Minecraft:Cactus

Template:For Template:Infobox block Template:Relevant tutorial A cactus is a plant block found in deserts and badlands. It grows over time and can sprout cactus flowers. It damages Minecraft:mobs and destroys Minecraft:minecarts and dropped items that touch it.

Obtaining

Breaking

A cactus can be mined by hand without taking damage. The Minecraft:tool used to mine the cactus does not affect mining speed.<ref>Template:Bug</ref> Template:Breaking row If a cactus becomes unsupported (e.g., due to a Minecraft:block being placed next to it or its base removed), it breaks and drops as an Minecraft:item.

A cactus also removes and drops itself as an item if a Minecraft:piston tries to push it, or moves a block into its space. Trying to pull it with a sticky piston does nothing.

Using a Minecraft:sign on the side of a cactus causes both the sign and the cactus to drop as items.

Natural generation

Cacti naturally generate in desert and badlands biomes (twice more common in desert than in badlands). They generate as one (Template:Frac chance), two (Template:Frac chance), or three (Template:Frac chance) blocks tall. Rarely taller cacti can be found if generation chooses to generate another on top of one already generated (although not as commonly as sugar cane).

A potted cactus can also be found in an igloo with a basement. Potted cacti and 3 block cactus can also be found in some desert village buildings.

Cacti also have a Template:Frac (22.2%) chance to generate in the entrance chamber of trial chambers.

Mob loot

Endermen can pick up cacti. If an enderman is holding a cactus when it dies, the cactus will be dropped.

Trading

Wandering traders may sell 1 cactus for 3 Minecraft:emeralds. Template:Trade sources

Mob loot

Template:IN, wandering traders have a chance of 8.5% (increased by 1% per level of Looting) to drop 1 cactus when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an Minecraft:emerald.

Usage

A cactus block can be placed only on Minecraft:sand, red sand, suspicious sand, or another cactus block. A cactus breaks itself (and drops as an item) if any Minecraft:block with the legacy solid property, or Minecraft:lava, occupies any of the 4 horizontally adjacent blocks. It also breaks if on the sand and the block above is Minecraft:water or lava.

When most entities, including players and Minecraft:mobs, touch a cactus while moving, it deals Template:Hp damage every 10 ticks. Damage from touching a cactus is reduced by Minecraft:armor, and touching it also damages the armor. Mobs do not avoid cactus when they pathfind. Notably, armor stands are exempt from this.

A cactus destroys any Minecraft:items that come into contact with it, including other cactus in item form. Falling blocks such as Minecraft:sand and Minecraft:gravel are not destroyed when falling onto cactus; instead, they are transformed into item form (as happens when it falls into any block with a hitbox that has a height less than 1, such as Minecraft:slabs or Minecraft:buttons). The item created in this case is sometimes (though not always) destroyed by the cactus. The conversion to an item applies even when the falling block is a cactus (which is possible with Template:Cmd).

When a Minecraft:minecart hits a cactus block, the minecart drops as an item and is often destroyed, although a Minecraft:hopper can pick it up faster.

A cactus can also be placed in a flower pot, where it is harmless.

A cactus (excluding its spikes) is Template:Frac of a block in width (the same as Minecraft:chests) and a full block in height, however the collision box is Template:Frac of a block high.

Farming

Cacti naturally grow to a height of three blocks, adding a block of height when the top cactus block has received 16 random Minecraft:ticks (i.e. on average every 18 minutes, but the actual rate can vary very widely). Bone meal does not work on cacti to speed their growth.<ref>Template:Bug</ref><ref>Template:Bug</ref> A cactus does not need light to grow and is non-flammable. If a cactus has space directly above it, it grows even if the newly-grown block would immediately break due to adjacent blocks.

A cactus also has a chance to grow a cactus flower at any height. This happens after a cactus block has received exactly 9 random Minecraft:ticks (i.e. earlier than growing another cactus block)Template:Verify. If the cactus is 1 or 2 blocks tall the chance is 10%, at 3 or more blocks tall the chance is 25%. A cactus flower can only grow if there are no blocks in any cardinal direction adjacent to it. A cactus with a cactus flower can no longer grow. When the cactus flower is broken by a player, the cactus may grow taller but can't generate another cactus flower until it has grown at least 1 cactus block.

