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 |
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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 1⁄12 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 | |
- 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 | ||||
| Taiga house chest | 1–7 | 40.6%{ "item": "Sweet Berries", "stacksize": "1–7", "chance": 0.4058792240743314, "structure": "Village", "container": "Taiga house chest" }
| ||
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
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | |||
| 100% | 100% | 10 × | ||
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
sweet_berry_bush sound type | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 0.8 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block | subtitles | 0.8 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| Something falls on a block | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | subtitles | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 | |
sweet_berry_bush sound type | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
| Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | When the block is placed | block | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit | 0.25 | 0.5 | |
Item
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Eating | Players | While a player is eating something | entity | subtitles | varies [sound 1] | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Eating | Friendly Mobs | When a player finishes eating something | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.6-1.4 | 16 | |
| Burp | Players | When a player finishes eating something | entity | subtitles | 0.5 | 0.9-1.0 | 16 | |
- ↑ Can be 0.5, 1.0, or 1.5
| Sounds | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
| Players | While a player is eating something | random | 0.5-1.1 | 0.8-1.2 | |
| Players | When a player finishes eating something | random | 0.5 | 0.9-1.0 | |
Unique
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Berries pop | Blocks | When sweet berries are picked by a player | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Berries pop | Blocks | When sweet berries are picked by a fox | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Player hurts | Players | When a player is damaged by touching a sweet berry bush | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Sounds | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
| Blocks | When sweet berries are picked | block | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| Blocks | When a player is damaged by touching a sweet berry bush | block | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Block tags | Item tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
sweet_berry_bush | Block | azalea_log_replaceablebee_growables | — | block | |
sweet_berries | Item | — | fox_food | item |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
sweet_berry_bush | 462 | Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile | |
sweet_berries | 287 | Item | — | item |
Block states
| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| age | 0
| 0 | |
1 | |||
2 | |||
3 |
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| growth | 0x1 | 0
| 0 | 0 | |
1 | 1 | ||||
2 | 2 | ||||
3 | 3 |
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() | A Balanced Diet | Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you | Eat each of these 40 foods:
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![]() | Husbandry | The world is full of friends and food | Consume anything that can be consumed, except for cake. |
![]() | The Parrots and the Bats | Breed two animals together | Breed a pair of any of these 26 mobs:
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![]() | Two by Two | Breed all the animals! |
History
| September 26, 2018 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 29, 2018 | Taiga wins the biome vote, meaning berries are to be added to the game first. | ||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| December 3, 2018 | Cojomax99 tweets an image of some berries. | ||||||
| 1.14 | 18w49a | ||||||
| 18w50a | Sweet berries can now be found within taiga village loot chests. | ||||||
| 19w03a | Placing a sweet berry into the new composter has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1. | ||||||
| Added sounds for sweet berry bushes. | |||||||
| 19w05a | Sweet 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. | |||||||
| 19w07a | Sweet berries can now be fed to foxes to breed them. | ||||||
| 19w11a | Butcher 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] | |||||||
| 1.15 | 19w34a | Bees can now pollinate sweet berry bushes. | |||||
| Pre-Release 2 | Sweet berries now generate in giant tree taiga biomes. | ||||||
| 1.16 | Pre-release 1 | Sweet berry bushes no longer prevent mob spawning inside them. | |||||
| 1.17 | 21w20a | The sound event for picking berries has been changed as to align better with that of glow berries.[3] | |||||
| 1.18 | 1.18-pre5 | Sweet berry bushes in taigas are about 4 times more common than in previous snapshots. | |||||
| 1.20.2 | 23w32a | Sweet berries being eaten by foxes now emit a block_change vibration of frequency 11. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.10.0 Experiment | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||||
| 1.11.0 Experiment | beta 1.11.0.1 | Sweet berries can now be used to fill composters. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.3 | Sweet berries and sweet berry bushes have been fully implemented and are now separate from Experimental Gameplay. | |||||
| beta 1.11.0.4 | Sweet berries can now be sold to butcher villagers. | ||||||
| 1.13.0 | beta 1.13.0.1 | Sweet berries can now be fed to foxes to breed them. | |||||
| 1.14.0 | beta 1.14.0.1 | Bees can now pollinate sweet berry bushes. | |||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.54 | Sweet berry bushes now properly damage entities.[4] | |||||
| 1.17.0 | beta 1.17.0.56 | Bees no longer gather nectar from sweet berry bushes. | |||||
| 1.19.10 | Preview 1.19.10.21 | Sweet berries can now be planted on rooted dirt, mud, and muddy mangrove roots. | |||||
| 1.19.40 | Preview 1.19.40.21 | Sweet berries can now be planted on farmland. | |||||
| 1.20.30 | Preview 1.20.20.21 | Decreased the hardness and blast resistance of sweet berry bushes from 0.2 to 0. | |||||
| 1.20.60 | Preview 1.20.60.25 | Bees no longer take damage when moving through sweet berry bushes. | |||||
| 1.20.70 | Preview 1.20.70.20 | Sweet berry bushes in their first growth stage now slow and damage entities moving through them. | |||||
| 1.20.80 | Preview 1.20.80.20 | Sweet berry bushes are now affected by Fortune. | |||||
| 1.21.20 | Preview 1.21.20.22 | Sweet berries can now be planted on coarse dirt. | |||||
| 1.21.60 | Preview 1.21.60.21 | Sweet berry bushes no longer appear mirrored when viewed from certain angles.[5] | |||||
| Preview 1.21.60.23 | Sweet 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 | |||||||
| Sweet berries can be used to fill composters. | |||||||
Data history
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.17 | 21w19a | minecraft: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. | |||||
| 1.21.5 | 25w10a | minecraft: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
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A close-up look of a sweet berry bush. -
A naturally generated sweet berry bush. -
Multiple bushes of sweet berries in Taiga biome. -
A berry bush that is close to a ravine. -
Berry bushes near a cozy cabin.
References
External links
- Taking Inventory: Sweet Berries – Minecraft.net on November 4, 2021
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