How To Place Sugar Cane In Minecraft

Farming sugar cane is quite piece of cake, though the requirements of sugar cane to grow can make it a fleck catchy to increase our land use efficiency. Nevertheless, at that place are a few ways with which you can plant as many sugar cane in small plots of land as possible.

At that place are 2 things nosotros have to keep in mind. The starting time is that sugar pikestaff tin only grow on sand, dirt or grass blocks directly adjacent to a water cake, diagonally doesn't count. Secondly, for carbohydrate cane to grow up to 3 blocks loftier, no other blocks tin can exist placed upwards to iv blocks to a higher place the ground. Sugar cane volition never grow against the bottom of a block.

Taking this into account there are a few builds you can make. The first one is shown below, which uses as fiddling water blocks equally possible, while nonetheless creating a foursquare shape. This size is as small as you can go, other sizes will have empty spots.

However, this size is also the only size which you can utilise to create bigger versions, which will always be a few of these squares side by side to each other. So a 6×half dozen foursquare isn't really possible, but an 8×viii square is, as you but place four of the 4×4 squares adjacent to each other.

This method gives the states a land use efficiency of 75%, but nosotros can do better than that, a lot better. While the post-obit method isn't the most harvest friendly method, information technology is the most land efficient method out there. And then if you lot're curt on space, for example when y'all're doing a custom challenge or when yous're using a plugin like Towny, this setup can be perfect to maximize the amount of carbohydrate cane yous can farm on small plots of state.

As you lot can see in the paradigm above, we managed to grow 8 sugar canes on a 3×3 plot by simply dropping water from a college spot. Note that the water flows under the 4 elevated grass blocks to make sure the lower sugar canes likewise become some water.

It'due south perfectly fine to lower 2 of those blocks opposite to each other, and so only two blocks are elevated. This allows for easier harvestable rows of sugar cane to be created, as you won't have to jump every 2 blocks. Instead you tin just walk frontwards and dial everything.

(Semi-)Automatic farm

It's incredibily piece of cake to create a (semi-)automated sugar cane subcontract. All y'all need is a row of pistons and a row of sugar cane.

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As you lot can see in the prototype above, pistons are placed 1 block above the base of our sugar pikestaff. Whenever we feel like harvesting our sugar pikestaff, we but pull the lever and information technology'll pop out all the sugar canes higher up the 1 block base. Most of the sugar canes will drop into the water, which will carry information technology with the electric current to whatever collection spot you want.

Some carbohydrate cane will drop onto the sugar cane base, which is perfect considering nosotros tin can so simply push it off again with our pistons. This way all sugar cane volition fall into the water, with the exception of mayhap 1 or 2 every now and then who manage to fall on the edge of the grass blocks.

To make your farm fully automatic, all you have to do is add a timer between each input. You could do this with redstone clocks. Ane effective clock would exist a despawn clock, which uses the five minute despawn time of blocks with wooden pressure plates, to send a signal once every v minutes, past only calculation a signal inverter between the pressure plate and whatever it has to be connected to.