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Bone Meal
MiscellaneousCraftable

Bone Meal

A crafting and farming item made from bones. It is used as fertilizer to grow plants instantly.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

bone_meal

Bone Meal at a glance

Minecraft files Bone Meal under Miscellaneous: an item you get from crafting. A single slot takes 64 Bone Meal, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest.

Bone Meal additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Bone Block and White Dye. Generated chests only ever hold Bone Meal in one place: trial chamber supply barrels (about 20%, 2 to 5 at a time). It sits between Bone and Book in Miscellaneous, number 10 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
BoneBone
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Used to craft

2 items take Bone Meal on the crafting grid, Bone Block and White Dye among them, with Utility Blocks accounting for 1. Each link below opens that recipe with Bone Meal in the grid.

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Mobs that drop it

Cod is one of the 4 mobs dropping Bone Meal, at 1 a kill.

Notes

Grows crops, flowers and saplings, and is also produced by composters. Crafts into White Dye and Bone Blocks.

Frequently asked questions about Bone Meal

  1. Bone going into Bone Meal, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Bone Meal in Minecraft?

    Bone Meal is crafted from Bone at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 3.

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

    How many Bone Meal can you stack?

    64 Bone Meal fill one slot, and filling it costs 22 Bone, since each one returns 3: 22 crafts. A double chest of Bone Meal comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

  3. Bone Meal turning into Bone Block and White Dye, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Bone Meal used for?

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

  4. A chest beside Bone Meal, the loot this answer lists

    Where do you find Bone Meal in chests?

    Bone Meal is chest loot in one place and one only: trial chamber supply barrels (about 20%, 2 to 5 at a time). No other generated chest lists it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.

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

    When was Bone Meal added to Minecraft?

    Bone Meal was added in the early Alpha development period.

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

    Which mobs drop Bone Meal?

    Cod is one of the 4 mobs dropping Bone Meal, at 1 a kill.

Building with it

Bone meal fertilises crops, grows flowers on grass, spreads moss and sea pickles, and dyes anything white. Three per bone from any skeleton makes it effectively unlimited, and a skeleton farm turns a wheat field into a harvest every few seconds.

Related Astroworld Resources

Cod drops Bone Meal

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

Pufferfish drops Bone Meal

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

Salmon drops Bone Meal

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

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