Golden Apple

Golden Apple

Rarity	Golden Apple Rare Enchanted Golden Apple Epic
Restores	Golden Apple 4 () Absorption (2:00) Regeneration II (0:05) Enchanted Golden Apple 4 () Absorption IV (2:00) Regeneration II (0:20)‌[JE only]/V (0:30)‌[BE only] Fire Resistance (5:00) Resistance (5:00)
Renewable	Golden Apple Yes Enchanted Golden Apple No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Data values	Golden Apple dec: 322 hex: 142 bin: 101000010 Enchanted Golden Apple dec: 466 hex: 1D2 bin: 111010010

The golden apple is a special food item that bestows beneficial effects.

The enchanted golden apple is a rare variant of the golden apple that has stronger effects.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Gold Ingot + Apple

Natural generation

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Golden Apple	Dungeon	Chest	1	21.8%
	Mineshaft	Chest	1	28.2%
	Desert temple	Chest	1	23.5%
	Igloo	Chest	1	100%
	Ruined portal	Chest	1	20.5%
	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	2.5%
	Underwater ruins	Big ruins chest	1	4.3%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	21.8%
Bedrock Edition
Golden Apple	Dungeon	Chest	1	21.8%
	Mineshaft	Chest	1	28.2%
	Desert temple	Chest	1	23.5%
	Igloo	Chest	1	100%
	Ruined portal	Chest	1	20.5%
	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	2.4%
	Underwater ruins	Big ruins chest	1	4.3%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	21.5%

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Enchanted Golden Apple	Dungeon	Chest	1	3.1%
	Mineshaft	Chest	1	1.4%
	Desert temple	Chest	1	2.6%
	Ruined portal	Chest	1	1.5%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	3.1%
Bedrock Edition
Enchanted Golden Apple	Dungeon	Chest	1	3.1%
	Mineshaft	Chest	1	1.4%
	Desert temple	Chest	1	2.6%
	Ruined portal	Chest	1	1.5%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	3.1%

Despite the fact that the chance of finding one in a Mineshaft chest is the lowest, it is typically the best place to search simply because it tends to have more chests than the other structures.

Usage

See also: Hunger management

To eat a golden apple or an enchanted golden apple, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Both restore 4 () points of hunger and 9.6 hunger saturation.

The golden apple provides:

• Absorption I for 2 minutes (providing 4 points of absorption health)
• Regeneration II (1 every 25 ticks, × 0.4 per second) for 5 seconds (long enough to heal 4 points of damage).

The enchanted golden apple provides:

• Absorption IV for 2 minutes (providing 16 × 8 points of absorption health)
• Regeneration level II in Java Edition or V in Bedrock Edition for 30 seconds (in Java Edition, 1 is restored every 25 ticks, × 0.4 per second) for 20 seconds (long enough to heal 16 × 8 points of damage; in Bedrock Edition, 1 is restored every 6 ticks, × 1.66 per second)
• Fire Resistance I for 5 minutes
• Resistance I (20% reduced damage from all sources except the void) for 5 minutes

Golden apples and enchanted golden apples can be eaten even when the player's hunger bar is full.

Curing zombie villagers

Main article: Zombie Villager § Curing

A golden apple and a potion of Weakness can be used to convert a zombie villager into a regular villager.

Horses

Golden apples and enchanted golden apples can be used to improve the chances of taming a horse by 10%, for breeding horses and for speeding up the growth of baby horses by 4 minutes.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Banner Pattern Thing	Paper + Enchanted Golden Apple

Sounds

Java Edition:

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

ID

Java Edition:

Item	Namespaced ID
Golden Apple	golden_apple
Enchanted Golden Apple	enchanted_golden_apple

Bedrock Edition:

Item	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Golden Apple	golden_apple	322
Enchanted Apple	appleenchanted	466

