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Moss farming refers to using bone meal to renewably obtain moss blocks as well as azalea, flowering azalea, moss carpet, wheat seeds and grass. Many moss farms work on the principle that applying bone meal on a moss block converts some nearby blocks into moss, and generates foliage above it. The moss can either be harvested manually using a hoe or automatically by using pistons.

Mechanics

See Moss Block

Manual farming

Using natural terrain

What you need:

• 1 moss block
• Some bone meal
• A stone(or higher tier) hoe

Find a location with a lot of moss-replaceable blocks (e.g. a large cave with a lot of stone). Then, place a moss block in a suitable location. Bone meal the moss block and harvest the moss using the hoe. Repeat the process by placing the moss in a different location.

Manually placing blocks

What you need:

• 1 moss block
• Some bone meal
• A stone(or higher tier) hoe
• Some moss-replaceable blocks(e.g. stone, deepslate)

Firstly, place your moss block in a space. Then, surround the moss block with moss-replaceable blocks, forming a 7x7 square. Bone meal the moss block and harvest the moss and foliage. Leave one moss block to repeat the process.

Automatic moss farming

Moss blocks can be farmed automatically by applying bone meal to a moss block using a dispenser, then breaking the moss with pistons, and regenerating the stone using stone generators. You can use water to flush both the foliage and moss either into a collection system, or a couple of composters to produce bone meal. The bone meal can be resupplied to the farm to keep it running.

Videos

This design by Chronos (video by The Archivists) is a self-sustaining, tileable and stackable bonemeal farm using moss.