Sugar Cane
Sugar Cane grows beside water on dirt or sand — three-block columns yield paper and sugar, the renewable craft staple.
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Description
Sugar Cane is a plant that generates naturally beside water sources in any biome and grows when planted on dirt, grass, sand, podzol, mycelium, or similar substrate that touches a water-source block on at least one side. Each stalk reaches up to three blocks tall over time and breaks if the supporting block beneath becomes invalid (water removed, dirt converted to stone, etc.). Mining yields one cane item per block segment.
The key purpose for players is paper and sugar production: three sugar cane in a horizontal row crafts into three sheets of paper, used for books, maps, banners, and firework crafting; one cane item smelts or processes into sugar, used in cake recipes and pumpkin pie. The plant is also fundamental to player-made farms because it grows automatically and has no minimum height needed to harvest — bonemealing it instantly maximises growth, and players design tall vertical farms with piston harvesters that catch each newly-grown segment. Bamboo and kelp are similar self-replicating plants but use different substrates.
The key purpose for players is paper and sugar production: three sugar cane in a horizontal row crafts into three sheets of paper, used for books, maps, banners, and firework crafting; one cane item smelts or processes into sugar, used in cake recipes and pumpkin pie. The plant is also fundamental to player-made farms because it grows automatically and has no minimum height needed to harvest — bonemealing it instantly maximises growth, and players design tall vertical farms with piston harvesters that catch each newly-grown segment. Bamboo and kelp are similar self-replicating plants but use different substrates.
Used in crafts
- Sugar
- Paper
