Beetroot
Material Stack: 64 Since 1.9 (Combat Update)
Quick answer: Harvest fully grown beetroot crops: 1 beetroot (1-2 on Bedrock) plus 1-4 seeds per crop.
How to get it
- Harvest fully grown beetroot crops: 1 beetroot (1-2 on Bedrock) plus 1-4 seeds per crop
- Find beetroot seeds in village farm plots - snowy and taiga villages grow beetroot
- Loot village, dungeon and End city chests for seeds
Uses
- Eat raw for just 1 hunger - the real move is beetroot soup: 6 beetroots + a bowl restores 6 hunger and 7.2 saturation
- Breed and lead pigs (carrots, potatoes and beetroots all work)
- Craft red dye for wool, glass and terracotta
- Villager breeding: 12 beetroots make a villager willing, an alternative to bread
Renewability
Renewable: each crop returns more seeds than it took.
Java vs Bedrock
Small split: Bedrock crops drop 1-2 beetroots per harvest, Java always 1. Seeds and everything else match.