Sugar cane takes forever to grow.

@Euwill Eusebio is 40 blocks too far away? I'm 40 blocks away from it (still seeing my sugar cane farm very visibly) and it's still not growing under ten minutes.

Also waited ten minutes while standing near it and only two sugar canes updated one block higher out of my other sugar canes.

Depends on the Simulation Distance. unless you've set yours to 2 chunks, I don't see how this wouldn't work.

@[MCPE Helper] LateLag i was standing very close to it so 2 chunks would still work, but it doesn't. my simulation distance is always at 12-10 chunks

I know this is an older issue, but @Alex Chu does MCPE-48007 kind of sound like the issue you are having?

I agree.. cane growth rates are so painfully slow so you end up having to have huge fields of the stuff just to be able to do initial trading with librarians. I try to make full use of composers and, hopefully, a skeleton spawner and use bonemeal whenever I can.

Do you have any comparisons as to how this compares to the Java Edition, for example? (As far as I can see they grow at a similar rate, which can seem like a long time when you are waiting for it to grow!)

They certainly don't grow at a similar rate for me. In Java Edition, the sugar cane I plant always grows within 5-10 minutes. In Bedrock, it takes at least over 30 minutes just for it to grow one stage.

because the randomtickspeed is 1 on bedrock and 3 on java, it is very slow. also, yiu have to be within simulation distance *deafauld 10 on win10"

I think there could be an issue here with random block updates being suppressed in certain situations. The video I posted to confirm MCPE-81628 shows that when placing a row of grass paths under other blocks with randomtickspeed = 1, every other grass path converts to dirt. But on randomtickspeed = 4096, every grass path converts to dirt, though not instantly as you’d expect. What I’m wondering is if a block update that triggers a block update next to it causes the next random block update on each surrounding block to be skipped. I’ll try to work out a way to test this.

Update: Negative. Tested by planting sugar canes in different arrangements so that either 0, 1, or 2 other sugar canes were adjacent to them, and also allowed some to grow naturally next to sugar canes that had be force-grown with bonemeal. Did not observe any differences in growth among setups.

I've attached a video of

In it, I have the random tick speed at 410, which means that on average every block should get ticked once every half second. Repeating command blocks replace the sugar cane with new plants once every 23 seconds, long enough to let it grow to full height in most trials. In the video you can see a regular pattern of growth every 7-11 seconds. This implies 2 things:

• The overall chance of growth each time a sugar cane block gets ticked is about 5%. (At 410 tick speed, 7-11 seconds = 14-22 ticks on average for a sugar cane to grow one stage.)

• Growth is not truly random. It's more like random after a set delay, or random with a declining chance of failure over time.

This actually matches what the wiki says fairly well: that sugar canes grow after receiving 16 random ticks. However, when the wiki converts this to an 18 minute average time for one plant to grow to 3 tall, it is using the Java random tick speed. Bedrock defaults to 1/3 of that rate, so a single sugar cane plant will average almost an hour to grow to full height. Or 30 minutes for 1 stage as @unknown reported above.