How to get wheat seeds in Minecraft

Wheat seeds (in Java Edition) or seeds (in Bedrock Edition) are items used in farming.

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Obtaining[]
Natural generation[]
Chest loot[]
Villager gifts[]
Composting[]
Data values[]
Block states[]
Advancements[]
Wheat "item"[]
References[]
How do you get wheat seeds in Minecraft without grass?
What is the easiest way to get seeds in Minecraft?

Obtaining[]

Breaking[]

Harvesting fully-grown wheat crops yields from 0 to 3 seeds per crop harvested (about 2.5 seeds/crop harvested on average).

Wheat seeds can be obtained from breaking all variants of grass, which yields 0 to 1 seed. If harvested with a Fortune enchanted tool the drop rate from grass is increased.

The looting is calculated by a binomial distribution: a drop is attempted three times with a success rate of around 57% to yield the 0–3 drops. Each level of Fortune enchantment increases the number of attempts by one.

Resource location	Source	Drops
Wheat	Wheat Seeds
Default tool	With Fortune I	With Fortune II	With Fortune III
`blocks/wheat`	Wheat (age 0–6)	0	1	1	1	1
Wheat (age 7)	1	0 (~7.87%) or 1 (~31.49%) or 2 (~41.98%) or 3 (~18.66%)	0 (~3.37%) or 1 (~17.99%) or 2 (~35.98%) or 3 (~31.99%) or 4 (~10.66%)	0 (~1.44%) or 1 (~9.64%) or 2 (~25.70%) or 3 (~34.27%) or 4 (~22.85%) or 5 (~6.09%)	0 (~0.62%) or 1 (~4.96%) or 2 (~16.52%) or 3 (~29.38%) or 4 (~29.38%) or 5 (~15.67%) or 6 (~3.48%)

Natural generation[]

Village farm plots have a 50% chance of being wheat crops.

Chest loot[]

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Wheat Seeds	Village	Fisherman's chest	1–3	57.5%
Savanna house chest	1–5	71.7%
Bedrock Edition
Wheat Seeds	Village	Savanna house chest	1–5	71.7%

Trading[]

Wandering traders sell wheat seeds for an emerald.

Villager gifts[]

Nitwit and unemployed villagers throw wheat seeds at players under the Hero of the Village effect.

Usage[]

Crop[]

Different stages of crop growth.

Wheat seeds can be placed on farmland by right-clicking, where they grow through eight stages. When left alone, wheat seeds planted on farmland grow to become wheat crops, which can be harvested by the player. Planted seeds require a light level of 9 or greater to continue growing. If the light level is 7 or below, the crops un-plant themselves ("pop off"). It is not possible to plant seeds if the light level is too low.

Crops grow faster if the farmland they are planted in is hydrated. Using bone meal on crops also increases the speed of growth by randomly increasing their growth stage by 2 to 5.

Breaking the final stage produces 1 to 4 wheat seeds and 1 wheat. If they are harvested early, they drop 1 seed without any wheat.

Farmland can be trampled (reverted to a dirt block) if the player or any mob (passive or hostile) falls onto the farmland from 1 block or more (i.e. jumping or walking off a ledge). If trampled, the crops have the same drop rates they would normally have.

If falling sand or gravel falls on wheat or any other crop, the falling sand/gravel is destroyed because crops are a non-solid block.

Breeding[]

Wheat seeds can be used to breed chickens and reduce the remaining growth duration of baby chickens by 10%. Chickens also follow a player holding wheat seeds.

Taming[]

Like other seeds, wheat seeds can be used to tame parrots.

