Carrot

Carrot

Type	Food
Restores	3 ()
Cookable	No
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Data values	See § Data values
Name	See § Data values

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.

Carrots must be directly planted on the top of a farmland block; unlike most blocks, targeting the side of a block which would result in it being placed in top of farmland will not allow it to be placed.

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

Zombies have a 0.8% chance to 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 50.7% of shipwreck supply chests in stacks of 4–8. In 1.14‌^[upcoming] they can be found in 44.9% of shipwreck supply chests in stacks of 4–8, and in 57.5% of pillager outpost chests in stacks of 3–5.

In Bedrock Edition, they can be found in 81.7% of village two-room house chests in stacks of 4–8, and in 50.0% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–2.

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 or Damaged Fishing Rod + Carrot		The fishing rod must not be damaged to craft the carrot on a stick.‌[Bedrock and Legacy Console editions only]
Golden Carrot	Gold Nugget + Carrot
Rabbit Stew	Cooked Rabbit + Carrot + Baked Potato + Any Mushroom + Bowl

Composting

Placing a carrot into a composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.‌^{[upcoming 1.14]}

Data values

ID

Carrot	Name ID	Numeric ID ‌[BE only]
Block	carrots	141
Item	carrot	391

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, carrots use the following data values:

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

Block states

See also: Block states

Name	Value	Description
age	0 1
	2 3
	4 5 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 36 foods. Other foods, like cake, 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

Java Edition
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 can now be 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 will now only grow carrots by 1 stage instead of fully growing it. The [player]] might not see it grow, because some stages look the same.
1.8			14w02a		Carrots 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		The carrot crop block has been removed from the game. It can no longer exist in inventories, only as a block in the world.
			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.
1.13			17w47a		Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 141, and the item's 391.
			18w11a		Carrots can now generate in the chests of shipwrecks.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.14			18w47a		Carrots can now generate in the chests of Pillager outposts.
			19w03a		Added placement and breaking sounds to carrots.
					Placing a carrot into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.8.0			build 2		Carrots can now be obtained by killing zombies.
			build 3		Carrots now has a chance to drop when tilling grass blocks.
			build 4		Carrots 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.
					Brown robed villagers can harvest fully grown carrot crops.
					Carrots can be used to craft golden carrots.
0.13.0			build 1		Carrot can be used to breed rabbits.
					Carrots can now be used to craft rabbit stew.
0.15.0			build 1		Carrots are now used to craft carrot on a stick.
0.16.2					Carrots can be found in a chest inside the large house in snowy tundra and snowy taiga villages.
Pocket Edition
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0		Farmer villagers now buy 15–19 carrots for 1 emerald.
					Carrot can be pick up by villager and become willing.
Bedrock Edition
1.2			beta 1.2.0.2		Carrots can now be found inside of bonus chests.
1.4			beta 1.2.14.2		Carrots can now be found inside shipwreck chests.
Legacy Console Edition
TU14	CU1	1.04	Patch 1		Added carrots.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added Carrots.

Issues

Issues relating to "Carrot" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

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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