Cactus

block Plants

/give @p cactus 1

What Is Cactus in Minecraft?

Cactus is a tall, spiky green plant found in deserts and badlands. It damages anything that touches its sides - making it useful for mob traps. It can also be smelted into Green Dye.

How Does Cactus Work?

Any mob or player touching the sides of a cactus takes 1 damage per half-second.
It can only be placed on Sand or Red Sand.
It grows up to 3 blocks tall naturally. Using Bone Meal does not speed this up.
A cactus block will break if a solid block or another block is placed directly beside it.
Breaks instantly by hand or any tool, always dropping itself.
Items that land on top of a cactus are destroyed.

How to Get Cactus

How to Find Cactus

Grows naturally in desert and badlands biomes.

How to Collect Cactus

Any tool or your hand works - it always drops itself when broken.
Breaking the bottom block of a stack causes all blocks above it to drop as items.

Cactus Trading with Villagers and Wandering Traders

Wandering Trader: Yes
Emerald Price: 3 emeralds for 1 (Wandering Trader)
Villager Trading: No

How to Use Cactus

Using Cactus

Smelt it in a Furnace to produce Green Dye (one Cactus = one Green Dye).
Build mob traps and grinder funnels using cactus walls to damage mobs.
Use it as a natural perimeter fence in desert builds - mobs avoid touching it.
Stack it on sand in a farm with water channels to auto-break and collect the drops.

Cactus Tips

Items that touch a cactus are destroyed - do not drop items onto it accidentally.
A solid block placed next to a cactus will cause it to break and drop, useful for automatic farms.

Cactus Properties

Hardness: 0.4
Blast Resistance: 0.4
Tool: —
Silk Touch: No
Fortune: No
Light Level: 0
Flammable: No
Transparent: Yes
Gravity: No
Waterloggable: No
Stack Size: 64

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