Sugar Cane - Minecraft Block Guide | Properties, Recipe & Uses (2025)

What is Sugar Cane in Minecraft?

Sugar cane, also known as reeds, is a tall, green plant that grows near water. It looks like a thin stalk of bamboo. Its main purpose is to be a key crafting ingredient for two very important items: paper and sugar. Paper is used to make books, which are essential for enchanting, and maps, which are great for exploring. Sugar is used to make a variety of food items, like cake and pumpkin pie, and is also used in brewing to make potions of swiftness. Sugar cane is a fundamental crop for any player who wants to get into enchanting, exploring, or brewing.

How to get Sugar Cane in Minecraft

The only way to get sugar cane is to find it. It cannot be crafted. Sugar cane generates naturally near water in most Overworld biomes. You will find it growing on dirt, grass, or sand blocks that are directly next to a water block. It can grow up to three blocks tall naturally. To collect it, you can simply break it with your hand or any tool. When you break a stalk of sugar cane, all the blocks above it will also break and drop as items. This makes harvesting it very easy.

How to use Sugar Cane in Minecraft

The main use for sugar cane is for crafting and farming. To craft paper, you need to place three sugar cane items in a horizontal row in a crafting table. This will give you three pieces of paper. To craft sugar, you just need to place one sugar cane in a crafting grid, which will give you one piece of sugar. To farm sugar cane, you need to plant it on a dirt or sand block that is right next to water. It will slowly grow up to three blocks tall. For the most efficient farm, you only need to break the top two blocks of the stalk, leaving the bottom one to regrow. This way, you never have to replant it.

How to craft Sugar Cane in Minecraft

No recipes for this block.

What can Sugar Cane make in Minecraft

Paper

Sugar

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How This All Started

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