Suspicious stew is a food item that can give the player a status effect.
Obtaining
Suspicious stew is the only food item in the game that cannot be obtained from the Creative inventory but can be crafted and found in shipwreck chests. In Java Edition suspicious stew can be given with commands like /give, but unless NBT data like that listed in the data values section is included, consuming it gives no effect. You can trade with farmers for it, and you can milk brown mooshrooms for it.
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl + Any Flower |
Notice: the recipe book does not assist with crafting suspicious stew in Bedrock Edition, so the player must know the recipe.
Chest loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Suspicious Stew[A] | Desert well | Suspicious sand | 1 | 12.5% |
| Shipwreck | Supply chest | 1 | 54.3% | |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Suspicious Stew[A] | Desert well | Suspicious sand | 1 | 12.5% |
| Shipwreck | Supply chest | 1 | 54.3% | |
- ↑ a b The stew grants one of the following effects: 5–7 seconds of Blindness, 7–10 seconds of Jump Boost, 7-10 seconds of Night Vision, 10–20 seconds of Poison, 0.35-0.5 seconds of Saturation, or 6–8 seconds of Weakness.
Brown mooshrooms
After being given a flower, a brown mooshroom can be "milked" for suspicious stew with a bowl. The flower fed to the brown mooshroom determines what effect the stew gives. The effects flowers give in crafted stews are the same they will give in milked stews. A brown mooshroom can be created in two ways: breeding regular ones for a 1 in 1024 chance of getting a brown mooshroom, or a mooshroom getting struck by lightning. This can be achieved easier with a channeling trident, or a lightning rod in 20w45a[Java Edition only].
Trading
In Java Edition, expert-level farmer villagers sell 1 or 2 suspicious stew[note 1] for one emerald.
In Bedrock Edition, master-level farmer villagers have a 1⁄3 chance to sell suspicious stew for one emerald, and an expert-level farmer villager will sell suspicious stew for one emerald as well.
Usage
Food
A bowl of suspicious stew restores 6 (![]()
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) and 7.2 saturation points, and gives a few seconds of a status effect. The effect given upon eating depends on which flower is used, and is stored as an NBT Tag. The effect is not displayed in the tooltip, texture, etc., meaning that the player cannot tell in advance what the effect is unless they remember what flower they used.
| Flower | Effect | Duration (BE) | Duration (JE) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allium | Fire Resistance | 2s | 4s |
| Azure Bluet | Blindness | 6s | 8s |
| Blue Orchid Dandelion |
Saturation | 0.3s | 0.35s |
| Cornflower | Jump Boost | 4s | 6s |
| Lily of the Valley | Poison | 10s | 12s |
| Oxeye Daisy | Regeneration | 6s | 8s |
| Poppy Torchflower |
Night Vision | 4s | 5s |
| Tulips | Weakness | 7s | 9s |
| Wither Rose | Wither | 6s | 8s |
The bowl is emptied and returned to the player after the suspicious stew has been eaten, and can be re-used to craft more stews. Unlike with other effect-giving foods, Suspicious Stew cannot be eaten unless the player is hungry.[1]
Sounds
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eating | ? | Eating one single food | entity | subtitles | ? | ? | ? | |
| Burp | ? | Eating a singular food | entity | subtitles | ? | ? | ? | |
| Gear equipped | Players | When eating food that returns items[2] | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Suspicious Stew | suspicious_stew | item.minecraft.suspicious_stew |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suspicious Stew | suspicious_stew | 734 | item.suspicious_stew.name |
Item data
In Java Edition, suspicious stew uses the following NBT data:
- tag: The item's tag tag.
- Effects: The status effects this suspicious stew has.
- One of these for each effect.
- EffectId: The numeric ID of the effect.
- EffectDuration: The duration of the effect in ticks. Values 0 or lower are treated as 1. Optional, and defaults to 160 ticks (8 seconds).
- One of these for each effect.
- Effects: The status effects this suspicious stew has.
In Bedrock Edition, suspicious stew uses the following data values:
| DV | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Night Vision | |
| 1 | Jump Boost | |
| 2 | Weakness | |
| 3 | Blindness | |
| 4 | Poison | |
| 6 | Saturation | |
| 7 | Fire Resistance | |
| 8 | Regeneration | |
| 9 | Wither |
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
| Time for Stew | Give someone a suspicious stew. | — | 20G | Bronze | ||
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | A Furious Cocktail | Have every potion effect applied at the same time | Local Brewery | Have all of these 13 status effects applied to the player at the same time: 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 27 status effects applied to the player at the same time:
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:
| husbandry/balanced_diet
|
History
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||
| 19w08a | Suspicious stew can be obtained by milking brown mooshrooms. | ||||
| 19w11a | Trading has been changed, expert-level farmer villagers now sell suspicious stew for an emerald. | ||||
| 1.14.4 | pre1 | Suspicious stew made from poppies now gives Night Vision to the player instead of Speed. | |||
| 1.16 | pre1 | Suspicious stew can now be obtained with brown mooshrooms in Creative mode. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.13.0 | beta 1.13.0.9 | ||||
| beta 1.13.0.15 | Master-level farmer villagers can now sell suspicious stew. | ||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Trading has been changed, expert-level farmer villagers now sell suspicious stew for an emerald. | |||
Issues
Issues relating to "Suspicious Stew" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- Due to being NBT-based, the recipe for suspicious stew cannot be found in the recipe book.
- This is the only item that is craftable and found in loot chests but not found in the creative inventory.
- This is the only way to obtain blindness and saturation in vanilla Minecraft without the use of commands.
Notes
- ↑ The stew grants one of the following effects: 5–7 seconds of Blindness, 7–10 seconds of Jump Boost, 7-10 seconds of Night Vision, 10–20 seconds of Poison, 7–10 seconds of Saturation, or 6–8 seconds of Weakness.

