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Template:Food Golden Apples are rare items found in dungeon chests. They can also be attained through crafting red apples and gold blocks together. Eating one completely restores the player's health.

Crafting

A golden apple is crafted from a red apple with 8 gold blocks surrounding it:

Ingredients Input » Output
Red Apple +
Gold Blocks
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Advantages

  • Golden apples restore all of your health.

Disadvantages

  • Red apples are very rare, and golden apples even more so.
  • Golden apples are not time or resource efficient to craft; making just one requires 72 gold ingots.
  • While cake only restores nine full hearts in total, it is much more time and resource efficient, making it a common choice over golden apples for space efficient healing.

Notes

  • Eating any apple may sometimes protect the consumer from fall damage.[citation needed] Not much is known about this.
  • Golden Apples have a 1/125 (.8%) chance of spawning in a Dungeon's chest.
  • Although Golden Apples are capable of healing 10 hearts they have to be used before the player has less taken 10 hearts of damage. The greatest amount of damage a player can sustain without dying is 9.5 hearts.
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