Wheat

For the artifact in Minecraft Dungeons, see Minecraft Dungeons:Wonderful Wheat. For the seed, see Wheat Seeds.

Wheat
Rarity	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

Wheat is an item primarily obtained by harvesting fully-grown wheat crops. It is used for crafting as well as to feed certain animals.

Obtaining

Natural generation

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Wheat	Dungeon	Chest	1–4	34.1%
	Igloo	Chest	2–3	55.3%
	Warm Ocean ruins	Warm ruins suspicious sand	1	13.3%
		Cold ruins suspicious gravel	1	13.3%
	Pillager Outpost	Chest	3–5	72.5%
	Shipwreck	Supply chest	8–21	42.1%
	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	4.4%
	Underwater ruins	Small ruins chest	2–3	84.2%
		Big ruins chest	2–3	81%
	Village	Butcher's chest	1–3	48.6%
		Desert house chest	1–7	80.6%
		Shepherd's chest	1–6	55.8%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1–4	34.1%
Bedrock Edition
Wheat	Dungeon	Chest	1–4	34.1%
	Igloo	Chest	2–3	55.3%
	Warm Ocean ruins	Warm ruins suspicious sand	1	13.3%
		Cold ruins suspicious gravel	1	13.3%
	Pillager Outpost	Chest	3–5	72.5%
	Shipwreck	Supply chest	8–21	42.1%
	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	4.3%
	Underwater ruins	Small ruins chest	2–3	84.2%
		Big ruins chest	2–3	81%
	Village	Butcher's chest	1–3	48.6%
		Desert house chest	1–7	80.6%
		Shepherd's chest	1–6	55.8%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1–4	34.1%

Farming

Main article: Tutorials/Crop farming

When a fully-grown wheat crop is harvested, it drops 1 wheat and 1 to 4 wheat seeds (2 ⁵⁄₇ per crop harvested on average). A wheat crop has a total of eight stages (0-7) from the time it is planted until it can be harvested. If a crop is harvested before it is fully grown, it just drops one seed. Wheat needs light to grow; a seed is destroyed if planted without light. Harvesting with a Fortune-enchanted tool increases the number of seeds dropped but does not increase the yield of wheat.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Hay Bale	9

Drops

A fox sometimes spawns holding wheat, which it always drops upon death. Alternatively, the player can drop a food item, causing the fox to drop the wheat.

Usage

Food

Using wheat to lead a cow.

When wheat is held, it causes nearby cows, sheep, goats and mooshrooms to follow the player, until either the player stops holding the wheat or goes too far away from the animal, thus leading them to lose interest.

Wheat may be used to breed cows, sheep, goats, and mooshrooms by first herding two of them together and then using the wheat on them to begin "Love Mode."

Wheat can heal a horse 1 health or lower its temper by 3% when attempting to tame it. It can also decrease the time it takes for a foal to grow by 20 seconds.

Similarly, wheat can heal a llama 2 health, and it decreases the time it takes a baby llama to grow by 10 seconds.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Bread	Wheat
Cake	Milk Bucket + Sugar + Egg + Wheat		Empty buckets remain in the crafting grid after crafting the cake.
Cookie	Wheat + Cocoa Beans	8
Hay Bale	Wheat
Packed Mud	Mud + Wheat

Trading

Novice-level farmer villagers have a 25%‌ or 40%‌ chance to buy 20 wheat for one emerald.

Composting

Placing wheat into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1. A stack of wheat yields an average of 5.94 bone meal.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other
		Bake Bread	Turn wheat into bread.	Pick up bread from a crafting table output.	15G	Bronze
		The Lie	Bake a cake using: wheat, sugar, milk, and eggs.	Pick up a cake from a crafting table output.	30G	Bronze
		Repopulation	Breed two cows with wheat.	Breed two cows or two mooshrooms.	15G	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	A Seedy Place	Plant a seed and watch it grow	Husbandry	Plant one of these 7 crops: Beetroot Melon Nether Wart Pumpkin Wheat Torchflower Pitcher Other crops and plants can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/plant_seed

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Wheat	wheat	Item	item.minecraft.wheat

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Wheat	wheat	334	Item	item.wheat.name

Video

Note: the narrator demonstrates at 0:56 that walking over wheat can destroy the crop and un-till the land. This is outdated: since version JE 1.1, wheat can be destroyed only by a player or mob jumping on it or falling on it.

