How do you get Bone Meal in Minecraft?

Craft 1 bone into 3 bone meal, or a bone block into 9 Fill a composter with plants and it spits out 1 bone meal - a farm-fed composter is infinite fertilizer In Java, fish can drop bone meal; skeleton farms supply the bones for industrial amounts

What is Bone Meal used for?

Fertilize crops: wheat, carrots and potatoes jump 2-5 growth stages per use Force saplings and azaleas to grow into trees instantly - the heart of every tree farm Grow bamboo 1-2 stems, ripen sea pickles and spread moss, nylium and glow lichen Craft white dye and bone blocks; dispensers can apply it automatically in farms

Bone Meal

Material Stack: 64 Since Beta 1.2

Quick answer: Craft 1 bone into 3 bone meal, or a bone block into 9.

How to get it

Craft 1 bone into 3 bone meal, or a bone block into 9
Fill a composter with plants and it spits out 1 bone meal - a farm-fed composter is infinite fertilizer
In Java, fish can drop bone meal; skeleton farms supply the bones for industrial amounts

Uses

Fertilize crops: wheat, carrots and potatoes jump 2-5 growth stages per use
Force saplings and azaleas to grow into trees instantly - the heart of every tree farm
Grow bamboo 1-2 stems, ripen sea pickles and spread moss, nylium and glow lichen
Craft white dye and bone blocks; dispensers can apply it automatically in farms

Renewability

Renewable: composters, skeleton farms and bone blocks from fossil structures all supply it.

Java vs Bedrock

In Bedrock it also works on sugar cane and cacti; in Java it does not.

Related: Wheat Melon Slice Sugar Cane

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