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Today, you will learn how to craft and use Composter in Minecraft. You can use the Table of Contents above to navigate quickly.

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Composter Overview

Composter at a Crop Field (Farm)

The crop field (farm), where the Composter is placed.

The Composter is 1 of the 13 job site blocks Villager used to work. A Villager who works with Composter is called Farmer. You can always find a Composter in the Crop field in a Village.

If there is an unemployed/jobless Villager stand near a Composter, it becomes a Farmer.

Bone Meal

Bone Meal.

You can use Composter to make Bone Meals using food or plant items. Bone Meals can be used to speed up crop growth, saplings growth, and making Dye.

How to Craft a Composter

Crafting Composter in Minecraft

Crafting a Composter.

To craft a Composter, you need 7 Wooden Slabs (you can use any type of Wooden Slabs to craft a Composter).

How to use Composter

Before you use the Composter, it’s good to know how it works. So, I will try to explain a little bit about Composter. 

Composter uses food or plant items to compost it into a Bone Meal. You can’t just put one Carrot and expecting to get a Bone Meal that easily. Instead, you put it for a chance to get a “layer” or “floor” in the Composter.

Before you can get a Bone Meal, you need to fill the Composter with the layers you get from putting (again) food or plant items. A full Composter consists of 7 Layers. See the animated image below.

Filling Composter in Minecraft

Filling Composter until it’s full.

You can only collect the Bone Meal when a Composter is full (at 7 Layers), the texture also changed with white spots on the top.

To use the Composter, you need to click the Composter while holding food or plant items. To see what food or plant items you can use, see the table below.

Items That Can Be Used for Composter
Apple, lookingforseed AppleCocoa Beans, lookingforseed Cocoa Beans
Potato, lookingforseed PotatoCookie, lookingforseed Cookie
Baked Potato, lookingforseed Baked PotatoCrimmson Fungus, lookingforseed Crimson Fungus
Bread, lookingforseed BreadCrimson Roots, lookingforseed Crimson Roots
Brown Mushroom, lookingforseed Brown MushroomDried Kelp Block, lookingforseed Dried Kelp Block
Cactus, lookingforseed CactusLarge Fern, lookingforseed Fern
Cake, lookingforseed CakeFern, lookingforseed Large Fern
Carrot, lookingforseed CarrotFlowers, lookingforseed Any types of Flowers
Carved Pumpkin, lookingforseed Carved PumpkinGrass, lookingforseed Grass
Hay Bale, lookingforseed Hay BaleKelp, lookingforseed Kelp
Lilipad, lookingforseed LilipadLeaves, lookingforseed Any types of Leaves
Watermelon Seeds, lookingforseed Melon SeedsBrown Mushroom Block, lookingforseed Brown Mushroom Block
Red Mushroom, lookingforseed Red MushroomRed Mushroom Block, lookingforseed Red Mushroom Block
Melon Slice, lookingforseed Melon SliceMelon, lookingforseed Melon
Mushroom Block, lookingforseed Mushroom StemNether Sprouts, lookingforseed Nether Sprouts
Netherward, lookingforseed NetherwardPumpkin Pie, lookingforseed Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin, lookingforseed PumpkinSea Pickle, lookingforseed Sea Pickle
Seaweed, lookingforseed SeaweedSeeds, lookingforseed Seeds
Sugar Cane, lookingforseed Sugar CaneMelon Seeds, lookingforseed Pumpkin Seeds
Sweet Berry, lookingforseed Sweet BerryWarped Fungus, lookingforseed Warped Fungus
Warped Roots, lookingforseed Warped RootsWeeping Vines, lookingforseed Weeping Vines
Wheat, lookingforseed WheatTwisting Vines, lookingforseed Twisting Vines
Tall Grass, lookingforseed Tall GrassVines, lookingforseed Vines
Azalea AzaleaFlowering Azalea Flowering Azalea
Flowering Azalea Leaves Flowering Azalea LeavesBig Dripleaf Big Dripleaf
Small Dripleaf Small DripleafGlow Berries Glow Berries
Glow Lichen Glow LichenMoss Block Moss Block
Moss Carpet Moss CarpetSpore Blossom Spore Blossom

Food items that always give 1 Layer are Cake and Pumpkin Pie. But I don’t recommend you put those items in the Composter. It’s better to eat them to fill the Hunger Bars.

Also, no matter how many items you use for filling the Composter, you will always get one Bone Meal. So, it’s better not to use valuable items.

I hope this post helps you to understand Composter in Minecraft. For more guides like this, see Tutorials and Guides. Thank you for reading the article.

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