Bone Meal
Bone Meal is a ground up nutritious material made from the Bones or Skulls of killed Skeletons, with many farming-related applications. It can be used as a white Dye as well as a fertilizer. It is also crafted with seeds to create chicken feed.
Crafting
| Name | Ingredients | Input » Output |
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| Bone Meal | Bone or Skeleton Skull in a Mill Stone |
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Uses
Crafting
| Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | ||||||
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| Chicken Feed | Bone Meal, Wheat Seeds or Hemp Seeds or Melon Seeds or Pumpkin Seeds |
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| Dirt Planter | Loose Dirt, Planter |
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| Firework Star | Gunpowder, Dye, Extra ingredient (optional) |
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Food
| Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | Hunger Restored | ||||||||||||||
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| Kibble | Bone Meal, Rotten Flesh, Sugar |
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1.5 shanks   Has a 50% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 60 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food. |
Dye
Like all dyes, bone meal can be applied directly to sheep to color them white, and can be used to dye Wool Knit Armor or Leather Armor. It can also be combined with other dyes to produce new colors:
| Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | ||||||||||||
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| Light Gray Dye | Ink Sac or Gray Dye and Bone Meal |
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Gray Dye | Ink Sac and Bone Meal |
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| Lime Dye | Cactus Green and Bone Meal |
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Light Blue Dye | Lapis Lazuli and Bone Meal |
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| Pink Dye | Rose Red and Bone Meal |
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Fertilizer
Bone Meal fertilizes any Farmland or dirt filled planter it is applied to, passively accelerating plant growth, which proceeds through all of its natural stages. The fertilization persists until the plant is fully grown. Bone Meal cannot affect trees or cacti. If Bone Meal in item form is dropped on the tilled soil or planter it gets applied to it, allowing for automated fertilizing.
When bonemeal is applied to hydrated farmland, wheat growth is accelerated. It also appears to be more uniform than vanilla growth, and also less dependent on whether surrounding blocks are also growing wheat or not. The image below shows two rows of wheat planted at the same time and under symmetrical conditions. The front row's soil received bonemeal treatment before planting. You can observe that at the intermediate growth stage shown, average front row growth is more advanced. Furthermore, the growth appears more uniform in comparison to the control row.
When the wheat becomes fully grown, the farmland or planter beneath it becomes unfertilized.
When Bone Meal is applied to hydrated farmland, hemp growth is accelerated. However, this will only apply for the first 8 stages of growth i.e. one block high fully matured, at this point the dirt block will become unfertilized and growth will continue at a normal pace.
When bonemeal is applied to hydrated farmland, melon and pumpkin growth is accelerated. However, this will only apply for the first 8 stages of growth. When the melon, pumpkin plant itself is mature the pumpkin and melon blocks spawn in a normal rate, applying bonemeal on the plant causes the melon and pumpkin blocks to spawn quicker, but the bonemeal gets used up.
