Farming & animals · Item
Bone meal
A bone ground to powder: one crop stage at once, a white dye, the white glaze of tiles.
In the game
How to get it
One bone in the grid: three bone meal. Zombies drop 2 to 4 bones, most creatures a few.
What it is for
Right click crops to make them grow a stage; white dye (it bleaches in the dye vat); white ceramic tiles.
Why it exists
A bone is a fertiliser: a zombie farm makes a garden grow.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
Bone meal turns bones into growth.
Recipe
One bone alone in the grid: 3 bone meal. Bones fall from almost every creature (0 to 5 by size); zombies drop 2 to 4.
What it is for
- Fertiliser: right click a crop with it: the crop grows a stage at once. Bat guano does the same (see Guano).
- White dye: on its own a dye; in the Dye vat it bleaches back to white.
- Glaze: eight cells of terracotta round a bone meal give 128 voxels of white Ceramic tiles.
A bone ground to powder: crops grow faster, and a white dye.
On the progress path
FE8FarmMain path
A sub-action of the step Hay bale: not needed to go on, but counted in your progress.
- BeforeFE7 · Breeding
- This stepFE8 · Hay bale
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