Beetroot Seeds

Beetroot seeds are items that can be used to plant beetroot crops.

Natural generation
Village farm plots have a 10% chance of being beetroot.

Farming
Harvesting fully-grown beetroot yields from 0 to 3 seeds per crop harvested (2 seeds/crop harvested on average). The Fortune enchantment can be used to improve the drop rate.

Farming
Beetroot seeds can be placed on farmland. After being placed, it will undergo four states of growth. When fully grown it can be broken to produce beetroot seeds and beetroots.

While beetroot crops have only four growth stages compared to eight for wheat, carrots, and potatoes, each growth tick has a $1/3$ chance of not advancing the growth stage and therefore beetroot grows only slightly faster than other crops.

One application of bonemeal has a 75% chance of advancing growth by one stage. This is less effective than for other crops: an average of $5 1/3$ are needed to fully grow beetroot compared to $2 2/7$ for other crops.

Beetroot seeds must be directly planted on the top of a farmland block; unlike most blocks, targeting the side of a block which would result in it being placed in top of farmland will not allow it to be placed.

Breeding
Like other seeds, beetroot seeds can be used to breed chickens, lead chickens around, and make baby chickens grow up faster by 10% of the remaining time.

Taming
Like other seeds, beetroot seeds can be used to tame parrots.

Composting
Placing beetroot seeds into a composter will have a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Block data
In Bedrock Edition, beetroots uses the following data values: