How to Make a Composter in Minecraft: Crafting & Usage Guide

• You'll need 7 wood slabs to craft a composter.
• In the grid, fill the left and right vertical columns with wood slabs, then place the 7th slab in the bottom-center slot.
• Use the composter when it has seven layers of compost to collect bone meal.

Crafting the Composter

Craft 6 planks. You’ll need planks to craft the wood slabs for the composter. To craft the planks: You can create 4 wooden planks by placing wood in any square of the 2 x 2 crafting grid. Alternatively, place 2 logs in the center slot of the 3-by-3 crafting menu, then click the 4 crafted planks in the result slot twice to collect a total of 8 planks.

Craft 7 wood slabs. You’ll need 7 wood slabs to create the compost item. To craft wood slabs from planks: Place 2 planks in the bottom left slot of the 3-by-3 crafting menu. Place 2 planks in the bottom middle slot. Place 2 planks in the bottom right slot. Click the 6 crafted wood slabs in the result slot twice to collect 12 wood slabs.

Craft the composter. This final crafting also occurs in the 3-by-3 crafting menu. To make the composter, place one wood slab in the following slots to create a “U” shape, then click the composter in the result slot. top left middle left bottom left bottom middle bottom right middle right top right

Using the Composter

Right-click to place the composter. You can place it in your modern Minecraft house or maybe a more natural treehouse.

Use the composter. The composter converts food and plants into bone meal. Items have a certain chance of composting when added to the composter (this varies from 30 to 100 percent depending on the item).

Hold the item you want to compost in your hand. For example, this could be a cactus, vines, or bread.

Press the use button while looking at the composter to add the item. A green particle will appear if the item was successfully composted. Repeat this process until 7 layers of compost accumulate in the composter. Once this is achieved, you can collect bone meal from the composter.

Press the use button on the composter with an empty hand. When the composter has 7 layers of compost, pressing the use button on the composter will collect the bone meal. If you’re trying to collect other interesting items, check out how to get and use honeycomb next.