Cake

Cake is a solid block, with a special ability of healing. It has a brown base with white frosting on top and red dots or "sprinkles." It must be placed as a block in order to be used. Slices are removed each time the cake is used. Breaking the cake block will not return anything. Breaking the block underneath the cake will destroy the cake.

Cake heals every use, and may be used up to six times for a total of 9 hearts, one less than the maximum of 10.

Crafting
Cake, if placed can still be eaten. But when you have full health, you won't be able to eat it.

Disadvantages

 * Cake requires several different items to craft, including eggs, which may take a while to get. As such, it takes some time to craft a cake.
 * Cake must be placed on top of a block, then eaten, so it can't be done quickly while fighting or on fire.
 * If you only eat part of a cake, you'll have to come back to that exact spot to eat the rest of it later on.

Advantages

 * 9 hearts are healed per cake, yet only 1.5 hearts per use. This means that you have a total healing power second only to golden apples while having the efficiency of bread.
 * Since cakes are placed on the ground and used several times, you can quickly heal several people with one cake in SMP.
 * If there is an area where you know you will do a lot of fighting in, you can place some cakes there beforehand and use them while fighting without having to switch items.

Trivia

 * Notch stated if Minecraft won the Mod DB 2010 "Indie Game of the Year" award, which it did, he would add cake to Minecraft.
 * Cake is slightly less than one half of a block tall (7/16 of a block), and thus does not make for a very good staircase.
 * When you hold a cake in your hand, it appears as though the cake is an item. However, the image for the cake while it is your hand is found in the terrain.png and the items.png file.
 * When cake is placed on ice, walking on the cake will let you slip and slide as if you were just standing on the ice.
 * Cake, unlike most other blocks, will not stop you from opening a chest beneath it.
 * It is possible to encounter a glitch that allows you to place cake on top of cake. Eating the lower cake completely will cause the upper cake to disappear, same as mining out the block a cake is sitting on.
 * Also, placing cake on a half-block will cause it to be 'levitated' into the air at the same height as if it had been placed on a normal block.

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