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 which could be sprinkles or berries. 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. It is not consumable if the player is already at full health.

Crafting
Note: Crafting a cake will replace the three milk buckets with empty buckets.

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 a Golden Apple 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.

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.
 * 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.

Trivia

 * Notch stated if Minecraft won the 2010 Indie of the Year Awards, 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.
 * Placing cake on a half-block will cause it to 'levitate' as if it had been placed on a normal block.

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