Grow Seeds in Minecraft PE

You've been robbing villagers and scavenging corpses for long enough. It's time to treat yourself to a steady diet, and that means farming. Craft a hoe and find some dirt and water, and you're ready to grow your own food. Harvest will also give you more seeds to continue the cycle, or to attract animals to your growing base.

Steps

Growing Seeds

  1. Gather seeds. You can grow four types of seeds in Minecraft Pocket Edition. Here's how to find them all:
    • Wheat seeds have a chance of dropping each time you use a hoe on a grass block, or use shears on tall grass.[1][2] (Version 0.4 or later required.)[3]
    • To get beetroot seeds, harvest beetroot crops in village farms (Version 0.12.0 build 8+), or cut grass as described above (earlier versions).
    • Find pumpkins growing in plains, savannah or taiga biomes. Craft the pumpkin to make seeds. (Version 0.8+).[4]
    • Find melons growing in jungles. Craft the melon to make melon slices, then craft the slices to make seeds. (Version 0.9+).[5]
  2. Avoid cold or dry biomes (recommended). Crops grow fastest in warm biomes, where green grass and trees grow naturally. Although crops can grow anywhere, the following are signs of an area where growth will be slow:[6]
    • Snow
    • Frost-covered leaves
    • Steep mountainous terrain
    • Sand (except for beaches)
    • Yellowish grass
  3. Prepare farmland. Equip your hoe and use it on grass or dirt to make farmland. You can identify farmland by the parallel lines on the surface.
  4. Water your crops. Wheat grows much faster when watered, and other crops require it to grow at all. Your farmland will become "hydrated" (and look darker) if there is any water block within four blocks, although crops may grow fastest within three.[7][8] Early in the game you'll want to farm next to an existing water source. Once you have buckets, you can transport water to use space more efficiently:
    • Extra efficient: Prepare a 9 x 9 block of farmland, dig a one-block hole in the center, and fill the hole with water.
    • Less efficient but more attractive: Prepare three rows farmland, one row water, six rows farmland, one row water, then three rows farmland.
  5. Plant your crops. Simply select your seeds and tap the farmland to plant them. Note that melons and pumpkins will grow to cover two squares, although the second square doesn't need to be farmland.[9]
  6. Wait for it to grow. Crops will grow on their own, going through several stages of growth. Here's how to tell when the crop has reached maximum potential:
    • Wheat is ready when tall and yellow-brown.
    • Beetroot is ready when it has tall, bushy leaves.
    • Melons and pumpkins are ready when the fruit appears on a block next to the stem.
  7. Harvest. Just click and hold on the crop to turn it into the fully grown product. Wheat and beetroot has a chance of dropping seeds as well, so you can start a new farm.
    • Melons and pumpkins do not need replanting; just harvest the fruit and leave the stem, and it will grow a new one.
    • If you harvest wheat or beetroot before it's fully grown, you might get seeds but you will not get the food item.

Improving Your Farm

  1. Fertilize crops with bone meal. Gather bones from killing skeletons or fishing, then craft them into bone meal. Each use of bone meal instantly advances your crop by a random number of stages.
    • If you're short on seeds, this is a great plan for your first plant so you can harvest more seeds to plant.
  2. Surround the area with farmland. After you run out of seeds or water, prepare unplanted farmland in a border one block wide on all sides. In the PC version, nearby farmland significantly speeds up growth, and the same might be true of Pocket Edition.[7]
  3. Fence in your crops. Wandering mobs can trample your crops. Build a fence around your farm to protect it.
  4. Keep your crops well lit. Crops only grow when exposed to light. Torches every four or five spaces will speed up growth by letting your crops grow at night as well as day. This won't have any effect if you skip nights by sleeping in a bed.[7]
    • Oddly enough, farmland is transparent. Dig beneath your farm (careful to avoid the water) and place torches there to make your farm glow.[8] This does not happen on other versions of Minecraft, so it's likely that this will be removed in a future update.
  5. Cover the water. Walking through your crops doesn't break them, but jumping on the farmland can turn it right back to normal dirt.[10] If you fall in to the water and are forced to jump out, you'll be losing food. Prevent this by covering the water with slabs or other "half height" blocks that don't require jumping to walk onto.
    • In cold biomes, covering the water will also prevent it from freezing.

Tips

  • The seeds usually grow in two or three Minecraft days, if they get plenty of light and water.
  • It's easiest to see the change in color for mature plants at the base of the plant, not the top.
  • To acquire seeds or crops easily, find a village and steal their crops.

Warnings

  • Do not harvest the crops with anything other than your fists, or you may destroy them.
  • Farmland is usually flatter than most of your Minecraft projects. It's extra important to create a landmark nearby if the farm isn't next to your house.

Related Articles

Sources and Citations

  1. ↑ http://minecraftpocketedition.wikia.com/wiki/Grass_Block
  2. ↑ http://minecraftpocketedition.wikia.com/wiki/Grass
  3. ↑ http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Seeds
  4. ↑ http://minecraftpocketedition.wikia.com/wiki/Pumpkin
  5. ↑ http://minecraftpocketedition.wikia.com/wiki/Melons
  6. ↑ http://minecraftpocketedition.wikia.com/wiki/Biome
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Crop_farming
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OltLS64IeVY
  9. ↑ http://minecraftpocketedition.wikia.com/wiki/Farmland
  10. ↑ http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Farmland
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