Bamboo

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Bamboo is a versatile, fast-growing plant found primarily in jungles, used for crafting (particularly scaffolding and bamboo wood), smelting, and breeding pandas.

A bamboo shoot is the initial non-solid sapling form of planted bamboo.

Bamboo shoots in item form cannot be obtained through vanilla means. In Bedrock Edition, they can be obtained through add-ons or inventory editing. In Java Edition, they do not exist as items and are thus completely unobtainable. Like most other saplings, limiting its possible growing conditions can keep it in its initial state.

Bamboo stalks can be mined with any tool, but an axe is quicker than other tools. Using a sword of any type breaks bamboo stalks and shoots instantly, even with Mining Fatigue. Flowing water also breaks bamboo shoots, but not mature bamboo stalks.

Bamboo generates in widely scattered single shoots within jungle biomes. Bamboo generates much more densely in the bamboo jungles, covering large areas of the landscape. Bamboo does not generate in sparse jungles. Bamboo can also generate as part of abandoned camps in bamboo jungles.​^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

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Bedrock Edition:

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{ "item": "Bamboo", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.14367923534041638, "structure": "Shipwreck", "container": "Supply chest" }

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{ "item": "Bamboo", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.14367923534041638, "structure": "Shipwreck", "container": "Supply chest" }

Bamboo can be found while fishing in jungle biome variants as a junk item.

When broken, any bamboo block placed or grown above it is also broken. 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 shoot it’s not solid and can be destroyed by water flowing into it. After growing at least one block taller it becomes a solid stalk and cannot be destroyed by water. To transform a bamboo shoot into a solid bamboo block place another bamboo on top of it.

Unlike most plants, bamboo cannot be composted.^[1]

Bamboo can be planted on moss blocks, pale moss blocks, grass blocks, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, gravel, mycelium, podzol, sand, red sand, suspicious sand, suspicious gravel, mud, muddy mangrove roots, or other bamboo shoots. At default random tick speed (3), each plant grows on average every 4096 game ticks (204.8 seconds). When bone meal is used on it, it grows by 1–2 blocks. Bamboo can grow up to 12–16 blocks tall. The top of a bamboo plant requires a client light level of 9 or above to grow.

Because bamboo breaks in almost the same way as sugar cane, a sugar cane farm can be easily adapted to this use. While water is not needed with such a farm, some spacing is recommended if the harvest is done manually as mature stalks are solid. Flowing water makes it a lot easier to collect the bamboo though and eliminates the need for space between them for collection.

Bamboo can be farmed infinitely in a closed cycle even without automation, as a wooden sword can break 30 bamboo plants, but only costs 11 bamboo to make, thus enabling the player to farm 330 to 450 bamboo per sword ([11 to 15] × 30). A crafting table is required to make the bamboo blocks and the sword.

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 1 bamboo block (not a bamboo shoot) is within 5 blocks of the pandas, making the panda the only animal in the game to have extra breeding requirements. At this point, the player can feed them bamboo and they mate to have a baby.

Bamboo can be used as fuel for smelting. Each bamboo item smelts 0.25 items. (it costs 4 bamboo items to smelt 1 item.)

Bamboo can be crafted into other items to increase its fuel efficiency.

• By crafting a Block of Bamboo (9 bamboo) into 2 bamboo planks, 3 items can be smelted instead of 2.25, a 33.3% increase in efficiency.
  • In Bedrock Edition, the fuel efficiency can be further doubled by crafting the bamboo planks into twice the amount of slabs.^[2]

Bamboo can be placed in a flower pot, where it retains the design it has in its item form.

The appearance of bamboo changes as it grows. When first placed, it takes the form of a small shoot that has no hitbox. When it grows one block taller, its visual thickness increases to 2×2 pixels and the top block has leaves. At 3 blocks tall, the top two blocks have leaves. At 4 blocks tall, the bamboo's visual thickness expands to 3×3 pixels. At 5 blocks tall, the top three blocks have leaves on them, and these blocks remain on top as the bamboo grows. Destroying a block of bamboo does not change the appearance of the blocks below it. Bamboo is oriented randomly in the block that it is in.

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Bamboo

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Bamboo

Bamboo Sapling

Issues relating to "Bamboo" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• Because bamboo grows quickly (on average 1 growth per 200 seconds), just 500 plants in an automatic farm produce more items than a hopper can collect (2.5 items per second). A single hopper can move only enough items to keep 6.25 furnaces running.
• Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant in Minecraft, which reflects its status as the fastest-growing plant known in real life.
• While bamboo cannot be composted in Minecraft, it can be composted in real life.

• 👁 Grown bamboo with three parts.
  
  Grown bamboo with three parts.

• 👁 The first image featuring bamboo, from MINECON Earth 2018.
  
  The first image featuring bamboo, from MINECON Earth 2018.
• 👁 A group of pandas eating bamboo, shown at MINECON Earth 2018.
  
  A group of pandas eating bamboo, shown at MINECON Earth 2018.
• 👁 Planted bamboo growing.
  
  Planted bamboo growing.
• 👁 A bamboo shoot growing through a tree.
  
  A bamboo shoot growing through a tree.
• 👁 Bamboo seen in a jungle biome.
  
  Bamboo seen in a jungle biome.
• 👁 Bamboo jungle in an Amplified world in 1.19-rc2.
  
  Bamboo jungle in an Amplified world in 1.19-rc2.
• 👁 Multiple naturally generated bamboo stems growing by a river.
  
  Multiple naturally generated bamboo stems growing by a river.

• 👁 Zuri chopping down bamboo for a baby panda.
  
  Zuri chopping down bamboo for a baby panda.
• 👁 Smartphone wallpaper of the aforementioned artwork, showing more of the treetops and bamboo.
  
  Smartphone wallpaper of the aforementioned artwork, showing more of the treetops and bamboo.
• 👁 Packing for the Diamond Level Panda, modeled after bamboo.
  
  Packing for the Diamond Level Panda, modeled after bamboo.