Beetroot
This article is about the basic food item. For the seeds, see Beetroot Seeds. For the soup, see Beetroot Soup.Beetroots are a food and dye ingredient.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Beetroots are obtained from harvesting a fully grown crop block, which drops the crop and seeds (not every harvest yields seeds). These crops can be found growing in villages or can be grown from planted beetroot seeds.
Usage[edit]
Food[edit]
Beetroots can be eaten to restore 1 (
) hunger and 1.2 hunger saturation.
Breeding[edit]
Beetroots can be used to breed pigs. Pigs also follow a player who is holding beetroot.
Villagers can pick up beetroot items to become willing, allowing them to breed. Villagers need 12 beetroots before they can breed.
Crafting ingredient[edit]
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Beetroot Soup | Beetroot + Bowl |
|
| Red Dye | Beetroot |
Composting[edit]
Placing beetroot into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
Trading[edit]
Novice-level Farmer villagers have a 25%[Bedrock Edition only] or 40%[Java Edition only] chance to buy 15 beetroot for an emerald.
Sounds[edit]
| Sound | Subtitle | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eating | ? | Eating one single food | entity.generic.eat | subtitles.entity.generic.eat | ? | ? | ? | |
| Burp | ? | Eating a singular food | entity.generic.burp | subtitles.entity.generic.burp | ? | ? | ? | |
| Gear equipped | Players | Sometimes when eating in survival[until JE 1.16.2] See MC-97507 | item.armor.equip_generic | subtitles.item.armor.equip | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 |
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
| Name | Namespaced ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Beetroot | beetroot | item.minecraft.beetroot |
| Name | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beetroot | beetroot | 457 | item.beetroot.name |
Advancements[edit]
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Namespaced ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| Husbandry | The world is full of friends and food | — | Eat anything that can be eaten. | 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 39 foods. Other foods, if any, can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement. | husbandry/balanced_diet |
History[edit]
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.9 | 15w31a |  Beetroots have been added, along with seeds and soup variants. Beetroot can also be used to craft rose red dye. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 434. | |||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  The texture of beetroot has been changed. | |||
| 19w03a | Placing beetroot into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1. | ||||
| 19w05a | Beetroot now has a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| November 13, 2013 | Jeb announces on Instagram that Johan Bernhardsson is working on a surprise feature for 0.8.0 alongside a picture of the player holding beetroot. | ||||
| November 14, 2013 | Johan posts another image of beetroot, confirming that the image previously posted by Jeb was indeed beetroot. | ||||
| 0.8.0 | build 2 | Added beetroots. | |||
| 0.9.0 | build 1 | Beetroot can now be used to lead and breed pigs. | |||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | Beetroot now restore hunger, rather than health. | |||
| Beetroot can now generate in villages as crops. | |||||
| 0.16.0 | build 1 | Beetroot can now be used to craft rose red dye. | |||
| 0.16.2 | Beetroot can now be found in chests inside large houses in snowy taiga and snowy tundra villages. | ||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.4 | alpha 1.0.4.0 | Villagers can now can pick up beetroot to become willing. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | The texture of beetroot has been changed. | |||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Beetroot can now be used to fill up composters. | |||
| beta 1.11.0.4 | Beetroot can now be sold to farmer villagers. | ||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU43 | CU33 | 1.36 | Patch 13 | 1.0.1 | Added beetroots. |
| 1.90 | The texture of beetroot has been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added beetroots. | ||||
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Beetroot" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery[edit]
The image released by Johan Bernhardsson on Twitter.
Pigs following the player.
A beetroot garden.
Beetroots generated in a village.
References[edit]
