How to get Seagrass in Minecraft

You can only harvest seagrass using shears, and simply breaking seagrass won’t bring it into your inventory.

To craft shears, you need two iron ingots that you place on a crafting table, and then you can use these to harvest seagrass from blocks. You can get two seagrasses if you harvest from tall seagrass instead of just one.

If you try to harvest seagrass without shears, the seagrass will simply disappear.

You can also get seagrass as loot from turtles. If you kill a turtle, you can get up to two Seagrass from them. Though, why you’d want to kill one of these adorable creatures, we don’t know.

If you go to a beach where you see turtles, take out seagrass and hold it out to them. You need to hold it out within ten blocks of them, and they will follow you. Feed it to two turtles, and they will enter Love Mode, after which one of them will lay Turtle Eggs.

If you have a composter, you can place your seagrass into it to give it a 30% chance of raising your compost level by one. If you don’t have a composter, you can craft them by using eight wooden slabs, or you can find them in any village.

As mentioned, Seagrass is a wonderful addition to any rustic water-based build. Maybe an old, unused swimming pool, a cottage-core pond or a turtle bay. All of these could greatly benefit from the addition of some Seagrass, both normal and tall, spread around the area. Add Kelp and Lily Pads to really bring your water area to life, and a mixture of Dirt, Gravel, Andesite and Cobblestone.

Related to that above, when adding Seagrass to your build area, if you apply bone meal to your seagrass, it will transform into tall seagrass if you have enough space. If you don’t have enough space above it, you’ll have wasted your bone meal, as your seagrass will stay.

Scutes are an item dropped by baby Turtles when they mature into adult Turtles. They are used to craft Turtle Shell helmets. If you want to speed up the aging process of your baby Turtles, you can feed them Seagrass!