Wheat is an item primarily obtained by harvesting fully-grown wheat crops. It is used for crafting as well as to feed certain animals.
Obtaining[]
Natural generation[]
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Wheat | Dungeon | Chest | 1–4 | 34.1% |
| Igloo | Chest | 2–3 | 55.3% | |
| Warm Ocean ruins | Warm ruins suspicious sand | 1 | 13.3% | |
| Cold ruins suspicious gravel | 1 | 13.3% | ||
| Pillager Outpost | Chest | 3–5 | 72.5% | |
| Shipwreck | Supply chest | 8–21 | 42.1% | |
| Trail ruins | Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.4% | |
| Underwater ruins | Small ruins chest | 2–3 | 84.2% | |
| Big ruins chest | 2–3 | 81% | ||
| Village | Butcher's chest | 1–3 | 48.6% | |
| Desert house chest | 1–7 | 80.6% | ||
| Shepherd's chest | 1–6 | 55.8% | ||
| Woodland mansion | Chest | 1–4 | 34.1% | |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Wheat | Dungeon | Chest | 1–4 | 34.1% |
| Igloo | Chest | 2–3 | 55.3% | |
| Warm Ocean ruins | Warm ruins suspicious sand | 1 | 13.3% | |
| Cold ruins suspicious gravel | 1 | 13.3% | ||
| Pillager Outpost | Chest | 3–5 | 72.5% | |
| Shipwreck | Supply chest | 8–21 | 42.1% | |
| Trail ruins | Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.3% | |
| Underwater ruins | Small ruins chest | 2–3 | 84.2% | |
| Big ruins chest | 2–3 | 81% | ||
| Village | Butcher's chest | 1–3 | 48.6% | |
| Desert house chest | 1–7 | 80.6% | ||
| Shepherd's chest | 1–6 | 55.8% | ||
| Woodland mansion | Chest | 1–4 | 34.1% | |
Farming[]
When a fully-grown wheat crop is harvested, it drops 1 wheat and 1 to 4 wheat seeds (2 5⁄7 per crop harvested on average). A wheat crop has a total of eight stages (0-7) from the time it is planted until it can be harvested. If a crop is harvested before it is fully grown, it just drops one seed. Wheat needs light to grow; a seed is destroyed if planted without light. Harvesting with a Fortune-enchanted tool increases the number of seeds dropped but does not increase the yield of wheat.
Crafting[]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Hay Bale |
Drops[]
A fox sometimes spawns holding wheat, which it always drops upon death. Alternatively, the player can drop a food item, causing the fox to drop the wheat.
Usage[]
Food[]
Using wheat to lead a cow.
When wheat is held, it causes nearby cows, sheep, goats and mooshrooms to follow the player, until either the player stops holding the wheat or goes too far away from the animal, thus leading them to lose interest.
Wheat may be used to breed cows, sheep, goats, and mooshrooms by first herding two of them together and then using the wheat on them to begin "Love Mode."
Wheat can heal a horse 1
health or lower its temper by 3% when attempting to tame it. It can also decrease the time it takes for a foal to grow by 20 seconds.
Similarly, wheat can heal a llama 2
health, and it decreases the time it takes a baby llama to grow by 10 seconds.
Crafting ingredient[]
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bread | Wheat | ||
| Cake | Milk Bucket + Sugar + Egg + Wheat |
Empty buckets remain in the crafting grid after crafting the cake. | |
| Cookie | Wheat + Cocoa Beans |
||
| Hay Bale | Wheat | ||
| Packed Mud | Mud + Wheat |
Trading[]
Novice-level farmer villagers have a 25%[Bedrock Edition only] or 40%[Java Edition only] chance to buy 20 wheat for one emerald.
Composting[]
Placing wheat into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1. A stack of wheat yields an average of 5.94 bone meal.
Achievements[]
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
| Bake Bread | Turn wheat into bread. | Pick up bread from a crafting table output. | 15G | Bronze | ||
| The Lie | Bake a cake using: wheat, sugar, milk, and eggs. | Pick up a cake from a crafting table output. | 30G | Bronze | ||
| Repopulation | Breed two cows with wheat. | Breed two cows or two mooshrooms. | 15G | Bronze | ||
Advancements[]
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | A Seedy Place | Plant a seed and watch it grow | Husbandry | Plant one of these 7 crops: Other crops and plants can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement. | husbandry/plant_seed
|
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheat | wheat | Item | item.minecraft.wheat |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheat | wheat | 334 | Item | item.wheat.name |
Video[]
- Note: the narrator demonstrates at 0:56 that walking over wheat can destroy the crop and un-till the land. This is outdated: since version JE 1.1, wheat can be destroyed only by a player or mob jumping on it or falling on it.
