Bamboo

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.

Obtaining

Bamboo shoots in item form cannot be obtained through vanilla means. , they can be obtained through add-ons or inventory editing. , 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.

Breaking

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.

Natural generation

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.

Fishing

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

Usage

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.

Farming

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 . When bone meal is 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.