Wheat

Wheat
Rarity tier	; 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

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 a light level of at least 9 to grow in Java Edition, while in Bedrock Edition it needs an internal light level of 9; a seed is destroyed if planted without light.‌^{[Java Edition only]} 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

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Wheat	Monster Room	Chest	1–4	34.1% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "1–4", "chance": 0.34095616000000006, "structure": "Monster Room", "container": "Chest" }
	Abandoned Camp	Barrel	1–4	35.5% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "1–4", "chance": 0.35542388369628897, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Barrel" }
	Cold Ocean Ruins	Cold ruins suspicious gravel	1	13.3% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1333333333333333, "structure": "Cold Ocean Ruins", "container": "Cold ruins suspicious gravel" }
	Igloo	Chest	2–3	55.3% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "2–3", "chance": 0.5529977744943003, "structure": "Igloo", "container": "Chest" }
	Pillager Outpost	Chest	3–5	72.5% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "3–5", "chance": 0.7252188072460819, "structure": "Pillager Outpost", "container": "Chest" }
	Shipwreck	Supply chest	8–21	42.1% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "8–21", "chance": 0.42061090139687074, "structure": "Shipwreck", "container": "Supply chest" }
	Trail Ruins	Common suspicious gravel	1	4.4% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.0444444444444444, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Common suspicious gravel" }
	Ocean Ruins	Big ruins chest	2–3	78.9% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "2–3", "chance": 0.7892910312294528, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Big ruins chest" }
	Ocean Ruins	Small ruins chest	2–3	82.1% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "2–3", "chance": 0.8206719358982734, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Small ruins chest" }
	Village	Desert house chest	1–7	80.6% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "1–7", "chance": 0.8060478337988324, "structure": "Village", "container": "Desert house chest" }
		Shepherd's chest	1–6	55.8% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "1–6", "chance": 0.5583399765985125, "structure": "Village", "container": "Shepherd's chest" }
		Butcher's chest	1–3	48.6% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.4862627922889272, "structure": "Village", "container": "Butcher's chest" }
	Warm ocean ruins	Warm ruins suspicious sand	1	13.3% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1333333333333333, "structure": "Warm ocean ruins", "container": "Warm ruins suspicious sand" }
	Woodland Mansion	Chest	1–4	25.5% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "1–4", "chance": 0.25488446480633076, "structure": "Woodland Mansion", "container": "Chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Wheat	Monster Room	Chest	1–4	34.1% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "1–4", "chance": 0.34095616000000006, "structure": "Monster Room", "container": "Chest" }
	Abandoned Camp	Barrel	1–4	35.5% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "1–4", "chance": 0.35542388369628897, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Barrel" }
	Cold Ocean Ruins	Cold ruins suspicious gravel	1	13.3% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1333333333333333, "structure": "Cold Ocean Ruins", "container": "Cold ruins suspicious gravel" }
	Igloo	Chest	2–3	55.3% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "2–3", "chance": 0.5529977744943003, "structure": "Igloo", "container": "Chest" }
	Pillager Outpost	Chest	3–5	72.5% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "3–5", "chance": 0.7252188072460819, "structure": "Pillager Outpost", "container": "Chest" }
	Shipwreck	Supply chest	8–21	42.1% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "8–21", "chance": 0.42061090139687074, "structure": "Shipwreck", "container": "Supply chest" }
	Trail Ruins	Common suspicious gravel	1	4.4% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.0444444444444444, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Common suspicious gravel" }
	Ocean Ruins	Big ruins chest	2–3	78.9% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "2–3", "chance": 0.7892910312294528, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Big ruins chest" }
	Ocean Ruins	Small ruins chest	2–3	82.1% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "2–3", "chance": 0.8206719358982734, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Small ruins chest" }
	Village	Desert house chest	1–7	80.6% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "1–7", "chance": 0.8060478337988324, "structure": "Village", "container": "Desert house chest" }
		Shepherd's chest	1–6	55.8% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "1–6", "chance": 0.5583399765985125, "structure": "Village", "container": "Shepherd's chest" }
		Butcher's chest	1–3	48.6% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.4862627922889272, "structure": "Village", "container": "Butcher's chest" }
	Warm ocean ruins	Warm ruins suspicious sand	1	13.3% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1333333333333333, "structure": "Warm ocean ruins", "container": "Warm ruins suspicious sand" }
	Woodland Mansion	Chest	1–4	31.9% { "item": "Wheat", "stacksize": "1–4", "chance": 0.31944467965399737, "structure": "Woodland Mansion", "container": "Chest" }

