Glow Berries are an interesting item for Minecraft. While they have become synonymous with the lush cave since 1.18, they were actually added before the lush cave as random loot that could be obtained in mineshaft caves.
Used as food, light sources, and to breed foxes, these berries are quite useful for players, and are, thankfully, farmable.
And while some resources can be quite difficult or annoying to farm, glow berries are not one of them. They can be farmed quite easily, as detailed below.
The easiest way to farm glow berries in Minecraft 1.19
Where to get glow berries
As mentioned earlier, players have a chance to find glow berries in chests found throughout abandoned mineshafts. There is a 38.7% chance of these chests containing between three and six glow berries.
Abandoned mineshafts are not the only place in Minecraft, however, that glow berries can be found as loot. The new ancient cities, added in Minecraft 1.19, also contains such chests. These have a 23.2% chance of containing 1-15 glow berries.
Glow berries do not have to be found through chest loot, however. They can be found growing on vines that hang from the ceiling of lush caves. For Bedrock players, using a Silk Touch enchanted tool on a vine will always drop a glow berry, even if the vine appears empty. It’s important to note that the Fortune enchantment does not have any impact on the number of berries dropped.
What glow berries are used for
Glow berries can also be used as light sources, as each one glows – hence the name. These berries give off a light of level 14, making them a very bright light source comparable to torches.
A more minor use of glow berries is composting. This means that players can place the glow berries into a composter to get bone meal. Each one placed into a composter has a 30% chance of resulting in the compost level increasing by one.
The last, and one of the most important uses for glow berries is breeding foxes. Foxes are similar to cats, in the way that player movement can scare them off. The resulting baby fox will trust the player and will not flee from them.