What is Beetroot in Minecraft?
A beetroot is a red root vegetable that you can grow in Minecraft. On its own, it is not a very good food source, as eating one raw barely fills your hunger bar. However, the beetroot is a versatile ingredient for other things. Its main purpose is for crafting. You can use a beetroot to create red dye, which is useful for coloring all sorts of blocks and items. It is also the key ingredient for making beetroot soup, a much more filling food. Additionally, you can use a beetroot to breed pigs, helping you start a pig farm for a steady supply of porkchops. So while you probably will not be eating it plain, the beetroot is a handy crop to have around for its many other uses in crafting and farming.
How to get Beetroot in Minecraft
The most common way to get your first beetroot is by finding a village. Many villages have farms where beetroots are already growing, and you can harvest them to get both the beetroot item and beetroot seeds. Once you have seeds, you can plant them on any farmland block to start your own farm. When the beetroot plant is fully grown, which you can tell by its large, leafy top, you can break it to get one beetroot and a few seeds to replant. Beetroot seeds can also be found as loot. You might find them in chests inside dungeons, abandoned mineshafts, End cities, or in the chests of a woodland mansion. Farmer villagers may also sometimes sell you beetroots for an emerald. For a steady supply, creating a dedicated beetroot farm is your best bet.
How to use Beetroot in Minecraft
The beetroot has several different uses. You can eat it raw by holding it and pressing the use button, but it only restores one hunger point, so it is not very effective. A much better use is for crafting. You can place one beetroot in a crafting grid to create one piece of red dye. This is a great way to get red dye if you do not have poppies nearby. You can also craft beetroot soup by combining six beetroots and one bowl in a crafting table. This soup is a much better food source. For animal farming, you can use a beetroot to breed pigs. Just feed one to two different pigs and they will create a baby piglet. Finally, a beetroot can be placed in a composter, where it has a good chance of raising the compost level.
How to craft Beetroot in Minecraft
No recipes for this item.
