Composter
minecraft:composterThe composter turns organic materials such as seeds, crops, and saplings into bone meal, giving farmers a renewable way to produce fertilizer without villager trading or bone drops. It also serves as a comparator-readable storage container that reports its fill level.
Uses
- Bone Meal — Adding compostable items has a 30-100% chance to raise the fill level; a full composter yields one bone meal when collected, either by hand or via hopper.
- Farmer Job Site — Placing a composter lets an unemployed villager become a farmer, who will then tend and harvest nearby crops.
Found In
- Villages — Generates in village farm plots as part of farmer houses.
- Trail Ruins — Occasionally found among the buried block clusters of trail ruins.
- Crafted — Built from 7 wooden slabs of any type at a crafting table.
Drops
- composter× 1
FAQ
What tool do I need to mine a composter?
None — it can be broken by hand, though an axe breaks it fastest (0.45 seconds with a wooden axe).
Does a composter keep its compost when broken?
No. Breaking a composter drops the empty composter block only; any progress toward bone meal is lost.
What is the best item to compost?
Items with a 100% chance include cakes and pumpkin pies, filling the composter in a single use.
Can hoppers automate a composter?
Yes. A hopper feeding into the top inserts compostable items, and a hopper underneath extracts bone meal automatically.
Tags
- axe_mineable
- flammable
- overworld