Apple

Red Apples are food items that were added in early Indev. Apples exist in Beta mode, as well as the removed Indev, Infdev and Alpha modes. Apples heal, but were not a reliable food source until they were found in trees.

When Indev was still new, Apples were items brought in to replace Brown Mushrooms to heal health. The player would spawn in an Indev House by a chest containing 99 Apples, among other tools. In later updates, the chests inside the House were removed, and Apples became impossible to find in a map.

Apples remained impossible to find until Survival Multiplayer. To find one, the player must kill Notch. In addition to his inventory, Notch will drop a Red Apple. The only other way to obtain apples is to hack the player's inventory.

Since 1.8, apples can now be legitimately obtained through chests in strongholds and can also be acquired by destroying leaves with or without tools. The destruction of leaves will only yield an apple if the leaves are destroyed by a player, where the normal decay of leaves (through no nearby logs) will give none.

As a crafting ingredient
Apples can be used to craft a Golden Apple. While restoring and regenarating health faster, it is very expensive to make, requiring 72 gold ingots.

Advantages

 * Red Apples are used to make golden apples, which heal and regenarate health fast, but require a large amount of gold (72 gold ingots).

Disadvantages

 * Red Apples are relatively time consuming to get through the process of punching leaves, where a large wheat farm is more time efficient as a fire-and-forget method of growing.

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