PlayMinecraftlong enough, and eventually youre going to want rare ores.

This is where moss mining comes in.

Interested in getting those rare ores quicker, and getting some extra goods while you do?

Minecraft: Moss Mining Guide

Well tell you how.

What Is Moss Mining?

Why Should You Moss Mine?

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The grindstone requires another copy of the item and removes all enchantments.

This is where moss mining comes in.

Bring multiple hoes so that you could get excavate with minimal interruption.

A chamber with cobbled walls, filled with moss, grass, and azaleas in Minecraft.

Theyre generally found in humid biomes at any Y-Level, and never in grassland biomes like plains or savannah.

Humid biomes are: swamps, jungles, dark forests, old growth taigas, and bamboo jungles.

The most reliable way to find Lush Caves is tolook for an azalea tree on the surface.

A deep pit with veins or redstone, lapis lazuli, and diamond. The floor is lined with moss in Minecraft.

Lush caves are lively underground biomes filled with flowers, berries, and vines in Minecraft.

Here, you could learn how to find this biome.

You make bone meal from bones, with each one yielding three bone meals.

A lush cave, filled with moss, short grass, and hanging vines. The water has plants with long stalks coming out of it and the cavern is lit by glowing berries on the hanging vines in Minecraft.

You do this very quickly, but if you better go down, youre better off using a pickaxe.

Place Your Moss Block

Place the moss block at the point youd like to start at.

Repeat this on the outermost mossy blocks, which will spread the effect outward.

image of azalea tree in snow next to image of lush cave biome

Keep going until youve reached the edge of the area you want to excavate.

Turn any stones you uncover into moss or use your pickaxe to keep the ground even.

you could also automate the process with an auto-composter setup, which we’ve detailed below.

A large area of Deepslate, going up in steps and lit by torches in Minecraft.

Once youve harvested all the valuables, place another moss block and repeat the process from there.

You also can plant the seeds to grow wheat, or as chicken feed to get them to reproduce.

Thecomposter then produces bone meal that you’re free to use to continue moss mining.

The necessary components for moss mining: a moss block, composter, and bone meal in Minecraft.

Heres what youll need:

1.

Put a chest down

3.

Place a the composter on top of the hopper

4.

A terraced but relatively flat area of Deepslate in Minecraft.

What About Pale Moss?

Just keep in mind thatyoull have to light it in a few places to get it going.

Keep your chests organized with an auto-sorter.

A cavern area made of Deepslate and lit by torches. On the left is an auto-composter setup in Minecraft.

Here’s how to make one in Minecraft!

A single moss block in the middle of a Deepslate Cavern section, there are torches, gold, and redstone deposits nearby in Minecraft.

The player applying bone meal to a moss block, producing green sparkles and spreading the moss to other blocks in Minecraft.

The player wielding a stone hoe to harvest many moss blocks at once. There’s a flowering azalea bush to the right and Tuff blocks being revealed under the moss in Minecraft.

A top down look at a composter block, producing green sparkles and a unit of bone meal in Minecraft.

A vein of gold ore surrounded by pale moss, deepslate, and other blocks in Minecraft.

The player looking into the input chest of a auto-composter. The top is loaded with moss and azalea products and byproducts, the bottom is the player’s inventory, filled with random bits of loot and equipment in Minecraft.

An auto-composter setup consisting of a chest, a hopper, a composter, a hopper and a chest in Minecraft.

A chest on deepslate in Minecraft.

A chest with a hopper attached to it on its left side in Minecraft.

A composter place on the top of a hopper which is attached to a chest in Minecraft.

A hopper being placed on a composter, with the player standing on a deepslate block in Minecraft.

A chest on top of a hopper on top of a composter, with the player standing on a deepslate block in Minecraft.

A cooked chicken farm in Minecraft during sunset.

Pale moss blocks and grass catching fire in a deepslate caver in Minecraft.

An image of an auto-sorter from Minecraft, showing the entire machine with a sign chest.

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