Composting[]

Placing wheat seeds into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1. A stack of wheat seeds yields an average of 2.74 bonemeal.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.crop.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	0.9	?	16
None[sound 1]	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.grass.fall`	None[sound 1]	0.5	0.75	16
Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`block.grass.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.5	16
Footsteps	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.grass.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16
Block placed	Entity-Dependent	Placing the block	`item.crop.plant[sound 2]`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	0.45	?, 1.2	16

↑ a b MC-177082
↑ Unlike all other block placement sound events, these are listed under items. Confirmed to be intentional by Mojang, see MC-177459

Bedrock Edition:

Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
Blocks	Once the block has broken	`dig.grass`	0.7	0.8-1.0
Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	`fall.grass`	0.4	1.0
Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`hit.grass`	0.3	0.5
Players	Jumping from the block	`jump.grass`	0.11	1.0
Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.grass`	0.21	1.0
Players	Walking on the block	`step.grass`	0.3	1.0
Blocks	When the block is placed	`dig.grass`	0.8	0.8-1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Wheat Crops	`wheat`	Block	`bee_growables` `crops`	`block.minecraft.wheat`
Wheat Seeds	`wheat_seeds`	Item	—	`item.minecraft.wheat_seeds`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Wheat	`wheat`	`59`	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	`item.wheat`	`tile.wheat.name`
Seeds	`wheat_seeds`	`291`	Item	—	`item.wheat_seeds.name`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Unavailable with /give command

Block states[]

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values
age	`0`	`0`
`1`
`2`
`3`
`4`
`5`
`6`
`7`	Fully grown.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits
growth	`0x1` `0x2` `0x4`	`0`	`0`	`0`
`1`	`1`
`2`	`2`
`3`	`3`
`4`	`4`
`5`	`5`
`6`	`6`
`7`	`7`	Fully grown.

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 5 crops:

Beetroot
Melon
Nether Wart
Pumpkin
Wheat

Other crops and plants, if any, can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement.

husbandry/plant_seed

History[]

For a more in-depth breakdown of changes to wheat textures and models, including a set of renders for each state, see /Asset history

Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009	Notch shows interest in adding crops on farmland.
Java Edition Indev
Minecraft Indev	20100206	Added seeds.
Added crops.
Seeds can be planted on farmland.
Seeds have a chance of dropping while using a hoe on a grass block.
Java Edition Beta
1.5	Crops destroyed by water now drop both seeds and wheat. Prior to this update, they dropped only wheat when destroyed by water.
1.6	Test Build 3	Seeds can no longer be tilled from a grass block.
Seeds are now found by destroying tall grass or by harvesting fully-grown crops.
1.8	Pre-release	Crops can now be found in village farms.
Java Edition
1.4.2	12w36a	Chickens now use seeds instead of wheat to breed.
1.8	14w02a	Villagers can now harvest and plant seeds to grow crops.
14w06a	Crops are now a pixel higher - previously they were offset one pixel down as to match farmland. This is likely an accidental result of model conversion.
14w10a	Crops of all stages no longer have a model.
14w10b	Crops now have models again.[1] In addition, they are now offset downwards by one pixel once more.[2]
14w25a	Crops model are now shaded.
14w27a	Crops are no longer shaded.
1.9	15w38a	The drop chances of crops has been slightly improved from an average of 1 3⁄5 per crop harvested to 1 5⁄7.
1.11	16w39a	Crops now generate inside woodland mansions.
1.12	pre3	Seeds are now used to tame parrots.
1.13	17w47a	Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 59, and the item's was 295.
18w14a	Seeds no longer become destroyed when an entity jumps on them if they have the Slow Falling status effect.
18w20a	"Seeds" have been renamed to "Wheat Seeds".
"Crops" have been renamed to "Wheat Crops".
1.14	18w43a	The textures of wheat crops have been changed.
The drop rate of fully grown wheat seeds has been changed from 0-3 to 1-4.
18w44a	The textures of wheat crops of age 6 and 7 have been changed again.
18w47a	The textures of wheat crops have been changed, once again.
18w48a	Wheat seeds can now be found in chests in village fisher cottages.
18w49a	Wheat seeds can now be found in chests in savanna village houses.
19w03a	Placement and breaking sounds have been added to wheat crops.
Placing wheat seeds into the new composter has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
19w05a	Wheat seeds now have a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
Added wandering traders, which sell wheat seeds.
19w13a	Nitwit and unemployed villagers now give wheat seeds to players under the Hero of the Village effect.
1.15	19w34a	Bees can now pollinate wheat crops.
1.17	21w13a	The "crop" template model has changed such that pixels appear in the same physical positions on opposite sides of texture planes.[3]
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0	Added seeds.
Added crops.
Seeds can be obtained by tilling grass blocks.
v0.9.0	build 1	File:Wheat Age 0 BE2.png File:Wheat Age 1 BE2.png File:Wheat Age 2 BE2.png File:Wheat Age 3 BE2.png File:Wheat Age 4 BE2.png File:Wheat Age 5 BE2.png File:Wheat Age 6 BE2.png File:Wheat Age 7 BE2.png Faces now renders from both sides, resulting in z-fighting.
Seeds can now be used to breed chicken.
Crops can now be found in village farms.
build 2	File:Wheat Age 0 BE3.png File:Wheat Age 1 BE3.png File:Wheat Age 2 BE3.png File:Wheat Age 3 BE3.png File:Wheat Age 4 BE3.png File:Wheat Age 5 BE3.png File:Wheat Age 6 BE3.png File:Wheat Age 7 BE3.png Removed some faces to fix z-fighting.
v0.12.1	build 1	Farmer villagers can now pick up, harvest and plant seeds to grow wheat.
build 2	Crops now always drop seeds when mined, regardless of growth stage.
build 8	Seeds can no longer be obtained by tilling grass blocks.
v0.16.2	Seeds can now be found in chests inside the large house of snowy tundra and snowy taiga villages.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0	alpha 1.1.0.0	Crops now generate inside woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0	beta 1.2.0.2	Seeds are now used to tame parrots.
1.6.0	beta 1.6.0.1	Seeds no longer become destroyed when an entity jumps on them if they have the Slow Falling status effect.
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3	Seeds can now be bought from wandering traders.
Placement and breaking sounds have been added to crops.
The textures of crops have been changed.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.1	Seeds can now be found in savanna village house chests.
Seeds can now be used to fill up composters.
1.14.0	beta 1.14.0.1	Bees can now pollinate crops.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added seeds.
Added crops.
		1.90			The textures of crops have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0	Added seeds.
Added crops.

