Minecraft:Bone Meal

Template:For Template:Infobox item Template:Relevant tutorial Bone meal is an Minecraft:item that can cause many Minecraft: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 Minecraft:bone blocks.

Obtaining

Composting

Template:Main When a Minecraft:composter is completely filled, a single bone meal drops the next time the composter is Template:Ctrl.

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

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Template:IN, bone meal can be also used in Minecraft:banner patterns: Template:Banner crafting usage

Fertilizer

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

Plant	Action
Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	The plant matures 2–5 growth stages.
Template:BlockLink	The plant has a 75% chance of growing to the next growth stage.
Template:BlockLink	Grows the Minecraft:bamboo by 1-2 stems.
Template:BlockLink 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.
Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink (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 Minecraft: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.
Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	The corresponding item form drops, without destroying the original plant.
Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	A one-block-high tall Minecraft:short grass, Minecraft:fern, or Minecraft:seagrass (that is on Minecraft:grass block, Minecraft:dirt, Minecraft:coarse dirt, Minecraft:rooted dirt, Minecraft:farmland, Minecraft:podzol, Minecraft:mycelium, Minecraft:moss block, Minecraft:mud, or Minecraft:muddy mangrove roots) grows into a two-block-high Minecraft:tall grass, Minecraft:large fern, or Minecraft:tall seagrass.
Template:BlockLink	Has a 40% chance of growing into a Template:EnvLink if on Minecraft:grass block, Minecraft:dirt, Minecraft:coarse dirt, Minecraft:rooted dirt, Minecraft:farmland, Minecraft:podzol, Minecraft:mycelium, Minecraft:moss block, Minecraft:mud, or Minecraft:muddy mangrove roots.
Template:BlockLink	The cocoa plant matures 1 growth stage.
Template:BlockLink	The bush matures 1 growth stage.
Template:BlockLink	If the Minecraft:sea pickle is on a Minecraft:coral block and in Minecraft:water at least 2 blocks deep, the sea pickle colony grows, and additional sea pickles generate nearby.
Template:BlockLinkTemplate:Only	The sugar cane grows to maximum height (three blocks tall).
Template:BlockLink	The kelp plant grows by 1 block per bone meal used, up to its maximum height.
Template:BlockLink (excluding Minecraft:wither rose, Minecraft:torchflower, and Minecraft:golden dandelion)Template:Only	One-block-high flowers make more flowers of the same type grow in the surrounding area.
Template:BlockLink	Has a 40% chance of growing into Minecraft:huge fungi, but only if on the respective Minecraft:nylium.
Template:BlockLink	Grows the Minecraft:weeping vines a few blocks downward.
Template:BlockLink	Grows the Minecraft:twisting vines a few blocks upward.
Template:BlockLink	Grows the Minecraft:pale hanging moss a block downward.
Template:BlockLink	Creates Minecraft:nylium depending on the type adjacent to it.
Template:BlockLink	Produces Minecraft:glow berries if the vine did not have any Minecraft:glow berries on it already.
Template:BlockLink	The Minecraft:glow lichen spreads to a random adjacent block.
Template:BlockLink	The Minecraft:moss block causes nearby Minecraft:stone, Minecraft:cave vines, and Minecraft:dirt to become moss blocks. Additionally, those moss blocks may grow Minecraft:azaleas, Minecraft:flowering azaleas, Minecraft:short grass, Minecraft:tall grass, or Minecraft:moss carpets.
Template:BlockLink	The Minecraft:pale moss block causes nearby Minecraft:stone, Minecraft:cave vines, and Minecraft:dirt to become pale moss blocks, and turns into a Minecraft:pale moss patch.
Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	A Minecraft:big dripleaf grows one block higher, and a Minecraft:small dripleaf becomes a Minecraft:big dripleaf.
Template:BlockLink	Causes Minecraft:hanging roots to grow underneath the Minecraft:rooted dirt if there is space.
Template:BlockLink	Creates a hanging Minecraft:mangrove propagule under the Minecraft:mangrove leaves.
Template:BlockLink (hanging)	The Minecraft:mangrove propagule matures 1 growth age.
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.
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.
Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	Grows every stage.
Template:BlockLink	Places a Minecraft:firefly bush on a neighboring block if possible.
Template:BlockLink	Places a Minecraft:bush on a neighboring block if possible.
Template:BlockLink	Places a Minecraft:short dry grass on a neighboring block if possible.
Template:BlockLink	Grows into Minecraft:tall dry grass.

Bone meal does not affect:

• Minecraft:Cactus
• Minecraft:Vines
• Minecraft:Nether wart
• Minecraft:Sugar caneTemplate:Only
• Minecraft: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 Minecraft:short grass, Minecraft:ferns, and Minecraft:seagrass that do not have enough space to grow.Template:Verify<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
• On Minecraft:seagrass that doesn't have Minecraft:water above.
• On a Minecraft:dark oak sapling or a Minecraft: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 Minecraft:sea pickle that is already in a group of four and has no valid locations to expand to.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
• On a Minecraft:sea pickle that is not on a Minecraft:coral block.
• On a Minecraft:bamboo (not Minecraft:bamboo shoot) that is blocked in the way.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
• On a Minecraft:Nether fungus that is not on its respective Minecraft:nylium.
• Any Minecraft:plants whose growth is blocked by the Minecraft:build limit.

Creating new plants

Template:Ctrl bone meal on a Minecraft: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 Minecraft:short grass, Minecraft:fernTemplate:Only, Minecraft:tall grass, Minecraft:flowers, and Minecraft: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 (Minecraft:rose bushes, Minecraft:sunflowers, Minecraft:lilacs or Minecraft: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. Template:IN, Minecraft:coral and Minecraft:coral fans may have a chance to generate in Minecraft:warm ocean biomes; Template:In, coral and coral fans can be generated in any biome. Template:IN, 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 Minecraft:sea pickle on a Minecraft: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 Minecraft:Nether fungi to appear on the nylium block and other nylium, Minecraft:netherrack, Minecraft:dirt or Minecraft: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 Minecraft:nether sprouts and Minecraft: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

ID

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History

Trivia

• Bone meal can be used on the sides or bottom of a Minecraft:grass block, as well as on a grass block with Minecraft: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 Minecraft:player has Minecraft: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 Minecraft:grass blocks.
  Bone meal used on Minecraft:grass blocks.

See also

• Minecraft:Farming