Wheat Seeds

Wheat Seeds

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• Age 1
• Age 2
• Age 3
• Age 4
• Age 5
• Age 6
• Age 7

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Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

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Wheat seeds are items obtained by breaking grass, or more abundantly harvested from wheat crops, and are used to plant them.

Wheat crops are planted in farmland and used to grow wheat and wheat seeds.

Obtaining

Breaking

Wheat seeds can be obtained from breaking short grass, tall grass, fern or large fern, which have a 12.5% chance to yield 1 seed. If harvested with a tool enchanted with Fortune, the drop rate is increased to 1-3, 1-5, or 1-7 wheat seeds respectively with Fortune I, II, and III.

Harvesting fully-grown crops yields 1 unit of wheat and between 1 and 4 seeds (about 2 ⁵⁄₇ seeds/crop harvested on average) in Java Edition, or between 0 and 3 seeds in Bedrock Edition.

Block	Wheat
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	0.05

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

The looting is calculated by a binomial distribution: a drop is attempted three times with a success rate of around 57% to yield the 1–4‌ or 0–3‌ drops. Each level of Fortune enchantment increases the number of attempts by one.

Resource location	Source	Drops
		Wheat	Wheat Seeds
			Default tool	With Fortune I	With Fortune II	With Fortune III
blocks/wheat	Wheat (age 0–6)	0	1	1	1	1
	Wheat (age 7)	1	1 (~7.87%) or 2 (~31.49%) or 3 (~41.98%) or 4 (~18.66%)	1 (~3.37%) or 2 (~17.99%) or 3 (~35.98%) or 4 (~31.99%) or 5 (~10.66%)	1 (~1.44%) or 2 (~9.64%) or 3 (~25.70%) or 4 (~34.27%) or 5 (~22.85%) or 6 (~6.09%)	1 (~0.62%) or 2 (~4.96%) or 3 (~16.52%) or 4 (~29.38%) or 5 (~29.38%) or 6 (~15.67%) or 7 (~3.48%)

Axes are considered the preferred tool, and swords would also increase the breaking speed, however these ultimately have no impact due to the instant default mining speed.

Natural generation

Village farm plots have a chance of being wheat crops. The exact chance depends on the style of the village:

Village style	Chance
Savanna	80%
Desert	70%
Taiga	60%
Plains	50%
Snowy	20%

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	[hide]Chance
Java Edition
Wheat Seeds	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	2.2% { "item": "Wheat Seeds", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.022222222222222254, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
	Village	Fisherman's chest	1–3	57.5% { "item": "Wheat Seeds", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.5751805328746795, "structure": "Village", "container": "Fisherman's chest" }
		Savanna house chest	1–5	71.7% { "item": "Wheat Seeds", "stacksize": "1–5", "chance": 0.7169464744127282, "structure": "Village", "container": "Savanna house chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Wheat Seeds	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	2.2% { "item": "Wheat Seeds", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.021739130434782594, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
	Village	Savanna house chest	1–5	71.7% { "item": "Wheat Seeds", "stacksize": "1–5", "chance": 0.7169464744127282, "structure": "Village", "container": "Savanna house chest" }

Trading

Wandering traders sell wheat seeds for an emerald.

Villager gifts

Nitwit and unemployed villagers throw wheat seeds at players under the Hero of the Village effect.

Usage

Crop

Different stages of crop growth.

Wheat seeds can be placed on farmland by right-clicking, where they grow through eight stages. When left alone, wheat seeds planted on farmland grow to become wheat crops, which can be harvested by the player. Seeds require a light level of 8 or greater to plant‌ and 9 or greater to grow. In Bedrock Edition they can be planted at any light level but need an internal light level of 9 to grow.

Crops grow faster if the farmland they are planted on is hydrated. Using bone meal on crops also increases the speed of growth by randomly increasing their growth stage by 2 to 5.

