Game mechanic
Sugar Cane Growth
Sugar Cane grows one block taller after 16 random ticks, up to 3 blocks high, and needs water beside the block it stands on.
Rules
| Growth timing | Sugar Cane grows on random ticks: at random moments, on average once every 68.27 seconds per block at the default random tick speed of 3. The top block needs 16 of them to add a new block above. |
| Average time | 16 random ticks take about 18 minutes (1,092 seconds) on average. |
| Height limit | Sugar Cane grows by itself until the column is 3 blocks tall. A taller column built by hand does not grow further. |
| Space above | The block above the top Sugar Cane must be air for it to grow. |
| Planted on | Coarse Dirt, Dirt, Grass Block, Moss Block, Mud, Muddy Mangrove Roots, Mycelium, Pale Moss Block, Podzol, Red Sand, Rooted Dirt, Sand, Suspicious Sand, or another Sugar Cane. |
| Water needed | The block the bottom Sugar Cane stands on must have water or Frosted Ice directly beside it on at least 1 of its 4 sides. |
| Breaks when | Sugar Cane breaks and drops as an item when the block under it or the water beside that block is removed. |
