Rotten Flesh

Rotten flesh is a food item that can be eaten by the player, at the high risk of inflicting Hunger.

Zombies and variants
Drowned, husks, zoglins, zombies, zombie horses, zombie pigmen, and zombie villagers drop from 0 to 2 units of rotten flesh upon death, and zombie pigmen drop 0 to 1 units of rotten flesh. Looting can increase this by one per level, for a maximum of 5 rotten flesh (4 for zombie pigmen).

Fishing
Rotten flesh can be obtained as a "junk" item while fishing.

Gift
Tamed cats have a 16.13% chance of giving rotten flesh to the player as a gift.

Food
To eat rotten flesh, press and hold while rotten flesh is selected in the hotbar.

Eating rotten flesh restores hunger and 0.8 hunger saturation, but has an 80% chance of inflicting Hunger for 30 seconds. Note that the duration does not accumulate when eating multiple pieces, and the 30-second duration costs less than half a shank. So, a player with a low food bar and/or health can eat multiple pieces at once, heal a few health, and come out ahead.

Wolves
Rotten flesh can be used to breed and heal tamed wolves, lead them around, and make baby tamed wolves grow up faster by 10% of the remaining time.

Wolves are immune to the Hunger effect.

Trading
Novice-level cleric villagers buy 32 rotten flesh for 1 emerald as part of their trades.

Issues
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