Tutorials Sugar cane farming

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Manual farming design

Sugar cane can be farmed manually by hitting every second (from the bottom up) block of mature sugar cane. Water and sugar cane can be placed, in different patterns.

A complex pattern of interspersed water blocks can get you about 80% efficiency (plants per block of farm), but harvesting it is somewhat difficult. Slabs, or especially lily pads and carpets, can be placed over the water to ease harvesting.

Long parallel rows between canals get roughly 65% efficiency, but are much easier to harvest. Also, you have a clear line of sight down the rows, making it much easier to check for lurking creepers or such.

Note that sugar cane needs to be next to water, but not necessarily a source block. Thus you can run 8-block long canals down 1-deep trenches, with source blocks only at the outer ends. 3 canals with 6 rows of cane can feed into a 2-deep canal (also 8 blocks long), which in turn feeds into a hopper. Cover the 2-deep trench with slabs, and one piece of fence over the hopper. This gives you a 9ℂₗ9 farm with 48 cane plants. Mirror this twice around the hopper, and you have a 17ℂₗ17 farm with 192 plants. Any cane you miss running down the rows will end up in the hopper, which you can get at through the fence.

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  This compact pattern allows planting four sugar cane per water block.

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  This pattern allows faster harvesting, since the player can run breaking every sugar cane in a row.

Videos

Compact farm

A very easy to follow and easy to make tutorial.

Semi-automatic farming design

A semi automatic farming design uses pistons, that break sugar cane and send the items to a collection point, where the player can gather it all, or a hopper for automatic gathering. Unlike the fully automatic design in the semi-automatic pistons are triggered by the player.

Water canal design

In the following design a row of pistons push the sugar cane to a water canal:

A redstone timer can also be attached to the pistons to make them push the sugarcane without having to manually perform the operation. It utilizes the same set up, but has an automatic mechanism attached, and with hoppers and a chest set up at the end of the water canal, the process can be fully automated with ease.

Water canal design without pistons (Pocket Edition)

In Minecraft Pocket Edition Pocket Edition Author(s) Mojang AB Jens Bergensten Aron Nieminen Daniel Kaplan Tommaso Checchi Shoghi Cervantes Jason Major Daniel Wustenhoff Tomas Alaeus Mikael "Slicedlime" Hedberg @@@#@@@Microsoft(microsoft.com)###@### Studios 1] Platform(s) Written in C++ 2] Latest version 1.1.2 , a semi-automated farm can be created using the fact that water rushing down next to Sugarcane causes it to "pop" and scatter. This Instructable shows how to build a simple farm based on this principle. This setup gives a 60 sugarcane post-replanting harvest with 2 rows of 15 plants. These farms can be combined to make 4 row or 8 row farms.

Tower design

Instead of using slow water canals to deliver the items to the player, gravity can be used for a much faster retrieval, building a vertical tower farm, as shown in the following video:

Fully automatic design

A fully automatic design unlike the semi-automatic ones is triggered automatically either by redstone clocks or block detector mechanisms.

Crazy no loss piston worm design

This design uses a lot less pistons, is fully automatic and picks up all of the drops. It can be a little bit unreliable, however.

Daylight sensor

This design is triggered once every Minecraft day (20 minutes of gameplay) with a daily pulse generator that uses a daylight sensor. The items are gathered by an array of hoppers and stored in chests. The design is stackable.

Hopper Timer

Using the same diamond shape idea Dataless showcased in his latest LP showcase, this gives you a lot of sugar cane.

Block detector

This design uses a block update detector (BUD) mechanism See the redstone circuit. For the block, see Observer. The Block Update Detector, or "BUD switch", is a redstone mechanism that uses quirks in the game in order to detect changes in that triggers the mechanism when a sugar cane farm grows to its full size. Items are gathered by flowing water and hoppers, that store them into chests. The design is stackable. The more BUDs placed the more sugar cane rate collection achieved, as the sugar cane where the BUD is placed can take much time to grow, while other ones may be fully grown and not generating any new sugar cane blocks.

Slime Block Flying Machine

This design uses a dual direction slime block flying machine to break the sugar cane. If you intend on making a large farm, you might want to consider one of these designs, because they severely cut down the amount of pistons you need compared to other farms its size.

