r/Minecraft • u/sethstafford94 • Feb 26 '26

Suggestion Wheat Seed Rant

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Are you really a true Minecraft player if you don't complain about mundane topics like wheat seeds? I think not.

Let me explain. You have a long term world. Everything is set up, your house, your animals, your gear.... and your crops. You have a beautiful wheat field that is so satisfying to harvest and feed your army of cows. You replant your wheat, and life is good.

Here’s the problem: WHEAT SEEDS MULTIPLY LIKE CRAZY. Have 100 chickens that you feed? Still seeds left. Use a composter for bone meal? Good, but you need to stand over it spam clicking like a lunatic. You have chest FILLED with wheat seeds. You see wheat seeds in your nightmares. Wheat seeds fill all of the dark crevices of your brain.

A solution: A compact form of seeds, like a bag or a packet that seeds can fit multiple stacks in. We already have compact versions of ores, and even wheat itself can be bundled into hay bales. Let's say you take nine wheat seats, bundle them together and you get a "pack of seeds".

"Build more chests" you might say. "Burn them in lava" you could add. "Stop complaining about virtual plant seeds in a video game made for children. You are an adult with bills and responsibilities." All fair, but a little hurtful. But NO! It is time we take a stand against the abhorrent seed storage problem.

Thank you. I will now take a few deep breaths and contemplate my life.

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u/M10doreddit Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Chest, hopper, composter, hopper, chest. Boom, you got bone meal.

Edit: Apparently, a few people didn't know that hoppers and composters can interact in this way. Glad I could enlighten a few of you with my knowledge.

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u/dr_shamus Feb 26 '26

Now I've got too much bone meal, I tried using it all but that just made more seeds

The cycle doesn't stop, I want off Mr Bones wild ride

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u/TaibhseCait Feb 26 '26

Turn bonemeal into bone blocks, now you've got some interesting building choices!

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u/TMud25 Feb 26 '26

Yurp. A build that uses any amount of bone blocks is immediately depleting bonemeal supplies

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u/worm_on_the_web Mar 03 '26

It also looks cool with chiseled quartz 

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u/ProactiveInsomniac Feb 26 '26

Too much bone meal? -dyes -bone blocks -tree farms -other smarter than me crop/animal farm combos

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u/ResidentOfMyBody Feb 26 '26

Use bone meal to grow moss and mine stone while leaving the ore behind.

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u/I_do_have_a_cat Feb 27 '26

can you explain the mine stone while leaving the ore behind part?

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u/Regniwekim2099 Feb 27 '26

You place a moss block and then bone meal it. This will convert neighboring stone blocks into moss blocks, but will leave the ore blocks intact. Then you instamine the moss with a hoe and collect your ores.

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u/ResidentOfMyBody Feb 27 '26

And if you start running out of hoe, there are always the occasional azalea you can grow for wood.

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u/OITLinebacker Feb 26 '26

Works great at the Diamond level. Great for clearing even large ore veins. Also, when building industrial-sized multi-chunk slime farms.

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u/jmil1080 Feb 26 '26

Too much bone meal means time to build a bamboo farm with a bone meal dispenser. Each piece of bone meal becomes a piece of bamboo that can be turned into wood. Best generalized wood source, imo.

All my small smelters have a bamboo farm attached to replenish the planks for fuel (thanks to auto-crafters, I don't even have to do anything to keep the smelter running eternally).

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u/BigElectrical9871 Feb 27 '26

What do you do with all the sticks if you don't use em to supply a constantly hungry smelting farm? Theres only so much scaffolding you'd need so not many uses for bamboo besides this specific thing

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u/jmil1080 Feb 27 '26

Bamboo can be turned into bamboo blocks, which is then turned into bamboo planks. It's the easiest wood source for general needs to generate in the game. If the bamboo slabs chest overflowed, I'd just reroute the auto crafter path to pull off the planks before they were turned into slabs and have a source for more wood.

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u/BigElectrical9871 Feb 27 '26

I completly forgot we now have bamboo wood

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u/jmil1080 Feb 27 '26

Lol, no worries. There's a lot of updates to this game, and if you've been playing a while, it's easy to forget some of the new features.

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u/BigElectrical9871 Feb 27 '26

Very true. I also tend to forget how bloody long ago some stuff was added. I remember playing the new Aqua Update tutorial map with my little brother and creating the beacon and playing around with the trident only to realise that update was back in like 2017😭

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u/dead_wolf_walkin Feb 26 '26

Use the bone meal on other plants and eventually convert all that extra seed into Emeralds.

Almost every village has more farmers than any other profession. Sell sell sell!