History

Java Edition Indev
20100206					Wheat has been added.
					Wheat can be used to craft bread.
20100223					Bread now requires 3 wheat (1 row of 3) instead of 6 (2 rows of 3) to be crafted.
Java Edition Infdev
20100625-2					Wheat can now be found in the new dungeon chests.
Java Edition Beta
1.2					Wheat can now be used to craft cake.
1.4					Wheat can now be used to craft cookies.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2			Wheat can now be used in breeding.
1.3.1		12w21a			Wheat can now be sold to farmer villagers, at 18–21 wheat for 1 emerald.
1.4.2		12w36a			Chickens and pigs no longer use wheat to breed.
1.6.1		13w16a			Horses can now be healed by being fed wheat.
					Foals can now have their growth increased by being fed wheat.
		13w17a			Horses can now have their tempers lowered with wheat.
		13w18a			Nine wheat can now be crafted to make a hay bale.
1.8		14w02a			Trading has been changed: farmer villagers now buy 18–22 wheat for 1 emerald.
1.9		15w43a			Wheat may now be found in igloo basement chests.
		15w44a			The average yield of wheat in dungeon chests has been decreased.
1.11		16w39a			Wheat can now be found in the new woodland mansion chests.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 296.
		18w09a			Wheat can now generate in the chests of underwater ruins.
		18w11a			Wheat can now generate in shipwreck chests.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of wheat has been changed.
		18w47a			Wheat can now generate inside of loot chests on top of pillager outposts.
		18w49a			Wheat can now generate in chests in village butcher and shepherd houses.
		18w50a			Wheat can now generate in chests in desert village houses.
		19w03a			Placing wheat into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
		19w05a			Wheat now has a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
		19w07a			Added foxes, which sometimes spawn with wheat in their mouths.
1.17		21w13a			Wheat can now be used to breed goats.
1.19		22w11a			Wheat can now be used to craft packed mud.
1.20		23w12a			Wheat can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in cold and warm ocean ruins and in trail ruins.
		23w16a			Wheat no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins.
					Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for suspicious gravel within trail ruins, wheat is now common loot.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.0					Added wheat. It is currently unobtainable and serves no purpose.
v0.4.0					Wheat is now obtainable via farming and can be used to craft bread.
v0.7.0					Wheat can now be used to craft cake.
v0.8.0		build 1			Wheat can now be used to breed cows and sheep.
					Wheat can now be used to craft hay bales.
v0.9.0		build 1			Wheat crops now naturally spawn in villages.
					Wheat can now be used to craft cookies.
v0.15.0		build 1			Wheat can now be used to grow, increase tame and heal horses, donkeys and mules.
v0.16.2					Wheat can now be found in the chests inside of large houses in ice plains and cold taiga villages.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Wheat can now be found in igloo basement chests.
1.0.4		alpha 1.0.4.0			Farmer villagers now buy 18–22 wheat for 1 emerald.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Wheat can now be found in the new woodland mansion chests.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Wheat can now be found inside shipwreck chests.
		beta 1.2.20.1			Wheat can now be found inside underwater ruins chests.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Wheat can now be found in pillager outpost chests.
					The texture of wheat has been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Wheat can now be found in desert village house chests, village shepherd and butcher house chests.
					Wheat can now be used to fill up composters.
		beta 1.11.0.4			Trading has changed, farmer villagers now have a 25% chance to buy 20 wheat for one emerald as part of their first tier trade.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.1			Added foxes, which can drop wheat.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added wheat.
		1.90			The texture of wheat has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added wheat.

Issues

Issues relating to "Wheat" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery

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  Wheat in the Super Duper Graphics Pack.

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  Steve and Kai in a field of wheat crops.

External Links

• Taking Inventory: Wheat – Minecraft.net on April 21, 2022

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