Crops

Crops are wheat growing on farmland, planted from seeds.

Obtaining

Planting

Crops are planted from seeds, at the first of eight stages.

Breaking

Breaking crops makes three tries at dropping a seed. Each succeeds (stage + 1) times in 15, so 8 in 15 when fully grown. Fully grown crops, at stage 7, also drop one wheat.

Crops drop the same whether a player, flowing water, a piston or trampled farmland breaks them. Flowing lava destroys them without drops.

Behaviour

Where they stand

Crops stand only on farmland, and need light 8 or more, or open sky, to stay.

Crops that cannot stay break when a neighbouring block changes, or on their next random tick.

Growing

On each random tick with light 9 or more in the space above them, crops have a chance to advance one stage. Crops lit only by the sky do not grow at night.

The chance is 1 in (100 ÷ growth rate), rounded down. The growth rate starts at 1, and:

• the farmland under the crops adds 1, or 3 if it is wet;
• each of the eight farmland blocks around that one adds a quarter as much: 0.25, or 0.75 if wet;
• the total is halved if other crops stand diagonally beside these, or beside them on two sides at right angles.

Crops	Chance per random tick	Average time to grow fully
In a single row, with wet farmland all round	1 in 10	24 minutes
In a field of wet farmland, with crops on every side	1 in 20	48 minutes
On dry farmland, with no farmland round it	1 in 50	2 hours

Bone meal used on crops grows them fully at once.

Data values

• Block ID: 59
• Metadata: the growth stage, 0 to 7
• Translation key: tile.crops