You make bonemeal in Minecraft by crafting bones or bone blocks. It's a simple process using the crafting interface.
## How to Craft Bonemeal
The primary way to obtain bonemeal is by placing specific bone-related items into a crafting grid, which can be accessed through your inventory or a crafting table.
Here are the two main methods:
* **Using Bones:** Place a single bone into any slot in your crafting grid. This will convert the bone into **3 pieces of bonemeal**.
* **Using Bone Blocks:** If you have a bone block, placing it into any slot in your crafting grid will yield **9 pieces of bonemeal**.
Both methods require only the bone item or bone block itself, without needing any other ingredients or specific placement patterns in the crafting grid.
| Input Item | Quantity | Output Item | Quantity |
| :------------ | :------- | :---------- | :------- |
| **Bone** | 1 | Bonemeal | 3 |
| **Bone Block**| 1 | Bonemeal | 9 |
Using a bone block is more efficient if you have them, as one bone block is equivalent to nine bones (in terms of the base material used to craft it), and it gives exactly nine bonemeal.
## Getting Bones and Bone Blocks
To make bonemeal, you first need to acquire bones or bone blocks.
* **Killing Skeletons:** Bones are a very common drop from killing skeletons, which are hostile mobs found in dark areas and at night.
* **Treasure Chests:** Bones can also occasionally be found inside treasure chests generated naturally in the game world, such as those in dungeons, desert temples, jungle temples, and shipwrecks.
* **Bone Blocks:** Bone blocks are typically found in desert biomes as part of fossil structures or can be crafted by combining 9 bones in a crafting grid.
Once you have collected bones or bone blocks, simply open your crafting space and follow the steps above to turn them into bonemeal. Bonemeal is primarily used as a fertilizer to quickly grow crops and saplings, and as a white dye.
