How to Make an Automatic Sugarcane in Minecraft

This instructable will teach you how to make an automatic sugarcane farm in Minecraft. This works in all versions of Minecraft. The sugar cane farm also has a storage system with it. This is a very simple design and isn't the most efficient but it's a great start especially those with little red stone knowledge.

Supplies Needed:

- Any number of building blocks to build around and support the farm

- 8x red stone dust

- 6x pistons

- 6x observers

- 6x sugar cane

- 6x sand

- 10x hoppers

- 2x chests

- water bucket

- A device that can play Minecraft such as Xbox, PlayStation, PC, Phone, and Switch (Obviously)

Sugarcane can be found naturally next to water blocks. it can be on any of the following blocks (when adjacent to a water block)

- Sand (found on beeches, underwater, and in deserts)

- Red Sand (Found in Mesa Biomes)

- Dirt (Any biome that isn't desert)

- Coarse Dirt (Can be crafted with 4 dirt arranged 2x2 in the crafting menu. Can also be found in mega taiga, mesa, and savannah biomes)

- Grass (Every biome that isn't a desert or mesa)

- Podzol (Can be found in a jungle biome; however, you need a silk touch enchantment to mine it)

Sugar Cane is used in crafting items such as paper and sugar. Paper and sugar are essential for crafting items such as books, rockets, fire works, cake, pumpkin pie, and more. Having a sugar cane farm running in the background early on in your game will make the game much easier for you.

-I used red sand for my farm. behind the red sand I have upside down polished andesite stairs.

-I did this because stairs can be water logged meaning that they can share the block with water so sugar cane will still grow next to it, it also helps blend in the water into your pre existing build!

-Place the 6 sand in a line like up above. place stairs upside down against the sand by pointing the cursor at the top of the block of sand.

-Then surround the sand and stairs with a block of your choice like I did above.

- Next place blocks along everything except the sand place 6 pistons on top of the blocks behind the red sand when the sugar cane it should line up with the second level of the sugar cane when it grows.

- On top of those pistons place observers with the eyes facing the sugar cane.

- On the one side of the piston place a red stone dust.

- Behind the pistons place a a line of blocks the length of the farm. The line of blocks should be 8 long.

- The line of blocks will hit the red stone dust placed next to the piston. Place red stone dust along the line of blocks you just made. Use the images above for reference.

- It will create a line of red stone dust that will go behind each observer and then go down one block so that the red stone dust is adjacent to the piston.

- When the sugar cane hits the 3rd and final growth stage it will hit the observer. The observer sends a signal to the dust which then powers all the pistons thus destroying the sugar cane.

Now you have an automatic sugar cane farm but nothing to collect it and store it with.

-Place hoppers in front of the red sand (or whatever block you chose to put the sugar cane on) so that they create a chain into a chest. (To place hoppers into each other you can crouch and place it against the next hopper until you get to your desired location for your chest.)

-Make sure the hopper loop/chain goes along the sand so when the sugar cane is harvested it goes into the loop that feeds into the chest. Hoppers funnel items into each other until they hit a storage device like a chest, barrel, or shulker box.

- This farm is quite small so you don't need to make a really nice storage system, you could just have 6 hoppers that feed into their own chest as opposed to having a line of 10 that feed into one chest like mine above.

This is a very basic farm and can be made much much larger with this same design. It's really simple to build and is a good starter farm. The way it works is basically observers will detect a change with the side that looks sort of like a face (in this case the sugar cane's 3rd growth stage triggers the observer). The observer then outputs a red stone signal. The red stone signal is then carried by the red stone dust behind the observers and adjacent to the one piston. Since that one piston is next to the powered red stone dust it powers the pistons thus pushing the piston outward which breaks the sugar cane. The sugar cane then falls into the hoppers which then will feed into a chest ready for the player to grab.