Wheat Seeds

Transparent	Yes
Luminance	0
Blast resistance	0
Tool	None
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Drops	Wheat Seeds (1) when not mature Wheat Seeds (1–4) when fully grown Wheat (1) when fully grown
Data values	See § Data values
Namespaced ID	See § Data values

This article is about wheat seeds. For other things called seeds, see Seeds (disambiguation).

Wheat seeds^[a] are items used in farming.

Obtaining[edit]

Grass[edit]

Wheat seeds can be obtained from breaking all variants of grass, which yields 0 to 1 seed. If harvested with a Fortune enchanted tool the drop rate from grass is increased.

Farming[edit]

Harvesting fully-grown wheat yields from 1 to 4 seeds per crop harvested (about 2.5 seeds/crop harvested on average).

Natural generation[edit]

Village farm plots have a 50% chance of being wheat crops.

Wheat seeds can be found in 57.5% of village fisherman chests in stacks of 1–3, and in 71.7% of savanna village house chests in stacks of 1–5.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Trading[edit]

Wandering traders sell wheat seeds for an emerald.

Usage[edit]

Crop[edit]

Main article: Crop Farming

Different stages of crop growth.

Wheat seeds can be placed on farmland by right-clicking, where they grow through eight stages. When left alone, wheat seeds planted on farmland grow to become wheat, which can be harvested by the player. Planted seeds require a light level of 10 or greater to continue growing. If the light level is 7 or below, the crops un-plant themselves ("pop off"). It is not possible to plant seeds if the light level is too low.

Crops grow faster if the farmland they are planted in is hydrated. Using Bone meal on crops also increases the speed of growth by randomly increasing their growth stage by 2 to 5.

Breaking the final stage produces 1 to 4 wheat seeds and 1 wheat. If they are harvested early, they drop 1 seed without any wheat.

Farmland may be trampled (reverted to a dirt block) if the player or any mob (passive or hostile) falls onto the farmland from 1 block or more (i.e jumping or walking off a ledge). If trampled, the crops have the same drop rates they would normally have.

If falling sand or gravel falls on wheat or any other crop, the falling sand/gravel is be destroyed because crops are a non-solid block.

Crops must be directly planted on the top of a farmland block; unlike most blocks, targeting the side of a block does not allow it to be placed.^[1]

Breeding[edit]

Wheat seeds can be used to breed chickens, lead chickens around, and make baby chickens grow up faster by 10% of the remaining time.

Taming[edit]

Like other seeds, wheat seeds can be used to tame parrots.

Composting[edit]

Placing wheat seeds into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Sounds[edit]

Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Attenuation distance
Block breaking	`block.grass.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	Blocks	0.5	0.25	16
Block broken	`block.crop.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	Blocks	?	0.9	16
Block placed	`item.crop.plant`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	Blocks	?, 1.2	0.45	16
Footsteps	`block.grass.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	Blocks	1.0	0.15	16
No subtitle	`block.grass.fall`	(Plays when fallen on from a height)	Blocks	0.75	0.5	16

Data values[edit]

ID[edit]

Wheat	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID‌^{[BE only]}
Seeds	`wheat_seeds`	295
Crops	`wheat`	59

Block data[edit]

Block states[edit]

Advancements[edit]

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	A Seedy Place	Plant a seed and watch it grow	Husbandry	Plant one of these 5 seeds. Crops and plants without seeds are ignored for the advancement.	`husbandry/plant_seed`

History[edit]

Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009					Notch shows interest in adding crops on farmland.
Java Edition Indev
February 6, 2010					Added seeds.
					Added wheat crops.
					Seeds can planted on farmland.
					Seeds have a chance of dropping while using a hoe on a grass block.
Java Edition Beta
1.5					Wheat crops destroyed by water now drop both seeds and wheat. Prior to this update, they dropped only wheat when destroyed by water.
1.6		Test Build 3			Seeds can now no longer be tilled from a grass block.
1.6		Test Build 3			Seeds are now found by destroying tall grass or by harvesting fully-grown wheat.
1.8		Pre-release			Wheat crops can now be found in village farms.
Java Edition
1.4.2		12w36a			Chickens now use seeds instead of wheat to breed.
1.7.2		13w37a			The item form of the wheat crop block has now been removed from the game. It can now no longer exist in inventories, only as a block in the world.
1.8		14w02a			Villagers can now harvest and plant seeds to grow wheat.
1.9		15w38a			The drop chances of wheat has now been has now been slightly improved from an average of 1 ³⁄₅ per crop harvested to 1 ⁵⁄₇.
1.11		16w39a			Wheat crops now generate inside woodland mansions.
1.12		pre3			Seeds are now used to tame parrots.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 59, and the item's was 295.
		18w14a			Seeds no longer become destroyed when an entity jumps on them if they have the Slow Falling status effect.
		18w20a			"Seeds" have now been renamed to "Wheat Seeds".
1.14		18w43a			The textures of wheat crops have now been changed.
		18w43a			The drop rate of fully grown wheat seeds has been changed from 0-3 to 1-4.
		18w44a			The textures of wheat crops have now been changed again.
		18w47a			The textures of wheat crops have now been changed, once again.
		19w03a			Placement and breaking sounds have now been added to wheat crops.
		19w03a			Placing wheat seeds into the new composter has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
		19w05a			Wheat seeds now have a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
1.15		19w34a			Bees can now pollinate wheat crops.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.4.0					Added seeds.
					Added wheat crops.
					Seeds can be obtained by tilling grass blocks.
0.9.0		build 1			Seeds can now be used to breed chicken.
0.9.0		build 1			Wheat crops can now be found in village farms.
0.12.1		build 1			Farmer villagers can now pick up, harvest and plant seeds to grow wheat.
		build 2			Wheat crops now always drop seeds when mined, regardless of growth stage.
		build 8			Seeds can now no longer be obtained by tilling grass blocks.
0.16.2					Seeds can now be found in chests inside the large house of snowy tundra and snowy taiga villages.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Wheat crops now generate inside woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Seeds are now used to tame parrots.
1.6.0		beta 1.6.0.1			Seeds no longer become destroyed when an entity jumps on them if they have the Slow Falling status effect.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Wheat seeds can now be bought from wandering traders.
					Placement and breaking sounds have now been added to wheat crops.
					The textures of wheat crops have now been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Wheat seeds can now be found in savanna village house chests.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Wheat seeds can now be used to fill up composters.
1.14.0		beta 1.14.0.1			Bees can now pollinate wheat crops.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added seeds.
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added wheat crops.
		1.90			The textures of wheat crops have now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added seeds.
0.1.0					Added wheat crops.