Have you spent too much time stealing food from villagers and rummaging through the corpses of the enemies you killed? It's time to move to a more stable diet, thanks to your farm. Build a hoe, find some soil, some water and you will be ready to grow your plants. Harvesting will also allow you to have more seeds to continue the cycle or to attract animals to raise.
Steps
Part 1 of 2: Growing Seeds
Step 1. Collect seeds
You can grow four types of seeds in Minecraft Pocket Edition. Here's how to find them all:
- You can find wheat seeds whenever you use a hoe on a block of dirt or when you use shears on tall grass (version 0.4 or later required).
- To find beet seeds, collect ripe beets on village farms (version 0.12.0 build 8+) or cut grass as described above (earlier versions).
- Find ripe pumpkins on the plains, savannah, or taiga. Put the pumpkins on the crafting grid to get the seeds (version 0.8+).
- Find the ripe melons in the jungle. Place the melons in the crafting grid to get slices, then repeat the action with the slices to get the seeds (version 0.9+).
Step 2. Avoid dry or cold biomes (recommended)
Plants grow faster in warm biomes, where grass and trees grow naturally. While you can find plants everywhere, the following signs indicate that an area is not conducive to growth:
- Snow
- Leaves covered by ice
- Steep and mountainous terrain
- Sand (except beaches)
- Yellow grass
Step 3. Prepare the ground
Equip the hoe and use it on grass or earth to plow. A block of land is plowed if it has parallel lines on the surface.
Step 4. Water your plants
Wheat grows much faster if watered and other plants need water or won't grow at all. Your farm will become "irrigated" (and have a darker color) if it is at least four blocks away from one of water, although plants will grow faster within three blocks of water. Therefore, in the early stages of the game you should set up your farms near natural bodies of water. When you have buckets at your disposal, you can carry water to use the space more efficiently.
- Maximum efficiency: Prepare a farm of nine blocks by nine, dig a one block hole in the center and fill it with water.
- Less efficient method, but more visually pleasing: prepare three rows of plowed blocks, one row of water, six rows of plowed blocks, one row of water and three more rows of plowed blocks.
Step 5. Wait for your seeds to grow
They will do it on their own, going through all stages of growth. Here's how to tell when it's harvest time.
- Wheat is ripe when it is tall and golden.
- Beets are ready to harvest when they have tall bushy leaves.
- The melons and pumpkins are ready when the fruit appears in the block next to the plant block.
Step 6. Reap the rewards
Press and hold your finger on a mature plant to turn it into the finished product. Wheat and beets can also produce seeds, giving you the ability to continue your farm.
- Melons and pumpkins do not need to be replanted; just pick the fruit and the plant will produce another after some time.
- If you harvest wheat or beets before they are ripe, you may get seeds, but you won't have the finished product.
Part 2 of 2: Upgrading Your Farm
Step 1. Fertilize the plants with bone meal
Obtain bones from skeletons or by fishing, then place them in the crafting grid for bone meal. This substance instantly advances a plant through a random number of growth stages.
If you're low on seeds, bone meal can help you quickly grow your first plant for a bigger farm
Step 2. Surround your farm with plowed blocks
When you run out of seeds or water, plow blocks of earth around the perimeter of your farm. In the PC version of the game, the plowed blocks close to the plants stimulate their growth a lot and could also be the same for the Pocket Edition.
Step 3. Fence your plants
Monsters could crush them, so build a fence around your farm to protect it.
Step 4. Light up your plants well
Only in this way can they grow. Place torches every four or five blocks, to make them grow at night as well as during the day. This advice will have no effect if you skip nights sleeping in a bed.
For a strange mechanic of the game, the plowed blocks are transparent. Dig under your farm being careful not to drain the water and place torches to make your field glow. This advice doesn't apply to other versions of Minecraft, so the functionality described here will likely be removed in a future update
Step 5. Cover the water
Walking on a plant won't break it, but jumping on plowed ground can make the block go back to normal. If you fall into the water and are forced to jump out, you will ruin your crop. Avoid this problem by covering the water with slabs or other "half-height" blocks that do not require a jump to cross.
In cold biomes, covering the water can also protect it from freezing
Advice
- The seeds usually grow in two to three days of play, if they are given enough water and light.
- The color change of a plant when it is mature is more evident at the base and not at the tip.
Warnings
- Farms are usually built in flat fields and can be difficult to spot from a great distance. It is very important to create structures that will allow you to find your farm, especially if it is not next to your house.
- Do not collect the plants except with your hands, or you will risk destroying them.
