[MC-305708] Sugar cane can no longer be placed on red sand

This behavior was introduced in 26.1-snapshot-3.

The bug

Sugar cane cannot be placed on red sand, though it still can be placed on regular sand. This was not listed as a change.

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phizlip 2026-01-14T01:36:18Z

Red sand doesn’t have the #minecraft:supports_sugar_cane tag, whereas normal sand does.

phizlip 2026-01-14T17:14:38Z

A proposed and safe, easy fix to allow all applicable overworld sand block variants (e.g. red, suspicious) to allow sugar cane placement is to update "minecraft:sand" to "#minecraft:sand" within the supports_sugar_cane.json file, as this matches the behavior of previous versions (26.1 Snapshot 2 pictured), as all overworld sand variants have the #minecraft:sand tag.

kcrca 2026-01-14T18:47:01Z

Yes, this is the solution I’d suggest as well. I’m asking Mojang to do what you suggest to restore the status quo, because red sand has been allowed for a long time.