when mined.
v0.three.0					Survival players no longer starting time with an infinite stack of sugar cane in the inventory.
v0.v.0					Sugar cane tin now exist grown on sand.
v0.v.0					Saccharide cane can now be obtained afterward activating the nether reactor.
v0.ix.0		build ane			The color of sugar pikestaff now changes depending on the biome they're in.
v0.12.i		build 1			Sugar pikestaff is no longer available from the nether reactor.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Due to a bug, saccharide canes no longer alter color depending on the biome.
Bedrock Edition
ane.2.13		beta 1.two.thirteen.five			The color of sugar canes now changes depending on the biome, once again.
i.x.0		beta 1.x.0.3			The texture of the sugar cane item has been changed.
i.x.0		beta 1.x.0.3			Sugar cane can now be bought from wandering traders.
one.11.0		beta 1.eleven.0.ane			Sugar canes tin can now be used to fill up composters.
1.17.0		beta i.17.0.50			The texture of the saccharide cane item has been inverse, and then that information technology actually matches the color it uses when placed again.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	ane.0	Patch 1	i.0.1	Added carbohydrate canes.
TU1					Sugar canes are solid, making it useful for growable walls. It is not known if or when they were renamed to "Saccharide Cane".
TU2					Sugar canes are no longer solid, and arrows pass through them.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		The color of sugar cane now changes depending on the biome they're in.
TU60	CU51	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	Sugar cane can now be grown with bonemeal.
		1.90			The texture of the saccharide cane item has been changed.
		one.91			Sugar cane can now exist bought from wandering traders.
		one.91			Sugar canes tin can now be used to fill up composters.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.one.0					Added sugar cane.

Sugar cane "item" [ ]

The following content is transcluded from Technical blocks/Sugar Cane.

Coffee Edition Alpha
v1.0.xi		Sugar cane has an extra, unobtainable particular form corresponding to its block ID. It can exist obtained via inventory editors with numeric item ID 83.
Java Edition Beta
1.half-dozen	Test Build 3	Saccharide cane items can be obtained from the newly added debug chests, mainly from the 25th slot of the 3rd chest from the left, and the 9th slot of the 7th chest from the left.
1.half-dozen	release	Debug chests no longer spawn, preventing sugar cane items from being obtained this way.
one.8	Pre-release	The block course of sugar cane is available in the Artistic inventory, alongside its commonly-obtainable particular form.
one.8	Pre-release two ;)	Added option block functionality. This volition change the currently selected slot to any containing this otherwise-unobtainable carbohydrate pikestaff item, but will not permit it to be obtained if not already in the hotbar.
Coffee Edition
?		The direct block form of saccharide cane is no longer available in the Creative inventory.
i.2.5	pre	Choice Block now returns the actually obtainable saccharide cane item.
i.iii.one	12w15a	Sugar pikestaff items can now be obtained via Pick Block in creative.
i.iii.one	12w16a	Pick Cake over again returns the actually obtainable saccharide cane particular. Sugar pikestaff items can now be obtained in singleplayer worlds via the `/requite` command using the respective numeric ID.
1.7.2	13w37a	The direct detail class of sugar cane has been removed from the game. It can no longer exist as an detail in any way, only as a placed block.
Pocket Edition Blastoff
Pre-release		Sugar cane exists as an item.
Pre-release		The carbohydrate cane block item is currently bachelor in the Artistic inventory.
v0.ii.1		Survival players at present outset out with an infinite stack of the carbohydrate cane cake detail in their inventory.
v0.three.0		Survival players no longer first out with an infinite stack of the sugar cane block item in their inventory.
v0.v.0		The sugar cane block item is given past the Nether reactor.
v0.6.0		The right sugar cane particular is at present given by the nether reactor and the creative inventory, making the block item no longer obtainable without inventory editing.^[5]

Appearances [ ]

Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.11		The sugar cane item uses this texture in inventories, when held in outset person view, or every bit a dropped item.
?		The sugar cane detail uses the same texture when held in third person.
Java Edition
ane.4.2	12w34a	The sugar cane particular uses the same texture when in an item frame.
Pocket Edition Blastoff
Pre-release		The sugar pikestaff item uses this texture in inventories, when held in first person view, or every bit a dropped detail.
v0.half dozen.0		The carbohydrate cane block item now renders with a red groundwork in the inventory.
v0.6.one		The sugar cane block item no longer renders with a red background in the inventory.^[6]

Names [ ]

Java Edition

Item names did non exist prior to Beta i.0.

Beta 1.0 - Beta ane.half-dozen Test Build iii: Reeds
Beta 1.6 - ?: Sugar cane

Boulder Edition

Uncraftable items did not have visible displayed names prior to v0.5.0 alpha.

v0.5.0 alpha - ?: Sugar cane

Issues [ ]

Problems relating to "Sugar Pikestaff" are maintained on the bug tracker. Study issues there.

Trivia [ ]

When a sugar cane is broken at the second level, the time resets (for example, if a two-cake loftier carbohydrate cane is broken, only is just about to abound to the third stage, it would reset that fourth dimension).
By placing more sugar canes on top of a saccharide cane institute, it is possible to create alpine sugar canes (up to y=255, the maximum top for building), although they do not naturally grow this high.
Before sugar cane received an official name, they were sometimes referred to as bamboo, a block added 9 years subsequently. Other names were "reeds" and "papyrus".

Gallery [ ]

A big saccharide cane farm using 2×two water holes.
Water flowing over sugar pikestaff.
Naturally generated sugar cane institute underwater.
A cactus and sugar pikestaff stalk generated next to each other.
Sugar pikestaff institute in the ravine.
Sugar cane growing between biomes.
Saccharide pikestaff generated without a water source.
Saccharide cane generated in a swamp biome.
Sugar cane growing in a savanna biome.
Sugar pikestaff growing in a forest biome.
Sugar pikestaff growing with lava flowing effectually it.
Saccharide canes few seconds before breaking because the water is frozen.
A sugar pikestaff constitute that generated in an underground water lake.
Some other example.

Heights

4-block alpine sugar pikestaff.
Four-cake alpine carbohydrate cane.
Four-cake tall saccharide cane in a plains biome.

References [ ]

↑ MC-214959 – "Sugar cane generated in cavern" – resolved as "Fixed"
↑ Can't apply bonemeal on cacti or sugar cane – Works Equally Intended
↑ ^a ^b MC-216227
↑ MC-250101
↑ MCPE-883 – "Wrong sugarcane drop from the reactor and artistic mode" – resolved as "Stock-still"
↑ MCPE-1231 – "sugar pikestaff has a ruby texure in the survival inventory" – resolved equally "Stock-still"