Pitcher Plant

For other uses, see Ancient.

Pitcher Plant

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	Yes
Catches fire from lava	Yes
Map color	7 PLANT
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

A pitcher plant is a tall ancient^[1] flower that grows from a pitcher pod.

Obtaining

Pitcher plants do not generate naturally and are obtained by growing a pitcher pod. Pitcher pods can be obtainted with a sniffer digging them up. Breaking a fully grown pitcher crop drops one pitcher plant. Unlike the other tall flowers, it is not possible to duplicate pitcher plants by applying bone meal on them.

Breaking

Pitcher plants can be broken instantly with any item or by hand.

A pitcher plant also breaks if water or lava runs over its location, if a piston extends or pushes a block into its location, or if a block under the plant is moved or destroyed.

Block	Pitcher 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

Usage

Like most flowers, pitcher plants can be used as decoration and planted on grass blocks, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, farmland, podzol, mycelium, moss blocks, mud, or muddy mangrove roots. Like other tall flowers, pitcher plants cannot be placed inside flower pots.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Cyan Dye	Pitcher Plant	2

Bees

Bees see player-placed pitcher plants as flowers, but they ignore fully grown pitcher crops.

Bees engage in a pollinating behavior with pitcher plants, increasing the honey level in beehives and bee nests by 1.

Breeding

Pitcher plants can be used to breed, grow, and lead bees.

Bee nests

Oak, birch, and cherry trees grown from saplings that are within 2 blocks of a pitcher plant have a 5% chance to grow with a bee nest and 2-3 bees in it.

Composting

Placing a pitcher plant into a composter has an 85% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Sounds

Java Edition:

crop sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.crop.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	0.9	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	item.crop.plant​[sound 1]​	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.45	varies [sound 2]	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.grass.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.grass.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.grass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

grass sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.grass	subtitles.block.generic.break​	0.7	0.8–1.0
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.grass	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.8	0.8–1.0
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.grass	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.3	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.3	1.0
	​Shovel flattens	Blocks	When a shovel creates a dirt path	use.grass	subtitles.item.shovel.flatten​	1.0	0.8
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.11	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.21	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Pitcher Plant	pitcher_plant	Block & Item	flowers	flowers	block.minecraft.pitcher_plant

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Pitcher Plant	pitcher_plant	867	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -612)	tile.pitcher_plant.name

Block states

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.20			23w12a				Added pitcher plants.
			23w14a				Pitcher plants are crafted into two units of cyan dye instead of one.
							Pitcher plant has been moved next to other large plants in the Creative inventory.
			23w16a				Pitcher plants are now flammable.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.20.0			Preview 1.20.0.20				Added pitcher plants.
							They only craft into one cyan dye currently.[2]
			Preview 1.20.0.22				Pitcher plants are crafted into two units of cyan dye instead of one.[2]
			Preview 1.20.0.23				Can no longer be reproduced using bone meal.
1.20.10			?				Pitcher plants again only produce one cyan dye when crafted.[3]
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.24				Pitcher plants are once again crafted into two units of cyan dye rather than only one.[3]
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.21				Pitcher plants now increase the probability of a nearby sapling to grow into a tree with a beehive.

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Pitcher Plant" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• While referred to by a generic name, the plant is meant to be a fictional species.^[4] They are loosely based on the real carnivorous plant of the same name, but with more of the look of "an orchid or something more ornamental".^[5]
• In-universe, pitcher plants taste peppery, acidic, and like spoiled cotton candy.^[6]

References