Cactus

Cactus is both a Plant and an item that drops when that plant is harvested.

Cactus plant

Cactus seen in a Desert

The Cactus Plant can be found in the Desert biome on sand. Cactus Plants can be chopped down like trees, which drops the Cactus item. Mining the Sand blocks beneath a Cactus plant will quickly destroy the entire plant and yield all possible Cactus items.

Conditions

Cactus Plants will only grow under the following conditions:

1. There needs to be at least one thick layer of sand below it.
2. The Cactus requires one space of open ground to either side. A raised tile will block growth, but a lower tile will not.
3. The sand it grows on needs to be above the ground level.
4. They only grow at least 378 blocks away from the edges of the world, i.e. not in zone where the Ocean biome can be generated.

Cactus item

Cactus
Statistics
Type	Crafting material
Max stack	250
Sell	2

Cactus is a crafting material obtained from chopping down Cactus Plants (described above), in the same manner as trees. It can also be harvested by removing a sand block below the base of the cactus.

After being harvested, it can not be placed by the player. Cactus is used to craft the Swiftness Potion and Thorns Potion.

Crafting

Used in

Result Ingredients Crafting Station Swiftness Potion Bottled Water Alchemy Station Cactus Blinkroot Thorns Potion Bottled Water Cactus Deathweed

History

• 1.1: No longer damages players.
• 1.0.6: No longer causes knockback when damaging players and no longer destroys blocks above when growing.
• 1.0.5: Introduced.