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Wheat is an item obtained through farming, added to Indev on the 6th of February, 2010. Seeds for growing wheat can be obtained by breaking tall grass or from inside a dungeon's chests. Wheat can be crafted into bread, cake (when combined with sugar, eggs, and milk), or cookies (when combined with cocoa beans).

Harvesting wheat generates 0 to 3 seeds that can be replanted to produce more crops. This makes farming a reliable source of food (versus tracking down pigs or cows for their pork (although grilled pork and steak heals for 🍗🍗🍗🍗, respectively, as opposed to 🍗🍗🍗 for bread)).

It helps to fence off areas where ground has been tilled or where a user is trying to grow wheat. If either a user or mob walks over the block of growing wheat it will die and revert back to being plain dirt(unless you sneak by holding shift).

As a Crafting Ingredient

Ingredients Input » Output
Wheat Template:Grid/Crafting Table
Eggs + Wheat
+ Milk + Sugar
Template:Grid/Crafting Table
Wheat + Cocoa Beans Template:Grid/Crafting Table

Notes

  • Crops can be harvested quickly and easily from large farms in a very short period of time by redirecting water over the crops. As of Beta 1.8, fully grown crops will drop up to 3 seeds, but immature crops will only drop 0-1 seed.
  • Using wheat to make cookies is more efficient than using wheat to make bread, but the resources to make cookies can only be found in dungeons.
  • Wheat does not appear in the statistics page, as it appears as seeds due to wheat being a re-textured version of seeds when planted.
  • 1-4 wheat can be found in reward chests in dungeons.
  • As of Beta 1.9 Pre-release 2, wheat can be used to breed animals.
  • Needs one block of air above it in order to grow.
  • As of Beta 1.9 Pre-release, wheat can be used to make animals follow you by holding it in your hand, however they need to be looking directly at you for this to work and you can't get too far ahead of them or switch items or they lose interest.

See also

  • Wheat Farming
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