Bread

Bread is a food item available in Indev (added on February 6, 2010), Infdev, Alpha, and Beta.

Advantages

 * 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 for randomly generated entities. A field of crops may be left to grow for 2–3 days while mining underground, then harvested and re-planted upon returning to the surface, ensuring a reliable source of food and allowing for relatively uninterrupted mining. This is especially apparent after Beta 1.8, as pigs and cows no longer respawn, making Raw Beef and Raw Porkchop difficult to obtain, Mushroom Stew doesn't stack, and chicken farms take a long time to make before they are very effective.
 * Bread restores out of a total of, meaning less of it is potentially wasted.
 * A stack of 64 bread can be carried in a player's inventory, restoring up to 192 hunger points.
 * Farming may be slow at first, but in the end can yield more food than cooked pork or mushroom stew.
 * Farming is safer in many cases as the farm can be placed in a guarded area close to a shelter. Fields can be safely harvested at night - to get grilled pork or mushrooms after sunset places the player at greater risk of being attacked by hostile mobs.
 * Bread can now be crafted much more quickly by the addition of bone meal, which acts as an instant fertilizer and produces a fully mature crop of wheat in an instant. Making it extremely easy to collect your Wheat and Seeds.
 * Wheat is also a component in cake and cookies, making it an especially functional cooking ingredient.
 * Wheat uses the same blocks as Melons, meaning that, if you so choose to grow melons, the same space can be reused.
 * Bread is the only stackable food that doesn't need to be cooked with Coal.

Disadvantages

 * The process of creating bread can be lengthy and difficult. 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 when compared to, say, killing pigs or fishing. For further information, see Farming. However, with the advent of bone meal, this process can be considerably shortened, allowing for near-instantaneous maturation of crops, providing faster yields of wheat to make bread.
 * Each piece of bread only replenishes 2.5 food points, compared to other food items (i.e. Cooked Porkchop which replenishes 4 food points). For more comparisons, see Food.

Trivia

 * Bread once required 6 wheat (arranged in a 2x3 rectangle) to be crafted.
 * Bread was once stackable to 64 loaves per square. This functionality was restored with the advent of Hunger in 1.8.
 * Bread can be found in reward chests in dungeons.

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