Flower Farm
Beginner Different design per edition
Produces: All dye flowers: tulips, allium, azure bluet, oxeye daisy, cornflower, lily of the valley, plus renewable tall flowers
Quick answer: Bonemeal on grass blocks grows flowers matching the biome (15x5x15 area in Java, 7x5x7 in Bedrock). For tall flowers like sunflowers and peonies, bonemeal the flower itself and it drops a copy - the only renewable way to get them. A dispenser clicking bonemeal over a grass platform with a water harvest is the whole farm.
How it works
- Bone meal on a grass block sprouts foliage in a 15x15x15 area in Java or 7x5x7 in Bedrock, and each grass block randomly picks which plant to grow.
- Which flower you get depends on the biome: in a flower forest each coordinate can spawn only one flower type, forming a gradient (in Java it is three-dimensional and changes with Y level).
- Tall flowers (sunflower, lilac, rose bush, peony) do not come from bone meal on grass: use bone meal on the flower itself and it drops another of the same type without breaking the original. It is the only way to reproduce them.
- Some flowers only spawn when the chunk generates and others only with bone meal; the wiki tables list this per biome.
- Flowers break instantly with anything, and also if water flows over them or a piston pushes into them.
Materials
- A grass platform in the biome whose flowers you want
- Dispenser + bonemeal supply
- Observer clock or lever
- Water buckets for the harvest sweep
- Hoppers and chests; a composter for overflow
Build steps
- Pick the biome: flower forest for variety; check the wiki's per-biome tables for the rest.
- Lay a grass platform (Java: up to 7 blocks out from the click point) with hoppers at the low edge.
- Set a dispenser clicking bonemeal on the center grass block on an observer clock.
- A periodic water sweep pushes flowers into the hoppers.
- For tall flowers, place one of each on grass and click bonemeal directly on them - every click duplicates the flower.
- Sort or compost the output: flowers become dyes, dyes become everything else.
Rates
A flower forest dispenser setup produces hundreds of mixed flowers per bonemeal stack. Tall-flower duplication is exactly 1 flower per bonemeal - slow but fully automatic with a dispenser facing the flower.
Tips
- Bees need flowers to make honey: pair this farm with your bee area.
- Flowers can be composted and crafted into dyes.
- Source: minecraft.wiki Flower and Bone Meal.