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Hunger is a major mechanic in Minecraft. Consequently, food is very important. This page describes some methods of getting food.

Overworld

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Killing Animals

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Several animals found wandering around will drop meat when they are killed, and if they are killed with fire they will drop cooked meat which is more nourishing. Note that this includes salmon and cod, which are especially plentiful in rivers or oceans.

This list shows mobs, food from them when they are killed with and without fire:

Mob Food when they are

killed without fire

Food when they are

killed with fire

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Cow
1-3 👁 Image
Raw Beef
1-3 👁 Image
Steak
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Mooshroom
[1]
1-3 👁 Image
Raw Beef
1-3 👁 Image
Steak
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Pig
1-3 👁 Image
Raw Porkchop
1-3 👁 Image
Cooked Porkchop
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Hoglin
2-4 👁 Image
Raw Porkchop
2-4 👁 Image
Cooked Porkchop
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Chicken
1 👁 Image
Raw Chicken
1 👁 Image
Cooked Chicken
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Sheep
1-2 👁 Image
Raw Mutton
1-2 👁 Image
Cooked Mutton
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Rabbit
1 👁 Image
Raw Rabbit
1 👁 Image
Cooked Rabbit
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Salmon
1 👁 Image
Raw Salmon
1 👁 Image
Cooked Salmon
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Cod
1 👁 Image
Raw Cod
1 👁 Image
Cooked Cod
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Dolphin
0-1 👁 Image
Raw Cod
0-1 👁 Image
Cooked Cod
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Guardian
0-1 👁 Image
Raw Cod
0-1 👁 Image
Cooked Cod
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Elder Guardian
0-1 👁 Image
Raw Cod
0-1 👁 Image
Cooked Cod
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Polar Bear
0-2 👁 Image
Raw Cod

0-2 👁 Image
Raw Salmon

0-2 👁 Image
Cooked Cod

0-2 👁 Image
Cooked Salmon

Cooked meats have better saturation and restore more hunger than raw meat. Player can kill mobs with fire using Fire Aspect or Flame enchantments, flint and steel, fire charges, lava (although this may burn the items that are dropped from the mob) or some naturally generated fire in the Nether. Most fish can be tricky to set alight (being underwater) but it can be easily done with a fire aspect sword. While building a furnace is an option, if you only need to cook a few items or you're low on fuel, you may be better off making a campfire.

Looting a Village

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See also: Village

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Villages
offer many food sources: Depending on the biome, most have hay bales lying around, which can be crafted into wheat, then bread (1 Hay Bale = 9 Wheat = 3 Bread = 15 (👁 🍗
× 7.5)
food points). Those which don't have hay bales may have pumpkins or melons instead (see below). Their farms offer all four of the basic crops, and the chests in their houses can offer several food items. Some of the items found will be more nourishing if you can manage to cook them; the village may well have a furnace, smoker, or campfire for the purpose. Village farms have 25% to have wheat, beetroots, carrots and potatoes. A regular farm has 19 crops each, while a large farm has 38.

These food items can be found in the village chests:

