Glow Berries

"Cave Vines" redirects here. For the feature, see Cave Vines (feature). For the plant that grows on walls in caves, see Glow Lichen.

Glow Berries

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Consumption time	32 game ticks (1.6 seconds)
Hunger	2 ()
Saturation	0.4 ()
Saturation boost‌[JE only]	Heals: 0.267HP × 0.1335 Duration: 0.133 seconds
Always consumable	No
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	Yes (14) (with berries)
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	Yes
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	7 PLANT
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

Glow berries are a food item obtained from cave vines and can be used to plant them.

Cave vines are a climbable plant that hangs off ceilings and grows glow berries. Cave vines with glow berries produce light.

Obtaining

Breaking

A cave vine can be broken by hand or with any tool, yielding one unit of glow berries if the vine has berries or nothing when it does not. This is not affected by Fortune. A cave vine also breaks if its support block is removed, if water runs over its location, or if a piston extends or pushes a block into its location, yielding the same drops as if broken by a player.

Block	Cave Vines Cave Vines Plant
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Harvesting

One unit of glow berries can also be collected from cave vines bearing berries without breaking the plant. This is done by pressing the use control on the vine, either by hand or while holding any item.

Natural generation

Cave vines can be found in lush caves, hanging from the ceilings of the caves.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Glow Berries	Mineshaft	Chest not located in a sulfur cave	3–6	38.7% { "item": "Glow Berries", "stacksize": "3–6", "chance": 0.38688472290717413, "structure": "Mineshaft", "container": "Chest not located in a sulfur cave" }
	Ancient City	Chest	1–15	23.7% { "item": "Glow Berries", "stacksize": "1–15", "chance": 0.23725332720231262, "structure": "Ancient City", "container": "Chest" }
	Mineshaft	Chest located in a sulfur cave	3–6	38.7% { "item": "Glow Berries", "stacksize": "3–6", "chance": 0.38688472290717413, "structure": "Mineshaft", "container": "Chest located in a [[sulfur cave]]" }
	Trial Chambers	Supply chest	2–10	37.3% { "item": "Glow Berries", "stacksize": "2–10", "chance": 0.37281466804405383, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Supply chest" }

Usage

Placement

Glow berries can be placed on and grown from the bottom of most blocks (any block whose bottom face covers the bottom of the entire block). They can also be placed on the bottom of a cave vine, extending the stack of vines by 1 block. They have no specific lighting requirements.

Growth

Placing glow berries on the bottom of a block creates a cave vine that grows downward one block at a time when random-ticked. There is a 10% chance of growing on random tick. At default random tick speed, a cave vine grows approximately every 13653 game ticks (11.3775 minutes). When the vine grows, the age value of the bottom-most block is increased by 1. Cave vines stop growing once they reach the floor (any non-air block) or when the bottom-most block reaches an age block state of 25, whichever is first, so a new vine block can grow up to 25 - age blocks further. Cave vines also stop growing if shears are used on the bottom block of the stack.

Using bone meal on a cave vine block does not grow a new vine block, unlike kelp, twisting vines or weeping vines.

Normally, glow berries placed on the underside of a block will grow downward, with the chance of the new block being a glow berry (vs. just another vine block). The block placed under the block is always a vine block. However, occasionally, these vine blocks (attached to the underside of other blocks) will convert to being a glow berry block. It is unknown whether this effect requires that there is no vine segments attached to the underside of this top-level vine block.

Farming

Each newly-grown cave vine block has an 11% chance of bearing glow berries. Therefore, cave vines have a 1.1% chance of growing a berry-bearing vine when random-ticked, at an interval of approximately 124121 game ticks (103.434 minutes) at default random tick speed. Glow berries naturally grow only on a newly produced cave vine; existing cave vines blocks do not naturally grow berries over time, unlike sweet berry bushes.

Using bone meal on any block of a cave vine causes it to grow glow berries, if it was not already bearing them. Bees that carry pollen can also fertilize a cave vine block and grow berries in the block they fly over.

Food

To eat glow berries, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores 2 () hunger and 0.4‌^{[JE only]} / 1.2‌^{[BE only]} hunger saturation, like sweet berries.

Climbing

Cave vines can be climbed by standing in them and holding the jump key. If there is a solid block behind the cave vines, the walk forward key can also be used.

Light

When bearing glow berries, cave vines give off a light level of 14.

Composting

Placing glow berries into a composter by using them on it has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Breeding

Glow berries can be fed to foxes to breed them.

Glow berries can be used on baby foxes to reduce the time until they grow by 10%.

