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A golden carrot is a valuable food item and brewing ingredient.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Gold Nugget + Carrot |
Trading
Master-level farmer villagers have a 1⁄3 chance to sell 3 golden carrots for 3 emeralds in Bedrock Edition, and will always offer the same trade in Java Edition.
Usage
Food
To eat a golden carrot, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores 6 (![]()
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) and 14.4 saturation points, the highest saturation restoration value of any food currently in the game.
Animal food
Golden carrots are used to tame, breed, grow, and heal horses, donkeys, and mules, and to bred, lead and grow rabbits.
Brewing ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Brewing recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Potion of Night Vision | Bedrock + Awkward Potion |
Sounds
| Sound | Subtitle | Namespaced ID | Subtitle ID | Source | Pitch | Volume | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eating | entity.generic.eat
|
subtitles.entity.generic.eat
|
? | ? | ? | 16 | |
| Burp | entity.player.burp
|
subtitles.entity.player.burp
|
? | ? | ? | 16 |
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
| Artificial Selection | Breed a mule from a horse and a donkey. | — | 30G | Bronze | ||
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | 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:
| husbandry/balanced_diet
|
Video
- Note: this video is outdated; it does not mention that golden carrots can be used as animal food.
History
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | File:Golden Carrot Revision 1.png Added golden carrots. | |||
| The new Potion of Night Vision is brewed by adding a golden carrot to an Awkward Potion. | |||||
| 12w36a | File:Golden Carrot Revision 2.png The texture of golden carrots has now been changed due to comments that the texture was suggestive.[citation needed] | ||||
| 12w37a | File:Golden Carrot Revision 3.png The texture of golden carrots has now been changed in order to match the new carrot texture. The item sprite no longer has a dark outline. | ||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 396. | |||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | File:Golden Carrot Revision 3.png Added golden carrots. | |||
| 0.13.0 | build 1 | Golden carrots can now be used to feed rabbits. | |||
| 0.15.0 | build 1 | Golden carrots can now be used to feed horses and donkeys. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Golden carrots can now be bought from farmer villagers. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU14 | CU1 | 1.04 | Patch 1 | File:Golden Carrot Revision 3.png Added golden carrots. | |
| 1.90 | |||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | File:Golden Carrot Revision 3.png Added golden carrots. | ||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Golden Carrot" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
See also
Trivia
- Golden carrots being used for potions of night vision is based on the common misconception that eating carrots can improve one's vision; this is only true if one has vitamin A deficiency.

