Sweet Berries

For other uses, see Bush (disambiguation).
For the consumable in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Sweet Berries.
Sweet Berries

Sweet Berry Bush Age 0.png: Infobox image for Sweet Berries the block in Minecraft

Sweet Berry Bush Age 1.png: Infobox image for Sweet Berries the block in Minecraft

Sweet Berry Bush Age 2.png: Infobox image for Sweet Berries the block in Minecraft

Sweet Berry Bush Age 3.png: Infobox image for Sweet Berries the block in Minecraft

Sweet Berries.png: Infobox image for Sweet Berries the block in Minecraft
Invicon Sweet Berries.png: Inventory sprite for Sweet Berries in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Sweet Berries
Renewable

Yes

Stackable

Yes (64)

Tool

Any tool

Blast resistance

0

Hardness

0

Luminous

No

Transparent

Yes

Restores

2 (🍗)

Flammable

Yes (60 Java, 30 Bedrock)

Catches fire
from lava

No

Sweet berries are a food item obtained from sweet berry bushes and are used to plant them.

Sweet berry bushes are quick-growing plants that grow sweet berries, and damage, along with slowing down, players and most mobs moving through them. They can be found naturally in taiga and snowy taiga biomes.

Obtaining

Natural generation

Berry bushes commonly generate in taiga and snowy taiga biomes. Each chunk has a 112 chance to generate sweet berry bushes in random patches. They also generate in both old growth pine taiga and old growth spruce taiga biomes.

Breaking

Sweet berry bushes can be mined instantly with any tool or by hand. A mature sweet berry bush yields 2–3 sweet berries. On its third growth stage, it yields 1–2 sweet berries. Each level of Fortune can increase the amount of drops by 1.

Block
Hardness 0
Breaking time (secs)
Default 0.05
Legend
  • incorrect tool, drops nothing
  • correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
  • correct tool, drops the block itself
  • italicized can be instant mined

Harvesting

Sweet berries can be collected from a sweet berry bush by pressing the use control on it, yielding 1–2 sweet berries in its third growth stage, and 2–3 sweet berries in its final growth stage. After dropping the berries on the ground, the sweet berry bush reverts to its second growth stage.

Generated loot

Item Structure Container Quantity Chance
Java Edition
Village Taiga house chest 1–7 40.6%

Usage

Placement

Placing sweet berries on a grass block, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, farmland, podzol, mycelium, moss block, mud, or muddy mangrove roots creates a small sweet berry bush that eventually becomes a fully grown sweet berry bush.

Growth

A sweet berry bush grows through four stages after it is planted. Its first growth stage is a small bush without any berries. It becomes a grown plant in its second stage, and produces berries in its third and fourth growth stage. The bush needs to be in light level 9 or greater to grow. The bush can be placed on a 1 block high space, but it cannot grow with a full, non-transparent block immediately above it. Using bone meal on it increases its growth stage by one, regardless of light level and available space, and at full maturity, ejects the sweet berry item.

Food

To eat sweet berries, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores 2 (🍗) hunger and 0.4‌ / 1.2‌ hunger saturation.

Composting

Placing sweet berries into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Breeding

Sweet berries can be fed to foxes to breed them. Foxes are similar to cats when being fed as a wild animal; a sudden movement by the player may cause the fox to flee even if the player holds sweet berries. A baby fox bred by a player trusts the player and does not flee.

Trading

VillagerProbabilityVillager wantsPlayer receives
JEBE
Master Butcher100%100%10 × Emerald

Entity movement

A sweet berry bush (at any stage) slows down all entities (except items) passing through it. At stage 1 and higher, it causes damage. Foxes are immune to both characteristics, however. Sweet berry bushes deal 1HP♥ damage every tick (although damage immunity reduces this to once every half-second), only if the entity is moving in the hitbox of the bush. Entities that move through sweet berry bushes slow down to about 34.05% of their normal speed, similar to how a cobweb slows down mobs to 25% of normal speed. This makes it impossible to jump a full block while inside the bush.

Mobs at standard block height in a minecart are not damaged when the minecart is pushed through sweet berries. Players in a sweet berry bush take no damage except from horizontal movement, but are unable to jump out of the bush, similar to a cobweb.

Bees

Bees do not pollinate sweet berry bushes.

