How to Make & Use a Composter - Minecraft Guide

Mojang, Minecraft’s developers, are known for their high praise for ecology and CSR initiatives.

These concepts and ideas often find their way into the game, and along with breeding and taming axolotls, the Minecraft composter is one of these cool little gems to make the gameplay more enjoyable.

As you see, Minecraft is way more than just a simple, blocky game. In fact, there is more educational content on YouTube from Minecraft than from quantum physics!

From this article you will learn:

• How to make a Composter in Minecraft,
• What is the Composter recipe,
• What are those mysterious green particles,
• When can you gather Compost.

What is Composter in Minecraft?

The Composter has two main purposes in Minecraft. First, it serves as a recycling block, which is converting plant materials and food into bone meal. Second, Composters are farmer villagers’ job blocks.

You have every compostable item listed below.

A full list of compostable items in the Minecraft game

Here you have a list of items that you can use to fill your Composter along with the odds for each item to add another layer of compost.

30%

• Beetroot Seeds,
• Dried Kelp,
• Glow Berries,
• Grass,
• Grass Block (Bedrock Edition only),
• Hanging Roots,
• Kelp,
• Leaves,
• Melon seeds,
• Moss Carpet,
• Pumpkin Seeds,
• Seplings,
• Seagrass,
• Small Dripleaf,
• Sweet Berries,
• Wheat Seeds.

50%

• Cactus,
• Dried Kelp Block,
• Flowering Azalea Leaves,
• Glow Lichen,
• Melon Slice,
• Nether Sprouts,
• Sugar Cane,
• Tall Grass,
• Vines,
• Weeping Vines,
• Twisting Vines.

65%

• Apple,
• Azalea,
• Beetroot,
• Big Dripleaf,
• Carrot,
• Cocoa Beans,
• Ferns,
• Flowers,
• Lily Pad,
• Melon,
• Moss Block,
• Mushrooms,
• Mushroom Stem,
• Nether Wart,
• Potato,
• Pumpkins,
• Sea Pickle,
• Shroomlight,
• Spore Blossom,
• Wheat,
• Fungus,
• Roots.

85%

• Baked Potato,
• Bread,
• Cookie,
• Flowering Azalea,
• Hay Bale,
• Mushroom Blocks,
• Nether Wart Block,
• Warped Wart Block.

100%

• Cake,
• Pumpkin Pie.

Adding a compostable item to the Composter has a certain chance of producing a layer of Compost.

Green sparkles surrounding the Composter indicate that your attempt was successful and another layer of Compost was produced.

After successfully producing seven layers of compost, you can collect the bone meal.

How to Make a Composter?

It takes seven wooden slabs to build a Composter, which is why you will need to use the crafting table with its 3 x 3 crafting area. It can be any slab.

Here you have a list of wood items that can be used to craft a Composter in Minecraft:

• Seven Oak Wood Slabs,
• Seven Dark Oak Wood Slabs
• Seven Spruce Wood Slabs,
• Seven Birch Wood Slabs,
• Seven Jungle Wood Slabs,
• Seven Acacia Wood Slabs,
• Seven Crimson Slabs,
• Seven Warped Slabs.

Why the lucky number seven? It takes one look at the crafting grid to know why.

Once you open your crafting table and put the required materials in a U shape. Leave the top middle square and the center square free.

Why do you need a Composter in Minecraft

If you have seven wooden slabs to spare, you might as well fetch yourself a Composter. Its main function is to turn compostable items like plant materials into bone meal, which then serves as a fertilizer for crops.

Minecraft is a complex game with a plethora of items that may, or may not, be useful.

Eventually, you end up with a pile of junk in your inventory that you have no clue what to do with. Composter allows you to utilize them and free up some inventory space.

It is also, as we stated earlier, a job block for farmer villager.

What do I need a bone meal for?

A bone meal is definitely a cheaper way to feed plants than a Super Fertilizer. To craft Super Fertilizer you need Ammonia and Phosphorus. Obtaining them involves using an element constructor or material reducer.

When you compare it to dumping some plants into a wooden box, it sounds overcomplicated, even taking into consideration the fact that you need to use a bone meal multiple times.

Bone meal can be used to fertilize most plants. What’s more, you can use its products to prepare materials required for the production of dyes.

Minecraft’s Composter: Final Word

There is a saying: “Show me your garden, and I’ll tell you who you are.”

Ok, we made that one up but it is a common truth, that having a beautiful garden is a reason to boast. In order to make it efficient, you can’t waste a thing, especially in a world where ecology gains more and more recognition.

It is why many people use a composter to recycle waste and this idea is no different in Minecraft.

I hope this guide was useful and you will be able to make a composter in no time.

If you are into farming, it would totally make sense to put it somewhere around your Minecraft’s farmhouse - for inspiration, make sure to check our guide to Minecraft houses.

Now go collect some slab and make a composter!

Minecraft Composter FAQ

What do I need to build a Composter in Minecraft?

The required materials are seven slabs of any kind and a crafting table. Put 2 wooden planks in the top left and top right box, another 2 planks in the middle left and middle right box, and the remaining three wooden planks in the bottom row.

Do I need a crafting table to craft a Composter?

Yes. You have seven wooden planks to use to build a Composter, and there is no way that a 2 x 2 inventory crafting grid will ever fit it.

What is the purpose of having a Composter?

Composter turns plant material into bone meal that can later be used to fertilize crops.