Wheat
Material Stack: 64 Since Indev (2010)
Quick answer: Harvest fully grown wheat crops: 1 wheat + 1-4 seeds per crop (Fortune boosts the seeds, not the wheat).
How to get it
- Harvest fully grown wheat crops: 1 wheat + 1-4 seeds per crop (Fortune boosts the seeds, not the wheat)
- Break hay bales - one bale crafts back into 9 wheat; villages often have hay bale piles
- Loot village, dungeon and pillager outpost chests
Uses
- Bake bread (3 wheat in a row) - the classic early-game food
- Craft cakes (3 wheat) and cookies (2 wheat + cocoa beans = 8 cookies)
- Breed cows, sheep, goats and mooshrooms; lead them by holding wheat
- Heal horses and lower their temper for taming; store as hay bales for compact animal feed
Renewability
Renewable: every harvest returns more seeds than you planted.
Java vs Bedrock
Identical in Java and Bedrock. Crops need light level 9+ to grow on both editions.