Plant Seeds in Minecraft
There are various plants that you can grow in Minecraft for use as food, brewing, decoration and dyes. You'll need the seeds first and then you can plant them. It's all explained here, beginning with the most useful plant, wheat.
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Steps
Wheat
This is the most common and basic plant that you're likely to begin with when first playing Minecraft.
- Break tall grass. Some tall grass will produce seeds when broken. To break the grass, left click on it.
- Collect the seeds by walking over them.
- Craft a hoe. Use sticks and your material of choice to make it.
- Plant the seeds.
- Using the hoe, on dirt or grass, right click. It will produce farmland.
- Make sure that you've placed the farmland near a water source, as this will make the plants grow faster.
- Right click with the seeds in your hand, on the farmland. The seeds will be planted.
- Wait for a while. The seeds will grow into wheat plants. These can be harvested when they turn yellow. Left click to harvest.
Carrots and Potatoes
These provide new crop varieties for you to plant.
- To obtain your first carrots or potatoes, you'll need to kill zombies. Or, find the carrots or potatoes in villages.
- Don't eat them! You won't be able to grow what your character has consumed already.
- Make farmland near water. Plant the potatoes or carrots by right clicking while holding the vegetable of choice. The vegetable will be planted.
- Wait. Carrots are ready to be harvested when you can see the orange portion poking out of the ground. The potatoes are ready to be harvested when you can see their distinct brown color.
Melons and Pumpkins
- To obtain melons and pumpkins, look for seeds in abandoned mine shafts. You can also find pumpkins in the world generally; to pick up, simply break them and walk over the pumpkins.
- Make farmland near water.
- Plant the melons or pumpkins. Hold the melon or pumpkin seeds and right click to plant.
- Wait. The melons or pumpkins are ready to be harvested when there is a melon or pumpkin block next to the plant.
Other Plants You Can Grow
- Advance to other plants. There are various other plants that can be planted in Minecraft. Each of these has specific planting requirements. For example, saplings, sugar cane, cactus, vines, cocoa pods etc.
- Saplings: Obtain by breaking leaves. Plant in dirt or grass.
- Sugar cane: Obtain in the wild, next to rivers. Plant next to water.
- Cocoa pods: Found on jungle trees. Plant on jungle wood.
- Vines: Found on jungle trees. Plant anywhere. Harvest with shears.
- Cactus: Found in deserts. Plant on sand. Harvest with caution––ouch!
- Mushrooms: Found in swamps, caves and other places. Plant in the dark.
- Nether wart: Found in nether fortresses. Plant on soul sand.
- Flowers: Found in the wild on grass. Plant on grass; you can really only transfer a flower from one place to another. Or, you can obtain bonemeal and right click on the ground and you might get a flower if you're lucky.
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Tips
- Most plants can be planted and farmed. Many plants can also be found and harvested from the wild.
- Some plants will change color, depending on which biome they're grown in.
- Bonemeal can "insta-grow" lots of plants. It is made by putting a bone into the crafting grid. It is applied to a plant by right clicking. For versions 1.7.0 and up, bonemeal cannot "insta-grow" plants (you have to use 3 to 4 bonemeal).
- Some plants can be popped into a flowerpot for decoration. You will need to craft the flowerpot. The plants that can be placed into a flowerpot are: saplings, mushrooms, flowers, cacti, ferns and dead bushes.
Things You'll Need
- Minecraft, installed
Related Articles
- Plant Trees in Minecraft
Sources and Citations
- Cross checked against Minecraft Wiki, http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Plants
