Bone Meal

Bone Meal

Type	Wool dyes
Durability	N/A
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Data value	dec: 35115 hex: 15F15 bin: 10101111115
Name	dye 15

Bone meal is a material that can be used as a dye as well as a fertilizer for most plants.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Bone	3
Bone Block	9

Usage

Dye

Like all other dyes, bone meal can be:

• Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of white wool.
• Applied to tamed wolves to dye their collars.
• Used to dye/stain leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta and shulker boxes.
• Combined with gunpowder to make a firework star.
• Combined with a firework star to create a “fade to color” effect.
• Used to add patterns to banners.
• Used to dye shulkers.^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
• Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Bone Block	Bone Meal
Gray Dye	Ink Sac + Bone Meal	2
Light Blue Dye	Lapis Lazuli + Bone Meal	2
Light Gray Dye	Gray Dye + Bone Meal	2
Light Gray Dye	Ink Sac + Bone Meal	3
Lime Dye	Cactus Green + Bone Meal	2
Magenta Dye	Lapis Lazuli + Bone Meal + Rose Red	4
Pink Dye	Rose Red + Bone Meal	2
White Bed	White Bed + Bone Meal		White bed can be re-dyed using dyes.[Java Edition only]
White Bed	Any Bed + Bone Meal		A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.[Bedrock and Legacy Console editions only]
White Concrete Powder	Bone Meal + Sand + Gravel	8
White Firework Star	Gunpowder + Bone Meal + Head or Gold Nugget or Feather or Fire Charge + Glowstone Dust + Diamond		Up to eight dyes can be added. Up to one of any head, a gold nugget, a feather, or a fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients.
White Shulker Box	Any Shulker Box + Bone Meal
White Stained Glass	Glass + Bone Meal	8
White Terracotta	Terracotta + Bone Meal	8
White Banner pattern	Bone Meal + Banner
White Banner image	Bone Meal + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple

Fertilizer

• Seeds, potatoes, carrots: The plant will grow 2–5 growth stages.
• Beetroots: The plant has a 75% chance of growing to the next growth stage.
• Melon and pumpkin seeds: The planted stem will grow 2–5 growth stages. Bone meal only affects the stem itself; it will not cause melons or pumpkins to sprout from a mature stem.
• Saplings: The 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 trees as the third stage. A tree will not grow if the sapling is not planted in proper ground or if sufficient space is not available.
• Grass blocks: Tall grass, and usually a few flowers, will form on the targeted block and on randomly-selected adjacent grass blocks up to 7 blocks away (taxicab distance). The flowers that appear are dependent on the biome, meaning that in order to obtain specific flowers, the player must travel to biomes where the flowers are found naturally. See flowers for more information.
• Sunflowers, lilacs, rose bushes, and peonies: The corresponding item form will drop, without destroying the original plant.
• Tall grass and ferns: A one-block-high tall grass or fern (that is on dirt, grass, or farmland) will grow into a two-block-high tall grass or fern.
• Mushrooms: Has a 40% chance of growing into a huge mushroom if on dirt, coarse dirt, grass, podzol or mycelium.
• Cocoa: The cocoa plant will grow 1 growth stage.
• Sugar canes:^{[Bedrock Edition only]} The sugar cane will grow to maximum height (three blocks tall).
• Flowers:^{[Bedrock Edition only]} One-block-high flowers will make more flowers grow in the surrounding area. Dandelions will produce dandelions, and other flowers will produce poppies.

Bone meal does not affect cacti, vines, nether wart, chorus plants, or other plants not listed above.

Data values

Bone meal has the ID name minecraft:dye, with a data value of 15.

	DV	Description
	0	Ink Sac
	1	Rose Red
	2	Cactus Green
	3	Cocoa Beans
	4	Lapis Lazuli
	5	Purple Dye
	6	Cyan Dye
	7	Light Gray Dye
	8	Gray Dye
	9	Pink Dye
	10	Lime Dye
	11	Dandelion Yellow
	12	Light Blue Dye
	13	Magenta Dye
	14	Orange Dye
	15	Bone Meal

Video

Note: This video is outdated, as it shows bone meal as it worked before it was changed in 1.5.

History

Beta
1.2					Bone meal added.
1.6.6					Bone meal can now be applied on grass blocks.
1.8			1.8-pre1		Bone meal can be used on mushrooms to make Huge Mushrooms, and the block the mushroom is on changes to dirt.
			1.8-pre2		Bone meal can now be applied on pumpkin and melon seeds.
Official release
1.3.1			12w19a		Bone meal can now be applied on cocoa beans.
1.4.2			12w34a		Bone meal can be used to dye leather armor and tamed wolf's collar.
1.4.6			12w49a		Bone meal can be crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star.
1.5			13w04a		Bone meal is significantly nerfed. Wheat, melon and pumpkin seeds, potatoes and carrots: one bone meal is consumed for all seven stages of growth. (Melon and pumpkin seeds do not spawn right away) Saplings: one bone meal is consumed for each of the two growth stages then it will grow into a tree Cocoa pods: one bone meal is consumed for each of the three stages of growth.
					Green particles are now displayed when bone meal is used.
					Bone meal can be used from dispensers.
			13w05a		Adjusted balancing of bone meal. Growing a plant to its last state now takes on average 2-5 uses of bonemeal (results vary from plant to plant).
1.10			16w20a		Bone meal can now be used to craft bone blocks.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.3.3					Added bone meal.
0.8.0			build 2		No longer instantly grows crops to full size.
			build 5		Pumpkin and melon stems only grow by one when bone meal is used
					Some flowers now spawn certain other flowers when bone meal is used on them.
					Can grow ferns and tall grass in Survival and Creative.
					Now grows sugar canes to maximum height.
Pocket Edition
1.1.3			build 1		Bone meal can now be used to craft bone blocks.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.00	Patch 1		Added bonemeal.
TU19	CU7	1.12			No longer instantly grows crops to full size.

Issues

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Trivia

• Bone meal can be used on the sides or bottom of a grass block, as well as on a grass block with plants already on top of it.
• Regardless of if it succeeds in fertilizing, bone meal makes green sparkles. However, like smoke from a torch, the sparkles only appear if the player has particles set All or Decreased.

Gallery

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  Bonemeal used on grass blocks

See also

• Farming

References

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