Golden Apple

A golden apple is a food item that bestows beneficial effects when consumed, and is also used to cure a zombie villager under the Weakness effect into a normal villager.

Obtaining[]

Crafting[]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Gold Ingot + Apple

Chest loot[]

On the base of ancient_city/city_center/city_center_2, a single golden apple is contained in the chest. Eating it at that location unlocks the piston doors to the redstone labs beneath.

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Golden Apple	Dungeon	Chest	1	21.5%
	Mineshaft	Chest	1	28.2%
	Bastion remnant	Hoglin stable chest	1	11.4%
	Bastion remnant	Generic chest	1	10.1%
	Desert temple	Chest	1	23.5%
	Igloo	Chest	1	100%
	Ruined portal	Chest	1	20.5%
	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	2.5%
	Underwater ruins	Big ruins chest	1	4.3%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	21.8%
Bedrock Edition
Golden Apple	Dungeon	Chest	1	21.5%
	Mineshaft	Chest	1	28.2%
	Bastion remnant	Hoglin stable chest	1	11.4%
	Bastion remnant	Generic chest	1	10.1%
	Desert temple	Chest	1	23.5%
	Igloo	Chest	1	100%
	Ruined portal	Chest	1	20.5%
	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	2.4%
	Underwater ruins	Big ruins chest	1	4.3%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	21.5%

Usage[]

To eat a golden apple, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. It restores 4 () points of hunger and 9.6 hunger saturation.

Unlike most foods, golden apples can be eaten when the hunger bar is full.

The golden apple provides:

Absorption I for 2 minutes (providing 4 points of absorption health)
Regeneration II (1 every 25 ticks, × 0.4 per second) for 5 seconds (long enough to heal 4 points of damage)

Curing zombie villagers[]

A golden apple and a potion of weakness can be used to convert a zombie villager into a regular villager.

Horses[]

Golden apples can be used for improving the chances of taming a horse by 10%, for breeding and leading horses, and for speeding up the growth of baby horses by 4 minutes.

Piglins[]

Piglins are attracted to golden apples. They run toward any golden apples on the ground, and inspect it for 6 to 8 seconds before putting it in their inventory. However, piglins do not eat golden apples (or any food).

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Eating	Players	While a player is eating something	`entity.generic.eat`	`subtitles.entity.generic.eat`	varies ^{[sound 1]}	0.8-1.2	16
Eating	Friendly Creatures	When a player finishes eating something	`entity.generic.eat`	`subtitles.entity.generic.eat`	1.0	0.6-1.4	16
Burp	Players	When a player finishes eating something	`entity.player.burp`	`subtitles.entity.player.burp`	0.5	0.9-1.0	16

↑ Can be 0.5, 1.0, or 1.5

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Players	While a player is eating something	`random.eat`	0.5-1.1	0.8-1.2
	Players	When a player finishes eating something	`random.burp`	0.5	0.9-1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Golden Apple	`golden_apple`	Item	`item.minecraft.golden_apple`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Golden Apple	`golden_apple`	`258`	Item	`item.golden_apple.name`

Achievements[]

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
		Zombie Doctor	Cure a zombie villager.	Throw a splash potion of weakness at a zombie villager and give it a golden apple (by facing the zombie and pressing the use key with a golden apple in your hand)	40G	Gold
		Oooh, shiny!	Distract a Piglin using gold	Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player.	30G	Silver

Advancements[]

Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
Zombie Doctor	Weaken and then cure a Zombie Villager	We Need to Go Deeper	Use a golden apple on a zombie villager under the Weakness effect; the advancement is granted when the zombie villager converts into a villager. In multiplayer, only the player that feeds the golden apple gets the advancement.	`story/cure_zombie_villager`
Oh Shiny	Distract Piglins with gold	Nether	While aggravated, give a piglin one of these 25 gold-related items in the `#piglin_loved` item tag: Bell Block of Gold Block of Raw Gold Clock Enchanted Golden Apple Gilded Blackstone Glistering Melon Slice Gold Ingot Gold Ore Golden Apple Golden Axe Golden Boots Golden Carrot Golden Chestplate Golden Helmet Golden Hoe Golden Horse Armor Golden Leggings Golden Pickaxe Golden Shovel Golden Sword Light Weighted Pressure Plate Nether Gold Ore Deepslate Gold Ore Raw Gold Other gold-related items do not distract the piglin and do not trigger this advancement.	`nether/distract_piglin`
A Furious Cocktail	Have every potion effect applied at the same time	Local Brewery	Have all of these 17 status effects applied to the player at the same time: Fire Resistance Infestation Invisibility Jump Boost Night Vision Oozing Poison Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Water Breathing Weakness Weaving Wind Charged The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement.	`nether/all_potions`
How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	A Furious Cocktail	Have all of these 33 status effects applied to the player at the same time: Absorption Bad Omen Blindness Conduit Power Darkness Dolphin's Grace Fire Resistance Glowing Haste Hero of the Village Hunger Infested Invisibility Jump Boost Levitation Mining Fatigue Nausea Night Vision Oozing Poison Raid Omen Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Trial Omen Water Breathing Weakness Weaving Wither Wind Charged The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.	`nether/all_effects`
Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	—	Consume anything that can be consumed.	`husbandry/root`
A Balanced Diet	Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you	A Seedy Place	Eat each of these 40 foods: Apple Baked Potato Beetroot Beetroot Soup Bread Carrot Chorus Fruit Cooked Chicken Cooked Cod Cooked Mutton Cooked Porkchop Cooked Rabbit Cooked Salmon Cookie Dried Kelp Enchanted Golden Apple Glow Berries Golden Apple Golden Carrot Honey Bottle Melon Slice Mushroom Stew Poisonous Potato Potato Pufferfish Pumpkin Pie Rabbit Stew Raw Beef Raw Chicken Raw Cod Raw Mutton Raw Porkchop Raw Rabbit Raw Salmon Rotten Flesh Spider Eye Steak Suspicious Stew Sweet Berries Tropical Fish Other foods and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.	`husbandry/balanced_diet`

