Apple

For other uses, see Apple (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Applet.

Apple

Rarity tier	Common
Consumption time	32 game ticks (1.6 seconds)
Hunger	4 ()
Saturation	2.4 ()
Saturation boost‌[JE only]	Heals: 1.6HP × 0.8 Duration: 0.8 seconds
Always consumable	JE: No BE: Yes
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

Apples are food items that rarely drop from certain leaves and can be eaten by the player or crafted into golden apples.

Obtaining

Block loot

Oak and dark oak leaves have a 0.5% (¹⁄₂₀₀) chance of dropping an apple when decayed or broken, but not if burned. Breaking leaves with a tool enchanted with the Fortune enchantment increases the chances of dropping an apple: 0.556% (¹⁄₁₈₀) with Fortune I, 0.625% (¹⁄₁₆₀) with Fortune II, and 0.833% (¹⁄₁₂₀) with Fortune III.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Apple	Bonus Chest	Chest	1–2	83.8% { "item": "Apple", "stacksize": "1–2", "chance": 0.8377160030052592, "structure": "Bonus Chest", "container": "Chest" }
	Igloo	Chest	1–3	70.4% { "item": "Apple", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.7036114467820859, "structure": "Igloo", "container": "Chest" }
	Stronghold	Storeroom chest	1–3	47.5% { "item": "Apple", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.4753516873195087, "structure": "Stronghold", "container": "Storeroom chest" }
		Altar chest	1–3	32.9% { "item": "Apple", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.3288116773641878, "structure": "Stronghold", "container": "Altar chest" }
	Village	Plains house chest	1–5	74.2% { "item": "Apple", "stacksize": "1–5", "chance": 0.7422481146272464, "structure": "Village", "container": "Plains house chest" }
		Weaponsmith's chest	1–3	55% { "item": "Apple", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.5496288397944511, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Apple	Bonus Chest	Chest	1–2	100% { "item": "Apple", "stacksize": "1–2", "chance": 1, "structure": "Bonus Chest", "container": "Chest" }
	Igloo	Chest	1–3	70.4% { "item": "Apple", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.7036114467820859, "structure": "Igloo", "container": "Chest" }
	Stronghold	Storeroom chest	1–3	40% { "item": "Apple", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.40018245990447665, "structure": "Stronghold", "container": "Storeroom chest" }
		Altar chest	1–3	32% { "item": "Apple", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.31993092584192784, "structure": "Stronghold", "container": "Altar chest" }
	Village	Plains house chest	1–5	74.2% { "item": "Apple", "stacksize": "1–5", "chance": 0.7422481146272464, "structure": "Village", "container": "Plains house chest" }
		Weaponsmith's chest	1–3	55% { "item": "Apple", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.5496288397944511, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }

Trading

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Farmer	Apprentice	67%	50%	Emerald	4 × Apple	16	5	0.05

Usage

To eat an apple, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores 4 () hunger and 2.4 saturation.

Unlike most foods, apples can be eaten with a full hunger bar in Bedrock Edition.^[1]

Apples can be used to heal, grow, and increase temper of horses, donkeys, and mules. In Java Edition, due to a bug, skeleton horses (in their hostile state; being ridden by skeletons) can also be fed apples.^[2]

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Golden Apple	Gold Ingot + Apple

Composting

Placing an apple into a composter has a 65% (¹³⁄₂₀) chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Apple	apple	Item	item.minecraft.apple

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Apple	apple	257	Item	item.apple.name

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	Consume anything that can be consumed, except for cake.
	A Balanced Diet	Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you	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.

History

Before Minecraft

Legend of the Chambered 2008 v1							The red apple appears in Notch's 2008 game Legend of the Chambered, using the same texture as would be later added to Minecraft.