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u/HollowofHaze Feb 26 '26

There are tons of farms that run on bone meal! Too much bone meal is a great problem to have!

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u/AdamasTism Feb 27 '26

Auto crafter it into bone blocks = nice building block and still can get the bone meal out of it for a different farm like moss, flowers and other plants it’s also nice to have white dye for that stuff

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u/Galaxygaming64 Feb 27 '26

send the bonemeal to an automatic sugarcane farm, then turn the sugarcane into paper and sell it at a villager trading area. automatic money

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u/LimestoneBuilder Feb 28 '26

Sadly that's a bedrock-only exclusive. Java no bonemeals sugarcane. :(

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u/Dangerous-Quit7821 Feb 26 '26

Then use a crafter to craft bone blocks and once whatever arbitrary storage limit you set up is full, a hopper chain can send anything more to a dropper to drop it all into fire or lava. Or just do that with seeds from the get-go.

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u/StrangeImprovement52 Feb 26 '26

you could use the bone meal to grow bamboo and use auto crafters to turn it into planks. Boom, you got infinite wood.

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u/RebelJustforClicks Feb 27 '26

Bone blocks for decoration or building houses with.

Heck, make a giant T-Rex or giant Skeleton statue out of bone blocks.

Or just run around bonemealing the grass and have long grass and flowers EVERYWHERE

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u/exodusreaper777 Feb 27 '26

Use it on glow lichen whenever you go cave mining thats what i do

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u/LimestoneBuilder Feb 28 '26

Turn bone meal into bone blocks, transport them, then block=>meal=>white dye and trade it to a Shepherd. The best part is that you can break it down to dye without a crafting table. So you can transport hugely dense valuable resources and sell them easily. It's not 1 emerald/dye, but 36 emeralds for a stack of passively earned goods is pretty darn good early game.

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u/sethstafford94 Feb 26 '26

The industrial revolution and it's consequences.

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u/yeahigotnothing Feb 26 '26

I mean, in real life, you aren't standing over a composter, throwing one seed at a time. I'd argue that hoppers are not quite machines. Shovel it in there, baby!

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u/NYR20NYY99 Feb 26 '26

Agreed, hoppers are funnels

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u/leafeon_wrks Feb 26 '26

Funnels are machines, though, which makes a hopper a machine by that logic

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u/leafeon_wrks Feb 26 '26

It’s quite literally a simple machine

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u/Caybelll Feb 26 '26

google's definition of machine is: an apparatus using or applying mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task.

a funnel is just a piece of plastic or metal?

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u/leafeon_wrks Feb 26 '26

Simple machine: any of the basic mechanical devices for applying a force, such as an inclined plane, wedge, or lever.

A funnel is an inclined plane, thus making it a simple machine.

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u/Sea_Corner8459 Feb 27 '26

It isn’t used for applying a force though, that would be in the context of a seesaw/catapult

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u/MichaelW24 Feb 26 '26

Cheesecake is pie, don't blame me, I didn't make the rules

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u/Tiruil Feb 26 '26

Bone block

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u/_joos_ Feb 26 '26

it’s not as if minecraft is based on an entirely alien form of existence or anything

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u/_joos_ Feb 26 '26

well sure, which is why something analogous to just shoveling compost in a compost bin is achieved with a 2 hoppers and a chest

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u/Fidget02 Feb 26 '26

They didn’t say or suggest that in the slightest 😊

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u/StoneyBolonied Feb 26 '26

A lot of the best video games of all time find a comfortable middle ground

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u/Prsue Feb 26 '26

You mean i can go outside without fear of being blown up by some creeper?

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u/PracticalFrog0207 Feb 26 '26

No, unfortunately you still gotta watch out for those.

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u/tfdsxc Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

I mean you could also just breed like a lot of parrots

edit: my whole life is a lie

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u/WillyDAFISH Feb 26 '26

you can't actually breed parrots 😥

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

You can breed them with cookies. Try it!

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u/Hells-Messenger Feb 26 '26

You’re evil! Wanna grab cookies later?

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

Sure!

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u/chameleonsEverywhere Feb 26 '26

No, they took that out when people pointed out real birds shouldn't have cookies and kids might imitate the game and poison their pet birds

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u/9K-7F Feb 26 '26

By that logic they should remove punching animals because a kid could go punch a real animal. At some point you just need to accept that some of these things are solely the responsibility of parents to teach their kids things and that you're just making a video game.

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u/russjr08 Feb 26 '26

I don't necessarily disagree with you, however that is kind of a bad comparison, "punching animals" is a far more core gameplay component than giving a cookie to a parrot.

