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Pitcher Plant

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Pitcher Plant
Pitcher Plant.png: Infobox image for Minecraft block 'Pitcher Plant'
Invicon Pitcher Plant.png: Inventory sprite for Pitcher Plant in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Pitcher Plant
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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 0.05
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

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:

BlockSprite wheat.png: Sprite image for wheat in Minecraft crop sound type
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokenblock.crop.breaksubtitles.block.generic.break​0.90.816
​Block placedBlocksWhen the block is placeditem.crop.plant​[sound 1]​subtitles.block.generic.place​0.45varies [sound 2]16
​Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenblock.grass.hitsubtitles.block.generic.hit​0.250.516
​Something falls on a blockEntity-DependentFalling on the block with fall damageblock.grass.fallsubtitles.block.generic.fall​0.50.7516
​FootstepsEntity-DependentWalking on the blockblock.grass.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.151.016
  1. ↑ Unlike all other block placement sound events, these are listed under items. Confirmed to be intentional by Mojang, see MC-177459
  2. ↑ Can be 1.2 or 0.96 for each sound

Bedrock Edition:

BlockSprite short-grass.png: Sprite image for short-grass in Minecraft grass sound type
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitch
​Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokendig.grasssubtitles.block.generic.break​0.70.8–1.0
​Block placedBlocksWhen the block is placedplace.grasssubtitles.block.generic.place​0.80.8–1.0
​Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenhit.grasssubtitles.block.generic.hit​0.30.5
​FootstepsPlayersFalling on the block with fall damagefall.grasssubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.41.0
​FootstepsPlayersWalking on the blockstep.grasssubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.31.0
​Shovel flattensBlocksWhen a shovel creates a dirt pathuse.grasssubtitles.item.shovel.flatten​1.00.8
​FootstepsBlocksJumping from the blockjump.grasssubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.111.0
​FootstepsBlocksFalling on the block without fall damageland.grasssubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.211.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierFormBlock tagsItem tags Translation key
BlockSprite pitcher-plant.png: Sprite image for pitcher-plant in Minecraft Pitcher Plantpitcher_plantBlock & Itemflowersflowers block.minecraft.pitcher_plant

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID FormItem ID[i 1] Translation key
BlockSprite pitcher-plant.png: Sprite image for pitcher-plant in Minecraft Pitcher Plantpitcher_plant867Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -612)		 tile.pitcher_plant.name
  1. ↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
  2. ↑ Available with /give command.
  3. ↑ The block's direct item form has the same ID as the block.

Block states

Java Edition

Name Default value Allowed values Description
halflowerlower
upper		The half of the plant contained in this block.

Bedrock Edition

NameMetadata Bits Default value Allowed valuesValues for
Metadata Bits		 Description
upper_block_bitNot Supportedfalsefalse
true		UnsupportedIf it is the upper half of the plant.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.2023w12a Added pitcher plants.
23w14aPitcher 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.
23w16aPitcher plants are now flammable.

Bedrock Edition

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

Data history

Java Edition
1.21.424w45aminecraft:pitcher_plant has been moved from the block tag #tall_flowers to the block tag #flowers due to the removal of the former tag.
1.21.525w10a​[more information needed] has been removed from the block tag #minecraft:sword_efficient.

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

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPJ2dzVcOgg
  2. ↑ a b MCPE-169498
  3. ↑ a b MCPE-171061
  4. ↑ "Imaginary one!" – @JasperBoerstra (Jasper Boerstra) on X (formerly Twitter), March 25, 2023
  5. ↑ "Ask Mojang" – Minecraft on YouTube, April 27, 2023
  6. ↑ "The in-game pitcher plant tastes a bit like spoiled cotton candy, but strangely enough somehow also both peppery and acidic, an acquired taste! It is inspired by the real world pitcher plant, which one should NOT eat." – @Minecraft (Minecraft) on X (formerly Twitter), August 28, 2023

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