Java Edition

Java Edition Indev
0.31			20091231-2147				Added apples.
							Because apples only have IDs based on the coordinates for items.png, apples don't function yet, but is added to the player's inventory during world creation.
			20100110				Apples now have a real item ID, and are now functional and are edible, restoring 4HP. They are intended to replace mushrooms, which were previously edible.
			20100128-2304				Apples are now used to craft arrows.
			20100129-1447				Apples are no longer used to craft arrows.
20100206-2034							Apples now use the texture of golden helmets.
Java Edition Infdev
February 23, 2010							At the bottom of a crafting guide they made, a player named JTE jokingly indicated that Notch dropped an apple when killed, and that apples could be crafted into something called a "golden apple" – this was a joke on the fact that apples were totally unobtainable.[3][4]
20100227-1414							Players named "Notch" now drop an apple when they die in addition to their inventory.
							Apples are now used to craft golden apples.
							Apples now correctly use the apple texture again.
20100327							With the addition of the respawn feature, apples have become legitimately obtainable in Survival and renewable for players named "Notch". This was never added to multiplayer.
Java Edition Beta
1.8			Pre-release				Apples can now be found in the new stronghold storeroom chests, making them obtainable in normal Survival gameplay for the first time.
							Apples now restore 4 () instead of 4HP.
							Apples are now stackable.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				Apples are now found in the new stronghold altar chests.
1.1			11w48a				Oak leaves now have a 1/200 chance of dropping an apple when destroyed, making apples fully renewable.
			12w01a				Apples are now found in the new village blacksmith chests.
1.3.1			12w16a				Apples can now be found in the new bonus chests.
			12w18a				"Notch" players no longer drop apples when they die.
			12w21a				Farmer villagers now sell 5 apples for 1 emerald.
							Apples are now used to craft enchanted golden apples.
1.4.2			12w37a				The apple's texture has been changed: the item sprite no longer has a dark outline and now has a more detailed look.
1.5			13w09b				The Fortune enchantment now increases the chance of dropping apples.
1.7.2			13w43a				Added dark oak leaves, which drop apples.
1.9			15w43a				Apples may now be found in igloo basement chests.
			15w44a				Average yield of apples has been slightly increased in bonus chests.
							Apples are no longer used to craft enchanted golden apples.
1.11			16w33a				Farmer villagers now sell 5–7 apples for 1 emerald.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of apples has been changed.
			18w48a				Apples can now be found in chests in plains village houses.
			19w03a				Placing an apple into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
			19w05a				Apples now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
			19w11a				Farmer villagers now sell 4 apples for 1 emerald.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0							Added apples.
v0.5.0							Apples now restore 4HP instead of 2HP.
v0.8.0			build 1				The apple's texture has been changed: the item sprite no longer has a dark outline and now has a more detailed look.
v0.12.1			build 1				Added apples to the Creative inventory.
							Apples are now stackable.
							Apples now restore 4 () instead of 4HP.
							The Fortune enchantment can now be used to increase chance of dropping apples.
							Apples can now be used to craft golden apples and enchanted golden apples.
v0.15.0			build 1				Apples can now be used to feed horses.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Apples can now be found inside igloo chests.
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0				Farmer villagers now sell 5-7 apples for 1 emerald.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0			beta 1.2.0.2				Apples can no longer be used to craft enchanted golden apples.
							Apples can now be found inside bonus chests.
1.7.0			beta 1.7.0.2				Apples can now be eaten in Creative mode and on Peaceful difficulty.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Apples can now be found in plains village weaponsmith chests and plains house chests.
							The texture of apples has been changed.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Apples can now be found in desert, savanna, taiga and snowy taiga village weaponsmith chests.
							Apples can now be used to fill up composters.
			beta 1.11.0.4				Farmer villagers now sell 4 apples as part of their second tier trades.
1.20.50			Preview 1.20.50.20				Walking speed while eating apple has been changed; the walking animation is now normal speed.
1.20.60			Preview 1.20.60.20				Walking speed while eating apple changes from 1.20.50 has been reverted.[5]

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added apples.
TU5							Apples now drop from leaves.
							Apples are now stackable.
							Apples now restore 4 () instead of 4HP.
TU6							Apples can now be used to craft golden apples.
TU12							The apple's texture has been changed: the item sprite no longer has a dark outline and now has a more detailed look.
TU14		1.04					Apples can now be used to craft enchanted golden apples using eight blocks of gold.
							Farmer villagers now sell apples for 1 emerald.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Apples may now be found in igloo basement chests.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Farmer villagers now sell 5–7 apples for 1 emerald.
			1.90				The texture of apples has been changed.
			1.91				Farmer villagers now sell 4 apples as part of their second tier trades.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added apples.

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Apple" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• Prior to the texture update in Java Edition 1.4.2, the sprite of the apple was the same one used in Notch's game Legend of the Chambered.

Gallery

Screenshots

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  Some apples found in a stronghold chest
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  An apple that dropped from decaying leaves
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  Obtaining apples via villager trading
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  Unused Texture Update apple shown in a Jappa screenshot

In other media

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  Artwork of an apple created for Minecraft Education
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  The Candy Apple, an item featured in the Trails & Tales Event
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  Several apples in A Minecraft Movie Live Event
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  An apple as it appeared in Minecraft: Story Mode
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  An apple as it appeared in Minecraft Earth
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  Apples in A Minecraft Movie
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  An apple as it appears in Happy Meal Digital
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  An apple as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons

References

External links

• "Taking Inventory: Apple" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, November 23, 2018.