Breaking the final stage produces 1 to 4 wheat seeds (or more with Fortune) and 1 wheat. If they are harvested early, they drop 1 seed without any wheat. Crops break if pushed by a piston or if their supporting farmland breaks or turns to dirt (e.g. by being trampled), dropping their usual drops.

Breeding

Like other seeds, wheat seeds can be used to breed chickens and reduce the remaining growth duration of baby chickens by 10%. Chickens also follow a player holding wheat seeds.

Taming

Like other seeds, wheat seeds can be used to tame parrots.

Composting

Placing wheat seeds into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1. A stack of wheat seeds yields an average of 2.74 bone meal.

Sounds

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e crop sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.crop.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	0.9	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	item.crop.plant​​	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.45	varies	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.grass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.grass.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.grass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e grass sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.grass	0.7	0.8–1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.grass	0.8	0.8–1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.grass	0.3	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.grass	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	0.11	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.grass	0.21	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	[hide]Translation key
Wheat Crops	wheat	Block	bee_growables crops	block.minecraft.wheat
Wheat Seeds	wheat_seeds	Item	—	item.minecraft.wheat_seeds

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	[hide]Translation key
Wheat	wheat	59	Block & Ungiveable Item	item.wheat	tile.wheat.name
Wheat Seeds	wheat_seeds	291	Item	—	item.wheat_seeds.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	[hide]Description
age	0	0
		1
		2
		3
		4
		5
		6
		7	Fully grown.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	[hide]Description
growth	0x1 0x2 0x4	0	0	0
			1	1
			2	2
			3	3
			4	4
			5	5
			6	6
			7	7	Fully grown.

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Seedy Place	Plant a seed and watch it grow	Plant one of these 7 crops: Other crops and plants can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement.

History

There is an associated page listing all historical changes related to the appearance and/or sounds associated with this block and associated item in further detail than below; see /Asset history.