Wheat "item"[]

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Java Edition Indev
20100206	Wheat crops have an extra, unobtainable item form corresponding to its block ID. It can be obtained via inventory editors with numeric item ID 59.
Java Edition Beta
1.6	Test Build 3	Wheat crop items can be obtained from the newly added debug chests, mainly from the 1st slot of the 3rd chest from the left, and the 12th slot of the 6th chest from the left.
release	Debug chests no longer spawn, preventing wheat items from being obtained this way.
1.8	Pre-release 2 ;)	Added pick block functionality. This changes the currently selected slot to any containing this otherwise-unobtainable crops item, but does not allow it to be obtained if not already in the hotbar.
Java Edition
1.2.5	pre	Crops can now be obtained via Pick Block in creative.
1.3.1	12w16a	Crop items can now be obtained in singleplayer worlds via the `/give` command using the respective numeric ID.
1.7.2	13w37a	The direct item form of wheat crops has been removed from the game. It can no longer exist as an item in any way, only as a placed block.
Pocket Edition Alpha
?	Crops exist as an item.

Appearances[]

Java Edition Indev
20100206	The crops item uses this texture in inventories, when held in first person view or as a dropped item.
Java Edition Alpha
?	The crops item uses the aforementioned texture when held in third person.
Java Edition
1.4.2	12w34a	The crops item uses the aforementioned texture when in an item frame.

Names[]

Java Edition

Item names did not exist prior to Beta 1.0.

Beta 1.0 - 13w36b: Crops

Issues[]

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

Gallery[]

All the seeds that exist.
Wheat crops in Pocket Edition.
Wheat generated in a village.

References[]

↑ MC-50232
↑ MC-50155
↑ MC-199242

How do you get wheat seeds in Minecraft without grass?

They can be obtained by breaking all variants of grass (which yield 0–1 seeds) or by harvesting fully-grown wheat (yielding 1–4 seeds per crop harvested). Wheat seeds can also sometimes be found in NPC villages where the villagers grow them as crops.