Bamboo

Obtaining and breaking Bamboo

• Any suitable tool is the recorded preferred tool for Bamboo; other tools may be slower or affect what is collected.
• Its recorded hardness is 1. Compare this with the blast resistance value when deciding whether the concern is mining time or explosion survival.

What to use Bamboo for

3 current recipe relationships are recorded for Bamboo. These links include recipes that produce the block and recipes that consume it as an ingredient.

• Ingredient for Block of Bamboo.
• Ingredient for Scaffolding.
• Ingredient for Stick.
• Bamboo is used by 3 recorded recipes, including Block of Bamboo, Scaffolding, Stick.
• One full inventory stack holds 64 Bamboo blocks; 27 full stacks fill a single chest or shulker-box-sized inventory with 1728 blocks.

• Block of Bamboo Recipe has 1 current variant.
• Scaffolding Recipe has 2 current variants.
• Stick Recipe has 18 current variants.

Build and technical notes

• Bamboo is a plants & natural growth block identified as minecraft:bamboo. Its material, collision, light and recipe relationships below are the useful details for building, survival collection and commands.
• The recorded collision shape is “block”. Collision is a gameplay property, so do not infer it only from the block's visible model.
• Java data contains 12 block-state combinations for Bamboo. Commands that need one exact orientation or state must specify properties separately from the base ID.
• Its recorded blast resistance is 1; this is separate from hardness and should be used for explosion-risk comparisons.

Java and Bedrock differences

• Bamboo exists in both tracked editions. Java uses minecraft:bamboo; Bedrock uses minecraft:bamboo.
• The available hardness, blast-resistance and preferred-tool records do not show a cross-edition conflict for this block.

Command and version data

/give @p minecraft:bamboo 64

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