For A Design That Is Completely Lossless And Uses Hopper Minecarts Watch This Video:

For A Design That Is Also Pretty Much Lossless And Uses Slime Blocks To Push The Sugar Cane Into Water Watch This Video:

Completely automated design

A dispenser Dispenser Type Block Requirements None Physics No Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 17.5 Hardness 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No First appearances See history Drops Dispenser (1) plus contents Block entity based clock can be fed via hopper Hopper Type Block Entity Physics No Transparency Partial (does not block light, mob spawning possible) Luminance No Blast resistance 24 Hardness 3 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No First appearances See History Drops (or dropper Dropper Type Solid Block Requirements ? Physics No Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 17.5 Hardness 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No First appearances See History Drops Dropper (1) plus contents Block , depending on vertical level) chain directly from the farm output. A comparator Redstone Comparator Transparency Yes Luminance No (7 when powered, in Pocket Edition) Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Redstone Comparator (1) Data values See Data values Name can be used to measure when the last hopper begins to fill with items, triggering a secondary chain of hoppers to feed further harvest into a chest for pickup. A T-flop can be used to trigger the farm every ten minutes, or a counter can be used to pick any increment of 5, for better efficiency. Note: A pulse limiter is needed between the T-flop or counter output and the farm pistons, else the pistons will simply stay in the extended position and inhibit growth.

80% efficiency farming

The following diagram shows a 12 by 8 farm, utilizing 61 sugar cane and 22 water blocks, with a perimeter walkway.

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While an odd-shaped 80% efficient farm is possible, this design sacrifices some efficiency (79.2% efficient in an 11x7 farm, not counting the walkway) for ease of maintenance by including a rectangle perimeter walkway around the farm. The water placed in the walkway is required for watering the immediately adjacent sugar cane. Lily pads can be placed on the water blocks for convenience; this does not interfere with the sugar cane`s growth.

Limitations and mitigation

The 80% efficiency design mentioned above has a limitation. When harvesting, it is easy to fall into the pools of water. The player must watch where they are going in order to ensure this does not happen. This can be solved by covering the water with either trapdoors, lily pads Lily Pad Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 111 hex: 6F bin: 1101111 Name waterlily The lily pad is a short, flat , slabs Slab Transparency Double slab: No Single slab: Partial (blocks light) Luminance No Blast resistance Wood: 15 Stone: 30 Tools Renewable Stone: Yes Wood: Yes (except Fake Wood) Cobblestone: Yes Stone Brick: Yes Purpur: Yes Quartz: , or carpet Carpet Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0.5 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Yes Drops Itself Data value dec: 171 hex: AB bin: 10101011 Name carpet Carpets are thin blocks which are mainly used .

Another limitation is lighting the design. There is currently no set location for lighting. With a larger design, mobs may spawn in the farm and interfere with harvesting or damage the structure. Glowstone Glowstone Transparency Yes Luminance 15 Blast resistance 1.5 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Glowstone Dust (2–4) Data value dec: 89 hex: 59 bin: 1011001 Name glowstone See the block. , a sea lantern Sea Lantern Transparency Yes Luminance 15 Blast resistance 1.5 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Prismarine Crystals (2–3) Data value dec: 169 hex: A9 bin: 10101001 Name PC: sea_lantern PE: sealantern Sea lanterns , or a jack o`lantern could be placed at the bottom of each pool of water to prevent this, mainly because glowstone and sea lanterns won`t stop emitting light when it`s submerged underwater.

The design can be modified to deal with these two limitations by placing glowstone or jack o`lanterns Jack o Lantern Transparency Partial (blocks light) Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 91 hex: 5B bin: 1011011 Name lit_pumpkin “ Jack-o -lanterns: great looks, super powers. above each pool of water, or above certain pools in a pattern which provides sufficient light. This also allows the farm to double as an oak tree farm, should the player need wood as opposed to sugar cane. Dirt or cobblestone would be placed above the other pools to prevent the player falling in while mining. If the player does not have access to glowstone, torches could be placed on top of dirt or cobblestone on each pool, with the disadvantage of being easily knocked while harvesting.

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  A dispenser clock will power everything for you

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  When the item disappears, a pulse is triggered.

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  The dispenser running out can be a problem, but the hopper solves the problem with a little work.

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  The clock gives off a pulse every 5 minutes. Sugar canes tend to take longer than that to reach full height.

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  To make it more efficient, put a repeater between the clock and harvest pistons, so it only goes off every 20 minutes.

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  The blocks in front of sticky pistons make it a little less likely that a piece of cane will be left on the sand instead of the water.

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  The water flow will feed the hoppers.

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  And the hoppers will feed the clock, so you don`t have to refill it.

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  When the clock is full, the last hopper in line will fill as well. A comparator can pick up that signal.

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  A hopper pulling from above, without being directly fed, will do nothing when receiving power from a torch.

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  Current caused by the last hopper in line filling up will let this one turn on and fill a chest. Come back when you need more cane and just pull it out. No waiting, no levers, no replanting, and no refilling the clock ever.

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