History[]
| Java Edition Indev | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20100206 |  Wheat has been added.
| ||||
| Wheat can be used to craft bread. | |||||
| 20100223 | Bread now requires 3 wheat (1 row of 3) instead of 6 (2 rows of 3) to be crafted. | ||||
| Java Edition Infdev | |||||
| 20100625-2 | Wheat can now be found in the new dungeon chests. | ||||
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
| 1.2 | Wheat can now be used to craft cake. | ||||
| 1.4 | Wheat can now be used to craft cookies. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 | Wheat can now be used in breeding. | |||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Wheat can now be sold to farmer villagers, at 18–21 wheat for 1 emerald. | |||
| 1.4.2 | 12w36a | Chickens and pigs no longer use wheat to breed. | |||
| 1.6.1 | 13w16a | Horses can now be healed by being fed wheat. | |||
| Foals can now have their growth increased by being fed wheat. | |||||
| 13w17a | Horses can now have their tempers lowered with wheat. | ||||
| 13w18a | Nine wheat can now be crafted to make a hay bale. | ||||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Trading has been changed: farmer villagers now buy 18–22 wheat for 1 emerald. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w43a | Wheat may now be found in igloo basement chests. | |||
| 15w44a | The average yield of wheat in dungeon chests has been decreased. | ||||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Wheat can now be found in the new woodland mansion chests. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 296. | |||
| 18w09a | Wheat can now generate in the chests of underwater ruins. | ||||
| 18w11a | Wheat can now generate in shipwreck chests. | ||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  The texture of wheat has been changed. | |||
| 18w47a | Wheat can now generate inside of loot chests on top of pillager outposts. | ||||
| 18w49a | Wheat can now generate in chests in village butcher and shepherd houses. | ||||
| 18w50a | Wheat can now generate in chests in desert village houses. | ||||
| 19w03a | Placing wheat into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1. | ||||
| 19w05a | Wheat now has a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1. | ||||
| 19w07a | Added foxes, which sometimes spawn with wheat in their mouths. | ||||
| 1.17 | 21w13a | Wheat can now be used to breed goats. | |||
| 1.19 | 22w11a | Wheat can now be used to craft packed mud. | |||
| 1.20 | 23w12a | Wheat can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in cold and warm ocean ruins and in trail ruins. | |||
| 23w16a | Wheat 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 is now common loot. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.2.0 | Added wheat. It is currently unobtainable and serves no purpose. | ||||
| v0.4.0 | Wheat is now obtainable via farming and can be used to craft bread. | ||||
| v0.7.0 | Wheat can now be used to craft cake. | ||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | Wheat can now be used to breed cows and sheep. | |||
| Wheat can now be used to craft hay bales. | |||||
| v0.9.0 | build 1 | Wheat crops now naturally spawn in villages. | |||
| Wheat can now be used to craft cookies. | |||||
| v0.15.0 | build 1 | Wheat can now be used to grow, increase tame and heal horses, donkeys and mules. | |||
| v0.16.2 | Wheat can now be found in the chests inside of large houses in ice plains and cold taiga villages. | ||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Wheat can now be found in igloo basement chests. | |||
| 1.0.4 | alpha 1.0.4.0 | Farmer villagers now buy 18–22 wheat for 1 emerald. | |||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Wheat can now be found in the new woodland mansion chests. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.14.2 | Wheat can now be found inside shipwreck chests. | |||
| beta 1.2.20.1 | Wheat can now be found inside underwater ruins chests. | ||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Wheat can now be found in pillager outpost chests. | |||
| The texture of wheat has been changed. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Wheat can now be found in desert village house chests, village shepherd and butcher house chests. | |||
| Wheat can now be used to fill up composters. | |||||
| beta 1.11.0.4 | Trading has changed, farmer villagers now have a 25% chance to buy 20 wheat for one emerald as part of their first tier trade. | ||||
| 1.13.0 | beta 1.13.0.1 | Added foxes, which can drop wheat. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added wheat. |
| 1.90 | The texture of wheat has been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added wheat. | ||||
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Wheat" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery[]
Wheat in the Super Duper Graphics Pack.
![Steve and Kai in a field of wheat crops.[1]](https://venvegame.netlify.app/host-https-static.wikia.nocookie.net/minecraft_gamepedia/images/a/a0/Field_of_Wheat.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20230712180044)
External Links[]
- Taking Inventory: Wheat – Minecraft.net on April 21, 2022