Sounds

Glow berries

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Cave vines

Generic

Java Edition:

cave_vines sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.cave_vines.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.cave_vines.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	Not normally encounterable[sound 1]	block.cave_vines.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.cave_vines.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.cave_vines.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

cave_vines sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​ ?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.cave_vines	​ ?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.cave_vines	​ ?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken​	hit.cave_vines	​ ?	0.3	0.5
	​ ?	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.cave_vines	​ ?	0.4	1.0
	​ ?	Players	Walking on the block	step.cave_vines	​ ?	0.3	1.0
	​ ?	Players	Jumping from the block	jump.cave_vines	​ ?	0.12	1.0
	​ ?	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.cave_vines	​ ?	0.22	1.0

Unique

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Cave Vines	cave_vines	Block	mineable/axe bee_growables cave_vines climbable sword_efficient	—	block.minecraft.cave_vines
Cave Vines Plant	cave_vines_plant	Block	mineable/axe bee_growables cave_vines climbable sword_efficient	—	block.minecraft.cave_vines_plant
Glow Berries	glow_berries	Item	—	fox_food	item.minecraft.glow_berries

Cave vines with the cave-vines ID are always the lowest, bottom-most block in a sequence, and have an age attribute to continue growing.

Cave vines with the cave-vines-plant ID instead make up the rest of a sequence of cave vines, but do not have an age attribute.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Cave Vines	cave_vines	577	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -322)	tile.cave_vines.name
Cave Vines Body With Berries	cave_vines_body_with_berries	630	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -375)	tile.cave_vines_body_with_berries.name
Cave Vines Head With Berries	cave_vines_head_with_berries	631	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -376)	tile.cave_vines_head_with_berries.name
Glow Berries	glow_berries	825	Item	—	item.glow_berries.name

Block states

Java Edition:
Cave Vines:

Cave Vines Plant:

Bedrock Edition:
Cave Vines, Cave Vines Body With Berries, Cave Vines Head With Berries:

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	Consume anything that can be consumed, except for cake.
	A Balanced Diet	Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you	Eat each of these 40 foods: Apple Baked Potato Beetroot Beetroot Soup Bread Carrot Chorus Fruit Cooked Chicken Cooked Cod Cooked Mutton Cooked Porkchop Cooked Rabbit Cooked Salmon Cookie Dried Kelp Enchanted Golden Apple Glow Berries Golden Apple Golden Carrot Honey Bottle Melon Slice Mushroom Stew Poisonous Potato Potato Pufferfish Pumpkin Pie Rabbit Stew Raw Beef Raw Chicken Raw Cod Raw Mutton Raw Porkchop Raw Rabbit Raw Salmon Rotten Flesh Spider Eye Steak Suspicious Stew Sweet Berries Tropical Fish Other foods and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.

History

Announcement

October 3, 2020							Cave vines (named as glow berries) are shown as part of lush caves at Minecraft Live 2020.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.17			21w05a				Added glow berries.
							Added cave vines.
							Added the texture for root vines in the game files, an early design for cave vines.[1]
			21w11a				Renamed from "cave vines head" and "cave vines body" to "cave vines" and "cave vines plant", respectively.
							The IDs have also changed.
							Cave vines now always give 14 light, regardless of the type of part.
							Now slow down the player.
							Can now be climbed.
			21w13a				Glow berries now generate as loot in mineshaft chest minecarts.
			21w16a				Removed the texture for root vines.[2]
1.18			Experimental Snapshot 1				With the implementation of cave biomes including lush caves, caves vines can now generate in normal worlds.
			21w37a				Cave vines stop growing if shears are used on the tip.
			21w41a				Changed cave vines plant texture.
1.19			22w13a				Glow berries may now be found in ancient city chests.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w45a				Glow berries can now be found in trial chamber supply chests and obtained from trial spawners.
1.20.5 Experiment Update 1.21			24w13a				Glow berries can no longer be obtained from trial spawners.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.16.220 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.16.220.52				Added glow berries behind the "Caves and Cliffs" experimental toggle.
							Added cave vines.
1.17.0 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.16.230.54				Glow berries now generate as loot in mineshaft chest minecarts.
1.17.0			beta 1.17.0.52				Glow berries are now available without enabling experimental gameplay.
1.17.20			beta 1.17.20.20				Cave Vines can now be pollinated by bees.
1.18.10			beta 1.18.10.20				Changed cave vines plant texture.
1.19.20			Preview 1.19.20.20				Cave vines can now be destroyed by ravagers.
1.20.70			Preview 1.20.70.22				Cave vines that are not currently bearing berries no long drop glow berries when mined using Silk Touch.
1.20.60 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.60.20				Glow berries can now be found in trial chamber supply chests and obtained from trial spawners.
1.21.0 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.21.0.20				Glow berries can no longer be obtained from trial spawners.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.21				Cave vines now stop growing if shears are used on the tip.

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Glow Berries" or "Cave Vines" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Renders

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  A possible pattern of the cave vines at age 2
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  Another pattern of the cave vines at age 2

Mojang screenshots

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  Concept art for the lush caves and vegetation including glow berries
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  A view of the lush caves with glow berries from Minecraft Live 2020
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  Lush cave in MINECON
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  A view of the lush caves with glow berries, tweeted by LadyAgnes
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  Another view of the lush caves with glow berries, in an interview with LadyAgnes
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  A fox under a glow berry vine
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  Blue Berries

In other media

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  A glow berry illustration on a pot in A Minecraft Movie

References