How to craft a composter in Minecraft – and how to use one

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If you have green fingers from gardening in Minecraft then you'll no doubt be familiar with all things horticultural in the game, but for those who aren't – we've got how to craft a composter in Minecraft and how to use one explained.

While many of the gameplay loops in Minecraft are quite tricky, crafting a composter and using one is very easy, and can be done in a jiffy.

A composter takes plant and food material and turns it into bone meal, which you can take into your inventory and use as fertiliser for most types of plants and as an ingredient for dyes.

You could, of course, palm this off as a job for your villagers, but it's nice to be in touch with digital nature and know exactly where your digital food is coming from.

And though composting in nature can take time, we won't — so read on and all shall be revealed!

To make a composter, you will need to place seven wooden slabs of any type in a U shape on a Crafting table. Here are the materials that you will need to gather including, the size of the crafting table you will need to use.

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Now you will need to set them out in the crafting table in this order:

Note: Composters can also spawn in all villages.

And that's it, you have yourself a shiny new composter, but what can you do with it?

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