Farmland

See also: farming

Farmland

Transparency	Java Edition: Partial (Blocks light) BE: Yes
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	3
Tool
Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Drops	Dirt (1)
Data value	dec: 60 hex: 3C bin: 111100
Name	farmland

	“	Want to live the Good Life? With a little bit of graft, you can delight in nature’s bounty - and in a happily sustainable way! The secret is dirt - and what you can do with it. Your average dirt block can be transformed into a ready and reusable dispenser for all manner of yummy foods: wheat, melons, pumpkins, carrots and potatoes.	„
		— Marsh Davies

Farmland is a block on which seeds and root vegetables can be planted and grown.

Obtaining

To make a block of farmland, use a hoe on dirt, grass block or grass path.

When mined (even with a Silk Touch tool), farmland drops dirt. In Java Edition, it can only be obtained in the inventory using commands or the pick block control. In Bedrock Edition, it cannot be obtained by any means.

Block	Farmland
Hardness	0.6
Tool
Breaking time
Hand	0.9
Wooden	0.45
Stone	0.25
Iron	0.15
Diamond	0.15
Golden	0.1

Natural generation

Farmland occurs naturally in villages where wheat, potatoes, carrots and beetroots are grown. Patches of farmland are surrounded by logs or sandstone. They also naturally occur in woodland mansions.

Usage

Farmland is required to grow six of the game's types of crops (5 in Legacy Console Edition).

Plants such as saplings, ferns, tall grass and flowers may be planted on farmland. Mushrooms, sugar canes and cactus cannot be planted on farmland.

Hydration

Conditions in which farmland is and is not hydrated.

A farmland block will be created dry. It will become hydrated if the following conditions are met:

1. Water up to four blocks away horizontally, including diagonals.
2. The water must be on the same level or 1 block above farmland block level.

The blocks between the farmland block and the water make no difference.

There is nothing the player can do to affect the rate at which farmland becomes hydrated. Each farmland block within a 9x9 grid of farmland with a single water block in the middle has exactly the same chance of becoming hydrated as a single farmland block in an ocean.

Farmland can also be hydrated by rain.

Different types of seeds grow faster on hydrated farmland than on dry farmland. Hydrated farmland will yield a fully developed wheat crop in a little over a single day/night cycle.

Decay

Under certain conditions, a farmland block will "decay" becoming a dirt block, regardless of its state of hydration. This will happen if any of the following occur:

• If the farmland block is dehydrated and nothing is planted on it for too long.
• If the player or any mob jumps/falls on the block (with a greater chance as falling speed increases).
  • In the Java Edition , mobs smaller than 0.512 cubic block cannot destroy farmland. This includes parrots, rabbits, chickens, bats, ocelots, wolves, cave spiders, endermites, silverfish, baby mobs, small slimes, and small magma cubes.
• If a piston arm is extended over a farmland block.
• If a piston pushes a farmland block down.
• If a solid block covers the top surface of the farmland block such as when pumpkin or melon blocks appear.
• If an enderman teleports directly on top of a farmland block.
• If snow falls directly on top of a farmland block .

When farmland decays, crops at the top are dropped as items, as if they were harvested.

Data values

Block data

See also: Data values

Value	Meaning
0	Dry land
1 to 7	Increasing levels of wetness. The wetness value counts down to 0 while the farmland does not have access to water. The wet texture is only used on level 7.

Block state

See also: Block states

Name	Value	Description
moisture	0–6	Not fully-hydrated.
	7	Fully-hydrated.

Video

Note: The video states that wheat, pumpkins and melons can be grown on farmland. This was before the introduction of potatoes, carrots and beetroot seeds which can also be grown on farmland. Also, the video states that sneaking is a good way to avoid trampling crops. This was prior to 1.1, where it was changed so that walking on farmland does not damage it.

History

Classic
May 21, 2009					Notch shows interest in adding farmland.
Indev
February 6, 2010					Added farmland.
Beta
1.2					There was a bug that would allow players to destroy any block (even bedrock) by placing a dirt block under a block, tilling the dirt, and planting seeds on the dirt. This would cause the block above the tilled dirt to disappear without giving a resource.
1.6					Farmland could not be dug faster using a shovel. Saplings couldn't be planted onto farmland; however, if a sapling was planted, and the block below was tilled, the sapling would remain. This was changed and now the player can plant saplings onto farmland, but they will not grow until the land reverts to dirt.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5		When the player tilled a dirt block, the top layer was removed, but due to the way tilled dirt blocks were textured, it appeared as if the block sank into the ground. The texture for the sides shifted down instead of the top pixels being removed.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6		Fixed placing fences below farmland blocks making the farmland and crops immune to decay caused by players or animals walking on them.
			?		Passive mobs could spawn on nearby and lit grass, trampling the crops.
1.1			11w48a		Farmland can now only be trampled if the player jumps onto it; walking no longer affects it. Animals, villagers, and other mobs can similarly trample farmland by jumping on it, but not by walking.
			11w49a		Particles no longer destroy farmland.
			?		Melon and pumpkin blocks no longer need farmland to spawn onto, as they can now grow on normal dirt or grass blocks.
1.9			15w46a		Small mobs no longer turn farmland to dirt by falling on it.
1.10.1					Reduced from a full block tall to 15⁄16.
1.11			16w38a		Using pick block gives the player the farmland itself instead of dirt.
			16w39a		Farmland now generates in woodland mansions.
1.13			17w47a		Farmland is now available in the creative inventory.
					Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 60.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.4.0					Added farmland.
0.5.0					Farmland can be trampled into dirt when jumped on.
0.9.0			build 1		Farmland now naturally spawns in villages.
Pocket Edition
1.1			build 1		Farmland now generates in woodland mansions.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	Patch s1	Added farmland.
TU55	CU47	1.54	Patch 25	Patch s5	Farmland is a block if you "pick block" it in creative mode.
Unknown
?					Farmland can no longer be harvested while walking on it.[verify]

Issues

Issues relating to "Farmland" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Ladders and torches cannot be attached to the side of a farmland block, but signs can.
• Farmland will not be trampled when walking off of a slab next to it.
• Farmland will not decay if the player 'jumps' onto it, with a block two blocks above the farmland being jumped on.
• The flowing water that comes off of a source block hydrates farmland just as source blocks do.

See also

• Farming

References

Blocks

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