Rotten flesh is a food item that can be eaten by the player, at the high risk of inflicting Hunger.
Obtaining[]
Mob loot[]
Zombies[]
Zombies, zombie villagers, zombie horses, husks, and drowned drop from 0 to 2 units of rotten flesh. Looting can increase this by one per level, for a maximum of 5 rotten flesh.
Zoglins[]
Zoglins drop 1-3. Looting III grants a maximum of 6.
Zombified piglins[]
Zombified piglins drop 0-1. Looting III grants a maximum of 4.
Fishing[]
Rotten flesh can be obtained as a "junk" item while fishing.
Chest loot[]
| Rotten Flesh | Dungeon | Chest | 1–8 | 57.8% |
| Desert temple | Chest | 3–7 | 28.7% | |
| Chest | 1–8 | 59% | ||
| Igloo | Chest | 1 | 55.3% | |
| Jungle temple | Chest | 3–7 | 53.4% | |
| Shipwreck | Supply chest | 5–24 | 32.2% | |
| Underwater ruins | Small ruins chest | 1 | 59.6% | |
| Village | Temple chest | 1–4 | 89.3% | |
| Woodland mansion | Chest | 1–8 | 57.8% | |
| Rotten Flesh | Dungeon | Chest | 1–8 | 57.8% |
| Desert temple | Chest | 3–7 | 28.7% | |
| Chest | 1–8 | 59% | ||
| Igloo | Chest | 1 | 55.3% | |
| Jungle temple | Chest | 3–7 | 53.3% | |
| Shipwreck | Supply chest | 5–24 | 32.2% | |
| Underwater ruins | Small ruins chest | 1 | 59.6% | |
| Village | Temple chest | 1–4 | 89.3% | |
| Woodland mansion | Chest | 1–8 | 57.8% |
Cat gifts[]
Tamed cats have a 70% chance of giving the player a gift when they wake up from a bed, and the gift has a 16.13% chance to be a rotten flesh.
Usage[]
Food[]
To eat rotten flesh, press and hold use while rotten flesh is selected in the hotbar.
Eating rotten flesh restores 4
() hunger and 0.8 hunger saturation, but has an 80%
chance of inflicting Hunger (effect) for 30 seconds. Note that the duration does not accumulate when eating multiple pieces. However, if more is consumed and the Hunger status effect is inflicted, the duration resets to 30 seconds.
Wolves[]
Rotten flesh 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.
Wolves are immune to the Hunger effect.
Trading[]
Novice-level cleric villagers buy 32 rotten flesh for 1 emerald as part of their trades.
Sounds[]
Java Edition:
| //minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Eat1.ogg | Eating | Players | While a player is eating something | entity.generic.eat | subtitles.entity.generic.eat | ? | ? | ? |
| //minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Burp.ogg | Burp | Players | After a player eats something | entity.player.burp | subtitles.entity.player.burp | ? | ? | ? |
Bedrock Edition:[more information needed]
Data values[]
ID[]
Java Edition:
| Rotten Flesh | rotten_flesh | Item | item.minecraft.rotten_flesh |
Bedrock Edition:
| Rotten Flesh | rotten_flesh | 277 | Item | item.rotten_flesh.name |
Achievements[]
| Iron Belly | Stop starvation using Rotten Flesh. | Eat a piece of rotten flesh while starving (zero hunger points). | 20G | Bronze |
Advancements[]
| Husbandry | The world is full of friends and food | — | Consume anything that can be consumed. | husbandry/root | |
| A Balanced Diet | Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you | A Seedy Place | Eat each of these 40 foods:
| husbandry/balanced_diet |
Video[]
Note: The video is outdated, as rotten flesh can now be also gained from fishing, trading, or loot chests.History[]
| Zombies and zombie pigmen now drop rotten flesh instead of feathers and cooked porkchops respectively. |
| Food poisoning can now be stopped by drinking milk. |
| Rotten flesh can now be used to breed wolves. When a wolf eats rotten flesh, it will not receive the Hunger effect. |
| Rotten flesh can now be found in desert temple chests. |
| Priest villagers now buy rotten flesh. |
| Rotten flesh now generates in jungle temple chests. |
| Priest villagers no longer buy rotten flesh. |
| Rotten flesh can now be obtained as one of the "junk" items from fishing. |
| Cleric villagers now buy 36–40 rotten flesh for 1 emerald, as their tier I trade. |
| Rotten flesh may now be found in igloo basement chests. |
| Rotten flesh now generates in dungeon chests. |
| The average yield of rotten flesh has been decreased in desert temple chests. |
| Rotten flesh can now be found in woodland mansion chests. |
| Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 367. |
| Rotten flesh now generates in the loot chests of underwater ruins. |
| Drowned may now drop rotten flesh upon death. |
| Rotten flesh now sometimes generates in shipwreck chests. |
| Cats now offer rotten flesh as gifts. |
| Rotten flesh can now be found in village temple chests. |
| Added hoglins, which can drop rotten flesh if killed. |
| Rotten flesh has a 10⁄109 (~9.17%) chance of being given by the new piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 4–12. |
| Hoglins no longer drop rotten flesh. |
| Rotten flesh can no longer be obtained by bartering with piglins. |
| Added zoglins, which drop rotten flesh when killed. |
| As the hunger bar has not yet been added, rotten flesh inflicts poison rather than hunger. |
| Zombies and zombie pigmen now drop rotten flesh. |
| Rotten flesh can now be used to feed wolves. |
| Eating rotten flesh now gives the player the Hunger status effect. |
| Rotten flesh now restores hunger instead of health. |
| Added zombie villagers, which drop rotten flesh when killed. |
| Rotten flesh can now be found inside desert temple chests. |
| Added husks and zombie horses, both of which drop rotten flesh when killed. |
| Rotten flesh can now be found inside jungle temple chests. |
| Rotten flesh can now be found inside the basement chests of igloos. |
| 36-40 rotten flesh can now be sold to cleric villagers. |
| Rotten flesh can now be found in woodland mansion chests. |
| Added drowned, which drop rotten flesh when killed. |
| Rotten flesh can now be found in some shipwreck chests. |
| Rotten flesh can now be found inside underwater ruins chests. |
| Tamed cats can now give the player rotten flesh as a gift. |
| Rotten flesh can now be found in desert village temple chests. |
| Trading has been changed, cleric villagers now buy 32 rotten flesh for an emerald. |
Issues[]
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Rotten flesh is a food item that can be eaten by the player, at the high risk of inflicting Hunger.
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Can you trade rotten flesh to villagers?
Rotten Flesh can also be used for trading with Novice level cleric villagers. In exchange for 32 Rotten Flesh, they offer one emerald in return.