Description
Bamboo is a tall grassy plant that grows in dense stands and gives a very distinctive look to jungles and bamboo forests. It grows quickly and can reach many blocks high making it useful for creating natural screens garden borders and scaffolding like structures. Bamboo is renewable and easy to farm because you can plant one piece and wait for it to grow or use bone meal to make it grow faster. Players use bamboo for crafting sticks which are a basic resource for tools and torches and for making scaffolding which helps build tall structures safely and quickly. Bamboo also has practical uses in farms and mob traps because its growth pattern interacts with game mechanics in predictable ways. For builders who want a tropical natural or rustic feel bamboo provides a vertical accent that works well with leaves water features and simple wood items. Collecting bamboo is fast and it is forgiving for beginners who want a close to home wood source without long journeys to find trees. In creative mode bamboo is available straight from the inventory and in survival mode it is commonly found in jungles and bamboo forests where it forms dense groves that can be harvested and replanted for a steady supply.
What is Bamboo?
Bamboo is a plant that grows tall and straight and is used as a building and crafting resource. It produces bamboo blocks and can be used to craft scaffolding sticks and decorative items. As a crop it is easy to grow and harvest which makes it a reliable resource for many projects.
Where to find Bamboo
Bamboo grows naturally in jungle and bamboo forest biomes where it forms dense groves. You will often see large clusters near water and on the edges of jungle terrain. These biomes are the main source of bamboo and they give the landscape a lush vertical character that is useful for gathering large amounts of plant material quickly.
How to get Bamboo
To get bamboo break the plant where it grows and collect the bamboo pieces. You can also find bamboo in chests in some structures and in creative mode it is available from the inventory. For steady supply plant bamboo in rows and wait for it to grow or use bone meal to speed growth and harvest regularly to encourage new shoots.
Release Information
First introduced: Added in Minecraft Java Edition 1.14 in 2019
Give Command
/give @p minecraft:bamboo 1
How to use Bamboo
Use bamboo as a decorative plant to make dense hedges screens and natural fences. Craft bamboo into sticks and scaffolding blocks which are useful for building tall structures and for safely climbing to high places. Use bamboo in farms and decoration to add a tropical feel and combine with bamboo wood items for a unified look in builds.
Recipes for Bamboo
This item cannot be crafted.
