Bones are one of Minecraft’s most useful items. You can craft them into even more amazing things that will help you survive for a much longer period, and getting it can be a bit complicated as you cannot craft them.

This guide will show you how and where to get a bone and how you can use it for your benefit in Minecraft using screenshots and a detailed explanation.

How and Where to Get a Bone in Minecraft?

You cannot make a bone, but there are multiple ways you can get it in Minecraft, and they are as follows.

Method 1: Killing a Skeleton

Skeletons are hostile mobs who can only be seen at night or in any place without light, and they will attack you when you are near them, so be careful while wandering around at night.

And killing mobs will drop you some items like bones, arrows, or a string but the probability of dropping the bone(s) is high.

Method 2: Getting Bones from Fishes

You can go underwater and find yourself a aby type of tropical fish, and killing them may drop you a bone or two, and you should keep an eye for that water bubble bar as this is your air, and when you run out of air, your player will start to die underwater.

Method 3: Finding Bones in Loot Chests (Buried Treasure)

There is a reasonable probability that you may find bones in the loot chests across the world of Minecraft, and you see our guide. Find the buried treasure in Minecraft if you cannot find it.

And opening it will give you one or more bones if you are lucky enough.

What can You do with Bones in Minecraft?

You can use the bone to do the following things in the world of Minecraft.

1. Craft bone meal
2. Tame the wolves
3. Craft bone block

Crafting the Bone Meal in Minecraft

You can get three bone meals by crafting the bone.

Uses of Bone Meal

In Minecraft, the best fertilizer is the bone meal that accelerates the growth of your plants, and it is handy in situations where you need more food.

You will see green stars when you fertilize your plants which indicates the growth of your plant.

How to Tame Wolves in Minecraft

Holding a bone in your hand will attract the nearby wolf towards you, and it can be tamed when you feed it by right-clicking while holding the bone. Wolves can be spotted at taiga biomes and in the forest biomes.

The wolf, once tamed, will tilt its head, and you can also see a colored collar on its neck, as shown in the picture below, and it took two bones to tame it.

The wolves will attack anything that attacks its owner, making them one of the most loyal pets in Minecraft.

How to Craft Bone Blocks

Bone blocks are crafted using nine bone meals to increase the beauty of your base, but they can be, used to pack 9x more bone meals as they can be crafted back to them.

And when a Note block is placed on either the sides or top, you can create different musical sounds by just right-clicking on them.

FAQs about Bone

Q: Can you obtain bones from anything other than a skeleton?

Yes, after the 1.9 updates, you can get bones by killing skeleton horses, too, and there is a chance that you get it by killing a fish.

Q: Can you craft a bone in Minecraft?

No, the bone cannot be crafted but can only be obtained by killing certain mobs or in buried treasures

Conclusion

Bone is a must-have item for your survival as it is used to make a bone meal that can help you grow your plants faster, thus creating more food for you, and it can also help you tame the wolves who can protect you in some seriously tense situations when mobs surround you.