The 
Onion is a crop from the Farmer’s Delight mod that you’ll plant straight onto 
Farmland, the same way you would a 
Carrot or a 
Potato, as it doesn’t have any seeds of its own. Your first ones will usually come from a 
Wild Onion, which grows in Plains, Forests and the other milder biomes of the Overworld.
It’s one of the ingredients you’ll use the most once you start cooking, as it goes into 
Onion Soup, 
Fried Rice, 
Dumplings and a lot of the sandwiches and feasts. Each mature plant will give you between one and four Onions, so after the first harvest, you’ll always have enough to replant and some left over for the kitchen.
Finding It
Wild Onions generate on 
Dirt and Grass in any Overworld biome that isn’t too hot or too cold, so you’ll find them in most of the green biomes, usually with a few 
Alliums mixed in. They’re one of the rarer Wild Crops though, so it might take a bit of exploring before you come across a patch.
When you break a Wild Onion, it will give you an Onion, with Fortune adding to it, and it’ll drop 1 to 3 Alliums as well. It’s worth using 
Bone Meal on it first, as that has an 80% chance to spread another Wild Onion nearby, up to 10 in a patch.
If you can’t find any, Onions are fairly easy to come by in other ways, as they’ll turn up in Pillager Outpost chests, in the houses of Plains and Snowy villages and in Shipwrecks. The Wandering Trader will sometimes sell one for an 
Emerald too, and some villages might grow them in their farms in place of the 
Wheat, which you’ll find more about on the Villages and Loot page.
Onions From Mobs
Zombies, Husks and Zombie Villagers have a small chance to drop an Onion when you kill them, the same as they do with Carrots and Potatoes, and so do Pillagers, Vindicators and Evokers. It’s only a 2% chance, going up by 1% for each level of Looting, so you won’t want to rely on it.
Growing
You plant an Onion by using it on Farmland, and it’ll need a light level of 9 or higher to keep growing. It goes through eight stages before it’s ready, and it won’t drop any extra Onions until it reaches the last one, so it’s worth waiting for it.
Water within four blocks will keep the Farmland hydrated and the crop growing faster, and Bone Meal will push it on a couple of stages at a time. It’s even better on 
Rich Soil Farmland, as once it’s fully hydrated, it’ll give the Onion a free Bone Meal boost every so often as well.
Like most crops, Onions grow slower when they’re surrounded by more Onions on every side. For example, alternating rows of Onions with rows of 
Cabbage or Wheat will make the whole farm grow quicker than one big square of Onions would.
Villager Farmers are able to plant and harvest Onions too, so if a village farm has Onions in it, it will keep replanting itself. Since you plant the Onion itself, you’ll want to make sure you hold a few back from each harvest rather than cooking all of them.
Harvesting
Breaking a fully grown Onion will give you between one and four of them, and Fortune will add more on top. If you break it before it’s ready, you’ll only get the one Onion back that you planted, so there’s no reason to harvest early.
Mature Onion Drops
Onions can be eaten raw for 2 hunger and 1.6 saturation, which isn’t much, so you’ll get a lot more out of them by cooking. Spare ones pack into an 
Onion Crate, which holds 9 of them, and you’ll find more about that on the Crates and Bales page.
Selling Onions
Novice Farmers might offer to buy 26 Onions for an Emerald, as it’s added to the trades they can roll at their first level. It’s an easy way to get some early Emeralds out of a big Onion farm, as long as you’ve got enough left over for cooking.
Uses
Onions go into a lot of recipes, in both the 
Cooking Pot and the 
Crafting Table. Onion Soup is the one that uses the most of them, as it needs two Onions along with 
Bread and Milk.
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Onion Soup, Fried Rice and 
Fish Stew will all give you the Nourishment effect for three minutes, which stops your hunger from going down. Onions count as a vegetable as well, so you’re able to use them in any recipe that asks for one, like 
Chicken Soup or a 
Kelp Roll.
| Dish | Made In |
|---|---|
| Onion Soup | Cooking Pot |
| Fried Rice | Cooking Pot |
| Dumplings | Cooking Pot |
| Fish Stew | Cooking Pot |
 Ratatouille | Cooking Pot |
 Stuffed Pumpkin | Cooking Pot |
 Barbecue on a Stick | Crafting Table |
 Hamburger | Crafting Table |
 Mutton Wrap | Crafting Table |
 Grilled Salmon | Crafting Table |
 Steak and Potatoes | Crafting Table |
 Roast Chicken | Crafting Table |
 Shepherd’s Pie | Crafting Table |
The Feasts will use them too, as Roast Chicken needs one and Shepherd’s Pie needs two, and the Stuffed Pumpkin is cooked with one inside a 
Pumpkin. If you’ve got more than you need, you can also put them in a 
Composter, where each one has a 65% chance to add a layer.
FAQ
You’ll find them as Wild Onions, which grow on Dirt and Grass in milder biomes like Plains, Forests, Meadows and Swamps, usually next to Alliums. They also turn up in Pillager Outpost and village chests, and the Wandering Trader might sell them.
There aren’t any, as the Onion is planted directly, the same way Carrots and Potatoes work. Each mature plant drops one to four Onions, so you’ll be able to replant one and keep the rest.
Use an Onion on some hydrated Farmland that has enough light, and it will grow through eight stages, which you can speed up with Bone Meal. Rich Soil Farmland is a good place to plant them, as it will give them extra growth boosts on its own.
They’re used in Onion Soup, Fried Rice, Dumplings, Fish Stew and Ratatouille in the Cooking Pot, plus Hamburgers, Mutton Wraps and Barbecue on a Stick at the Crafting Table. Roast Chicken and Shepherd’s Pie need them as well.
