Wheat Seeds

Wheat seeds (in Java Edition) or seeds (in Bedrock Edition) 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[]

Harvesting fully-grown wheat crops yields from 1 to 4 seeds per crop harvested (about 2 ⁵⁄₇ seeds/crop harvested on average).

In Bedrock edition yields are 0-3.[1]^{https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-169402}

Wheat seeds can be obtained from breaking all variants of grass, which yields 0 to 1 seed. If harvested with a Fortune enchanted tool the drop rate from grass is increased.

The looting is calculated by a binomial distribution: a drop is attempted three times with a success rate of around 57% to yield the 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%)

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%

Chest loot[]

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Wheat Seeds	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	2.2%
	Village	Fisherman's chest	1–3	57.5%
		Savanna house chest	1–5	71.7%
Bedrock Edition
Wheat Seeds	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	2.2%
	Village	Savanna house chest	1–5	71.7%

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[]

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. Planted seeds require a light level of 9 or greater to continue growing. If the light level is 7 or below, the crops instantly un-plant themselves ("pop off"). It is not possible to plant seeds if the light level is too low.

Crops grow faster if the farmland they are planted in 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 (i.e. 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 bonemeal.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

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[sound 1]	subtitles.block.generic.place	0.45	varies [sound 2]	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
	None[sound 3]	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.grass.fall	None[sound 3]	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:

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	dig.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
	Players	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	0.11	1.0
	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.grass	0.21	1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	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[i 1]	Translation key
Wheat	wheat	59	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	item.wheat	tile.wheat.name
Seeds	wheat_seeds	291	Item	—	item.wheat_seeds.name

Block states[]

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	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	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	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	A Seedy Place	Plant a seed and watch it grow	Husbandry	Plant one of these 7 crops: Beetroot Melon Nether Wart Pumpkin Wheat Torchflower Pitcher Other crops and plants can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/plant_seed

History[]

For a more in-depth breakdown of changes to wheat textures and models, including a set of renders for each state, see /Asset history

Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009					Notch shows interest in adding crops on farmland.
Java Edition Indev
Minecraft Indev		20100206			Added seeds.
					Added crops.
					Seeds can be planted on farmland.
					Seeds have a chance of dropping while using a hoe on a grass block.
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.
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.[1] In addition, they are now offset downwards by one pixel once more.[2]
		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.
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		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 59, and the item's was 295.
		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.
		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.[3]
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.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0					Added seeds.
					Added crops.
					Seeds can be obtained by tilling grass blocks.
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.
					Seeds can now be used to breed chicken.
					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.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Crops now generate inside woodland mansions.
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.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added seeds.
					Added crops.
		1.90			The textures of crops have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added seeds.
					Added crops.

Wheat "item"[]

The following content is transcluded from Technical blocks/Crops.

Java Edition Indev
20100206					Wheat crops have an extra, unobtainable item form corresponding to its block ID. It can be obtained via inventory editors with numeric item ID 59.
Java Edition Beta
1.6		Test Build 3			Wheat crop items can be obtained from the newly added debug chests, mainly from the 1st slot of the 3rd chest from the left, and the 12th slot of the 6th chest from the left.
		release			Debug chests no longer spawn, preventing wheat items from being obtained this way.
1.8		Pre-release 2 ;)			Added pick block functionality. This changes the currently selected slot to any containing this otherwise-unobtainable crops item, but does not allow it to be obtained if not already in the hotbar.
Java Edition
1.2.5		pre			Crops can now be obtained via Pick Block in creative.
1.3.1		12w16a			Crop items can now be obtained in singleplayer worlds via the /give command using the respective numeric ID.
1.7.2		13w37a			The direct item form of wheat crops has been removed from the game. It can no longer exist as an item in any way, only as a placed block.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0					Crops exist as an item.

Appearances[]

Java Edition Indev
20100206					The crops item uses this texture in inventories, when held in first person view or as a dropped item.
Java Edition Alpha
?					The crops item uses the aforementioned texture when held in third person.
Java Edition
1.4.2		12w34a			The crops item uses the aforementioned texture when in an item frame.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0					The crop item appears with a red background when in the players inventory/hotbar.

Names[]

Java Edition

Item names did not exist prior to Beta 1.0.

• Beta 1.0 - 13w36b: Crops

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Wheat Seeds" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery[]

Renders[]

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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.

References[]