Sugar Cane

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Sugar cane is a plant that can only be placed on plantable blocks adjacent to water. It grows up to three blocks tall over time, but will instead uproot itself if its water is removed. Sugar cane can be crafted into sugar and paper.

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. When all adjacent water is removed, sugar cane uproots on the next block update or random tick.

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.

Sugar cane can generate naturally near water and ice, as two (¹¹⁄₁₈ chance), three (⁵⁄₁₈ chance), or four (²⁄₁₈ chance) blocks tall. Rare taller sugar canes can be found 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 only generate near bodies of water.

Sugar canes attempt to generate 10 times in any Overworld biome^[1], 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, making the banks of rivers that cut through deserts lined with sugar canes. Sugar cane cannot generate in caves.^[2][3]

Wandering traders may sell sugar cane for 1 emerald.

In Bedrock Edition, wandering traders have a chance of 8.5% (increased by 1% per level of Looting) to drop 1 sugar cane when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an emerald.

Sugar cane may be placed only on grass blocks, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, podzol, mycelium, sand, red sand, suspicious sand, moss blocks, pale moss blocks, mud, or muddy mangrove roots that are directly adjacent to water, a waterlogged block, 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 can generate naturally up to any number of blocks tall, but 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 on Java Edition or 54 minutes on Bedrock Edition, but the actual rate can vary widely). Sugar cane grows regardless of light level, even in complete darkness.

In Bedrock Edition, a single application of bone meal grows sugar cane to three blocks. In Java Edition, bone meal cannot be used on sugar cane.^[4]

Placing sugar cane into a composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Sugar cane is destroyed when a piston tries to push it. It can not be pulled by pistons.

The coloration of sugar cane is dependent on the biome they are in. A block always uses the color set to its location, regardless of how it was placed or of its source.

These values are generated by the biome dyeing algorithm, which depends on the biome's temperature and downfall. See biome colors for more information.

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

• 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 tall sugar canes (up to the maximum building height), 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 later. Other names were "reeds" and "papyrus", the former of which being both the original in-game name and internal name.
• 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.‌^{[Java Edition only][8]}

• 👁 A large sugar cane farm using 2×2 water holes.
  
  A large sugar cane farm using 2×2 water holes.
• 👁 Water flowing over sugar cane.
  
  Water flowing over sugar cane.
• 👁 Naturally generated sugar cane found underwater.
  
  Naturally generated sugar cane found underwater.
• 👁 A cactus and sugar cane stalk generated next to each other.
  
  A cactus and sugar cane stalk generated next to each other.
• 👁 Sugar cane found in the ravine.
  
  Sugar cane found in the ravine.
• 👁 Reeds generated in the winter mode.
  
  Reeds generated in the winter mode.
• 👁 Sugar cane growing between biomes.
  
  Sugar cane growing between biomes.
• 👁 Sugar cane growing on red sand in a badlands biome.
  
  Sugar cane growing on red sand in a badlands biome.
• 👁 Sugar cane generated without a water source.
  
  Sugar cane generated without a water source.
• 👁 Sugar cane generated in a swamp biome.
  
  Sugar cane generated in a swamp biome.
• 👁 Sugar cane growing in a savanna biome.
  
  Sugar cane growing in a savanna biome.
• 👁 Sugar cane growing in a forest biome.
  
  Sugar cane growing in a forest biome.
• 👁 Sugar cane growing with lava flowing around it.
  
  Sugar cane growing with lava flowing around it.
• 👁 Sugar canes few seconds before breaking because the water is frozen.
  
  Sugar canes few seconds before breaking because the water is frozen.
• 👁 A sugar cane plant that generated in an underground water lake.
  
  A sugar cane plant that generated in an underground water lake.
• 👁 Another example.
  
  Another example.
• 👁 Four-block tall sugar cane.
  
  Four-block tall sugar cane.
• 👁 Four-block tall sugar cane.
  
  Four-block tall sugar cane.
• 👁 Four-block tall sugar cane in a desert biome.
  
  Four-block tall sugar cane in a desert biome.