Item Stack Size Chance Average Place Restored Hunger

After Eating Food

Effects
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Potato
1-7 74.2% 2.968 Plains Village Chest 1 (👁 🍖
)
No
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Bread
[Bedrock Edition only]
1-7 69.3% 2.772 Taiga House Chest 5 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Potato
[Bedrock Edition only]
1-7 69.3% 2.772 Taiga House Chest 1 (👁 🍖
)
No
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Potato
1-7 66.3% 2.652 Snowy House Chest 1 (👁 🍖
)
No
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Potato
[Java Edition only]
1-7 65.6% 2.624 Taiga House Chest 1 (👁 🍖
)
No
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Bread
1-4 89.3% 2.2325 Village Temple Chest 5 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Rotten Flesh
1-4 89.3% 2.2325 Village Temple Chest 4 (👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
Has 80% chance to give 👁 Image
Hunger
I for 30 seconds when eaten.
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Apple
1-5 74.2% 2.226 Plains Village Chest 4 (👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Bread
1-4 80.6% 2.015 Desert House Chest 5 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Bread
1-4 80.6% 2.015 Armorer Chest 5 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Bread
1-4 74.2% 1.855 Plains Village Chest 5 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Bread
1-4 71.7% 1.7925 Savana House Chest 5 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Bread
1-4 66.3% 1.6575 Snowy House Chest 5 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Bread
[Java Edition only]
1-4 65.6% 1.64 Taiga House Chest 5 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Sweet Berries
[Java Edition only]
1-7 40.6% 1.624 Taiga House Chest 2 (👁 🍗
)
No
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Bread
1-4 62.8% 1.57 Tannery Chest 5 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Bread
1-4 62.2% 1.555 Mason Chest 5 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Bread
1-4 61.2% 1.53 Cartographer Chest 5 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Raw Beef
1-4 48.6% 1.215 Butcher Chest 3 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
)
No
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Raw Porkchop
1-4 48.6% 1.215 Butcher Chest 3 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
)
No
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Raw Mutton
1-4 48.6% 1.215 Butcher Chest 2 (👁 🍗
)
No
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Bread
1-3 59.8% 1.196 Weaponsmith Chest 5 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Apple
1-3 59.8% 1.196 Weaponsmith Chest 4 (👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Raw Cod
1-3 43.0% 0.86 Fisherman Chest 2 (👁 🍗
)
No
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Raw Salmon
1-3 24.2% 0.484 Fisherman Chest 2 (👁 🍗
)
No
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Pumpkin Pie
[Bedrock Edition only]
1 10.7% 0.107 Taiga House Chest 8 (👁 🍗
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Beetroot Soup
1 9.9% 0.099 Snowy House Chest 6 (👁 🍗
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Pumpkin Pie
[Java Edition only]
1 9.7% 0.097 Taiga House Chest 8 (👁 🍗
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No

You can also trade with the villagers for food. If you have at least two flint, and the village is not in the middle of the desert (because you will need wood), you can make a infinite source of food quickly in the village. Do the following steps:


Another way to find food in a village is to look for a farm. This is the fastest way to obtain food, as the crops are outside the houses and can be collected quickly with any tool. However, it is not renewable, unless you have enough bonemeal to grow more crops from the seeds. Farms will also have hay bales, melons or pumpkins, depending on the biome. This is a list of the food itens that can be found in village farms:

Item Chance of

Spawning

Restored

Hunger

Beetroot 20% 1
Melon 8% 2
Carrot 30% 3
Potato 72% If raw 1. If baked 5.
Wheat 72% Ingredient for bread (5)
Pumpkin 30% Ingredient for pumpkin pie (8)

Looting Shipwrecks

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You can often find shipwrecks in any ocean- or beach-type biome. If the "bow" (front) of the ship is present, the "supply" chest within can have a decent amount of food, or at least wheat to make bread. The list of food items that can be found in shipwrecks:

Item Stack Size Chance Average Place Restored Hunger

After Eating Food

Effects
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Suspicious Stew
1 57.4% 0.774 Supply Chest 6 (👁 🍗
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
Suspicious Stew/Effects
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Carrot
4-8 42.1% 3.250 Supply Chest 3 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
)
No
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Poisonous Potato
2-6 42.1% 2.167 Supply Chest 2 (👁 🍗
)
Have 60% chance to give 👁 Image
Poison
for 5 seconds.
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Potato
2-6 42.1% 2.167 Supply Chest 1 (👁 🍖
)
No
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Rotten Flesh
5-24 32.2% 5.610 Supply Chest 4 (👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
Have 80% chance to give 👁 Image
Hunger
for 30 seconds.

Note that each suspicious stew will have one of six random effects; most of these will pass within a few seconds, and are only an issue if you're currently in a fight. But there are equal chances of getting poison (which can do up to 4HP👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
damage), or saturation (bonus saturation restoration, effectively maxing out your food gauges).

