Bone Meal
| Type |
Dyes |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
| Data value |
dec: 35115 hex: 15F15 bin: 10101111115 |
| Name |
See § Data values |
Bone meal is a material that can be used as a dye[until JE 1.14], as well as a fertilizer for most plants.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Crafting[edit]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Bone | |
| Bone Block |
Fish[edit]
All 4 fish mob variants (cod, salmon, tropical fish, and pufferfish) have a 5% chance to drop 1 bone meal upon death.[Java Edition only]
Composters[edit]
When a composter is completely filled, a single bone meal will drop the next time the composter is used.[upcoming: JE 1.14 & BE 1.11]
Trading[edit]
Wandering traders sell 3 bone meal for an emerald.[Bedrock Edition only]
Usage[edit]
Dye[edit]
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 or 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]
- Used to dye water contained in cauldrons.[Bedrock Edition only]
- Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.
- Combined with compounds to craft balloons or glow sticks.[Bedrock and Education editions only][until JE 1.14]
Crafting ingredient[edit]
Fertilizer[edit]
Bone meal can also be used on the following plants, to increase growth stage on them.
| Plant | Action |
|---|---|
| Wheat | The plant will grow 2–5 growth stages. |
| Beetroots | The plant has a 75% chance of growing to the next growth stage. |
| Bamboo | Grows the bamboo by one stem. |
| Melon seeds | The planted stem will grow 2–5 growth stages. Bone meal only affects the stem's growth; 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. |
| Sunflowers | The corresponding item form will drop, without destroying the original plant. |
| Tall grass | A one-block-high tall grass, fern, or seagrass (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. |
| Sweet berry bush[upcoming: JE 1.14] | Grows every stage. |
| Sugar cane[Bedrock and Legacy Console editions only] | The sugar cane will grow to maximum height (three blocks tall). Bone meal doesn't affect this in the Java Edition. |
| Kelp[Bedrock Edition only] | The kelp plant will grow a random amount of blocks tall, unless the top reaches age 24. |
| Flower[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 doesn't affect this in the Java Edition or Legacy Console Editions. |
Bone meal does not affect:
- Cactus
- Vines
- Nether wart
- Chorus plants, or other plants not listed above.
Creating new plants[edit]
If bone meal is used on a grass block, 0–8 tall grass, 8–24 grass and 0–8 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 Flower § Flower biomes for more information.
Using bone meal on a non-transparent block that is underwater will generate seagrass on that block and its surrounding blocks. Sometimes, coral will be generated in its place instead, or if in a warm ocean biome, coral fans may have a chance to generate as well.[Java Edition only] In order for this to work, there must be 2 water blocks above the block the bone meal is being used on, and the lower one must be non-flowing water.
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
| Item | Name ID |
|---|---|
| Bone Meal | bone_meal
|
| Item | Name ID | Numeric ID |
|---|---|---|
| Bone Meal | dye
|
351 |
In Bedrock Edition, bone meal has the ID name 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 | |
| 16 | Black Dye | |
| 17 | Brown Dye | |
| 18 | Blue Dye | |
| 19 | White Dye |
Video[edit]
History[edit]
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 | Bone meal added. | ||||
| 1.6.6 | Bone meal can now be applied on grass blocks. | ||||
| 1.8 | Pre-release | Bone meal can be used on mushrooms to make Huge Mushrooms, and the block the mushroom is on changes to dirt. | |||
| Pre-release 2 ;) | Bone meal can now be applied on pumpkin and melon seed items. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 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).
| |||
| Green particles are now displayed when bone meal is used. | |||||
| Bone meal can now 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 bone meal (results vary from plant to plant).[1] | ||||
| 1.10 | 16w20a | Bone meal can now be used to craft bone blocks. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The different data values for the dye ID have been split up into their own IDs.
| |||
| Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 351. | |||||
| 18w07a | Bone meal can now be used underwater to create seagrass. | ||||
| 18w14b | Bone meal can now be used for spreading sea pickles. | ||||
| 1.13.1 | 18w31a | Bone meal used in water of warm ocean biomes now has a chance of growing coral. | |||
| Cod, salmon, tropical fish, and pufferfish now have a chance of dropping bone meal upon death. | |||||
| 18w32a | Bone meal used in water of warm ocean biomes now has a chance of growing coral fans. | ||||
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Bone meal is now used to craft white dye. | |||
| Bone meal can no longer be used as a dye. | |||||
 Changed the texture of bone meal. | |||||
| 19w03a | Bone meal can be obtained from composters. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.3.3 | Added bone meal. | ||||
| 0.8.0 | build 2 | Bone meal no longer instantly grows crops to full size. | |||
| build 5 | Pumpkin and melon stems will now only grow by one when bone meal is used. | ||||
| Some flowers will now spawn certain other flowers when bone meal is used on them. | |||||
| Bone meal can now grow ferns and tall grass in Survival and Creative. | |||||
| Bone meal can now grow sugar canes to maximum height. | |||||
| 0.9.0 | build 11 | Bone meal can be used to dye tamed wolf collar. | |||
| 0.14.0 | build 1 | Bone meal can now be used from dispensers. | |||
| Bone meal can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Bone meal can now be used to dye shulkers. | |||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Bone meal can now be used to craft white concrete powder, white beds and white shulker boxes. | |||
| 1.1.3 | alpha 1.1.3.0 | Bone meal can now be used to craft bone blocks. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Bone meal can now be used to craft white stained glass. | |||
| Bone meal can now be used to craft firework stars. | |||||
| Bone meal can now be used to create banner patterns. | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.14.2 | Bone meal can now be used underwater for growing seagrass and coral. | |||
| beta 1.2.20.1 | Bone meal can now be used for spreading sea pickles. | ||||
| Bone meal can now be used to craft white balloons and white glow sticks. | |||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Bone meal can now be used to grow bamboo. | |||
| beta 1.8.0.10 | Bone meal can now be used to craft white dye. | ||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Bone meal are now sold by wandering traders. | |||
| Changed the texture of bone meal. | |||||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Bone meal can now be obtained from composters. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | Added bone meal. | |
| TU19 | CU7 | 1.12 | Bone meal will no longer instantly grow crops to full size. | ||
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Bone Meal" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[edit]
- 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[edit]
Bone meal used on grass blocks.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