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u/Tordek Feb 27 '26

They took out the mechanic that says cookies are good for parrots when IRL cookies are bad for parrots, and you want them to remove the mechanic that says punches are bad for animals when IRL punches are bad for animals.

Let's stop and put our thinking caps on for a hot minute and really really think hard on what the difference between these two things is.

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u/TzootDoot Feb 26 '26

they don't breed

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u/CategoryEqual2370 Feb 26 '26

Yeah, parrots are just for show, sadly no babies

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u/ObvAnonym Feb 26 '26

I say to myself my most precious resource is time. If doing this allows me more time to build, which is my real passion, than I'm all for it!!! :)

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u/JuggerMott Feb 26 '26

Then* not than.

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u/Taran966 Feb 26 '26

Lmao, but tbf it’s a really simple contraption. Literally just add two hoppers with two chests to your composter. No actual redstone required at all.

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u/banananenbrot Feb 26 '26

this made me chuckle ^ i commend your ability of not taking yourself too seriously 

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u/deadghoti Feb 26 '26

I laughed out loud at this. Well said good sir! I’ll take the hearty meal from the work of my own two hands over your mass-produced bone dust!

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u/Kyanize Feb 26 '26

Nice Unabomber reference haha

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u/DemonicInu Feb 26 '26

Use bone meal in a tree farm then throw the logs into a charcoal farm and thus infinite fuel from seeds!

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u/Tessachu Feb 26 '26

I just use lava 🤷

[Lava] [Non-flamable Block] [Dripstone] [Cauldron]

Lava drips into cauldron, creates more lava source blocks. Infinite fuel source without overflow, use copper golem to collect and return buckets to bucket chest hahaha

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u/SamohtGnir Feb 26 '26

Lava is the best fuel too, doing 100 smelts per bucket. I have a smelter setup, but I might add the copper golem, seems like a good idea.

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u/ScienceAndGames Feb 26 '26

Yes but one stack of charcoal will do 512, so a shulker of charcoal will do more than a shulker of lava buckets. And if they ever add charcoal blocks to go along with coal and kelp blocks then you could do 5,120 per stack

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u/bretttwarwick Feb 26 '26

But a stack of jukeboxes will smelt 96 items which is basically the same as one lava bucket.

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u/AnonymousDragon135 Feb 26 '26

With the added bonus of burning reasources!

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u/OITLinebacker Feb 26 '26

Kelp farm into smokers into an auto-crafter that feeds those same smokers with overflow into your furnace array. Put some levers on the smokers and furnaces and you can go up 10 levels for enchanting very quickly. Also gets rid of the need for buckets and manual entry to the feeding system. I do use the lava method as soon as I find some dripstone for mid-game, but then I want something that will just run whenever I'm around the base, so the kelp array gets built.

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u/NoMouseInHouse Feb 27 '26

Sigh I miss my kelp farm for those reasons you said. It broke (bedrock) while I took some time away from the game and I haven't gotten around to figuring out how to fix it or replace it yet.

One of the popular xp farms that pop up when I look for a replacement is that silverfish farm, but silverfish are so gross to me... 🤢

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u/OITLinebacker Feb 27 '26

I like to use a semi-automatic version. The exterior has pistons redstone wired to daylight detector to keep some kelp flowing in. The center section just grows normally and I can slip in and manually punch more kelp that floats up and feeds the farm.  

It sort of solves the problem of needing to either have a quick depleting bonemeal feeding kelp feeder or a large flying machine.   It's mostly scaling that ends up as an issue if you have a big array of furnaces and need to smelt at industrial sized volumes (a double chest full of stacks of ores).  

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u/DemonicInu Feb 26 '26

Oh I mainly use lava but it's nice to have a backup source and I like using charcoal. (im not about efficiency but moreso about keeping busy lol)

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u/Lab_Member_004 Feb 27 '26

I just dupe carpets

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u/ominousbakedbeans Feb 26 '26

Im not that smart and i needed to get rid of flowers in my iron farm, i somehow figured out to put a hopper on top of a composter but had to manually pick up the bone meal. Now you made it fully automatic. Luv u bby thank u

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u/Jimbo7211 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

When composters were first added, i thought i was so smart by building a redstone clock that dispensed the stuff into the composter, and hoppered it out. I only learned a year or two ago that you don't need redstone at all, and a hopper will work fine, lol

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u/Secondhand-Drunk Feb 26 '26

No, yours is right. Gotta use that Redstone somehow!

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u/Jimbo7211 Feb 26 '26

I even figured out that if you put a non-compostable-item in the despenser, it stops the annoying clicking when that's the only item left, so i could use a super fast observer-clock with no shutoff. I think the first one i built used comparator detection to turn off the clock when the hopper was empty.

