Carrot

Carrot

Type	Food
Restores	3 ()
Cookable	No
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
First appearances	See History
Data values	Block dec: 141 hex: 8D bin: 10001101 Item dec: 391 hex: 187 bin: 110000111
Name	Block carrots Item carrot

This article is about the natural food item. For the more valuable food, see Golden Carrot. For the item used to control saddled pigs, see Carrot on a Stick.

A carrot is a food item that can be eaten by the player.

Obtaining

Farming

See also: Crop farming

Carrots can be farmed and harvested on farmland. Planted carrots take 8 stages to grow, and go through 4 visually distinct stages. Mature carrot crops drop 1 to 4 carrots (about 2 ⁵⁄₇ per crop harvested on average). Bone meal can be used on carrots. Using a tool enchanted with fortune increases the maximum number of carrots dropped by 1 per level.

Villager farmers will break fully grown carrots, and may pick up the carrots as well.

Rabbits will find and eat carrot crops, decreasing its growth stage by 1. The crops when eaten will not drop any carrots.

Zombies

Rarely, zombies may drop a carrot when killed by the player.

Natural generation

Village farm plots have a 20% chance of being carrots.

Carrots can be found in 82.0% of village two-room house chests in stacks of 4–8.^{[Pocket Edition only]}

Usage

See also: Hunger management

To eat a carrot, press and hold use while the carrot is selected in the hotbar. Eating a carrot restores 3 () hunger and 3.6 hunger saturation.

Breeding

Carrots can also be used to breed and attract pigs and rabbits.

Villagers can pick up carrot items to become willing, which will allow them to breed. Villagers require 12 carrots to become willing.

Trading

Villager farmers will buy 15-19 carrots for an emerald as one of their initial tier trades.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Carrot on a Stick	Fishing Rod + Carrot		The fishing rod must not be damaged to craft the carrot on a stick.
Golden Carrot	Gold Nugget + Carrot
Rabbit Stew	Cooked Rabbit + Carrot + Baked Potato + Any Mushroom + Bowl

Data values

ID

Carrot	ID Name	Numerical ID
Block	carrot	141
Item	carrots	391

Block data

See also: Data values

Icon	Value
	0, 1
	2, 3
	4, 5, 6
	7

Block state

See also: Block states

Name	Value	Description
age	0–1
	2–3
	4–6
	7	Fully-grown.

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Internal ID
	Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	—	Eat anything that can be eaten.	minecraft: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 35 foods. Other foods, if any, are ignored for the advancement.	minecraft:husbandry/balanced_diet

Video

Note: this video is outdated; it does not mention that carrots can be used to breed rabbits. Also, carrots no longer restore 4 () hunger points.

History

Official release
1.4.2			12w34a		Added carrots. They could only be obtained as a rare drop from zombies.
			August 28, 2012		Dinnerbone released an image of a saddled pig being controlled with a carrot on a stick. Wheat was considered as a "fuel" along with carrots, but Dinnerbone eventually decided on carrots.
			12w34a		Carrots are now used to craft golden carrots.
			12w36a		Carrots can now be found in villages.
					Carrots are now used to breed pigs.
					Carrots are now used to craft carrot on a stick.
			12w37a		Carrots changed to singular carrot, with the tooltip changed to reflect this. Carrot texture also changed, so that the item sprite now only shows 1 carrot.
1.5			13w04a		Bone meal only grows carrots by 1 stage instead of fully growing it. You might not see it grow, because some stages look the same.
1.8			14w02a		Now restore 3 () points instead of 4 ().
					Farmer villagers now buy 15–19 carrots for 1 emerald.
			14w04a		Farmer (profession) villagers now harvest fully grown carrots.
					Villagers can be made willing using 12 carrots.
			14w25a		Carrot crop block was removed from the /give command.
			14w27a		Added rabbits, which can be bred and/or tamed using carrots. Rabbits also grief carrot crops.
					Carrots are now used to craft rabbit stew.
			14w34a		Rabbits can no longer be tamed.
1.9			15w38a		Slightly improved drop chances from average 2 3⁄5 per crop harvested to 2 5⁄7.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.8.0			build 2		Carrots can now be obtained by killing Zombies.
			build 3		Now has a chance to drop when tilling grass blocks.
			build 4		Are no longer dropped by tilling grass blocks.
0.9.0			build 1		Carrot crops now naturally spawn in villages.
					Carrot now used to breed pigs.
0.12.1			build 1		Carrots now restore hunger instead of health.
					Farmer (profession) Villagers can harvest fully grown carrot crops.
					Carrot can be used to craft golden carrot.
0.13.0			build 1		Carrot can be used to breed rabbits.
					Carrot can be used to craft rabbit stew.
0.15.0			build 1		Carrots are now used to craft carrot on a stick.
0.16.2					Carrot can be found in chest inside large house in Ice Plains and Cold Taiga village.
Console Edition
TU14	CU1	1.04	Patch 1		Added carrots.

Issues

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Gallery

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  All the seeds that exist in the game (except nether wart and cocoa beans).

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  Carrots and potatoes found growing naturally in a village.

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  First image released by Dinnerbone of pigs being controlled with a Carrot on a Stick

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  Carrots in multiple stages of growth.

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  A carrot that dropped from a zombie, just to the right of the spawner.

References

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