How to Make a Bone Meal in Minecraft

Use this simple recipe to make a Bone Meal in Minecraft. You can see the exact ingredients, recipe layout, and workstation below.

Bone Meal recipe

Follow the recipe below. The pattern must use the correct slots when the recipe is shaped.

Place 1 Bone in a Crafting Table to make 3 Bone Meals.

Shapeless recipe with 1 ingredient: the order does not matter and it also fits in your 2 × 2 inventory grid.
Each craft uses 1 ingredient item and produces 3 Bone Meals. A full stack of 64 takes 22 crafts and 22 ingredient items in total.

Output: 3 Bone Meals

Place 1 Bone Block in a Crafting Table to make 9 Bone Meals.

Shapeless recipe with 1 ingredient: the order does not matter and it also fits in your 2 × 2 inventory grid.
Each craft uses 1 ingredient item and produces 9 Bone Meals. A full stack of 64 takes 8 crafts and 8 ingredient items in total.

Output: 9 Bone Meals

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Bone Meal. It includes the exact ingredients, recipe layout, required workstation, and amount produced.

The data comes from Minecraft Java 26.3. Recipes can change in later game versions, so check the version you play before crafting.