Pitcher Plant

A pitcher plant is a tall flower that grows from a pitcher pod.

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

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Obtaining

Pitcher plants do not generate naturally and are obtained by growing a pitcher pod. 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

Swords are programmed increase the breaking speed, however this ultimately has no impact due to the instant default mining speed.

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	[hide]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:

[hide] v t e crop sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	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	Blocks	When the block is placed	item.crop.plant​​	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.45	varies	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:

[hide] v t e grass sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.grass	0.7	0.8–1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.grass	0.8	0.8–1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.grass	0.3	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.grass	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	0.11	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.grass	0.21	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

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

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	[hide]Translation key
Pitcher Plant	pitcher_plant	-612	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.pitcher_plant.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	[hide]Description
half	lower	lower upper	The half of the plant contained in this block.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	[hide]Description
upper_block_bit	Not Supported	false	false true	Unsupported	If it is the upper half of the plant.

History

[hide]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.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.20.0			Preview 1.20.0.20				Added pitcher plants.
							They only craft into one cyan dye currently.
			Preview 1.20.0.22				Pitcher plants are crafted into two units of cyan dye instead of one.
			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.
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.24				Pitcher plants are once again crafted into two units of cyan dye rather than only one.
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.

Issues

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

Java Edition

• MC-263365 – Placing a pitcher plant on high grass, the flower is destroyed
• MC-261834 – Pitcher plant hitbox doesn't match Bedrock's and is too big
• MC-276142 – Torchflowers, Pitcher Plants, their seeds, and Sniffer Eggs have different rarities

Bedrock Edition

• MCPE-169489 – Pitcher Plant uses default grass sound instead of crop sounds

Trivia

• While referred to by a generic name, the plant is meant to be a fictional species. 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".
• In-universe, pitcher plants taste peppery, acidic, and like spoiled cotton candy.