Seeds are the lifeblood for your flow of supplies, brewing ingredients, and food for your Minecraft game. Without them, you won’t be able to progress in the game in a meaningful or efficient manner. Here in this article, we shall discuss how and what methods you can employ to gain seeds so that you can begin your farming operations in earnest. There may be many different types of seeds in your game, but the method by which you acquire them can be of a similar method.
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Without those crops, we’d be toast. That’s why there are a number of secure locations across the world which carefully store samples of the most important crops. These “seed banks” could save our bacon, literally, by letting us start over again if a disease emerges which wipes out our production of a particular crop.
Harvesting a crop will sometimes give you seeds (or you might have to put the harvested crop in a crafting grid to get the seeds), so keeping a farm going is easy enough. But how do you get started on your botanical journey? Well, you can either pilfer seeds from a village (be nice and replant any crops you destroy in the process), find them in chests, or buy them from a trader. In the case of pumpkins and melons, you can also find them growing in the wild.
You might not think about seeds very often, but they’re absolutely crucial to the survival of the human race. It was the development of farming that allowed us to move beyond hunter-gatherer societies and become a real civilization. Without seeds and farming, we’d have no food to eat – even the animals we get meat from rely on seeds for their food. Scientists estimate that there are about 200,000 edible species of plants on Earth, but we eat only about 200 or so (I guess we’re just picky?), and about half of our calories come from just three crops – maize, rice and wheat.
The most important seed bank of all is buried deep in the permafrost of the icy island of Svalbard, which lies close to the North Pole. There, about a million spare copies of seeds from across the whole world are stored, in case of disaster. It’s a backup of our backups.
Ahh, springtime. When the sun begins once again to shed its warmth across a frozen land. When bats, bears, and squirrels emerge, blinking, from their hibernation. When blossom erupts from the branches of bushes and trees, and farmers begin to plant their crops for the coming year.
How to Make Melon and Pumpkin Seeds in Minecraft
In terms of looting, we can find both melon and pumpkin seeds in rare chests, including the ones in dungeons, Mineshafts, and Woodland mansions. Additionally, pumpkin seeds can also be found in chests spawning in taiga villages. You can also get both these seeds by trading with wandering traders. We have written a detailed guide on how to get melon seeds in Minecraft, so check out the linked article. Moreover, the easiest way to get melon or pumpkin is by harvesting their fruit. Here’s how that works:
1. To begin, find a fully grown pumpkin or melon that you want to harvest. Breaking a half-grown plant can also sometimes give you seeds, but not the actual food item. They would look like the following screenshot.
2. Then, once you get close to them, press and hold down your left click or action button. Keep doing this until the grown fruit breaks. It’s similar to breaking any other block in the game, but you don’t need any tool to do it.
3. Once the fruit breaks, it will drop an item, which is the fruit itself in the case of pumpkin, and a melon slice in case of melon. Getting close to the dropped items will make your character pick them. You will also note that, unlike other crops, melon and pumpkin don’t leave the soil tilled. Once you harvest pumpkin or melon, the soil turns back to regular soil.
4. Next, open a crafting table or your own inventory by pressing “E” or your assigned inventory button. Here, in the crafting area, place your newly harvested crop (pumpkin or melon) in any of the cells to turn them into seeds in Minecraft. You can then place these seeds in your inventory. Clicking the seeds and then clicking on an empty cell in your inventory will move them immediately.
5. Alternatively, you can also use shears on pumpkins by right-clicking on them to harvest their seeds. This doesn’t work on any other crop. The recipe to make shears in Minecraft is shown in the screenshot below. You will need to place one iron ingot in the center cell of the first row and a second iron ingot in the first cell of the second row.
Even though harvesting different seeds can be slightly different than one another but the method to use them remains the same.
Make and Plant Seeds in Minecraft (202
Leaving beans and warts out, Minecraft has a total of four types of seeds. Out of these, wheat and beetroots are the easiest to handle. Then, we have melon and pumpkin, which are harder to come across and require a bit of extra effort. We will include the seeds with similar traits into sections for your ease. So, the table below can help you find information about specific seeds.
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