Bowls are containers that can hold certain foods.
Obtaining
Crafting
Fishing
Bowls are obtainable through fishing, with a 1% chance per attempt. See fishing for more details.
Mob loot
When an adult turtle is killed by a lightning bolt, it drops 1 bowl.[1][2]
- ↑ Only when killed by lightning. In Java Edition, the tick after the turtle has been killed, the items get destroyed by the lightning bolt if they are within 3 blocks.
- ↑ Only when killed by lightning. In Java Edition, the tick after the turtle has been killed, the items get destroyed by the lightning bolt if they are within 3 blocks.
Generated loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition and Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Barrel | 1–2 | 35.5%{ "item": "Bowl", "stacksize": "1–2", "chance": 0.35542388369628897, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Barrel" }
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Eating
A bowl containing food (see below) becomes an empty bowl when the food is eaten.
Usage
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beetroot Soup | Beetroot + Bowl |
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| Mushroom Stew | Red Mushroom or Brown Mushroom or Shelf Mushroom + Bowl |
Any combination of brown, red, or shelf mushrooms can be used. | |
| Rabbit Stew | Cooked Rabbit + Carrot + Baked Potato + Any Mushroom + Bowl |
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| Suspicious Stew | Red Mushroom or Brown Mushroom or Shelf Mushroom + Bowl + Any Small Flower |
Any combination of brown, red, or shelf mushrooms can be used. |
Mooshrooms
Using a bowl on a red mooshroom or brown mooshroom turns the bowl into mushroom stew or suspicious stew, respectively. The stew can then be consumed immediately and the process repeated, making this an excellent way to quickly restore depleted hunger and saturation with almost no cost or effort.
Fuel
Bowls can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.5 items per bowl in Java Edition, and 1 item per bowl in Bedrock Edition.
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
bowl | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
bowl | 321 | Item | item |
History
Java Edition
| Java Edition Indev | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.31 | 20100129-2332 | ||||||
| Bowls are used to craft mushroom soup. | |||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease | Added mooshrooms, which can be milked with a bowl. | |||||
| 1.2.4 | release | Spruce planks, birch planks, and jungle planks can now be used to craft bowls. | |||||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | Bowls can now be obtained as one of the "junk" items by fishing. | |||||
| 1.7.1 | Acacia planks and dark oak planks can now be used to craft bowls. | ||||||
| 1.8 | 14w27a | Bowls are now used to craft rabbit stew. | |||||
| 1.9 | 15w31a | Bowls are now used to craft beetroot soup. | |||||
| 1.11 | 16w33a | Bowls can now be used to fuel furnaces. | |||||
| 1.13 | 18w07a | Turtles drop 0 to 1 bowl if killed by lightning.[1] | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||||
| Bowls are now used to craft suspicious stew. | |||||||
| 1.16 | 20w06a | Crimson planks and warped planks can now be used to craft bowls. | |||||
| 1.19 | 22w11a | Mangrove planks can now be used to craft bowls. | |||||
| 1.19.3 Experiment | 22w42a | Bamboo planks can now be used to craft bowls. | |||||
| 1.19.4 Experiment | 23w07a | Cherry planks can now be used to craft bowls. | |||||
| 1.21.2 Experiment | 24w40a | Pale oak planks can now be used to craft bowls. | |||||
| 26.3 | snap1 | Poplar planks can now be used to craft bowls. | |||||
| Bowls can now generate as part of abandoned camps in barrels. | |||||||
Bedrock Edition
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.2.0 | |||||||
| v0.3.0 | Bowls are now craftable. They still serve no purpose. | ||||||
| v0.4.0 | Bowls are now used to craft mushroom stew. | ||||||
| v0.5.0 | Bowls now appear in the nether reactor. | ||||||
| v0.8.0 | build 2 | Bowls are now used to craft beetroot soup. | |||||
| build 7 | Bowls can now be used as fuel in a furnace. | ||||||
| v0.9.0 | build 1 | Added bowls to creative mode. | |||||
| Mooshrooms can now be "milked" to obtain mushroom stew. | |||||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Bowls are no longer available from the nether reactor. | |||||
| v0.13.0 | build 1 | Bowls are now used to craft rabbit stew. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||||
| 1.13.0 | beta 1.13.0.9 | Bowls can now be used to craft suspicious stew. | |||||
| 26.40 Experiment | Preview 26.40.27 | Bowls can now generate as part of abandoned camps in barrels. | |||||
| 26.50 | Preview 26.50.22 | All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented. | |||||
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 | |
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Bowls can now be obtained as one of the "junk" items by fishing. | |
| Bowls are now used to craft rabbit stew. | |||||||
| TU43 | CU33 | 1.36 | 1.36 | 1.36 | Patch 13 | Bowls are now used to craft beetroot soup. | |
| TU53 | CU43 | 1.49 | 1.50 | 1.49 | Patch 23 | 1.0.3 | Bowls can now be used to fuel furnaces. |
| 1.90 | |||||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1.0 | |||||||
Data history
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 281. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Bowl" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Trivia
- in Bedrock Edition, bowls are actually more fuel efficient than sticks. If 6 wood planks are crafted into 8 bowls, 8 items can be smelted; but if those are crafted into 12 sticks, only 6 items can be smelted. This can be useful when the player only has access to Nether wood types, which cannot be used as fuel.
Gallery
In other media
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A bowl as depicted on Minecoin gift cards -

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A bowl as it appeared in Minecraft Earth
See also
References
- ↑ a b "[MC-125562] Turtles drop bowls when killed by lightning – Jira" – Mojira, February 16, 2018. Resolved as "Works as intended".
- ↑ "[MCPE-57038] Turtles killed by lightning drop Bowls. – Jira" – Mojira, November 17, 2019. Resolved as "Works as intended".
External links
- "Taking Inventory: Bowl" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, April 25, 2019.








