Minecraft Composter Recipe: Explained

If you love gardening in Mojang Studios’ popular sandbox game, you’ll want to learn the Minecraft composter recipe. This guide will explain everything you need to know on how to make a composter in Minecraft as well as how to use a composter in Minecraft. A composter turns plant and food materials into bone meal, which you can use to fertilize plants or as an ingredient for dyes. While villagers can use composters, it’s fun to handle this task yourself and see where your digital food comes from.

Here’s a quick guide on how to make a composter, just follow these simple instructions:

Minecraft Composter Recipe

To make a composter, you need seven wooden slabs of any type and a 3×3 crafting table.

• • 7 wooden slabs (any type will work)
  • A 3×3 crafting table

How to Make a Composter in Minecraft

Now that you have gathered the items needed to make a composter, here’s how what you need to do:

• Open your crafting table to access the 3×3 grid.
• Place the wooden slabs in a U shape on the grid:
  • Fill the bottom row with 3 slabs.
  • Place 2 slabs on the left and right columns of the middle row.
  • Leave the top row’s middle and right slots empty.

• • Once the slabs are placed in the correct pattern, a composter will appear in the result box.
  • Drag the composter into your inventory.

Note: Composters can also be found in villages.

How to Use a Composter in Minecraft

Using a composter is easy and helps you create bone meal from compostable items. Here’s how:

1. Place the Composter:
   • Find a good spot for your composter.
   • Select it from your inventory and place it on the ground.
2. Add Compostable Items:
   • Right-click (or tap) on the composter with a compostable item in your hand.
   • You’ll see green particles when the item is successfully added.
3. Fill the Composter:
   • You need to add items until there are seven layers in the composter.
   • Once full, bone meal will pop out of the composter.
4. Collect Bone Meal:
   • Pick up the bone meal and add it to your inventory.
   • Use the bone meal to fertilize your plants or for crafting dyes.

Compostable items include plant material like seeds, crops, and even some food items. For more Minecraft-related content, like finding Sodium, stay tuned to RetroNoob.