Smelting ingredient

Cactus provides the highest smelting XP of any farmable block in Java Edition. Template:Smelting Template:Smelting

Breeding

Cacti can be used to breed camels and reduce the remaining growth duration of baby camels by 10%. Camels also follow a player holding a cactus.

Composting

Placing a cactus into a Minecraft:composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Data values

ID

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History

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

• Until Beta 1.8, cacti were somewhat larger than other Minecraft:blocks when dropped.
  Until Beta 1.8, cacti were somewhat larger than other Minecraft:blocks when dropped.
• In older versions, endermen could place cacti on any block.
  In older versions, endermen could place cacti on any block.
• A cactus can survive in unusual locations using Template:Cmd). However, this no longer works since 1.16.Template:Verify
  A cactus can survive in unusual locations using Template:Cmd). However, this no longer works since 1.16.Template:Verify

Trivia

• Cacti can be placed in 1 block deep Minecraft:water, provided they are placed on Minecraft:sand, and they grow if they break the surface.
• Cacti can be placed next to Minecraft:saplings, but the cactus breaks when the tree grows.
• Endermen could move and place cacti. Thus, they can increase the cactus population in deserts by moving cactus blocks as they grow.
• Minecraft:Signs and Minecraft:paintings can be placed on the sides of cacti and behave as non-blocks, making them cause damage even though they are covering cacti.
• It is possible for cacti to generate on blocks other than sand due to terrain generation; refer to the gallery for examples.
• Cactus can be used in the desert to see if the player is in a newly generated area. If most of the cacti around the player is only one block high, then it is most likely new land.
• Dying from touching a cactus displays "[playername] was pricked to death" in the chat messages.
• Minecraft:Blocks can be placed on top of a cactus, including other cactus blocks.
• It is possible to place Minecraft:redstone next to a cactus block without destroying it.
• A 20 block tall cactus can be found on the seed 43931985876593125 at coordinates (-9711824 , ~ , 7726416) and more recently a 22 block tall one on seed 11343195073417814 at coordinates (14955936 , ~ , -3750655) and even a 23 block tall one on the seed 184693195438010998 and coordinates (16274576 ~ 10230656). All these seeds, found by the Minecraft@home research project, work on Java Edition 1.14.4.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
• Top snow can be placed next to cacti without breaking the cacti, no matter how many top snow layers stack.

Gallery

Screenshots

• Naturally generated cacti.
  Naturally generated cacti.
• Naturally occurring cacti in a badlands biome.
  Naturally occurring cacti in a badlands biome.
• The bottom of a cactus seen with the "floating cactus" bug.
  The bottom of a cactus seen with the "floating cactus" bug.
• Cacti floating in village garden.
  Cacti floating in village garden.
• A natural one block tall cactus.
  A natural one block tall cactus.
• A natural two block tall cactus.
  A natural two block tall cactus.
• A naturally occurring unusual four-block tall cactus.
  A naturally occurring unusual four-block tall cactus.
• A natural five block tall cactus.
  A natural five block tall cactus.
• A naturally occurring rare six-block tall cactus.
  A naturally occurring rare six-block tall cactus.
• A natural eight block tall cactus, extremely rare.
  A natural eight block tall cactus, extremely rare.
• A twelve-block tall cactus, extraordinarily rare.
  A twelve-block tall cactus, extraordinarily rare.
• A natural nineteen-block tall cactus.<ref>Template:Reddit2</ref>
  A natural nineteen-block tall cactus.<ref>Template:Reddit2</ref>
• A natural twenty block tall cactus.<ref>Template:Reddit2</ref>
  A natural twenty block tall cactus.<ref>Template:Reddit2</ref>
• A natural twenty-two block tall cactus, the second tallest known cactus.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
  A natural twenty-two block tall cactus, the second tallest known cactus.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Mojang screenshots

• A village surrounded by cacti.
  A village surrounded by cacti.
• Another five block cactus.
  Another five block cactus.

In other media

• A LEGO Cactus Knight minifigure.
  A LEGO Cactus Knight minifigure.
• Unique cacti in Minecraft:15 Year Journey
  Unique cacti in Minecraft:15 Year Journey
• A cactus ball as it appears in Minecraft:A Minecraft Movie Live Event
  A cactus ball as it appears in Minecraft:A Minecraft Movie Live Event
• Cacti as it appears in Ghast in the Machine!
  Cacti as it appears in Ghast in the Machine!

External links

• Template:Mcnet

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