Food

Food is items restoring food points (as shown in the food bar) and has a direct bearing on the player's health (see Hunger for more on effects). Excepting milk, cake, and mushroom stew, food items and ingredients can be stacked in inventory. Holding the "Use Item" button (default is Button 2, right mouse button) makes the player eat the food in their hand. With the exception of golden apples, food may not be eaten when the hunger bar is full. Note that cake must be placed like other blocks on a surface before being eaten.

Food

Eating food partly restores weird meat pops that you need and must sacrifice to Notch and to a hidden variable, saturation, which is an additional hunger bar, but one whose value will not exceed your current hunger level.

Name	Icon	Food Points	Source(s)	Saturation restored (additional effects)	Effective Quality (Food Points + Saturation)
Bread	Template:Grid		Crafting Dungeon chests Stronghold chests NPC Village chests	6	11
Cake	Template:Grid	(six uses - per use)	Crafting	2.4 (six uses - 0.4 per use)	14.4 (six uses - 2.4 per use)
Cookie	Template:Grid		Crafting	0.2	1.2
Melon Slice	Template:Grid		Harvesting a melon block	1.2	3.2
Mushroom Stew	Template:Grid		Crafting Using a Bowl on a Mooshroom	9.6	17.6
Raw Chicken	Template:Grid		Killing chickens	1.2 (30% chance of food poisoning.)	3.2 (2.075)
Cooked Chicken	Template:Grid		Cooking a raw chicken Setting chickens on fire	7.2	13.2
Raw Beef	Template:Grid		Killing cows	1.8	4.8
Steak	Template:Grid		Cooking raw beef Setting cows on fire	12.8	20.8
Raw Porkchop	Template:Grid		Killing pigs	1.8	4.8
Cooked Porkchop	Template:Grid		Cooking a raw porkchop Setting pigs on fire	12.8	20.8
Raw Fish	Template:Grid		Fishing	1.2	3.2
Cooked Fish	Template:Grid		Cooking a raw fish	6	11
Red Apple	Template:Grid		Stronghold chests Destroyed/despawned oak Leaves NPC Village blacksmith chests Dungeon chests	2.4	6.4
Golden Apple	Template:Grid		Crafting Dungeon chests, Stronghold chests	9.6 (Health regeneration for 4 seconds.)	13.6
Rotten Flesh	Template:Grid		Killing zombies and zombie pigmen	0.8 (80% chance of food poisoning.)	4.8 (1.8)
Spider Eye	Template:Grid		Killing spiders	3.2 (100% chance of getting poisoned.)	5.2

Nourishment Value

Nourishment is defined as the ratio of saturation to food points restored by a certain food item. To avoid wasting saturation points, more nourishing foods should be eaten when the hunger bar is more full.

Value	Food
2.4	Template:Grid
1.6	Template:GridTemplate:Grid
1.2	Template:GridTemplate:GridTemplate:GridTemplate:Grid
0.6	Template:GridTemplate:GridTemplate:GridTemplate:GridTemplate:GridTemplate:Grid
0.4	Template:Grid
0.2	Template:GridTemplate:GridTemplate:Grid

Ingredients

The following items cannot be eaten on their own. Instead, they are crafted with other ingredients to produce certain food items.

Name	Icon	Source(s)	Used to make
Bowl	Template:Grid	Crafting	Mushroom Stew
Cocoa Beans	Template:Grid	Dungeon chests	Cookies
Chicken Egg	Template:Grid	Laid by chickens	Cake
Brown Mushroom	Template:Grid	Dark/shady areas Swamp biomes Mushroom biomes Breaking huge brown mushrooms	Mushroom Stew
Red Mushroom	Template:Grid	Dark/shady areas Swamp biomes Mushroom biomes Breaking huge red mushrooms Using shears on a Mooshroom	Mushroom Stew
Sugar	Template:Grid	Crafting sugar cane	Cake
Wheat	Template:Grid	Harvesting mature wheat Found in dungeon chests	Bread Cake Cookies

While the following ingredients can be crafted with others, they can be consumed to induce or nullify certain effects on the player.

Name	Icon	Source	Effects	Used to make
Milk	Template:Grid	Milking a Cow	Clears status effects	Cake

Video

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History

Before Beta 1.8, food did not have an eating animation, simply disappearing from the player's hand as if a block had been placed. Food also restored a set amount of hearts instantly - a player could return from the brink of death during a fight almost immediately by consuming a few porkchops or bowls of stew. To keep a certain level of challenge to the gameplay, Notch prevented players from taking advantage of this instant recovery by ensuring food (with the exception of the ingredients) did not stack in the inventory.

When the Hunger Bar was added in Beta 1.8, food became an even more vital resource as the player was required to eat regularly to avoid dying of starvation and regenerate health after taking damage. With the exception of Cake, Milk and Mushroom Stew, food could now stack to 64 in the player's inventory. Both types of mushroom could now be farmed by using bonemeal on either individual mushroom to produce a Huge Mushroom that dropped more fungi when harvested.

The first Beta 1.9 pre-release revealed two new sources for mushrooms - an entire biome filled with Huge Mushrooms and the Mooshroom, a strange red cow with red mushrooms growing on its back that could be milked with a bowl to collect Mushroom Stew and shorn to harvest the red mushrooms. However Mooshrooms can only be found in Mushroom Biomes which are extremely rare and difficult to find.

In the second pre-release of Beta 1.9, Jeb said that Milk now acted as a "clear-everything drink" to nullify the effects of potions. Spiders also dropped eyes that could be crafted with sugar and a brown mushrooms to produce fermented spider eyes.

Trivia

• You can continue breaking blocks even while eating, the actions simply occur simultaneously.
• If eating while climbing vines/ladders, it will not slow down the climbing.
• You can eat while you are sleeping.
• The eating animation appears only in the first-person view.

References

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