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Quick answer
- Craft 1
Bone into 3 bone meal. - A full
Composter gives 1 bone meal. - Use it on crops, saplings, grass and flowers to make them grow.
Bone meal speeds up almost every plant in the game. It's also a white dye.
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Getting it
- Skeletons drop 0 to 2 bones.
- Fill a composter with seeds and plants.
- Fishing and some chests.
- Bone blocks in fossils and soul sand valleys: 1 block = 9 bone meal.
What it grows
| Use it on | What happens |
|---|---|
| Crops | Grow a few stages |
| Saplings | Chance to grow into a tree |
 Grass block | Grass and flowers sprout around it |
| Tall flowers | Drops a copy of the flower |
| Mushrooms | Chance to grow a huge mushroom |
 Moss block | Spreads moss nearby |
| Sand or dirt underwater | Grows seagrass |
Free dyes
Bone meal on a Sunflower, lilac, rose bush or peony drops another one. That's endless yellow, magenta, red and pink dye.
What it doesn't grow
On Java, bone meal doesn't work on sugar cane, cactus or nether wart. On Bedrock, it does grow sugar cane and cactus.
DispensersA dispenser with bone meal uses it on the block in front when powered. Good for automatic farms.
Cheat sheet
- 1 bone = 3 bone meal
- Composter gives 1
- Tall flowers duplicate
- Not for sugar cane on Java
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