How to Make a Composter in Minecraft? How to use it to make bone meal?
Minecraft is full of activities and tasks. There are a gazillion things that you can build in the game. This includes making a composter! Once you get your hands on this valuable item, you can create an unlimited bone meal and use it as fertilizer to increase crop yields or make various dyes!
Making a Composter in Minecraft is relatively easy! You do not need a lot of items for it. However, using it is a bit tricky! So refer to our guide on making a Composter in Minecraft and using it to solve all your composting troubles.
Making a Composter in Minecraft
You only need one item to make a composter in Minecraft: wooden slabs. You will need seven of them to make one composter.
Wooden Slabs
You will first need to make woodblocks and then wood planks for making wooden slabs.
Go to a forest and look for trees. The trees can be of any variety; acacia, birch, jungle, oak, etc. Use an ax to chop the tree’s trunk and get wood. You will need at least two wood blocks from the same type of tree. They can be either two oak wood blocks, two acacia wood blocks, or any other wooden block.
Once you have your wood blocks, open your crafting table. Place one wood block in one of the crafting menu slots. Crafting them together will give you four wooden planks. Repeat the process to get eight wooden planks. You will need at least six of them to make the seven wooden slabs.
Finally, open your crafting table and place three wood planks in the middle row. Craft them together to get six wood slabs. Repeat the process to get seven wood slabs.
How to Make a Composter in Minecraft?
Now that you have the required items for making a composter, you only have one last thing to do. Open your crafting table and place the seven wooden slabs in it. Now Place three slabs in the right column and three in the left one. Place the last slab in the middle slot of the third row.
Your composter will be ready for use when crafting the slabs together is over.
Additionally, you can find naturally generated composters in villages. This is because a composter is the job site for a farmer’s villager.
How to use a Composter in Minecraft?
A Composter takes waste items that can be used as compost and turns them into bone meal! However, not every waste can be turned into bone meal, and you need to know which ones the composter can use!
Composting items
Below is a list of all the composting items you can use in your composter.
- Wheat
- Sugar Canes
- Cocoa Beans
- Fruit and Vegetables Apple, Carrot, Sweet Berries, Potato, Pumpkin, Melon Slice, Beetroot, Glow Berries, Poisonous Potato
- Shroomlight
- Seeds
- Grass and Tall Grass
- Vines
- Cacti
- Kelp
- Sea Pickle
- Sea Grass
- Fern and Large Fern
- Flowers- Peony, Lilac, Red Tulip, Orange Tulip, Oxeye Daisy, Rose Bush, Sunflower, Cornflower, Blue Orchid, Pink Tulip, Allium, Azure Bluet, White Tulip, Poppy, Wither Rose, Flowering Azalea, Lily Pad, Spore Blossom, Lily of the Valley, Dandelions, Mushrooms, Azalea
- Red Mushroom Block
- Saplings and Leaves- Oak, Birch, Jungle, Spruce, Dark Oak, Acacia
- Mangrove Propagule
- Azalea, Flowering Azalea, and Mangrove Leaves
- Crimson roots and warped roots,
- Crimson fungi and warped fungi
- Weeping Vines and Twisting Vines
- Hay Bale
- Block of Melon
- Carved Pumpkin
- Dried Kelp and Dried Kelp Block
- Baked Potato
- Pumpkin Pie
- Cookies
- Cake
- Bread
Using the Composter in Minecraft
Place your composter on the ground. Now, add some of the composting items from the list above. Seven layers of material are required for the composter to produce bone meal. Each time one layer is completed, you will see green particles, and the next begins.
Different composting items have different rates of creating composting layers. For example, cakes and pumpkin pies will create one layer every time. However, some things like saplings require at least four pieces to make one layer. Moreover, items will have a different rate of creating composting layers each time. For example, if five saplings make one layer one time, they might more or less next time.
Once the composting layers are complete, the composter will begin its job and spill some bone meal.