5 Best Uses for Bone Meal in Minecraft

If you’re doing pretty much anything with plant blocks, you will need bone meal in Minecraft. It not only speeds up the growth process but can multiply some blocks and also help automate a bunch of farms. Today, we will explain 5 different uses of bone meal and how incredible it is in Minecraft. So let’s begin!

1. Fertilizing and Multiplying Crop and Plant Blocks

One of the most popular uses of bone meal is fertilizing plants. When you use this item on a non-fully grown crop like a carrot, the crop will mature up to 5 growth stages. This applies to all sorts of crops and plants in Minecraft, such as wheat, potatoes, beetroot, cocoa beans, melon, or pumpkin seeds.

Apart from helping the crop grow a couple of stages, bone meal can also multiply blocks such as ferns, bamboo, moss blocks, kelp, sea pickles, pink petals, and more. This mechanic will let you obtain various resources quickly, be it crops for food or materials for crafting and smelting.

However, you cannot use bone meal on every plant block. The ones unaffected by bone meal are:

• Cactus
• Vines
• Nether wart
• Sugar cane (on Java edition only, it’s possible to bone meal sugar cane on Bedrock)
• Chorus plants

2. Make a Bone Block

Bone meal is a part of two crafting recipes in both Minecraft editions. Those include the recipe for white dye (more on this later) and bone block. Thanks to the latter recipe, it’s possible to compact bone meal and carry 576 of them in a single inventory slot.

You can always break down the bone block and get bone meal. Also, the bone block itself is pretty cool as a building block that goes well with quartz blocks, end stone blocks, and others.

4. Creating New Plant Blocks

Sometimes while using bone meal on a plant, you may get completely different plants too. This is the case for bone mealing grass blocks. The surface will grow short and tall grass, as well as one-block tall flowers. In addition, by using bone meal on a two-block tall flower, the item of that flower will get dropped, essentially duplicating the flower.

Using bone meal on saplings will grow trees, so you can easily and quickly gather wood. Whereas, if you bone meal mushrooms, huge mushrooms consisting of mushroom blocks will grow. Underwater blocks will grow seagrass if bone mealed and nylium will spread to an adjacent netherrack block and will grow fungus on top.

4. Color Items with White Dye

Bone meal has a special use on the Bedrock edition, similarly to lapis lazuli and ink sac. These are all color dyes in Minecraft. Bone meal behaves like a white dye and is therefore a part of all dye recipes in the game, such as for white terracotta, white concrete, white glass, white glass panes, white wool, lime dye, light blue dye, and others.

Moreover, you may use bone meal to color sheep, pets’ collars, water in a cauldron, and more. As for how you make white dye, it’s simple. Place bone meal in the crafting grid to get white dye.

5. Automate Plant Farms with Bone Meal

One of the best properties of bone meal is that dispensers can use it similarly to players. Because of this, it’s possible to automatically produce and obtain all the plant blocks that can grow with bone meal. Just some of the farms that use this item are moss farms, nano crop farms, flower farms, tree farm, mushroom farms, and many more.

With that said, you know about the top bone meal uses in Minecraft and how important it is. This item single-handedly greatly improves the Minecraft experience and offers various opportunities. So, what do you use bone meal for the most? Let us know in the comments below!