Bread

Bread is a food item available in Indev, Infdev, Alpha and Beta. It was added to Indev on Febuary 6, 2010. Bread restores 2.5 Hearts, but it takes a somewhat lengthy process to make (See Farming).

Disadvantages

 * The process of creating bread can be lengthy. Briefly, in order to create bread, a player needs to: craft a hoe, obtain seeds, create suitable farmland, plant the seeds, wait for at least 1 day for wheat to mature, harvest the wheat, and finally create 1 bread from 3 pieces of wheat. This is a relatively lengthy process, as compared to, for example, killing pigs. For more, see Farming. However, with the advent of Bonemeal, this process can been considerably shortened, allowing for quick harvesting of wheat and as a result, quicker bread. Without Bonemeal, however, it is a lengthy process.
 * Each piece of bread only heals 2.5 hearts, compared to, for example, Grilled Pork which heals 4 hearts. For more, see Food.

Advantages
A player may, for example, leave a field of crops to grow for 2-3 days while mining underground, return briefly for a harvest and to plant more seeds. This ensures a reliable source of food and allows for relatively uninterrupted mining.
 * Wheat farming is reliable. Pigs and mushrooms are spawned randomly. Though both are relatively plentiful, it is more reliable to obtain food from a field of crops than to hunt after randomly generated mobs.
 * Bread heals 2.5/10 hearts. This means that less of it is potentially wasted, as compared to items that heal more.
 * A player can also carry a stack of 63 wheat and a workbench into the mines with them and craft as much bread as they need, for a total of 52.5 hearts, whereas pork cannot be stacked and thus takes up far more space in the inventory for the same healing potential.
 * Farming may be slow at first, but in the end can be faster and end up with more total hearts than grilled pork or mushroom stew.
 * Farming, in many cases, is safer, as you can farm in a guarded area. Also, you can get food during the night, as when you have to get grilled pork or mushrooms, you are at risk.
 * As mentioned above, bread can now be crafted much more quickly by the addition of Bonemeal, which acts as an instant fertilizer and produces a full wheat plant.


 * A player farming wheat will also have it available to make cakes, killing two birds with one stone.

Trivia

 * Bread once required 6 wheat (arranged in a 2x3 rectangle) to be crafted.
 * Bread was once stackable to 64 loaves per square.

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