History[]

Java Edition Infdev
February 23, 2010					A player named JTE put a crafting recipe for golden apples as a joke at the bottom of a crafting guide she made. The recipe used gold ingots instead of gold blocks.
20100227-1					Added golden apples.
					Golden apples heal a full 20 × 10 health points, making them the best food in the entire game.
					Golden apples are crafted with an apple and eight blocks of gold.
					However, since apples were not yet obtainable in normal gameplay, golden apples were not obtainable either.
20100625-2					Golden apples can now be rarely found in dungeons, making them obtainable in normal gameplay.
Java Edition Beta
1.8		Pre-release			Due to the addition of hunger, golden apples have been changed so that they restore 10 (), instead of 20 × 10 health points, but also give Regeneration for 30 seconds.
1.8		Pre-release			Apples can now be found in stronghold storeroom chests, making golden apples craftable in normal gameplay for the first time.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2			Golden apples have been given 'glint' (animated purple glow) when viewed from the player's inventory, and its tooltip has now changed from the standard white to a magenta color.
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3			Golden apples can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests.
1.1		11w48a			Golden apples are now easier to craft. Standard apples now rarely drop from oak leaves, meaning that players no longer need to venture into strongholds/dungeons to find one.
		11w48a			As gold is also renewable via zombie pigmen, golden apples have become a renewable resource.
		release			Golden apples have been changed, so that they now restore 4 () and give only 4 seconds of Regeneration.
		release			The crafting recipe of golden apples has been modified, requiring 8 gold nuggets instead of 8 blocks of gold to craft. Although its natural spawn is rare, it is easier to obtain through crafting.
1.3.1		12w21a			With the addition of enchanted golden apples, which got a purple tooltip, the standard golden apple's tooltip changed to blue. However, the standard golden apple's effects remain unchanged.
1.4.2		12w32a			Golden apples can now be fed to zombie villagers with the Weakness debuff causing them to revert to villagers after a delay of about 3 minutes.
1.6.1		13w23a			Golden apples now use 8 gold ingots instead of 8 gold nuggets.
		13w23a			The Regeneration effect of golden apples has been slowed down.
		13w23b			Golden apples now give the player Health Boost for 1:30 and Regeneration II for 0:10. This temporarily gives the player 4 extra base health points, and it heals a total of 4 health points.
		13w24b			The Health Boost effect has been replaced with Absorption, lasting 1:30.
		13w25a			Absorption from golden apples now lasts 2:00.
		?			Golden apples can now be used to tame, breed and heal horses and donkeys.
1.9		15w37a			The Regeneration effect from golden apples has been reduced to Regeneration I (from II in Java Edition 1.8).
		15w43a			A single golden apple can now sometimes be found in igloo chests.
		15w43b			A single golden apple is now always found in igloo chests.
		15w44a			The Regeneration effect from golden apples has been returned to Regeneration II, as it had been in 1.8.
					The average yield of golden apples from dungeon chests has been increased.
					Golden apples have been added to desert temple and mineshaft chests.
1.11		16w39a			Golden apples are now found in the new woodland mansion chests.
1.13		17w47a			The names and IDs have been split into golden apple and enchanted golden apple.
		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 322.
		18w09a			Golden apples can now generate in the chests of underwater ruins.
1.14		18w43a			The texture for golden apples has been changed.
1.16		20w16a			Golden apples can now be found inside ruined portal chests.
1.16		20w18a			Golden apples are now less common in ruined portal chests.
1.16.2		20w30a			Golden apples are now found in bastion remnant chests.
1.18		experimental snapshot 6			Horses, donkeys and mules now follow players holding golden apples.
1.19		22w14a			A single golden apple may now be found in the chest at `city_center_2` in ancient cities.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1		build 1			Added golden apples.
v0.12.1		build 3			A crafting recipe has been added for golden apples.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.20.1			Golden apples can now generate in the chests of underwater ruins.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture for golden apples has been changed.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.57			Golden apples can now be found inside ruined portal chests.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added golden apples.
TU5	CU1	1.0			Due to the addition of hunger, golden apples have been changed, so that they restore 10 () instead of 20 × 10 health points, but also give Regeneration for 30 seconds.
TU19	CU7	1.12			Golden apples now give extra "Absorption" health for a short period.
		1.90			The texture for golden apples has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added golden apples.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Golden Apple" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

The Golden Apple found in the Woodland Mansion tree room's chest sometimes turns into a Golden Apple enchanted with Efficiency I. It is unknown at the moment how this happens but it seems to happen after rejoining the world. It has reported to happen in Bedrock Edition.

Trivia[]

Prior to Java Edition Beta 1.8, the golden apple outwardly restored the player's full 20 × 10 health points; Internally however, it is set to restore over double that, at 42 × 21 health points. This is most likely a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, making it restore (the meaning of) life, 42 (health points). This is far before either the Absorption or Health Boost effects, causing this reference go unnoticed.

Gallery[]

A comparison of the two golden apple variations.
A golden apple found in a dungeon.
An extremely rare occasion where a regular golden apple and an enchanted apple being found in the same woodland mansion chest in Minecraft Education.
Golden apple in a dungeon chest, prior to 1.3.1. It resembles the enchanted golden apple.
A golden apple was found in a minecart chest in an abandoned mineshaft.