Golden Apple

Not to be confused with Enchanted Golden Apple.

Golden Apple

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Rarity color	Rare
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Restores
Status effects	Template:EffectLink (2:00) Template:EffectLink II (0:05)

The golden apple is a special food item that bestows beneficial effects when consumed.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Gold Ingot + Apple

Natural generation

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Golden Apple	Dungeon	Chest	1	21.8%
	Mineshaft	Chest	1	28.2%
	Bastion remnant	Generic chest	1	10.1%
		Hoglin stable chest	1	11.4%
	Desert temple	Chest	1	23.5%
	Igloo	Chest	1	100%
	Ruined portal	Chest	1	20.5%
	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	2.5%
	Underwater ruins	Big ruins chest	1	4.3%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	21.8%
Bedrock Edition
Golden Apple	Dungeon	Chest	1	21.8%
	Mineshaft	Chest	1	28.2%
	Desert temple	Chest	1	23.5%
	Igloo	Chest	1	100%
	Ruined portal	Chest	1	20.5%
	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	2.4%
	Underwater ruins	Big ruins chest	1	4.3%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	21.5%

Usage

See also: Hunger management

To eat a golden apple, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. It restores Template:Hunger points of hunger and 9.6 hunger saturation.

The golden apple provides:

• Absorption I for 2 minutes (providing 49px9px points of absorption health)
• Regeneration II (19px every 25 ticks, 9px × 0.4 per second) for 5 seconds (long enough to heal 49px9px points of damage)

Curing zombie villagers

Main article: Zombie Villager § Curing

A golden apple and a potion of weakness can be used to convert a zombie villager into a regular villager.

Horses

Golden apples can be used to improve the chances of taming a horse by 10%, for breeding horses and for speeding up the growth of baby horses by 4 minutes.

Piglins

Template:EntityLink are attracted to golden apples. They run toward any golden apples on the ground, and inspect it for 6 to 8 seconds before putting it in their inventory. However, piglins do not eat golden apples (or any food).

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Form	Translation key
Golden Apple	golden_apple	Item	item.minecraft.golden_apple

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Golden Apple	golden_apple	322	Item	item.golden_apple.name

History

Java Edition Infdev
February 23, 2010					A player named JTE put a crafting recipe for golden apples as a joke at the bottom of a crafting guide she made. The recipe used gold ingots instead of gold blocks.
Minecraft Infdev		20100227-1			32px Added golden apples.
					Golden apples heal a full 209px × 10 health points, making them the best food in the entire game.
					Golden apples are crafted with an apple and eight blocks of gold.
		20100625-2			Golden apples can now be rarely found in dungeons.
Java Edition Beta
1.8		Pre-release			Due to the addition of hunger, golden apples have been changed so that they restore Template:Hunger, instead of 209px × 10 health points, but also give Regeneration for 30 seconds.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2			Golden apples have been given 'glint' (animated purple glow) when viewed from the player's inventory, and its tooltip has now changed from the standard white to a magenta color.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3			Golden apples can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests.
1.1		11w48a			Golden apples are now easier to craft. Standard apples now rarely drop from oak leaves, meaning that players no longer need to venture into strongholds/dungeons to find one.
		release			Golden apples have been changed, so that they now restore Template:Hunger and give only 4 seconds of Regeneration.
					The crafting recipe of golden apples has been modified, requiring 8 gold nuggets instead of 8 blocks of gold to craft. Although its natural spawn is rare, it is easier to obtain through crafting.
1.4.2		12w32a			Golden apples can now be fed to a zombie villager with the Weakness debuff causing them to revert to villagers after a delay of about 3 minutes.
1.6.1		13w23a			Golden apples now use 8 gold ingots instead of 8 gold nuggets.
					The Regeneration effect of golden apples has been slowed down.
		13w23b			Golden apples now give the player Health Boost for 1:30 and Regeneration II for 0:10. This temporarily gives the player 4 extra base health points, and it heals a total of 49px9px health points.
		13w24b			The Health Boost effect has been replaced with Absorption, lasting 1:30.
		?			Absorption from golden apples now lasts 2:00.
1.9		15w37a			The Regeneration effect from golden apples has been reduced to Regeneration I (from II in Java Edition 1.8).
		15w43a			A single golden apple can now sometimes be found in igloo chests.
		15w43b			A single golden apple is now always found in igloo chests.
		15w44a			The Regeneration effect from golden apples has been returned to Regeneration II, as it had been in 1.8.
					The average yield of golden apples from dungeon chests has been increased.
					Golden apples have been added to desert temple and mineshaft chests.
1.11		16w39a			Golden apples are now found in the new woodland mansion chests.
1.13		17w47a			The names and IDs have been split into golden apple and enchanted golden apple.
					Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 322.
		18w09a			Golden apples can now generate in the chests of underwater ruins.
1.14		18w43a			32px The texture for golden apples has been changed.
1.16		20w16a			Golden apples can now be found inside ruined portal chests.
		20w18a			Golden apples are now more common in ruined portal chests.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1		build 1			32px Added golden apples.
		build 3			A crafting recipe has been added for golden apples.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.20.1			Golden apples can now generate in the chests of underwater ruins.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			32px The texture for golden apples has been changed.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.57			Golden apples can now be found inside ruined portal chests.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	32px Added golden apples.
TU5					Due to the addition of hunger, golden apples have been changed, so that they restore Template:Hunger instead of 209px × 10 health points, but also give Regeneration for 30 seconds.
TU19	CU7	1.12			Golden apples now give extra "Absorption" health for a short period.
		1.90			32px The texture for golden apples has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					32px Added golden apples.

Issues

Issues relating to "Golden Apple" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Along with the enchanted variant or one of the suspicious stew varieties, golden apples are the only food source in the game that directly restores health points when eaten.

Gallery

• GoldenAppleComparison.png

  A comparison of the two golden apple variations.

• Golden apple in dungen 2013.png

  A golden apple found in a dungeon.

• Notch Apple In Mansion Chest.png

  An extremely rare occasion where a regular golden apple and an enchanted apple being found in the same woodland mansion chest in Education Edition.

• GoldenAppleDungeonChest.png

  Golden apple in a dungeon chest, prior to 1.3.1. It resembles the enchanted golden apple.

• Golden Apple Mineshaft Loot.png

  A golden apple was found in a minecart chest in an abandoned mineshaft.

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