Cooked Chicken

| Other names | Roast Chicken (GB) (NZ) |
|---|---|
| Rarity tier | Common |
| Consumption time | 32 game ticks (1.6 seconds) |
| Hunger | 6 () |
| Saturation | 7.2 () |
| Saturation boost[JE only] | Heals: 4.8HP × 2.4 Duration: 2.4 seconds |
| Always consumable | No |
| Renewable | Yes |
| Stackable | Yes (64) |
Cooked chicken[a] is a food item that is obtained by cooking raw chicken.
Obtaining
Mob loot
- ↑ Only when on fire or killed with a weapon enchanted with Fire Aspect.
- ↑ Only when on fire.
Generated loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition and Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Trial spawner | 1 | 15%{ "item": "Cooked Chicken", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.15000000000000002, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Trial spawner" }
| ||
Cooking
| Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|
| Raw Chicken + Any fuel |
Trading
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | Trades in stock | Villager experience | Price multiplier | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | |||||||
| 67% | 50% | 8 × | 16 | 5 | 0.05 | |||
Villager gifts
In Java Edition, butcher villagers may give cooked chicken to players with the Hero of the Village effect.
Usage
Food
To eat cooked chicken, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores 6 () hunger and 7.2 hunger saturation.
Wolves
Cooked chicken can be used to breed and heal tamed wolves, lead them around, and make baby tamed wolves grow up faster by 10% of the remaining time.
Sounds
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Eating | Players | While a player is eating something | entity | subtitles | varies[sound 1] | 0.8–1.2 | 16 | |
| Eating | Friendly Mobs | When a player finishes eating something | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.6–1.4 | 16 | |
| Burp[until: JE 26.4] | Players | When a player finishes eating something | entity | subtitles | 0.5 | 0.9–1.0 | 16 | |
- ↑ Can be 0.5, 1.0, or 1.5
| Sounds | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch |
| Eating | Players | While a player is eating something | random | subtitles | 0.5–1.1 | 0.8–1.2 | |
| Burp | Players | When a player finishes eating something | random | subtitles | 0.5 | 0.9–1.0 | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
cooked_chicken | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
cooked_chicken | 276 | Item | item |
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:
|
Videos
History
Teaser
| July 19, 2011 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 21, 2011 | |||||||
Java Edition
| Java Edition Beta | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | Pre-release | ||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.2.1 | 12w03a | Cooked chicken can now be used to breed wolves. | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Farmer villagers now sell 7–8 cooked chicken for 1 emerald. | |||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w37a | ||||||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Butcher villagers now sell 6–8 cooked chicken for 1 emerald. Farmer villagers no longer sell cooked chicken. | |||||
| 1.9 | 15w43a | Chickens can now drop several cooked chickens if killed with a Looting-enchanted weapon. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||||
| 19w11a | Butcher villagers now sell 8 cooked chicken for 1 emerald. | ||||||
| 19w13a | Butcher villagers now give cooked chicken to players under the Hero of the Village effect. | ||||||
| 1.20.5 Experiment | 24w13a | Cooked chicken can now be ejected as loot from trial spawners. | |||||
Bedrock Edition
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.4.0 | |||||||
| v0.5.0 | Cooked chicken now restores 6HP instead of 3HP. | ||||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | ||||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Cooked chicken now restores hunger instead of health. | |||||
| Chickens can now drop several cooked chickens if killed with a Looting-enchanted weapon. | |||||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.4 | alpha 1.0.4.0 | Butcher villagers now sell 6–8 cooked chicken for 1 emerald. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.7.0 | beta 1.7.0.2 | Cooked chicken can now be eaten in Creative mode and on Peaceful difficulty. | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Trading has been changed, butcher villagers now have a 25% chance to sell 4 cooked chicken as part of their second-tier trade. | |||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Trading has been changed, apprentice butcher villagers now have a 25% chance to sell 8 cooked chicken instead of 4. | |||||
| 1.21.0 Experiment | Preview 1.21.0.20 | Cooked chicken can now be ejected as loot from trial spawners. | |||||
Legacy Console Edition
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU5 | CU1 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| TU12 | |||||||
| TU14 | 1.04 | Farmer villagers now sell 7–8 cooked chicken for 1 emerald. | |||||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Butcher villagers now sell 6–8 cooked chicken for 1 emerald. Farmer villagers no longer sell cooked chicken. | |
| 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 366. | |||||
Texture history
| Texture | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edition | shown | shown | since | since | since |
| Java Edition | July 19, 2011[1] | July 21, 2011[3] | Beta 1.8 pre-release | Java Edition 1.4.2 (12w37a) | Java Edition 1.14 (18w43a) |
| September 9, 2011 | September 9, 2012 | October 24, 2018 | |||
| Bedrock Edition | – | – | v0.4.0 | v0.8.0 build 1 | beta 1.10.0.3 |
| September 6, 2012 | November 18, 2013 | January 30, 2019 | |||
| Xbox 360 Edition | – | – | TU5 | TU12 | – |
| November 16, 2012 | July 23, 2013 | ||||
| Xbox One Edition | – | – | – | CU1 | – |
| September 5, 2014 | |||||
| PS3 Edition | – | – | – | 1.00 | – |
| December 17, 2013 | |||||
| PS4 Edition | – | – | – | 1.00 | 1.90 |
| September 4, 2014 | April 15, 2019 | ||||
| PS Vita Edition | – | – | – | 1.00 | – |
| October 14, 2014 | |||||
| Wii U Edition | – | – | – | Patch 1 | – |
| December 17, 2015 | |||||
| Nintendo Switch Edition | – | – | – | 1.0.1 | – |
| May 11, 2017 | |||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Editon | – | – | – | 0.1.0 | – |
| September 13, 2017 |
Issues
Issues relating to "Cooked Chicken" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Gallery
Mojang screenshots
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First image of cooked chicken -
Second image of cooked chicken -
A full row of cooked chicken in Ari’s inventory
In other media
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A cooked chicken in A Minecraft Movie -
Cooked Chicken as it appears in Minecraft Earth
Notes
- ↑ Also known as roast chicken in New Zealand English.
References
- ↑ "As you say, the chicken may be too smooth compared to other MC items. Thanks for the C&C!" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), July 19, 2011









