Raw Beef
Raw beef is a food item that can be eaten by the player or cooked in a furnace, smoker, or campfire to make steak.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Mob loot[edit]
When adult cows and mooshrooms are killed, they drop 1-3 raw beef. The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 1-6 with Looting III. If killed while on fire, they drop steak instead.
Chest loot[edit]
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Raw Beef | Village | Butcher's chest | 1–3 | 48.6% |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Raw Beef | Village | Butcher's chest | 1–3 | 48.6% |
Usage[edit]
Food[edit]
To eat raw beef, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores 3 (
) hunger and 1.8 hunger saturation.
Smelting ingredient[edit]
| Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Steak | Raw Beef + Any fuel |
Wolves[edit]
Raw beef can be used to breed and heal tamed wolves, lead them around, and make baby tamed wolves grow up faster by 10% of the remaining time.
Trading[edit]
Journeyman-level Butcher villagers have a 50% chance to buy 10 raw beef for an emerald.[Bedrock Edition only]
Journeyman-level Butcher villagers always offer buy 10 raw beef for an emerald.[Java Edition only]
Sounds[edit]
| Sound | Subtitle | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eating | ? | Eating one single food | entity.generic.eat | subtitles.entity.generic.eat | ? | ? | ? | |
| Burp | ? | Eating a singular food | entity.generic.burp | subtitles.entity.generic.burp | ? | ? | ? |
Bedrock Edition:[more information needed]
Advancements[edit]
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Namespaced ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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:[upcoming: JE 1.17]
| husbandry/balanced_diet
|
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
| Name | Namespaced ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raw Beef | beef | Item | item.minecraft.beef |
| Name | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw Beef | beef | 363 | Item | item.beef.name |
History[edit]
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | Pre-release |  Added raw beef.
| |||
| Raw beef is one of the new food items dropped by cows in addition to their leather. | |||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Raw beef can now be sold to butcher villagers, at 14–17 raw beef for 1 emerald. | |||
| 1.3 |  The texture of raw beef has been changed. | ||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w37a |  The texture of raw beef has been changed, so that it no longer has a dark outline. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Villagers no longer trade for raw beef. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 363. | |||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  The texture of raw beef has been changed. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.4.0 | Added raw beef. | ||||
| v0.5.0 | Raw beef now restores 3  instead of 1. | ||||
| v0.8.0 | build 2 | The texture of raw beef has been changed, so that it no longer has a dark outline. | |||
| v0.9.0 | build 1 | Raw beef has been added to creative mode. | |||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Raw beef now restores hunger instead of health. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | The texture of raw beef has been changed. | |||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Raw beef can now be found in village butcher chests. | |||
| beta 1.11.0.4 | Raw beef can now be sold to butcher villagers. | ||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU5 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added raw beef. | |
| TU12 | The texture of raw beef has been changed, so that it no longer has a dark outline. | ||||
| 1.90 | The texture of raw beef has been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added raw beef. | ||||
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Raw Beef" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery[edit]
Raw Beef and Steak in a preview screenshot.
