How to Get and Use Sugar in Minecraft

Sugar is crafted from sugarcane. Here’s a step-by-step guide to obtaining it:

1. Find Sugarcane
   Sugarcane can be found near water—usually along the shores of rivers, lakes, or oceans. It’s easy to spot by its tall green stalks.
   

2. Gather Sugarcane
   No tools are needed to gather sugarcane—just break it with your hand or any item.

3. Craft Sugar
   Place the sugarcane in a crafting window (either in your inventory or on a crafting table). One sugarcane turns into one sugar.
    

4. Get Sugar from Honey Bottles
   If you have a honey bottle, you can convert it into sugar. Place the honey bottle in a crafting window to get three sugar.
    

Honey bottles are collected from beehives and bee nests. Here’s how to do it:

1. Find a Beehive or Bee Nest
   Beehives can be crafted manually, while bee nests spawn naturally on trees (usually in flower-rich biomes like plains or flower forests).
   

2. Make Bottles
   To collect honey, you need glass bottles. To craft them, place three glass blocks in the crafting window in a triangle pattern in the bottom rows.
    

3. Wait for the Hive to Fill with Honey
   A hive or bee nest is full when honey starts dripping from it. This happens after bees gather nectar several times and return to the hive.

4. Collect Honey
   Approach a full hive or nest with a bottle in hand and right-click. You’ll get a honey bottle. Ensure there are no angry bees nearby.

5. Use a Campfire for Safety
   If there are bees near the hive, they may attack you when collecting honey. To avoid this, place a campfire under the hive—it will calm the bees and keep them peaceful. To craft a campfire, you need: 3 sticks, 1 coal or charcoal, and 3 wooden blocks or logs.
    

Now you have a honey bottle, which can be converted into sugar or used for other purposes.

Sugar in Minecraft has several main uses:

1. Cake
   Sugar is one of the ingredients for crafting a cake. To craft it, you need:

   • 3 buckets of milk
   • 2 sugar
   • 1 egg
   • 3 wheat
      

2. Pumpkin Pie
   To craft a pumpkin pie, you need:

   • 1 pumpkin
   • 1 sugar
   • 1 egg
      

Sugar is used to brew potions of swiftness.

Sugar can be used to tame and heal horses, donkeys, and mules. Just feed it to the animal to increase its friendliness.

Sugar is a simple yet useful resource that can be used for crafting food, brewing potions, and interacting with animals. To always have a supply of sugar, it’s recommended to grow sugarcane near your base by planting it next to water.