Minecraft:Bone Meal

Template:Hatnote Template:Infobox item Template:Pointer box Bone meal is an Minecraft:item that can cause many plants and plantlike Minecraft:blocks to instantly grow when used on them by hand or via a Minecraft:dispenser. It can also be used as a Minecraft:crafting ingredient for Minecraft:dyes and bone blocks.

Obtaining

Composting

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To fill the composter, almost any plant-like item can be used, including Minecraft:vines, Minecraft:leaves, and Minecraft:mushrooms.

Usage

Crafting ingredient

in Template:Editions, bone meal can be also used in banner patterns:

Loom ingredient

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Dye

Template:IN, bone meal can be:

• Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of white wool.
• Applied to tamed wolves to dye their collars.
• Applied to tamed cats to dye their collars.
• Used to dye or stain leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta, shulker boxes, candles, and harnesses.
• Combined with gunpowder to make a firework star.
• Combined with a firework star to create a fade-to-color effect.
• Used to add patterns to banners.
• Used to dye shulkers Template:In.
• Used to dye water contained in cauldrons Template:In.
• Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.
• Combined with compounds to craft balloons or glow sticks Template:In.
• Used to change the color of text on signs or hanging signs.

Fertilizer

Bone meal can also be used on the following plants to have a chance to increase their growth stage:

Plant	Action
redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr redirect Template:blockLink	The plant matures 2–5 growth stages.
redirect Template:blockLink	The plant has a 75% chance of growing to the next growth stage.
redirect Template:blockLink	Grows the Minecraft:bamboo by 1-2 stems.
redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr redirect Template:blockLink	The planted stem matures 2–5 growth stages. Bone meal affects only the stem's growth; it does not cause Minecraft:melons or Minecraft:pumpkins to sprout from a mature stem.
redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr (not hanging)	The Minecraft:sapling has a 45% chance of growing to the next growth stage, if possible. Saplings have two growth stages (with no visible difference between them) before growing into trees as the third stage. A tree cannot grow unless the sapling is planted in proper ground and sufficient space is available. Using bone meal on such an obstructed sapling with no chance of growing wastes the bone meal.
redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr redirect Template:blockLink	The corresponding item form drops, without destroying the original plant.
redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr redirect Template:blockLink	A one-block-high tall short grass, Minecraft:fern, or Minecraft:seagrass (that is on grass block, Minecraft:dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, Minecraft:farmland, Minecraft:podzol, Minecraft:mycelium, moss block, Minecraft:mud, or muddy mangrove roots) grows into a two-block-high tall grass, large fern, or tall seagrass.
redirect Template:blockLink	Has a 40% chance of growing into a if on grass block, Minecraft:dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, Minecraft:farmland, Minecraft:podzol, Minecraft:mycelium, moss block, Minecraft:mud, or muddy mangrove roots.
redirect Template:blockLink	The cocoa plant matures 1 growth stage.
redirect Template:blockLink	The bush matures 1 growth stage.
redirect Template:blockLink	If the sea pickle is on a coral block and in Minecraft:water at least 2 blocks deep, the sea pickle colony grows, and additional sea pickles generate nearby.
redirect Template:blockLink	The sugar cane grows to maximum height (three blocks tall).
redirect Template:blockLink	The kelp plant grows by 1 block per bone meal used, up to its maximum height.
redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr (excluding wither rose, Minecraft:torchflower, and golden dandelion)Template:Only	One-block-high flowers make more flowers of the same type grow in the surrounding area.
redirect Template:blockLink	Has a 40% chance of growing into huge fungi, but only if on the respective Minecraft:nylium.
redirect Template:blockLink	Grows the weeping vines a few blocks downward.
redirect Template:blockLink	Grows the twisting vines a few blocks upward.
redirect Template:blockLink	Grows the pale hanging moss a block downward.
redirect Template:blockLink	Creates Minecraft:nylium depending on the type adjacent to it.
redirect Template:blockLink	Produces glow berries if the vine did not have any glow berries on it already.
redirect Template:blockLink	The glow lichen spreads to a random adjacent block.
redirect Template:blockLink	The moss block causes nearby Minecraft:stone, cave vines, and Minecraft:dirt to become moss blocks. Additionally, those moss blocks may grow Minecraft:azaleas, flowering azaleas, short grass, tall grass, or moss carpets.
redirect Template:blockLink	The pale moss block causes nearby Minecraft:stone, cave vines, and Minecraft:dirt to become pale moss blocks, and turns into a pale moss patch.
redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr redirect Template:blockLink	A big dripleaf grows one block higher, and a small dripleaf becomes a big dripleaf.
redirect Template:blockLink	Causes hanging roots to grow underneath the rooted dirt if there is space.
redirect Template:blockLink	Creates a hanging mangrove propagule under the mangrove leaves.
redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr (hanging)	The mangrove propagule matures 1 growth age.
redirect Template:blockLink	Produces another pink petal in the block. If there are already four pink petals in the block, it drops a pink petal as an item.
redirect Template:blockLink	Produces another wildflower in the block. If there are already four Minecraft:wildflowers in the block, it drops a wildflower as an item.
redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr redirect Template:blockLink	Grows every stage.
redirect Template:blockLink	Places a firefly bush on a neighboring block if possible.
redirect Template:blockLink	Places a Minecraft:bush on a neighboring block if possible.
redirect Template:blockLink	Places a short dry grass on a neighboring block if possible.
redirect Template:blockLink	Grows into tall dry grass.

