Wheat Seeds

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

Wheat Seeds

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	None
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	?
Luminant	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

Wheat seeds are items used in farming.

Obtaining

Breaking

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

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.

The looting is calculated by a binomial distribution: a drop is attempted three times with a success rate of around 57% to yield the 0–3 drops. Each level of Fortune enchantment increases the number of attempts by one.

Namespaced ID	Source	Drops
		Wheat	Wheat Seeds
			Default tool	With Fortune I	With Fortune II	With Fortune III
blocks/wheat	Wheat (age 0–6)	0	1	1	1	1
	Wheat (age 7)	1	0 (~7.87%) or 1 (~31.49%) or 2 (~41.98%) or 3 (~18.66%)	0 (~3.37%) or 1 (~17.99%) or 2 (~35.98%) or 3 (~31.99%) or 4 (~10.66%)	0 (~1.44%) or 1 (~9.64%) or 2 (~25.70%) or 3 (~34.27%) or 4 (~22.85%) or 5 (~6.09%)	0 (~0.62%) or 1 (~4.96%) or 2 (~16.52%) or 3 (~29.38%) or 4 (~29.38%) or 5 (~15.67%) or 6 (~3.48%)

Natural generation

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

Chest loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Wheat Seeds	Village	Fisherman's chest	1–3	57.5%
		Savanna house chest	1–5	71.7%
Bedrock Edition
Wheat Seeds	Village	Savanna house chest	1–5	71.7%

Trading

Wandering traders sell wheat seeds for an emerald.

Usage

Crop

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 9 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 destroyed because crops are a non-solid block.

Breeding

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

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

Composting

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

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the block	block.crop.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	0.9	?	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.grass.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	Mining the block	block.grass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	Placing the block	item.crop.plant	subtitles.block.generic.place	0.45	?, 1.2	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.grass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

^{[needs in-game testing]}

Sound	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
?	Breaking the block	dig.grass	0.5	0.8
?	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	?	?
?	Mining the block	hit.grass	0.6	0.5
?	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	?	?
?	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.grass	?	?
?	Walking on the block	step.grass	?	?
?	Placing the block	dig.grass	1	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Item form?	Translation key
Wheat Crops	wheat	No	block.minecraft.wheat
Wheat Seeds	wheat_seeds	Yes	item.minecraft.wheat_seeds

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Wheat	wheat	59	tile.wheat.name
Seeds	wheat_seeds	295	item.wheat_seeds.name

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, wheat uses the following data values:

Icon	Value
	0
	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
	6
	7

Block states

See also: Block states

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
age‌[JE only] growth‌[BE only]	0	0
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7	Fully-grown.

Advancements

Main article: Advancement

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 crops. Other crops and plants, if any, can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/plant_seed

History

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 be planted on farmland.
					Seeds have a chance of dropping while using a hoe on a grass block.
					The block form of seeds, when in the inventory, shows the newly planted texture.
					While blocks have four bits assigned for metadata, only the bottom three are used by wheat. As the seven textures for wheat are all arranged in a straight line, wheat blocks with metadata values 8 through 15 overflow and start reading textures from the next line of terrain.png. Six of these appear as missing textures, however 11 and 12 borrow from the otherwise-unused chair and table textures.
Java Edition Infdev
20100607					The textures of two of the extreme wheat blocks have changed with the addition of wooden doors.
20100618					The textures of doors and the chair texture have changed, changing the textures of bugged wheat with them. The left hinge is used by data 9, and the right hinge is used by data 10.
20100624					The right-hinge door texture has been removed, reverting data value 10 of wheat to the missing texture.
20100629					The chair and table textures have been removed, reverting these data values of wheat to the missing texture.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.1					The textures of three extreme data values of wheat have changed with the addition of levers (used by 8), iron doors (used by 10), redstone torches (used by 11) and crosses and lines of redstone wire (used by 12 and 13).
v1.2.0		preview			The textures of two extreme data values of wheat have changed with the addition of pumpkins (used by 14) and netherrack (used by 15).
Java Edition Beta
1.3					Changes to the rendering of redstone has caused its old textures to be removed, reverting data values 12 and 13 to the missing texture.
1.5					Wheat crops destroyed by water now drop both wheat 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.
					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.
					The textures of two extreme wheat stages have changed with the addition of cracked stone bricks (used by 13) and mossy stone bricks (used by 12).
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5			The netherrack texture has been slightly changed, resulting in a change in appearance of the glitched netherrack wheat.
1.4.2		12w36a			Chickens now use seeds instead of wheat to breed.
1.5		13w02a			Due to changes in texture storage, loading a chunk that contained an invalid data value of wheat would cause the game to immediately crash due to having nowhere to pull from.
?					Wheat with extreme data values 8-15 now always appears as fully grown wheat.
1.7.2		13w37a			The item form of the wheat crop block has 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.
		14w10a			Extreme data values of wheat now appear as full missing texture cubes.
1.9		15w38a			The drop chances of wheat has 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 been renamed to "Wheat Seeds".
1.14		18w43a			The textures of wheat crops have been changed.
					The drop rate of fully grown wheat seeds has been changed from 0-3 to 1-4.
		18w44a			The textures of wheat crops of age 6 and 7 have been changed again.
		18w47a			The textures of wheat crops have been changed, once again.
		19w03a			Placement and breaking sounds have been added to wheat crops.
					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.
					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 been added to wheat crops.
					The textures of wheat crops have been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Wheat seeds can now be found in savanna village house chests.
					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.
					Added wheat crops.
		1.90			The textures of wheat crops have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added seeds.
					Added wheat crops.

Issues

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Gallery

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  All the seeds that exist.

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  Wheat generated in a village

Notes

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