Rotten Flesh

Rotten Flesh
Rarity	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Restores	4 ()
Status effects	Hunger (0:30) (80% chance)

Rotten flesh is a food item that can be eaten by the player, with high risk of inflicting Hunger and low Saturation.

Obtaining

Mob loot

Zombies

Zombies, zombie villagers, zombie horses, husks, and drowned drop from 0 to 2 units of rotten flesh. Looting can increase this by one per level, for a maximum of 5 rotten flesh.

Zoglins

Zoglins drop 1-3. Looting III grants a maximum of 6.

Zombified piglins

Zombified piglins drop 0-1. Looting III grants a maximum of 4.

Fishing

Rotten flesh can be obtained as a "junk" item while fishing.

Chest loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Rotten Flesh	Dungeon	Chest	1–8	57.8%
	Desert temple	Chest	3–7	28.7%
		Chest	1–8	59%
	Igloo	Chest	1	55.3%
	Jungle temple	Chest	3–7	53.4%
	Shipwreck	Supply chest	5–24	32.2%
	Underwater ruins	Small ruins chest	1	59.6%
	Village	Temple chest	1–4	89.3%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1–8	57.8%
Bedrock Edition
Rotten Flesh	Dungeon	Chest	1–8	57.8%
	Desert temple	Chest	3–7	28.7%
		Chest	1–8	59%
	Igloo	Chest	1	55.3%
	Jungle temple	Chest	3–7	53.3%
	Shipwreck	Supply chest	5–24	32.2%
	Underwater ruins	Small ruins chest	1	59.6%
	Village	Temple chest	1–4	89.3%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1–8	57.8%

Cat gifts

Main article: Cat § Gifts

Tamed cats have a 70% chance of giving the player a gift when they wake up from a bed, and the gift has a 16.13% chance to be a rotten flesh.

Usage

Food

See also: Tutorials/Hunger management

To eat rotten flesh, press and hold use while rotten flesh is selected in the hotbar.

Eating rotten flesh restores 4 () hunger and 0.8 hunger saturation, but has an 80% chance of inflicting Hunger (effect) for 30 seconds. Note that the duration does not accumulate when eating multiple pieces. However, if more is consumed and the Hunger status effect is inflicted, the duration resets to 30 seconds.

Wolves

Rotten flesh 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.

Wolves are immune to the Hunger effect.

Trading

Novice-level cleric villagers buy 32 rotten flesh for 1 emerald as part of their trades.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	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	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

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
Rotten Flesh	rotten_flesh	Item	item.minecraft.rotten_flesh

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Rotten Flesh	rotten_flesh	277	Item	item.rotten_flesh.name

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other
		Iron Belly	Stop starvation using Rotten Flesh.	Eat a piece of rotten flesh while starving (zero hunger points).	20G	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: 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

Video

Note: The video is outdated, as rotten flesh can now be also gained from fishing, trading, or loot chests.

History

Java Edition Beta
1.8		Pre-release			Added rotten flesh.
					Zombies and zombie pigmen now drop rotten flesh instead of feathers and cooked porkchops respectively.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2			Food poisoning can now be stopped by drinking milk.
1.2.1		12w03a			Rotten flesh can now be used to breed wolves. When a wolf eats rotten flesh, it will not receive the Hunger effect.
1.3.1		12w21a			Rotten flesh can now be found in desert temple chests.
					Priest villagers now buy rotten flesh.
		1.3			The texture of rotten flesh has been changed.
		12w22a			Rotten flesh now generates in jungle temple chests.
					Priest villagers no longer buy rotten flesh.
1.7.2		13w36a			Rotten flesh can now be obtained as one of the "junk" items from fishing.
1.8		14w02a			Cleric villagers now buy 36–40 rotten flesh for 1 emerald, as their tier I trade.
1.9		15w43a			Rotten flesh may now be found in igloo basement chests.
		15w44a			Rotten flesh now generates in dungeon chests.
					The average yield of rotten flesh has been decreased in desert temple chests.
1.11		16w39a			Rotten flesh can now be found in woodland mansion chests.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 367.
		18w09a			Rotten flesh now generates in the loot chests of underwater ruins.
		18w11a			Drowned may now drop rotten flesh upon death.
					Rotten flesh now sometimes generates in shipwreck chests.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of rotten flesh has been changed.
		18w44a			Cats now offer rotten flesh as gifts.
		18w50a			Rotten flesh can now be found in village temple chests.
1.16		20w06a			Added hoglins, which can drop rotten flesh if killed.
		20w07a			Rotten flesh has a 10⁄109 (~9.17%) chance of being given by the new piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 4–12.
					Hoglins no longer drop rotten flesh.
		20w09a			Rotten flesh can no longer be obtained by bartering with piglins.
		20w14a			Added zoglins, which drop rotten flesh when killed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0		build 1			Added rotten flesh.
					As the hunger bar has not yet been added, rotten flesh inflicts poison rather than hunger.
					Zombies and zombie pigmen now drop rotten flesh.
		build 11			Rotten flesh can now be used to feed wolves.
v0.12.1		build 1			Eating rotten flesh now gives the player the Hunger status effect.
					Rotten flesh now restores hunger instead of health.
					Added zombie villagers, which drop rotten flesh when killed.
v0.13.0		build 1			Rotten flesh can now be found inside desert temple chests.
v0.15.0		build 1			Added husks and zombie horses, both of which drop rotten flesh when killed.
					Rotten flesh can now be found inside jungle temple chests.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Rotten flesh can now be found inside the basement chests of igloos.
1.0.4		alpha 1.0.4.0			36-40 rotten flesh can now be sold to cleric villagers.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Rotten flesh can now be found in woodland mansion chests.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.13.8			Added drowned, which drop rotten flesh when killed.
		beta 1.2.14.2			Rotten flesh can now be found in some shipwreck chests.
		beta 1.2.20.1			Rotten flesh can now be found inside underwater ruins chests.
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.8			Tamed cats can now give the player rotten flesh as a gift.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of rotten flesh has been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Rotten flesh can now be found in desert village temple chests.
		beta 1.11.0.4			Trading has been changed, cleric villagers now buy 32 rotten flesh for an emerald.
Legacy Console Edition
TU5	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added rotten flesh.
		1.90			The texture of rotten flesh has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added rotten flesh.

Issues

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External Links

• Taking Inventory: Rotten Flesh – Minecraft.net on June 8, 2020

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