[hide]Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009							Notch shows interest in adding crops on farmland.
[hide]Java Edition Indev
Indev			20100206-2034				Added seeds.
							Added crops.
							Seeds can be planted on farmland.
							Seeds have a chance of dropping while using a hoe on a grass block.
[hide]Java Edition Beta
1.5							Crops destroyed by water now drop both seeds and wheat. Prior to this update, they dropped only wheat when destroyed by water.
1.6			Test Build 3				Seeds can no longer be tilled from a grass block.
							Seeds are now found by destroying tall grass or by harvesting fully-grown crops.
1.8			Pre-release				Crops can now be found in village farms.
[hide]Java Edition
1.4.2			12w36a				Chickens now use seeds instead of wheat to breed.
1.8			14w02a				Villagers can now harvest and plant seeds to grow crops.
			14w06a				Crops are now a pixel higher - previously they were offset one pixel down as to match farmland. This is likely an accidental result of model conversion.
			14w10a				Crops of all stages no longer have a model.
			14w10b				Crops now have models again. In addition, they are now offset downwards by one pixel once more.
			14w25a				Crops model are now shaded.
			14w27a				Crops are no longer shaded.
1.9			15w38a				The drop chances of crops has been slightly improved from an average of 1 3⁄5 per crop harvested to 1 5⁄7.
			15w49a				The hitbox of planted wheat seeds now adjusts depending on their growth state.
1.11			16w39a				Crops now generate inside woodland mansions.
1.12			17w18b				Placing a wheat seeds in farmland now gives the player the "A Seedy Place" advancement.
			pre3				Seeds are now used to tame parrots.
1.13			18w06a				Wheat can now grow at night.
			18w14a				Seeds no longer become destroyed when an entity jumps on them if they have the Slow Falling status effect.
			18w20a				"Seeds" have been renamed to "Wheat Seeds".
							"Crops" have been renamed to "Wheat Crops".
1.14			18w43a				The textures of wheat crops have been changed.
							The drop rate of fully grown wheat seeds has been changed from 0-3 to 1-4.
			18w44a				The textures of wheat crops of age 6 and 7 have been changed again.
			18w47a				The textures of wheat crops have been changed, once again.
			18w48a				Wheat seeds can now be found in chests in village fisher cottages.
			18w49a				Wheat seeds can now be found in chests in savanna village houses.
			19w03a				Placement and breaking sounds have been added to wheat crops.
							Placing wheat seeds into the new composter has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
			19w05a				Wheat seeds now have a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
							Added wandering traders, which sell wheat seeds.
			19w09a				Wheat growth is now dependant on the crop's light level. Previously, it was dependant on the light level of the block above.
			19w11a				Wheat can now be planted by aiming at the side and underside of blocks rather than just on top of the farmland.
							Wheat can now replace replaceable blocks such as fire when planted.
			19w13a				Nitwit and unemployed villagers now give wheat seeds to players under the Hero of the Village effect.
1.15			19w34a				Bees can now pollinate wheat crops.
1.17			21w13a				The "crop" template model has changed such that pixels appear in the same physical positions on opposite sides of texture planes.
1.20			23w12a				Wheat seeds can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in trail ruins.
			23w16a				Wheat seeds no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins.
							Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for suspicious gravel within trail ruins, wheat seeds are now common loot.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0							Added seeds.
							Added crops.
							Seeds can be obtained by tilling grass blocks.
v0.8.0			build 1				Chickens follow players holding wheat seeds, but cannot be fed yet.
			build 4				Chickens can be fed wheat seeds to enter love mode and breed.
v0.9.0			build 1				File:Wheat Age 0 BE2.png File:Wheat Age 1 BE2.png File:Wheat Age 2 BE2.png File:Wheat Age 3 BE2.png File:Wheat Age 4 BE2.png File:Wheat Age 5 BE2.png File:Wheat Age 6 BE2.png File:Wheat Age 7 BE2.png Faces now renders from both sides, resulting in z-fighting.
							Crops can now be found in village farms.
			build 2				File:Wheat Age 0 BE3.png File:Wheat Age 1 BE3.png File:Wheat Age 2 BE3.png File:Wheat Age 3 BE3.png File:Wheat Age 4 BE3.png File:Wheat Age 5 BE3.png File:Wheat Age 6 BE3.png File:Wheat Age 7 BE3.png Removed some faces to fix z-fighting.
v0.12.1			build 1				Farmer villagers can now pick up, harvest and plant seeds to grow wheat.
			build 2				Crops now always drop seeds when mined, regardless of growth stage.
			build 8				Seeds can no longer be obtained by tilling grass blocks.
v0.16.2							Seeds can now be found in chests inside the large house of snowy tundra and snowy taiga villages.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Crops now generate inside woodland mansions.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.2.0			beta 1.2.0.2				Seeds are now used to tame parrots.
1.6.0			beta 1.6.0.1				Seeds no longer become destroyed when an entity jumps on them if they have the Slow Falling status effect.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Seeds can now be bought from wandering traders.
							Placement and breaking sounds have been added to crops.
							The textures of crops have been changed.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Seeds can now be found in savanna village house chests.
							Seeds can now be used to fill up composters.
1.14.0			beta 1.14.0.1				Bees can now pollinate crops.
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.22				Changed name from "Seeds" to "Wheat Seeds" to match Java Edition.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added seeds.
							Added crops.
TU7							"Seeds" have been renamed to "Wheat Seeds".
TU34	CU22	1.25	1.25	1.25	Patch 4		"Wheat Seeds" have been renamed back to "Seeds".
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		The hitbox of planted wheat seeds now adjusts depending on their growth state.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Crops now generate inside woodland mansions.
							Seeds are now used to tame parrots.
			1.90				The textures of crops have been changed.
			1.91				Added wandering traders, which sell seeds.
							Seeds can now be used to fill up composters.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added seeds.
							Added crops.
1.9.19							Crops now generate inside woodland mansions.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 59, and the item's was 295.

Issues

Issues relating to "Wheat Seeds" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

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Screenshots

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  All the seeds that exist.

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  Wheat crops in Pocket Edition.

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  Wheat generated in a village.