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Sweet Berries Guide

Quick snacks, fox food and a prickly trap.

Sweet berries surrounded by a fox spawn egg, bone meal, a spruce sapling and leather boots on podzol
Quick answer
  • Berry bushes grow in taiga and snowy taiga biomes.
  • Use a grown bush to pick berries without breaking it.
  • Walking through a bush slows you and hurts you.

Sweet berries are an easy early food, and the way to breed foxes.

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Where to find them

Look for small bushes with red dots in taiga forests. They're common, so you'll usually find a few.

Farming

  1. Plant berries on grass or dirt to grow a new bush.
  2. Use Bone meal to speed it up.
  3. Pick from the bush when it's covered in berries. It grows back.
2hunger points per berry

Foxes

Foxes love sweet berries. Feed two foxes berries to breed them, and the baby trusts you.

Thorns

Bushes slow anything moving through them and do damage. Use them around your base as a natural mob trap.

Watch your stepIt's easy to walk into one while running through a taiga at night.

Cheat sheet

  • Taiga biomes
  • Use the bush to pick
  • Breed foxes with them
  • Bushes slow and hurt

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