Mob loot

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

Usage

Animal food

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 causing 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 1HP 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. In Java Edition, due to a bug, skeleton horses (in their hostile state; being ridden by skeletons) can also be fed wheat.^[1]

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

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Bread	Wheat
Cake	Milk Bucket + Sugar + Any Egg + Wheat		After crafting the cake, the empty buckets remain in the crafting grid in Java Edition, or are moved to the first available inventory slot in Bedrock Edition.
Cookie	Wheat + Cocoa Beans	8
Hay Bale	Wheat
Packed Mud	Mud + Wheat

Trading

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
Villager		JE	BE	Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
Farmer	Novice	40%	25%	20 × Wheat	Emerald	16	2	0.05

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.

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

Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Breed a pair of any of these 27 animals: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Nautilus Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Trader Llama Turtle Wolf A mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs are ignored for this advancement.
A Seedy Place	Plant a seed and watch it grow	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.
Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	Breed a pair of each of these 26 animals: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Nautilus Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.

Java Edition Indev
20100206-2034		Added wheat.
20100206-2034		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
20100625-1917		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.
	13w16a	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.
1.9	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	18w09a	Wheat can now generate in the chests of underwater ruins.
1.13	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.
	19w11a	Farmer villagers now buy 20 wheat for 1 emerald.
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.
	23w16a	Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for suspicious gravel within trail ruins, wheat is now common loot.
26.3	snap1	Wheat can now be found in abandoned camps in barrels.

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.
v0.8.0	build 1	Wheat can now be used to craft hay bales.
v0.9.0	build 1	Wheat can now by obtained by harvesting wheat crops in villages.
v0.9.0	build 1	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.
1.4.0	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.
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3	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.
	beta 1.11.0.1	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 sometimes spawn with wheat in their mouths.
1.16.200	beta 1.16.200.52	Wheat can now be used to breed goats.
1.19.0	beta 1.19.0.20	Wheat can now be used to craft packed mud.
1.20.0 (Experimental)	Preview 1.19.80.21	Wheat can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in cold and warm ocean ruins.
1.20.0 (Experimental)	Preview 1.19.80.22	Wheat can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in trail ruins.
1.20.0	Preview 1.20.0.22	Wheat no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins.
1.20.0	Preview 1.20.0.22	Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for suspicious gravel within trail ruins, wheat is now common loot.
26.40 Experiment Wilderness Bound	Preview 26.40.27	Wheat can now be found in abandoned camps in barrels.
26.50	Preview 26.50.22	All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented.

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added wheat.
TU7		1.00					Wheat can now be used in breeding.
TU14		1.04					Wheat can now be sold to farmer villagers, at 18–21 wheat for 1 emerald.
TU14		1.04					Wheat can no longer be used to breed pigs.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Nine wheat can now be crafted to make a hay bale.
							Horses can now be healed by being fed wheat.
							Foals can now have their growth increased by being fed wheat.
							Horses can now have their tempers lowered with wheat.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Trading has been changed: farmer villagers now buy 18–22 wheat for 1 emerald.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Wheat may now be found in igloo basement chests.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Wheat can now be found in the new woodland mansion chests.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Wheat can now be found inside shipwreck chests.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Wheat can now be found inside underwater ruins chests.
			1.90				The texture of wheat has been changed.
			1.91				Wheat can now be found in pillager outpost chests.
							Wheat can now be used to fill up composters.
							Trading has changed, farmer villagers now have a chance to buy 20 wheat for one emerald as part of their first tier trade.

Wheat

Obtaining

Farming

Crafting

Generated loot

Mob loot

Usage

Animal food

Crafting ingredient

Trading

Composting

Achievements

Advancements

Data values

ID

Videos

History

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

Data history

Issues

Gallery

Mojang images

In other media

References

External links

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New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added wheat.
1.9.19							Wheat can now be found in the new woodland mansion chests.