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How to Craft Sugar in Minecraft

Sugar in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Crafting cakes, pumpkin pie and fermented spider eyes. Minecraft has used the name Sugar since Beta 1.2.

Stand at a Crafting Table with 1 Sugar Cane and you can make Sugar. Expect 1 Sugar from every craft.

Sugar Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Sugar is minecraft:sugar. In commands the namespace may be left off, so sugar works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p sugar
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p sugar 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve sugar 1

Cheats have to be on for Sugar to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Sugar is crafted from sugar cane. It is used in food recipes and to brew Potions of Swiftness. Sugar uses a shapeless recipe, so the ingredients can go in any cells of the grid as long as all of them are present.

Minecraft has used the name Sugar since Beta 1.2, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with sugar cane (harvest sugar cane near water).

Counting The Stack

Feed 1 sugar cane a craft, so 64 covers 64 of them: 64 sugar. It divides evenly, no sugar cane left over.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Sugar CaneSugar CaneSugar Cane1xHarvest sugar cane near water

Gather Sugar Cane (harvest sugar cane near water), then take the lot to a Crafting Table.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Sugar CaneSugar CaneSugar Cane

  2. 2

    Sugar

Minecraft crafting recipe for Sugar: 1 x Sugar Cane in a crafting table, making 1 Sugar.

Tips & Notes

  • Cell positions do not matter here: drop Sugar Cane anywhere in the grid and Sugar appears.
  • One craft costs 1x Sugar Cane. Start with the Sugar Cane: harvest sugar cane near water.

Uses for Sugar

  • Crafting cakes, pumpkin pie and fermented spider eyes
  • Brewing speed potions

What Sugar Goes Into

3 other recipes list Sugar as an ingredient.

CakeCakeCakeCrafting TableFermented Spider EyeFermented Spider EyeFermented Spider EyeCrafting TablePumpkin PiePumpkin PiePumpkin PieCrafting Table

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Sugar on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Sugar in Minecraft?
To craft Sugar you need 1 Sugar Cane at a Crafting Table. Place it in the grid in any arrangement, and one craft produces one Sugar.
What can you make with Sugar?
Sugar is an ingredient in 3 other recipes on this site, including Cake, Fermented Spider Eye and Pumpkin Pie. The section above links to each of them.
Where do you find the materials for Sugar?
The parts of Sugar do not all come from one place. Sugar Cane: harvest sugar cane near water.
How much Sugar do you get from one craft?
The Sugar recipe makes one Sugar per craft.
What is the item ID for Sugar in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Sugar goes by minecraft:sugar; sugar without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for Sugar?
Use /give @p sugar to put Sugar in your own inventory, or /give @p sugar 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.
Is the Sugar recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
It is the same recipe on both: 1 Sugar Cane at a Crafting Table gives you Sugar, in the layout shown above, one at a time.
Does it matter where you put the ingredients for Sugar?
No, Sugar is a shapeless recipe, so 1 Sugar Cane can go in any slots you like. Only the set of ingredients is checked, not their arrangement.
Which recipe uses the most Sugar?
Of everything on this site, a Cake swallows the most Sugar: 2 Sugar in one craft. That is worth knowing before you decide how many to make.
What version of Minecraft added Sugar?
As far back as the language files go, the sugar appears under this name in Minecraft Beta 1.2 and not before. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. The Sugar recipe above matches the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Sugar Cane in, 1 Sugar out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Minecraft Java Beta 1.2 uses this name and the release before it does not. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
That the ingredients come back
What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Sugar per craft against the stack size.

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