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Wheat Seeds
Miscellaneous

Wheat Seeds

A planting item sown on farmland to grow wheat crops. They are obtained by breaking grass and harvesting wheat, and are used to breed and lure chickens.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

wheat_seeds

Wheat Seeds at a glance

Miscellaneous hold Wheat Seeds: items out of natural world generation and farming. Carrying Wheat Seeds are cheap: 64 to a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 1728 in a chest.

Of the 2 kinds of generated chest that can hold Wheat Seeds, savanna village houses are the best bet at about 72% per chest. They sits between Wheat and White Dye in Miscellaneous, number 140 of 147 there.

How to obtain

  • Natural generation
  • Farming

Notes

Not a block. Officially named simply Seeds. Drop from breaking short grass, tall grass and ferns, and from harvesting mature wheat.

Frequently asked questions about Wheat Seeds

  1. Farming leading to Wheat Seeds, the way this answer says Wheat Seeds arrives

    How do you get Wheat Seeds in Minecraft?

    Wheat Seeds is obtained through natural world generation, and Wheat Seeds from farming. There is no recipe: Wheat Seeds are found, and savanna village houses give the best chance at about 72%.

  2. 64 Wheat Seeds drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Wheat Seeds can you stack?

    Wheat Seeds goes 64 to a slot, and savanna village houses hand over 1 to 5 at a time, so a full slot is at least 13 chests of searching. A double chest of Wheat Seeds comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

  3. Wheat Seeds on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Wheat Seeds used for?

    A planting item sown on farmland to grow wheat crops. They are obtained by breaking grass and harvesting wheat, and are used to breed and lure chickens.

  4. Wheat Seeds coming forward out of the past, in the game since Alpha

    When was Wheat Seeds added to Minecraft?

    Wheat Seeds was added in the early Alpha development period.

  5. A chest beside Wheat Seeds, the loot this answer lists

    Where do you find Wheat Seeds in chests?

    Wheat Seeds is chest loot in savanna village houses (about 72%, 1 to 5 at a time) and village fisher chests (about 57%, 1 to 3 at a time). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

Building with it

Wheat seeds come from breaking tall grass, which means every player has some within a minute of starting a world. Planted on tilled soil near water they grow into wheat, and wheat feeds bread, cows, sheep and horses, which is most of a survival food supply.