Bone Meal

Bone meal is a material that can be used as a fertilizer for most plants and fungi, as well as a crafting ingredient for dyes.
== Obtaining ==
=== Crafting ===
=== Mob loot ===
==== Fish ====
All fish mob variants (cod, salmon, tropical fish, and pufferfish) have a 5% chance to drop 1 bone meal upon death. In Bedrock Edition, they drop bones instead.
=== Composters ===
When a composter is completely filled, a single bone meal drops the next time the composter is .
=== Trading ===
Wandering traders sell 3 bone meal for an emerald.
== Usage ==
=== Crafting ingredient ===
, bone meal can be also used in banner patterns:
=== Loom ingredient === 
=== Dye ===
=== Fertilizer ===
Bone meal can also be used on the following plants to have a chance to increase their growth stage:
Plant 	Action
 	The plant matures 2–5 growth stages.
 	The plant has a 75% chance of growing to the next growth stage.
 	Grows the bamboo by 1-2 stems.
 	The planted stem matures 2–5 growth stages. Bone meal affects only the stem's growth; it does not cause melons or pumpkins to sprout from a mature stem.
(not hanging) 	The sapling has a 45% chance of growing to the next growth stage, if possible. Saplings have two growth stages (with no visible difference between them) before growing into trees as the third stage. A tree cannot grow unless the sapling is planted in proper ground and sufficient space is available. Using bone meal on such an obstructed sapling with no chance of growing wastes the bone meal.
sses 	The corresponding item form drops, without destroying the original plant.
s 	A one-block-high tall grass, fern, or seagrass (that is on grass block, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, farmland, podzol, mycelium, moss block, mud, or muddy mangrove roots (only exception is seagrass, will need to on a full surface)) grows into a two-block-high tall grass, fern or seagrass.
 	Has a 40% chance of growing into a if on grass block, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, farmland, podzol, mycelium, moss block, mud, or muddy mangrove roots.
 	The cocoa plant matures 1 growth stage.
 	Grows every stage.
 	If the sea pickle is on a coral block and in water at least 2 blocks deep, the sea pickle colony grows, and additional sea pickles generate nearby.
 	The sugar cane grows to maximum height (three blocks tall).
 	The kelp plant grows by 1 block per bone meal used, up to its maximum height.
(excluding wither roses)	One-block-high flowers make more flowers of the same type grow in the surrounding area.
 	Grows into huge fungi, but only if on the respective nylium.
 	Grows the weeping vines a few blocks downward.
 	Grows the twisting vines a few blocks upward.
 	Produces glow berries if the vine did not have any glow berries on it already.
 	The glow lichen spreads to a random adjacent block.
 	The moss block causes nearby stone, cave vines, and dirt to become moss blocks.
 	A big dripleaf grows one block higher, and a small dripleaf becomes a big dripleaf.
 	Causes hanging roots to grow underneath the rooted dirt if there is space.
 	Creates a hanging mangrove propagule under the mangrove leaves.
(hanging) 	The mangrove propagule matures 1 growth age.
 	Produces another pink petal in the block. If there are already four pink petals in the block, it will drop a pink petal as an item.
 	Grows every stage.
Bone meal does not affect:
* Cactus
* Vines
* Nether wart
* Sugar cane
* Chorus plants, or other plants not listed above.
==== Wasting bone meal ====
Bone meal can be used on the following objects in the following situations, consuming it without any real effect:
* On grass, ferns, and seagrass that do not have enough space to grow.
* On seagrass that doesn't have water above.
* On a dark oak sapling that is not in a group of four.
* On a mushroom that is not on a block that allows it to grow into a huge mushroom.
* On a sea pickle that is already in a group of four and has no valid locations to expand to.
* On a bamboo (not bamboo shoot) that is blocked in the way.
* On a sea pickle that is not on a coral block.
* On a fungus that is not on its respective nylium.
* Any plants that can't grow due to being block by the build limit.
=== Creating new plants ===
If bone meal is on a grass block; tall grass, grass, flowers, and pink petals form on the targeted block and on random adjacent grass blocks in an 15×5×15/7×5×7 area centered on the targeted block. The flowers/pink petals that appear depend on the biome, meaning that in order to obtain specific flowers, the player must travel to biomes where the flowers are found naturally. See for more information.
Using bone meal on a 2-block flower (rose bushes, sunflowers, lilacs or peonies) will cause one of the same type of flower to drop, without breaking the original. This is the only way to reproduce these flowers, since they cannot generate from using bone meal on grass blocks.
Using bone meal on a non-transparent block that is underwater generates seagrass on that block and surrounding blocks. Sometimes, if in a warm ocean biome, coral and coral fans may have a chance to generate as well, and in Bedrock Edition, coral (not coral fan) can be generated in any biome. In order for this to work, there must be 2 water blocks above the block the bone meal is being used on, and the lower one must be non-flowing water.
Using bone meal on a sea pickle on a coral block creates sea pickles. This generates sea pickles up to 3 blocks (of coral) away, so a 7+ × 7+ block (49+ blocks) of coral may be necessary, to return the most sea pickles per given bone meal attempt (more attempts grows them more numerously, exactly - including the range of it growing, like grass with heights on grass blocks - as coral and coral fans, though those others being non-solid blocks).
Using bone meal on netherrack adjacent to nylium converts the netherrack into nylium of the same type. If both crimson and warped nylium are adjacent to the netherrack that was applied with bone meal, there is a 50% chance that either type of nylium is created.
Using bone meal on nylium causes the corresponding roots and both types of fungi to appear on the nylium block and other nylium nearby, with the type of fungi matching the type of nylium being more common. In addition, using bone meal on the side of warped nylium creates nether sprouts and twisting vines.
=== Farmer villagers ===
Villagers with the farmer profession can collect bone meal from a full composter, with which they can make their crops grow faster.
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== History ==
== Issues ==
== Trivia ==
* Bone meal can be used on the sides or bottom of a grass block, as well as on a grass block with plants already on top of it.
* Regardless of if it succeeds in fertilizing, bone meal makes green sparkles. However, like smoke from a torch, the sparkles appear only if the player has particles set All or Decreased.
* In real life, bone meal is used as a fertilizer to provide nitrogen and phosphorus to plants.
==Gallery==
File:Bone Meal On Grass.png|Bone meal used on grass blocks.
== See also ==
* Farming
== References ==
Category:Dyes
Category:Plants
Category:Renewable resources
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