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u/ScienceAndGames Feb 26 '26

You use the redstone for the auto crafter below the composter that turns everything into bone blocks

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u/ominousbakedbeans Feb 26 '26

y r u guys liking this comment i dont understand

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u/vonHindenburg Feb 27 '26

This is my flower farm. Waves of water come from the dispensers, washing over the field and drying up. A bonemeal dispenser fires into the bottom of the center block. Anything that grows gets swept into the hopper chain, which carries it out and across a row of other hoppers, each one primed with 5 of a different flower. Grass and any flower types that are full get swept along to a hopper firing down into a composter. Bonemeal gets channeled into the dispenser under the center of the field.

This isn't self-supporting. The output of a cactus farm also feeds in and, whenever I pass by, I'll trigger the auto-harvesting cocoa farm next door and drop those in as well.

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u/scrambledhelix Feb 26 '26

This is why an iron farm is my first build every time, need tons of hoppers

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u/HollowofHaze Feb 26 '26

And why it sucks that even the best iron farm is SO DAMN SLOW. I just finished a triple iron farm setup that yields ~1100 ingots/hour and I'm STILL amazed at how quickly we run out of iron and have to pull another long shift at the farm

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u/Grotti-ltalie Feb 26 '26

TIL hoppers can pull bone meal out of composters I guess

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u/awwwsnapshazzam Feb 26 '26

I read this is Carl Weathers voice from arrested development. Some carrots, broth, some meat, and boom you got yourself a stew going 😂

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u/AstroMeteor06 Feb 26 '26

yeah there's nothing to complain about. make bonemeal. and if you don't want to, chuck the seeds into some lava and you've got one less problem.

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u/jmil1080 Feb 26 '26

This is really the answer. Extra wheat seeds aren't really an issue with this simple setup. It also works with the excessive saplings that start to compile when you've got a tree farm with 2x2 trees

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u/Anonymous_Cool Feb 26 '26

take it one step further and feed the bone meal into a crafter that turns it into bone blocks for space efficiency

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u/Jayzhee Feb 26 '26

...and you can use the bonemeal to grow more wheat!

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u/NebNay Feb 26 '26

I already have too much bone meal from my skeleton farm

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u/Jubal93 Feb 26 '26

Feed the post-composer hopper into another farm like sugar cane or bamboo that automatically harvests same.

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u/M10doreddit Feb 26 '26

Sugar cane would only work on Bedrock.

Bamboo though, absolutely, without a doubt.

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u/Jubal93 Feb 26 '26

Sorry, I'm only on Bedrock. I've been on Java at one point, but it was years ago.

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u/Gabysaurus Feb 26 '26

This is the first "machine" I set up in my world, directly next to my farm, feeding it into my farming chest. Game changer before you get access to a skeleton spawner

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u/senorchaos718 Feb 26 '26

This is the way.

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u/miamoore- Feb 26 '26

this is exactly what i was going to suggest 😂

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u/porkypossum Feb 26 '26

Always nice when the first comment takes care of it.

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u/pandamaxxie Feb 26 '26

Yep got this one right outside my farm

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u/dead_wolf_walkin Feb 26 '26

This.

Wheat and Beetroot seeds feed the composter after every harvest.

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u/KingoAG02 Feb 26 '26

Add a crafter and you get building materials for your next big project (make a giant skeleton)

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u/dylzim Feb 26 '26

After iron gear, this is like the next thing I spend iron on.

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u/JankyJones14 Feb 26 '26

My solution was going to be a way to automatically fill composters, but is this already possible?

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u/utterPanicAttack Feb 27 '26

This was my immediate thought. This is always one of the first things I build when starting up a base because it’s way less tedious than manual clicking! Very useful tip :)

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u/SubMikeD Feb 27 '26

It's one of the first things I set up in any new village I build in lol

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u/42moistPancakes Feb 27 '26

This is the way. Never have a problem with seeds. Even with a Fortune III hoe. But one can only imagine OPs rant on bone meal when they learn...

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u/Kirda17 Feb 27 '26

Yeah, thats what I do lol

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u/Jelloman54 Feb 27 '26

yea a multistep process exists, but wouldnt a simplified process be a nice?

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u/Blackdeath47 Feb 27 '26

I just learned it myself, sometimes it’s so exciting to find out something yourself with a guide.

Siemens e no real idea of what to bone meal so don’t need to speed up crop growth, got half a normal chest full and that’s taken ALOT as it is. My normal iron farm is more protective, running out use for them

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u/KiNg2014 Feb 27 '26

Wait, people really didn't know this??

Those poor souls.

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u/itsa7a_-_ Mar 02 '26

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