Dead Bush

A dead bush is a non-solid plant block found in deserts, badlands, swamps, and old growth taigas. It can only be obtained with shears, and otherwise drops sticks when broken.

Breaking

Dead bushes drop 0–2 sticks when broken without shears, or when the block below it is removed. Fortune enchantment doesn't affect the stick drop rates. When shears are used, a dead bush drops itself.

Natural generation

Dead bushes generate in deserts, badlands, swamps, mangrove swamps, old growth pine taigas, and old growth spruce taigas, including all biome variants. They generate on sand, red sand, terracotta, grass blocks, podzol, dirt, coarse dirt, and mud. Dead bushes generate twice as commonly in desert biomes as they do in old growth taigas, and 10 times more often in badlands than they do in deserts (ratio of 1:2:20 – taiga:desert:badlands). Dead bushes generate in some entrance rooms of trial chambers, next to a cactus. They can also be found inside flower pots inside some desert village houses and in trial chambers.

Usage

Dead bushes can be used for aesthetic decoration, as a source of sticks and a fuel source. A dead bush can be placed on any kind of sand, terracotta, dirt, podzol and mud; they can also be placed on grass blocks, mycelium, moss blocks, and farmland. They can also be planted in flower pots. Dead bushes do not spread, and cannot be grown using bone meal. Unlike most plants, dead bushes cannot be composted.

Fuel

Dead bushes can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.5 items per dead bush.

Ambience

If placed on sand, red sand or a terracotta block of any kind with at least one more corresponding block underneath it, dead bushes occasionally produce ambient sounds reminiscent of dry leaves rustling, wind howling and insects rattling. If the block directly below a dead bush is red sand or any kind of terracotta, the chance of playing ambient sounds is reduced by . These ambient sounds can play anywhere if the given conditions are met, and naturally play in the badlands and desert biomes due to the abundance of dead bushes on top of said blocks.

Trivia

Dead bushes dropping sticks is based on a suggestion by user pedroff_1.