Bone meal does not affect:

• Minecraft:Cactus
• Minecraft:Vines
• Nether wart
• Sugar caneTemplate:Only
• Chorus plants, or other plants not listed above.

Wasting bone meal

Bone meal can be used on the following objects in the following situations, consuming it without any real effect:

• On short grass, Minecraft:ferns, and Minecraft:seagrass that do not have enough space to grow.{{

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• On Minecraft:seagrass that doesn't have Minecraft:water above.
• On a dark oak sapling or a pale oak sapling that is not in a group of four.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
• On a Minecraft:mushroom that is not on a block that allows it to grow into a huge mushroom.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
• On a sea pickle that is already in a group of four and has no valid locations to expand to.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
• On a sea pickle that is not on a coral block.
• On a Minecraft:bamboo (not bamboo shoot) that is blocked in the way.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
• On a Nether fungus that is not on its respective Minecraft:nylium.
• Any plants whose growth is blocked by the build limit.

Creating new plants

Template:Ctrl bone meal on a grass block causes foliage to sprout on and around the targeted block. Grass blocks within a 15×5×15Template:Only or 7×5×7Template:Only area of the target block randomly chooses which type of foliage to grow, if any (provided there is adequate space for the plant to grow). The types of foliage that can be created in this way are short grass, Minecraft:fernTemplate:Only, tall grassTemplate:Only, Minecraft:flowers, and pink petals, with the latter two being dependent on external factors like the biome and coordinates. See Template:Slink and Template:Slink for more information.

Using bone meal on a 2-block flower (rose bushes, Minecraft:sunflowers, Minecraft:lilacs or peonies) cause one of the same type of flower to drop, without breaking the original. This is the only way to reproduce these flowers, since they cannot generate from using bone meal on grass blocks.

Using bone meal on a full square solid surface that is adjacent to a water source can generates Minecraft:seagrass on that block and surrounding blocks. in Template:Editions, Minecraft:coral and coral fans may have a chance to generate in warm ocean biomes; in Template:Editions, coral and coral fans can be generated in any biome. in Template:Editions, in order to successfully use bone meal underwater, there must be 2 water blocks above the block the bone meal is being used on, and the lower one must be non-flowing water.

Using bone meal on a sea pickle on a coral block creates sea pickles. This generates sea pickles up to 3 Minecraft:blocks (of coral) away, so a 7 × 7 square (49 blocks) of coral may be necessary, to return the most sea pickles per given bone meal attempt (more attempts grows them more numerously, exactly - including the range of it growing, like grass with heights on grass blocks - as coral and coral fans, though those others being non-solid blocks).

Using bone meal on Minecraft:netherrack adjacent to Minecraft:nylium converts the netherrack into nylium of the same type. If both crimson and warped nylium are adjacent to the netherrack that was applied with bone meal, there is a 50% chance that either type of nylium is created.

Using bone meal on Minecraft:nylium causes the corresponding nether roots and both types of Nether fungi to appear on the nylium block and other nylium, Minecraft:netherrack, Minecraft:dirt or grass blocks nearby (in a 5 × 5 total area), with the type of fungi matching the type of nylium being more common. In addition, using bone meal on warped nylium creates nether sprouts and twisting vines.

Farmer villagers

Minecraft:Villagers with the farmer profession can collect bone meal from a full Minecraft:composter, with which they can make their crops grow faster.

Sounds

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Data values

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History

Trivia

• Bone meal can be used on the sides or bottom of a grass block, as well as on a grass block with plants already on top of it.
• Regardless of if it succeeds in fertilizing, bone meal makes green sparkles. However, like smoke from a Minecraft:torch, the sparkles appear only if the player has particles set All or Decreased.
• In real life, bone meal is used as a fertilizer to provide nitrogen and phosphorus to plants.

Gallery

Screenshots

• Bone meal used on grass blocks.
  Bone meal used on grass blocks.

See also

• Farming

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