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Learn the crafting recipe for a composter and how to use it for bone meal farming in Minecraft. Check out all the compostable items.
Food self-sufficiency in Minecraft is an important milestone as it frees time from foraging and hunting to focus on progressing toward the game’s later stages. If you’re growing crops or managing livestock, bone meal is a valuable item to have on hand, as it can grow plants instantaneously. That’s where the composter comes in. This simple block turns leftover plant matter into bone meal, helping you speed up plant growth without fighting skeletons for their bones.
Composter Crafting Ingredients
Crafting a composter is easy and doesn’t require rare materials. All you’ll need are seven wooden slabs, and they don’t even have to match in type. Here’s everything you need to craft a composter and details on how to gather it:
Wooden Slabs x 7: To make slabs, first gather logs by chopping down trees. Convert the logs into wooden planks by placing them in your crafting menu. Then, place three planks in a horizontal row to create six wooden slabs. Repeat to get at least seven slabs.
Composter Crafting Recipe
Craft the Composter by placing the seven wooden slabs in a “U” shape on the crafting grid:
- Top row: Slab | (empty) | Slab
- Middle row: Slab | (empty) | Slab
- Bottom row: Slab | Slab | Slab
Once arranged, you’ll see a composter appear in the output slot. Drag it into your inventory and place it wherever you’d like on your farm or near your garden area. Use an axe to break a composter quickly. Composters appear naturally in villages, and several can be found around a single village’s farms.
How to Use a Composter in Minecraft to Farm Bone Meal
The composter turns organic material into bone meal. Using a composter provides a great use for all that extra seed you gather while farming. Here’s how it works:
- Right-click (use button) the composter while holding organic items like seeds, crops, or leaves. Green stars will appear signaling that the item has been used as compost.
- Each item has a chance of filling the composter by one layer.
- Once the composter is filled with seven layers, it produces one bone meal, which pops out as soon as the composter is full.
Here are some features and details about the composter that you should know:
- Not all items are equally efficient—refer to the table below to see the exact chance each item has of filling a composter with one layer.
- You can automate composters with hoppers for bone meal farming.
- Composters also function as job site blocks for villagers, assigning the farmer profession.
- They’re perfect for recycling excess crops or any unwanted organic material.
Which Items to Use on a Composter in Minecraft
Given below is a list of all the items accepted by the composter along with their percentage chance of adding one layer of compost.
- Apple (65%)
- Azalea (65%)
- Beetroot (65%)
- Beetroot Seeds (30%)
- Big Dripleaf (65%)
- Carrot (65%)
- Cactus (50%)
- Cocoa Beans (65%)
- Dried Kelp (30%)
- Dried Kelp Block (50%)
- Ferns (65%)
- Flowering Azalea Leaves (50%)
- Flowers (65%)
- Fungus (65%)
- Glow Berries (30%)
- Glow Lichen (50%)
- Grass (30%)
- Grass Block (30%) (Bedrock Edition only)
- Hanging Roots (30%)
- Kelp (30%)
- Leaves (30%)
- Lily Pad (65%)
- Melon (65%)
- Melon Seeds (30%)
- Melon Slice (50%)
- Moss Block (65%)
- Moss Carpet (30%)
- Mushroom Stem (65%)
- Mushrooms (65%)
- Nether Sprouts (50%)
- Nether Wart (65%)
- Pink Petals (30%)
- Pitcher Pod (30%)
- Potato (65%)
- Pumpkin Seeds (30%)
- Pumpkins (65%)
- Roots (65%)
- Saplings (30%)
- Sea Pickle (65%)
- Seagrass (30%)
- Shroomlight (65%)
- Small Dripleaf (30%)
- Spore Blossom (65%)
- Sugar Cane (50%)
- Sweet Berries (30%)
- Tall Grass (50%)
- Torchflower Seeds (30%)
- Twisting Vines (50%)
- Vines (50%)
- Weeping Vines (50%)
- Wheat (65%)
- Wheat Seeds (30%)
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