New Farms · Cave Vines · Java & Bedrock
How to Make a Glow Berry Farm
Plant glow berries to grow hanging cave vines that light up your cave and give you renewable food.
VINE GROWS DOWN → BERRIES GLOW → HARVEST & REGROW
plant berries to grow a vine
the berries give off lightPlant glow berries under a block and a cave vine grows downward. The berries light up the cave, and you right-click the vine to harvest them. They regrow, so it doubles as food and a light source.
What you need
Glow berries to plant
A block to hang the vine underBone meal to speed it up
A chest to store the harvestThey grow down, glow, and regrow
Right-click glow berries under a block and a cave vine grows downward. The berries give off light level 14so a wall of vines lights a cave with no torches. Right-click a vine to harvest the berries; they regrowand bone meal speeds it up.
Quick answers
What is a glow berry farm in Minecraft?
It is a set of cave vines you grow from glow berries to get a renewable food and a free light source. The vines hang down from blocks, the berries on them glow, and you harvest the berries again and again as they regrow.
How do you plant and grow glow berries?
Right-click glow berries onto the underside of a solid block and a cave vine starts growing downward on its own. Using bone meal on the vine makes berries grow on its segments, and the vine can hang down many blocks.
How much light do glow berries give?
A cave vine carrying glow berries gives off light level fourteen, almost as bright as a torch. A row or wall of berry-covered vines lights a whole cave or base without any torches or lava.
How do you harvest glow berries?
Right-click a vine segment that has berries to pick them, which leaves the vine in place so it keeps producing. The berries regrow over time, and bone meal can speed up new berries appearing.
What are glow berries used for?
They are a light source, a weak food that restores a little hunger, and the food used to breed and feed foxes. Many players grow them mostly for decoration and to light caves naturally.
Do glow berries work the same on Bedrock?
Yes. Planting on a block, growing cave vines downward, the light they give and harvesting with a right-click all work the same on both Java and Bedrock.