Sounds

Generic

Block

Java Edition:

ItemSprite sweet-berries.png: Sprite image for sweet-berries in Minecraft sweet_berry_bush sound type
SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokenblock.sweet_berry_bush.breaksubtitles.block.generic.break0.80.816
​Block placedBlocksWhen the block is placedblock.sweet_berry_bush.placesubtitles.block.generic.place0.80.816
​Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenblock.grass.hitsubtitles.block.generic.hit0.250.516
​Something falls on a blockEntity-DependentFalling on the block with fall damageblock.grass.fallsubtitles.block.generic.fall0.50.7516
​FootstepsEntity-DependentWalking on the blockblock.grass.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps0.151.016

Bedrock Edition:

ItemSprite sweet-berries.png: Sprite image for sweet-berries in Minecraft sweet_berry_bush sound type
SoundSourceDescriptionResource locationVolumePitch
BlocksOnce the block has brokenblock.sweet_berry_bush.break1.00.8-1.0
BlocksWhen the block is placedblock.sweet_berry_bush.place1.00.8-1.0
BlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenhit.grass0.250.5

Item

Java Edition:

Sounds
SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​EatingPlayersWhile a player is eating somethingentity.generic.eatsubtitles.entity.generic.eatvaries [sound 1]0.8-1.216
​EatingFriendly MobsWhen a player finishes eating somethingentity.generic.eatsubtitles.entity.generic.eat1.00.6-1.416
​BurpPlayersWhen a player finishes eating somethingentity.player.burpsubtitles.entity.player.burp0.50.9-1.016
  1. Can be 0.5, 1.0, or 1.5

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
SoundSourceDescriptionResource locationVolumePitch
PlayersWhile a player is eating somethingrandom.eat0.5-1.10.8-1.2
PlayersWhen a player finishes eating somethingrandom.burp0.50.9-1.0

Unique

Java Edition

Sounds
SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Berries popBlocksWhen sweet berries are picked by a playerblock.sweet_berry_bush.pick_berriessubtitles.item.berries.pick1.00.8-1.216
​Berries popBlocksWhen sweet berries are picked by a foxblock.sweet_berry_bush.pick_berriessubtitles.item.berries.pick1.01.016
​Player hurtsPlayersWhen a player is damaged by touching a sweet berry bushentity.player.hurt_sweet_berry_bushsubtitles.entity.player.hurt1.00.8-1.216

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
SoundSourceDescriptionResource locationVolumePitch
BlocksWhen sweet berries are pickedblock.sweet_berry_bush.pick1.01.0
BlocksWhen a player is damaged by touching a sweet berry bushblock.sweet_berry_bush.hurt1.01.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierFormBlock tagsItem tagsTranslation key
BlockSprite sweet-berry-bush.png: Sprite image for sweet-berry-bush in Minecraft Sweet Berry Bushsweet_berry_bushBlockazalea_log_replaceable
bee_growables
block.minecraft.sweet_berry_bush
ItemSprite sweet-berries.png: Sprite image for sweet-berries in Minecraft Sweet Berriessweet_berriesItemfox_fooditem.minecraft.sweet_berries

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID FormItem ID[i 1]Translation key
BlockSprite sweet-berry-bush.png: Sprite image for sweet-berry-bush in Minecraft Sweet Berry Bushsweet_berry_bush462Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]tile.sweet_berry_bush.name
ItemSprite sweet-berries.png: Sprite image for sweet-berries in Minecraft Sweet Berriessweet_berries287Itemitem.sweet_berries.name
  1. ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
  2. Unavailable with /give command
  3. The block's direct item form has the same ID as the block.

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name Default value Allowed values Description
age0 0BlockSprite sweet-berry-bush-1.png: Sprite image for sweet-berry-bush-1 in Minecraft Young plant
1BlockSprite sweet-berry-bush-2.png: Sprite image for sweet-berry-bush-2 in Minecraft No berries
2BlockSprite sweet-berry-bush-3.png: Sprite image for sweet-berry-bush-3 in Minecraft Some berries, using the bush gives 1–2 sweet berries and sets the age back to 1.
3BlockSprite sweet-berry-bush-4.png: Sprite image for sweet-berry-bush-4 in Minecraft Full berries, using the bush gives 2–3 sweet berries and sets the age back to 1.

Bedrock Edition:

NameMetadata Bits Default value Allowed valuesValues for
Metadata Bits
Description
growth0x10 00BlockSprite sweet-berry-bush-1.png: Sprite image for sweet-berry-bush-1 in Minecraft Young plant
11BlockSprite sweet-berry-bush-2.png: Sprite image for sweet-berry-bush-2 in Minecraft No berries
22BlockSprite sweet-berry-bush-3.png: Sprite image for sweet-berry-bush-3 in Minecraft Some berries, using the bush gives 1–2 sweet berries and sets the growth back to 2.
33BlockSprite sweet-berry-bush-4.png: Sprite image for sweet-berry-bush-4 in Minecraft Full berries, using the bush gives 2–3 sweet berries and sets the growth back to 2.


Advancements

IconAdvancementIn-game descriptionActual requirements (if different)
A Balanced DietEat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you Other foods and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.
HusbandryThe world is full of friends and foodConsume anything that can be consumed, except for cake.
The Parrots and the BatsBreed two animals together A mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs are ignored for this advancement.
Two by TwoBreed all the animals! A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.

