How to Get and Plant Seeds in Minecraft

Farming in Minecraft is similar to farming in real life. Unless you are using the best Minecraft mods to get a tractor, the process to get seeds in Minecraft is simple. However, different seed types require different methods to obtain and plant them. The ones we will focus on here can be used to grow in-game crops, including wheat, melon, and more. But beyond these benefits, creating a farm in Minecraft is fun in general, too. The in-game methods to collect each seed in Minecraft aren’t always the same. So, like proper farmers, we will go over how to plant seeds in Minecraft and start building your farm.

How to Get Wheat and Beetroot Seeds in Minecraft

If you spawn in villages of Minecraft, seeds are the easiest to come across. Both beetroot and wheat seeds can be found in chests, on trading with villagers, and by natural harvesting. Naturally, you can come across wheat and beetroot crops growing in the villages too. However, the chance of that happening is very low. There’s only a 10% chance of beetroots growing naturally on a village farm.

So, generally speaking, beetroots are a rare type of food item. That’s why you can find its seeds in the chests while exploring the Mansions, Mineshafts, and even the End City. But if we leave aside the loot, we can also harvest beetroot and wheat seeds easily. Here’s how.

• To start, locate fully grown wheat or beetroot crops for their seeds. You can even break grass blocks to get wheat seeds.
• Now, we aim for fully grown crops, so we can get the seeds alongside the main products — wheat and beetroot.
• Breaking the crops before maturity will drop seeds, but not the food item itself. Fully grown crops would look like the following screenshot:

• Then, approach the crops and left-click on them or use the action button to break them. It’s similar to attacking an in-game mob or breaking a block.
• Breaking the crop will lead them to drop seeds and the main item as well. You can then easily pick them up if your character touches them.

How to Make Melon and Pumpkin Seeds in Minecraft

Another important part of planting seeds in Minecraft is learning how melon and pumpkin seeds work. In terms of looting, we can find both of them in rare chests, including the ones in dungeons, Mineshafts, and Woodland mansions. Additionally, pumpkin seeds can also be found in chests that spawn in taiga villages.

You can also get both these seeds by trading with wandering traders. We have written a detailed guide on how to get melon seeds in Minecraft, so check out the linked article. Moreover, the easiest way to get melon or pumpkin is by harvesting the plant. Here’s how that works:

1. Harvest a Pumpkin or a Melon

• To begin, find a fully grown pumpkin or melon that you want to harvest.
• Breaking a half-grown plant can also sometimes give you seeds, but not the actual food item. They would look like the following screenshot.

• Then, once you get close to them, press and hold down your left click or action button.
• Keep doing this until the grown fruit breaks. It’s similar to breaking any other block in the game, but you don’t need any tool to do it.

• Once the fruit breaks, it will drop an item, which is the fruit itself in the case of pumpkin, and a melon slice in the case of melon.
• Getting close to the dropped items will make your character pick them. You will also note that, unlike other crops, melon and pumpkin don’t leave the soil tilled. Once you harvest a pumpkin or a melon, the soil turns back to regular soil.

2. Get Pumpkin and Melon Seeds

• Now, open a crafting table or your own inventory by pressing “E” or your assigned inventory button.
• In the crafting area, place your newly harvested crop (pumpkin or melon) in any of the cells to turn them into seeds in Minecraft.
• You can then place these seeds in your inventory. Clicking the seeds and then clicking on an empty cell in your inventory will move them immediately.

Alternatively, you can also use shears on pumpkins by right-clicking on them to harvest their seeds. This doesn’t work on any other crop. You can refer to our guide on how to make shears in Minecraft to know about its crafting recipe.

Even though harvesting different seeds can be slightly different from one another but the method to use them remains the same.

How to Get Torchflower and Pitcher Pod Seeds in Minecraft

Apart from these, there are two other rarest and most unique seeds in Minecraft. Those are the Torchflower seeds and the Pitcher Pods. Unlike the traditional crops, these are some ancient seeds that cannot be found in villages or any other biome.

Instead, you must first get a Sniffer mob, which will dig out those seeds occassionally. You can find a Sniffer egg in Minecraft by brushing the suspicious sand and gravel in warm ocean ruins. Once it grows into an adult, it will lower its head and start searching through the soil. At times, a Torchflower seed or a Pitcher Pod has a small chance of being dropped on the ground.

How to Plant a Seed in Minecraft

The obvious thing you would want to do with the obtained seeds is to sow them and grow food items in your Minecraft world. So, whether you received your seeds from chests or harvesting, you can sow or use them the same way. It stays true for all types of seed-based plants in the game. Let me show you how to grow crops in Minecraft:

• Begin by finding grass or soil blocks. You can’t directly use these blocks to plant seeds in Minecraft, but they are the base blocks we need.

• Next, to make these blocks usable, you will need a hoe in Minecraft. With the hoe, right-click on the blocks or use the secondary action key.
• The soil’s color and texture will change once you do that, suggesting that the soil has been tilled.

• Now, with the seeds equipped, right-click on the tilled piece of block.
• That will immediately plant seeds, which will grow into the main crops after some time.
• You can later re-harvest the seeds to use them again to plant a new round of crops in Minecraft.

Note: Do make sure there’s a water source nearby for the crops to grow. It doesn’t have to be directly connected to the soil, just close by. As it absorbs water, the tilled soil will turn dark brown in color.

How to Grow Carrots and Potatoes in Minecraft

Covering all the basic foods in Minecraft, let’s turn our attention to carrots and potatoes in Minecraft. Even though carrots and potatoes don’t have dedicated seeds in the game, they can be grown and harvested just as easily. But a major difference is that if we try breaking a half-grown carrot or potato, they drop nothing. With that out of the way, learn how to grow potatoes and carrots.

• Most commonly found in village farms, you should start by finding fully grown potato and carrot crops. You can also find them in chests or by trading with villagers.

• Once you find the crops, approach the crops and left-click or use the action button to break them. It’s similar to attacking any in-game mob or block.
• Breaking the crop will make the carrot and potato drop like other in-game items. You can get close to them, and the character will pick them up automatically.

• Now, to make them work as a seed, all you need to do is plant them. Similar to sowing seeds, find a harvestable ground and right-click on it to plant them.
• Then, after some time, the carrots and potatoes will turn into full-grown crops that you can harvest and use as seeds once again. We also have a dedicated guide on how to get carrots and plant seeds in Minecraft, so check it out via the linked article.

The methods to obtain and use seeds work the same way for Minecraft Java and Bedrock editions. So, that completes the guide on how to plant seeds in Minecraft and plant them in your world. Are you feeling stuck at any step of the process? Let us know in the comments section below.