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Sweet Berries

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

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

Obtaining

Breaking

See also: Fortune § Discrete random

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.

Natural generation

Berry bushes commonly generate in taiga and snowy taiga biomes. Each chunk has 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.

Chest loot

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

Post-generation

Sweet berries can be collected from a sweet berry bush by using or breaking it, which yield 1–2 sweet berries in its third growth stage, and 2–3 sweet berries in its final growth stage.

Usage

Placement

Placing sweet berries on a grass block, dirt, podzol, coarse dirt, farmland‌[Java Edition only], or moss block 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. Using bone meal on it increases its growth stage by one, and at full maturity, ejects the sweet berry item. The bush can be placed on a 1 block high space, but it cannot grow with a full, non-transparent block immediately above it.

Food

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

Master-level butcher villagers offer to buy 10 sweet berries for an 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 1♥ damage every 0.5 seconds, 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 15% 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 pollinate sweet berry bushes, and then increase the honey level in beehives and bee nests by 1.‌[Java Edition only]

Sounds

Generic

Block

Java Edition:

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
None[sound 1]Entity-DependentFalling on the block with fall damageblock.grass.fallNone[sound 1]0.50.7516
FootstepsEntity-DependentWalking on the blockblock.grass.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps0.151.016
  1. ↑ a b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

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:

SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
EatingPlayersWhile a player is eating somethingentity.generic.eatsubtitles.entity.generic.eatvaries [sound 1]0.8-1.216
EatingFriendly CreaturesWhen 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:

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:

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:

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
Sweet Berry Bushsweet_berry_bushBlockazalea_log_replaceable
bee_growables		—block.minecraft.sweet_berry_bush
Sweet Berriessweet_berriesItem—fox_fooditem.minecraft.sweet_berries

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID FormItem ID[i 1]Translation key
Sweet Berry Bushsweet_berry_bush462Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]tile.sweet_berry_bush.name
Sweet Berriessweet_berries287Item—item.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 0 Young plant
1 No berries
2 Some berries, using the bush gives 1–2 sweet berries and sets the age back to 1.
3 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
growth0x1
0x2
0x4		0 0
1		0
1		 Young plant
2
3		2
3		 No berries
4
5
6		4
5
6		 Some berries, using the bush gives 1–2 sweet berries and sets the growth back to 2.
77 Full berries, using the bush gives 2–3 sweet berries and sets the growth back to 2.

Advancements

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Resource location
Advancement-plain-raw
Husbandry
The world is full of friends and food —Consume anything that can be consumed.husbandry/root
Advancement-plain-raw
The Parrots and the Bats
Breed two animals together HusbandryBreed a pair of any of these 25 mobs:
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.		husbandry/breed_an_animal
Advancement-fancy-raw
Two by Two
Breed all the animals! The Parrots and the BatsBreed a pair of each of these 25 mobs:
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.		husbandry/bred_all_animals
Advancement-fancy-raw
A Balanced Diet
Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you A Seedy PlaceEat each of these 40 foods:
Other foods and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.		husbandry/balanced_diet

History

September 26, 2018Berries 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 Sweet Berry Bush Age 0 JE1 BE1 Sweet Berry Bush Age 1 JE1 BE1 Sweet Berry Bush Age 2 JE1 BE1 Sweet Berry Bush Age 3 JE1 BE1 Added sweet berry bushes.
Sweet Berries JE1 BE1 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 sweet berries.
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.[1]
1.181.18-pre5Sweet berry bushes in taigas are about 4 times more common than in previous snapshots.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3 Sweet Berries JE1 BE1 Added sweet berries, which are available only through Experimental Gameplay.
Sweet Berry Bush Age 0 JE1 BE1 Sweet Berry Bush Age 1 JE1 BE1 Sweet Berry Bush Age 2 JE1 BE1 Sweet Berry Bush Age 3 JE1 BE1 Added sweet berry bushes, available only through Experimental Gameplay.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.1Sweet berries can now be used to fill composters.
beta 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.[2]
1.17.0beta 1.17.0.56Bees no longer gather nectar from sweet berry bushes.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.91 Sweet Berries JE1 BE1 Added sweet berries.
Sweet Berry Bush Age 0 JE1 BE1 Sweet Berry Bush Age 1 JE1 BE1 Sweet Berry Bush Age 2 JE1 BE1 Sweet Berry Bush Age 3 JE1 BE1 Added sweet berry bushes.

Sweet berry bush "item"

The following content is transcluded from Technical blocks/Sweet Berry Bush.
Bedrock Edition
?Sweet berry bushes exist as an item.
Despite their sprite, they cannot be eaten, and do not stack with actual berries.

Appearances

Bedrock Edition
? Sweet Berries JE1 BE1 Sweet berry bushes use this texture.[3]

Names

Bedrock Edition
  • ? - ?: Sweet Berry Bush

Issues

Issues relating to "Berry", "Berries", "Sweet berry", "Sweet berries", "Berry bush", or "Sweet berry bush" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

  • In Java Edition, sweet berry bushes absorb fall damage like water.[4]
  • 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.

References

  1. ↑ MC-220063
  2. ↑ MCPE-56142
  3. ↑ https://youtu.be/2UUX5gJdf2A&t=6m25s
  4. ↑ MC-149990 — resolved as "Works As Intended".
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