History

There is an associated technical blocks page for the internal item form of this block; see Technical blocks/Sweet Berry Bush.
September 26, 2018 Berries are announced to be part of the biome vote at MINECON Earth 2018.
September 29, 2018Taiga wins the biome vote, meaning berries are to be added to the game first.
Java Edition
December 3, 2018Cojomax99 tweets an image of some berries.
1.1418w49a Added sweet berry bushes.
Added sweet berries.
18w50aSweet berries can now be found within taiga village loot chests.
19w03aPlacing a sweet berry into the new composter has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
Added sounds for sweet berry bushes.
19w05aSweet berries now have a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
The sound for planting sweet berries has been changed.
19w07aSweet berries can now be fed to foxes to breed them.
19w11aButcher villagers now buy 10 sweet berries for 1 emerald.
Sweet berries can now be planted by aiming at the side and underside of blocks rather than just on top of the block.[1]
Sweet berries can now replace replaceable blocks such as fire, snow or grass when planted.[2]
1.1519w34aBees can now pollinate sweet berry bushes.
Pre-Release 2Sweet berries now generate in giant tree taiga biomes.
1.16Pre-release 1Sweet berry bushes no longer prevent mob spawning inside them.
1.1721w20aThe sound event for picking berries has been changed as to align better with that of glow berries.[3]
1.181.18-pre5Sweet berry bushes in taigas are about 4 times more common than in previous snapshots.
1.20.223w32aSweet berries being eaten by foxes now emit a block_change vibration of frequency 11.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0
Experiment
Experimental Gameplay
beta 1.10.0.3 Added sweet berries, which are available only through Experimental Gameplay.
Added sweet berry bushes, available only through Experimental Gameplay.
1.11.0
Experiment
Experimental Gameplay
beta 1.11.0.1Sweet berries can now be used to fill composters.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.3Sweet berries and sweet berry bushes have been fully implemented and are now separate from Experimental Gameplay.
beta 1.11.0.4Sweet berries can now be sold to butcher villagers.
1.13.0beta 1.13.0.1Sweet berries can now be fed to foxes to breed them.
1.14.0beta 1.14.0.1Bees can now pollinate sweet berry bushes.
1.16.100beta 1.16.100.54Sweet berry bushes now properly damage entities.[4]
1.17.0beta 1.17.0.56Bees no longer gather nectar from sweet berry bushes.
1.19.10Preview 1.19.10.21Sweet berries can now be planted on rooted dirt, mud, and muddy mangrove roots.
1.19.40Preview 1.19.40.21Sweet berries can now be planted on farmland.
1.20.30Preview 1.20.20.21Decreased the hardness and blast resistance of sweet berry bushes from 0.2 to 0.
1.20.60Preview 1.20.60.25Bees no longer take damage when moving through sweet berry bushes.
1.20.70Preview 1.20.70.20Sweet berry bushes in their first growth stage now slow and damage entities moving through them.
1.20.80Preview 1.20.80.20Sweet berry bushes are now affected by Fortune.
1.21.20Preview 1.21.20.22Sweet berries can now be planted on coarse dirt.
1.21.60Preview 1.21.60.21Sweet berry bushes no longer appear mirrored when viewed from certain angles.[5]
Preview 1.21.60.23Sweet berry bushes now generate in old growth spruce taigas and old growth pine taigas.
Sweet berry bushes generate in larger patches in taigas.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.91 Added sweet berries.
Added sweet berry bushes.
Sweet berries can be used to fill composters.

Data history

Java Edition
1.1721w19aminecraft:sweet_berry_bush has been added to the newly-implemented #minecraft:mineable/axe block tag. This, however, has no effect in-game, since the block breaks instantly anyway regardless of tool used or active effects.
1.21.525w10aminecraft:sweet_berry_bush has been removed from the block tags #minecraft:mineable/axe and #minecraft:sword_efficient.

Issues

Issues relating to "Berry", "Berries", "Sweet berry", "Sweet berries", "Berry bush", or "Sweet berry bush" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

  • In Java Edition, sweet berry bushes absorb fall damage like water.[6]
  • Foxes harvest mature sweet berry bushes that have grown into their third or fourth stage. Unlike how carrots eaten by rabbits are destroyed and not dropped as items, sweet berry bushes harvested by foxes drop as items, although the fox may pick up one of the dropped berries. The bush remains intact, allowing for automatic sweet berry farms.

Gallery

Screenshots

References

  1. MC-140651
  2. MC-140625
  3. MC-220063
  4. MCPE-56142
  5. MCPE-40646 — Cross models are displayed wrongly from east and west sides — resolved as "Fixed".
  6. MC-149990 — resolved as "Works As Intended".

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