Sugar cane

Sugar cane is a tall plant that grows beside water, and the item it drops.

Obtaining

Natural generation

Sugar cane generates in every biome, on grass or dirt beside water. Each chunk gets ten runs of 20 attempts, and a stalk is 2 to 4 blocks tall.

Breaking

Breaking sugar cane drops one sugar cane, whatever breaks it. Every block of the stalk above it breaks too.

Usage

Placing

Sugar cane is placed on grass or dirt with water beside that block on one of its four sides, or on top of other sugar cane. It never stands on sand.

Crafting ingredient

Result	Recipe
Paper	3
Sugar

Behaviour

Growing

The top block of sugar cane less than 3 blocks tall, with air above it, advances one of 16 stages on each random tick, and grows a new block above it on the sixteenth. That is about 5½ minutes a block on average, in any light.

Staying put

Sugar cane that could no longer be placed where it stands breaks when a block beside it changes. Random ticks never break it. Sugar cane whose water is removed stands until a block beside it changes.

Sugar cane stops water and lava flowing into its space.

Data values

• Block ID: 83
• Item ID: 338
• Translation key: tile.reeds, item.reeds

The game calls the block Sugar cane and the item Sugar Canes.