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Bone
Miscellaneous

Bone

An item dropped by skeletons and other skeletal mobs. It is crafted into bone meal and used to tame wolves.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

bone

Bone at a glance

Minecraft files Bone under Miscellaneous: an item you get from mob drops, chest loot, and fishing. A slot of Bone holds 64, nine slots hold 576, and 1728 fill a chest.

Bone additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Bone Meal. Of the 5 kinds of generated chest that can hold Bone, desert pyramid chests are the best bet at about 70% per chest. It sits between Bolt Armor Trim and Bone Meal in Miscellaneous, number 9 of 147 there.

Used to craft

Bone Meal is the one recipe that asks for Bone, and the link below opens that grid. Every name in the list has a page of its own, grid included, with Bone in it.

How to obtain

  • Mob drops
  • Chest loot
  • Fishing

Mobs that drop it

Bogged is one of the 6 mobs dropping Bone, at 0 to 2 a kill. Looting III turns Bogged into 5 Bone instead of 2, 1 per level.

Notes

Right-click a wild wolf with a bone to tame it. Crafts into 3 bone meal.

Frequently asked questions about Bone

  1. Mob drops leading to Bone, the way this answer says Bone arrives

    How do you get Bone in Minecraft?

    Bone is obtained through mob drops, Bone from chest loot, and Bone from fishing. There is no recipe for Bone, but 1 recipe asks for it.

  2. 64 Bone drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Bone can you stack?

    Bone at 64 a slot, and Bone Meal takes 1 per craft, so a full slot is 64 Bone Meal with nothing left over. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once.

  3. Bone coming forward out of the past, in the game since Alpha

    When was Bone added to Minecraft?

    Bone was added in the early Alpha development period.

  4. Several Bone at once, the way a kill drops them

    Which mobs drop Bone?

    Bogged is one of the 6 mobs dropping Bone, at 0 to 2 a kill. Looting III turns Bogged into 5 Bone instead of 2, 1 per level.

  5. A chest beside Bone, the loot this answer lists

    Where do you find Bone in chests?

    Bone is chest loot in desert pyramid chests (about 70%, 1 to 8 at a time), jungle temple chests (about 62%, 4 to 6 at a time), dungeon chests (about 58%, 1 to 8 at a time), and woodland mansion chests (about 58%, 1 to 8 at a time). It shows up in 5 kinds of chest in total. Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

  6. Bone turning into Bone Meal, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Bone used for?

    Bone is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Bone Meal.

Building with it

Skeletons drop bones, and one bone gives three bone meal. Bones also tame wolves, which is the other half of their value, so a night of skeleton hunting supplies both a farm's fertiliser and a pack of dogs.

Related Astroworld Resources

Bogged drops Bone

The Bogged page on Astroworld Mobs, where Bone is listed as a drop

Parched drops Bone

The Parched page on Astroworld Mobs, where Bone is listed as a drop

Skeleton drops Bone

The Skeleton page on Astroworld Mobs, where Bone is listed as a drop

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