I was creating my sugarcane farm, and I accidentally removed the water beside the sugarcane.instead of breaking, it stayed there, and it only dropped itself when I placed a block beside it to update it.
How to Reproduce:
place sugarcane beside a water source
Remove water source either by using a bucket or placing a block in its place
Effect is then reproduced, and the sugarcane is not updated
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We're actually already tracking this issue in MC-35082, so I resolved and linked this ticket as a duplicate.
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If you wait a couple seconds it will break. Sugarcane and other crops randomly update, and after 8 updates they grow. When one of these updates happens the sugarcane checks if it has water, and if not it breaks.
This is not a bug - its just how it works
"Fixing" this would require a MASSIVE overhaul of the way Minecraft updates blocks. A block is not updated unless a block adjacent to it is changed or destroyed. Part of the reason is that it makes the game computationally feasible.