[MCPE-26589] Grass not spreading

Grass is not spreading in my sheep pen so they can grow their wool back. I stood beside the pen for 20 real time minutes and nothing spread.

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MCPE-26604 Grass not spreading Resolved

MCPE-26664 Crops and grass extremely slow growing Resolved

MCPE-26672 Grass does not grow Resolved

MCPE-27637 When you make a sheep farm, and the sheep eat all the grass it won't grow back again and that way the sheep won't get their wool back. Resolved

MCPE-28636 Grass won't spread - Sync world/Realm Resolved

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MCPE-29723 Slow grass growing Resolved

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JoePCool14 2017-09-30T12:40:48Z

Please can we do something about this soon? Not only is it a pain when dealing with sheep, it's frustrating to build and know the grass simply takes hours in real-time to finally finish spreading. It doesn't match the Java Edition at all and has zero purpose to be like this.

Laura P Hoffman 2017-09-30T14:27:35Z

Agreed. I've had several builds in limbo because my sheep are not growing back their wool so I do not have enough to finish.

Laura P Hoffman 2017-10-14T15:03:57Z

Still not resolved.

Michael MacLean 2017-10-15T10:55:29Z

I really hope they do something about this. I was enjoying the Bedrock edition until I saw that my sheep couldn't regrow their wool because the grass growth has become horrendous.

Jesse Ransom 2017-10-20T12:41:06Z

I can confirm this issue as well. Since the btu came out EVERYTHING takes much longer to grow than they did on Xbox one edition. I started a new world when btu released. Chopped down trees, and replanted saplings in the same place as originally generated and some of them still have not grown... I cleared any tall grass/flowers around them and still nothing... I made a oak tree farm roughly 30x30 with optimal conditions fro growing, 7 blocks between trees torch centered between trees, raised the dirt block trees are planted on one higher than the rest of the ground and nothing... So then I go to the bonemeal, I run through up to a stack and a half before some of them will grow... I don't want to say anything bad about btu but Microsoft/Mojang needs to just slow down and fix the problems, ensure they cause no other bugs, then release an update... This cycle of here's a bug ridden update and now here's another update to fix those issues but introduce another set of bugs and ignore fixes that apply to playability is getting old. Some bugs are expected, sure but we are seeing releases that are a pain to even play... Is there testing happening before release in real world's people care about investing time into. It doesn't feel like it... An update releases and instantly I notice problems, how does this get by beta... I play about an hour a day, 4 to 5 days a week and I can see problems that seem to be getting by people who are paid to test this thing before release, doesn't sound right...

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Charles Hedberg 2017-10-23T06:17:57Z

Having played the Java Edition, XBOX One Edition, and the Bedrock Edition on both XBOX and Windows 10 I will share my hypothesis. After some testing I have come to the conclusion that some fundamental differences between the Bedrock Edition (Better Together Update) and previous/other versions of the game are making it seem like a bug when in fact there is not one. In the Java and previous XBOX One edition, there were similar RandomTickSpeed (the variable that causes blocks with different states to update such as crops to grow and leaves decay). In the Bedrock Edition it appears that the RandomTickSpeed is much slower so everything that relies on that variable will take longer. Another difference between the Bedrock Edition and other versions is that the update radius for for such items has been reduced from 8 chunks in other versions to 4 or 5 in Bedrock. This means you must be closer to the crops for them to grow than other versions. So this may in fact not be a bug, but a feature change so that the game will be the same across all devices. And since not all devices have the same computational power, you end up with adjustments to ensure the game runs well on the slowest common platform. Now having said all that, I have yet to find anywhere that this has been stated so I may be incorrect. Just an educated guess.

Rocks 2017-11-08T07:28:42Z

🙂

Theresa Mackillop 2018-01-27T16:04:55Z

I've had to resort to leashing individual sheep to individual fence posts spread over a wide area to keep them from decimating the grass and let them grow their wool back, or walking all over the map shearing wild sheep. No way is this garbage supposed to be a feature.

ItzFrosty 2018-02-14T01:49:01Z

Joe this game isn't exactly supposed to match the Java version exactly, it's basically impossible for many reasons. (Btw I have encountered this same issue too)

Jacie_krece 2018-03-25T14:20:49Z

Likely issue with /gamerule RandomTickSpeed too small.

JoePCool14 2018-07-06T15:41:07Z

Wow, it's been a while since this issue's been updated.

After playing Bedrock again on my Survival Realm for quite some time, and struggling to build with Path blocks, I'm realizing that grass spread is still slower than on Java Edition. Once again, this is a pointless change since having grass is more-or-less just an aesthetic thing. But, then again building is important to Minecraft, so I would think having proper grass spread would be important.

I know they claimed to have previously fixed this, but it's only been a small improvement and still isn't quite there.

So, I'm going to say that I can confirm this on 1.4.2.

JoePCool14 2018-07-06T16:02:26Z

I just ran a quick test to ensure that I'm not going crazy.

On both Java Edition 1.12.2 and Bedrock Edition 1.4.2 on my Windows 10 PC, I created new worlds, set the time to day, turned off daylight cycle and created a 6x6 square of Dirt above a flat Grass Plains biome. I started a timer, and at just around 7 minutes, Java Edition was already finished spreading. Meanwhile in the same amount of time, Bedrock hadn't even reached the halfway mark (16 of 36 blocks).

Very clearly, the speed is still much slower than what it needs to be. It isn't unreasonable, but it can make certain builds very frustrating when you don't have access to Silk tools.

Hope this can be looked into by Mojangstas. 🙂

Jason C Rogers 2019-02-17T14:51:14Z

I"m playing bedrock Win 10 snapshot 1.10.0.4. Grass will not spread. I've even increased the random tick speed to 100. Plants grow very quick. Everything else is fast, but I've had the same pattern of grass in my area for days (in-game days) and hours real-time.

killerbeenl83 2019-02-17T15:57:22Z

@@unknown We are tracking that issue within the beta (1.10.0.4) as MCPE-41198.

Jason C Rogers 2019-02-17T16:19:13Z

Thank you! I'll follow that ticket as well.

[Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay) 2020-02-20T08:23:16Z

Cleaning up old tickets: This ticket has not been updated recently (~1 year+) so is being closed as Cannot Reproduce. If you feel this is still a valid issue then please comment, or create a new ticket following the Issue Guidelines.

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