Sugar Cane

Sugar cane is a plant that can only be 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.

Breaking

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.

Natural generation

Sugar cane can generate naturally near water and ice, as two ( chance), three ( chance), or four ( 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, 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.

Trading

Wandering traders may sell sugar cane for 1 emerald.

Mob loot

, 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.

Usage

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.

Farming

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.

, a single application of bone meal grows sugar cane to three blocks. , bone meal cannot be used on sugar cane.