Item Stack Size Chance Average Place Food That can be

Crafted From Item

Restored Hunger

After Eating Food

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Wheat
8-21 44.9% 4.390 Supply Chest Bread 5 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)

Foraging

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See also: Random patch

There are several food items that can be gathered from the landscape with varying degrees of ease. Which of these are available will depend on the biomes you pass through. Note that except for mushroom stew and suspicious stew, these foods aren't exactly the greatest, filling your hunger bar but offering little saturation to back it up. That said, they'll keep you from starvation until you can find something better.

Mushroom Stew

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Brown and red mushrooms can be found in various places throughout the world, mostly under trees or in caves. They are also common in the Nether. A bit of wood allows you to craft bowls, and with a bowl and both mushroom types, you can easily craft mushroom stew, without even needing a crafting table. If you happen to be in the rare mushroom fields, you can also get mushroom stew by "milking" a mooshroom with an empty bowl, though the mushrooms themselves will also be plentiful. (In the mushroom fields, the wood for a bowl might be the hardest to find!) This is one of the best foraged foods, with value comparable to some cooked meats. Its main drawback is that once crafted, it is unstackable. However, the ingredients are stackable, and three slots will hold the makings for 64 bowls of stew. Note that you do get the bowl back when you eat the stew, so it's perfectly reasonable to carry a large amount of each mushroom type, and a batch of 4 bowls to fill as needed.

Suspicious Stew
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See also: Suspicious Stew

Adding a flower to the mushroom-stew recipe will instead produce suspicious stew, which is just as nourishing and also grants a brief status effect. It matters a lot which flower you use, as some of them produce bad effects:

  • A dandelion or blue orchid will give the "saturation" effect, promoting your stew to a superfood!
  • An oxeye daisy will let you regenerate a few points of health, while a lily-of-the-valley will poison you, doing several points of damage.
  • Other flowers offer various good or bad effects, but all lasting just a few seconds.

Sweet Berries

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Spawning in/near a taiga biome allows you to get early access to sweet berries, which are a weak but plentiful food source and easy to farm. However, the bushes can be hazardous — avoid walking through them.

Glow Berries

When exploring a lush cave, you will stumble upon large amounts of cave vines, with many containing glow berries. It refills the same hunger and saturation as sweet berries, though being harder to reach and posing a fall damage hazard for unskilled players

Apples (Leaves)

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When cutting down oak or dark oak trees, a few of the leaves (1 in 200 of the blocks) will drop apples as they decay. You can also manually break the leaf blocks. They will break faster when hit with a hoe.

Melons

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In jungles, you can likely find melon blocks, which can be broken into melon slices. It's a rather weak food, but very plentiful, since a single watermelon block drops 3-7 slices with no enchantments. Any uneaten slices can be crafted into seeds to grow even more melons.

Pumpkin Pie

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If you happen to have the ingredients, pumpkin pie is a relatively cheap and filling food item, crafted with only one pumpkin, sugar (from sugar cane), and an egg. All of these can be farmed in mass quantities. One thing troublesome is finding the pumpkins in the first place, but once that's done, there are no real challenges. They can also be crafted without a crafting table, requiring only three ingredients.

Rotten Flesh

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Rotten flesh is one of the most common and least-valued items in the game. Most often found after killing zombies and their various relatives (or waiting for them to burn in the morning), it can also show up chest loot. It is a bottom-tier food, which furthermore has an 80% chance to inflict "food poisoning" – 30 seconds of the Hunger effect. However, that duration doesn't accumulate, and it doesn't cost all that much hunger. So, if you eat several pieces at once, you can fill up your hunger gauge, perhaps heal a bit, and only lose a little saturation "off the top". Also, you can stay still while the Hunger effect is active. Drinking milk right after eating rotten flesh will also cancel the effect.

In the Nether

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It is challenging to find food in the Nether, but there are still some (if not somewhat unreliable) available food sources within the "bowels of hell."

Anywhere

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  • Mushroom stew is still a good option: Both kinds of mushrooms are common, and bowls can be made from giant fungus planks (the red and blue "trees"). Alas, flowers are not to be found (unless you brought some from the Overworld).
  • Rotten flesh (see above) can be had from zombified piglins; the problem is that if you fight one of them, you basically have to fight all of them. You can do pretty well with a prepared fort where you can hold them off and kill them from safety. You can try fighting them from atop a two-block pillar, but watch out for other monsters (especially ghasts or skeletons) who can knock you off your pillar, or blazes which can set you afire.

