Tutorials/Flower farming

Flowers are naturally occurring plants that spawn randomly in clusters on grass blocks. While they can be planted on grass and dirt blocks, flowers cannot be cultivated like trees, sugar cane, or crops, but can occasionally spawn when bone meal is used to generate patches of tall grass. Flowers can be used to make wool dyes.

To survive, flowers must be planted on a grass or dirt block that either does not have a block any altitude above it to obstruct sun/moonlight, or is lit with at least a light level of 8. If neither of these conditions exist, the flower will quickly pop out. This attribute allows flowers to be used in the creation of light-sensitive mechanisms.

Even in a biome covered with snow, flowers will generate naturally on dirt blocks with grass, despite the adjoining dirt blocks being covered with snow.

You can easily farm flowers using bonemeal on the ground and then harvesting the grown flowers. You could also farm roses by using sophisticated water canals to push iron golems out of villages into a automatic kill system (iron golems can drop roses when killed,while also giving you iron).

Most people don't bother with the advanced iron golem trap mentioned above due to the large amounts of resources for building it. Many people won't use the simple tactic either since it's "a waste of bonemeal."

Roses seem to be in "high demand" since they spawn much less than the dandelion, so you may be able to sell them for high prices in Iconomy plugin servers. If you're having a hard time finding roses, they tend to be most abundant in Taiga and Tundra biomes.

Dandelion
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Rose
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