Hoglins

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  • Hoglins are the only real "meat animal" found in the Nether (barring the occasional chicken jockey). They spawn in crimson forests, and in some bastions. Unfortunately they're hostile, and fairly tough. As a hint, they can't fit through one-block wide doorways, and unlike many Nether mobs, they are not immune to fire. When killed, a Hoglin will drop 2-4 porkchops, more than the Overworld pig. Killing the hoglin with fire, or cooking a raw porkchop, gets you one of the best foods in the game. The two-block pillar trick can also work, but if you lean over the near side they may be able to knock you off. Killing them from a distance is safer.
  • Baby Hoglins do not drop anything when killed and are hostile to the player. Be cautious around them.

Nether Roof

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  • Mushrooms can be found on the Nether roof to make mushroom soup. However, without bowls they are useless. Be cautious when accessing the Nether roof, however, as without a way to make a portal back to the Overworld you can become stuck and softlocked.

Bastion Remnants

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See also: Bastion Remnant

A bastion remnant is a fairly rare structure, but loaded with chests if you do happen to find one. The chests within include pork, and (in Java Edition) golden carrots and golden apples. Note that piglins will object to your looting or breaking chests -- of course, they'll be attacking you anyway unless you are wearing golden armor (see their page for details), and the piglin brutes won't even care about the armor. The easiest option is likely to just block them out of the room -- if you are wearing even one piece of golden armor, the non-brutes will calm down after about 30 seconds.

List of food items present in bastion remnants

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Hoglin Stable
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Item Stack Size Chance Average Restored Hunger

After Eating Food

Effects
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Golden Carrot
[Java Edition only]
8-17 11.4% 1.425 6 (👁 🍗
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Cooked Porkchop
[Bedrock Edition only]
2-5 26.2% 0.917 8 (👁 🍗
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Raw Porkchop
[Bedrock Edition only]
2-5 26.2% 0.917 3 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
)
No
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Cooked Porkchop
[Java Edition only]
2-5 22.8% 0.798 8 (👁 🍗
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Raw Porkchop
[Java Edition only]
2-5 22.8% 0.798 3 (👁 🍖
👁 🍗
)
No
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Golden Apple
[Java Edition only]
1 11.4% 0.114 4 (👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
Gives 👁 Image
Absorption
I for 2 minutes and 👁 Image
Regeneration
II for 5 seconds.
Generic
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Item Stack Size Chance Average Restored Hunger

After Eating Food

Effects
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Golden Carrot
[Java Edition only]
6-7 13.5% 0.8775 6 (👁 🍗
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Cooked Porkchop
[Java Edition only]
1 24.4% 0.244 8 (👁 🍗
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
No
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Golden Apple
[Java Edition only]
1 10.1% 0.101 4 (👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
Gives 👁 Image
Absorption
I for 2 minutes and 👁 Image
Regeneration
II for 5 seconds.
Treasure
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Item Stack Size Chance Average Restored Hunger

After Eating Food

Effects
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Enchanted Golden Apple
[Java Edition only]
1 6.5% 0.065 4 (👁 🍗
👁 🍗
)
Gives 👁 Image
Absorption
IV for 2 minutes, 👁 Image
Regeneration
II for 30 seconds,

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Fire Resistance
I for 5 minutes and 👁 Image
Resistance
I for 5 minutes.

In the End

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The End is a very hostile place, and it is extremely hard to find decent food there. You should bring plenty of food with you whenever venturing into the End; the only edible thing you'll find there is chorus fruit; it grows only on the outer islands, but is plentiful there. It does have a little side effect....

Chorus Plants

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See also: Chorus Fruit

They only grow on the outer end islands, so you'll need to kill the ender dragon first to get them. They restore four food points, but can also teleport you to a random location, up to 8 blocks away. This can either be a great convenience or an annoyance. The trees are very common in the End islands, and with a little effort you can easily farm them as well.

See also

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Notes and References

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  1. If sheared, they drop mushroom.

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