Achievements

Main article: Achievement

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
	Overpowered	Eat an Enchanted Apple	Eat an enchanted golden apple.	30G	Silver
	Zombie Doctor	Cure a zombie villager.	Throw a splash potion of weakness at a zombie villager and give it a golden apple (by facing the zombie and pressing the use key with a golden apple in your hand)	40G	Gold
	Artificial Selection	Breed a mule from a horse and a donkey.	—	30G	Bronze
	Fruit on the Loom	Make a banner using an Enchanted Apple Stencil	Make a banner using an enchanted apple.	20G	Bronze
	Oooh, shiny!	Distract a Piglin using gold.	Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player.	30G	Silver

Advancements

Main article: Advancement

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	Zombie Doctor	Weaken and then cure a Zombie Villager	We Need to Go Deeper	Throw a splash potion of Weakness at a zombie villager and give it a golden apple (by facing the zombie and pressing the use key with a golden apple in your hand), then wait for the villager to be cured.	story/cure_zombie_villager
	Oh Shiny	Distract Piglins with gold	Nether	Give a piglin one of these 22 gold-related items while it is aggressive toward the player. Other gold-related items, if any, may be used, but are ignored for this advancement and by the piglin.	nether/distract_piglin
	A Furious Cocktail	Have every potion effect applied at the same time	Local Brewery	Have all of these 13 potion effects applied to the player at the same time. Beacon effects also count for the purposes of this advancement. Other potion effects, if any, may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement.	nether/all_potions
	How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	A Furious Cocktail	Have all of these 26 effects applied to the player at the same time. Other status effects, if any, may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it.	nether/all_effects
	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

Java Edition Infdev
February 23, 2010					A player named JTE put a crafting recipe for golden apples as a joke at the bottom of a crafting guide she made. The recipe used gold ingots instead of gold blocks.
20100227					Added golden apples.
					Golden apples heal a full 20 × 10 health points, making them the best food in the entire game.
					Golden apples are crafted with an apple and eight blocks of gold.
20100625-2					Golden apples can now be rarely found in dungeons.
Java Edition Beta
1.8		Pre-release			Due to the addition of hunger, golden apples have now been changed so that they restore 10 (), instead of 20 × 10 health points, but also give Regeneration for 30 seconds.
Java Edition
1.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2			Golden apples have now been given 'glint' (animated purple glow) when viewed from the player's inventory, and its tooltip has now changed from the standard white to a magenta color.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3			Golden apples can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests.
1.1		11w48a			Golden apples are now easier to craft. Standard apples are now able to very rarely drop from oak leaves, meaning that players no longer have to venture into strongholds/dungeons to find one.
		release			Golden apples have now been changed, so that they now restore 4 () and give only 4 seconds of Regeneration.
					The crafting recipe of golden apples has now been modified, requiring 8 gold nuggets instead of 8 blocks of gold to craft. Although its natural spawn is rare, it is easier to obtain through crafting.
1.3.1		12w21a			Added enchanted golden apples.
					Enchanted golden apples highly resemble the golden apple prior to 1.1.
					Enchanted golden apples have Regeneration IV (30 seconds), Resistance (5 minutes) and Fire Resistance (5 minutes).
					Enchanted golden apples can be crafted with 8 blocks of gold and one apple.
					Enchanted golden apples shine like an enchanted item and have a purple tooltip while the standard golden apple's tooltip changed to blue. However, the standard golden apple's effects remain unchanged.
1.4.2		12w32a			Golden apples can now be fed to a zombie villager with the Weakness debuff causing them to revert to villagers after a delay of about 3 minutes.
1.6.1		13w23a			Normal golden apples now use 8 gold ingots instead of 8 gold nuggets.
					The Regeneration effect of normal golden apples has now been slowed down.
		13w23b			Normal golden apples now give the player Health Boost for 1:30 and Regeneration II for 0:10. This temporarily gives the player 4 extra base health points, and it heals a total of 4 health points.
		13w24b			The Health Boost effect has now been replaced with Absorption, lasting 1:30. Enchanted golden apples now give the player Absorption as well, and Regeneration IV has now been increased to Regeneration V.
		?			Absorption from golden apples now lasts 2:00.
1.8		14w06a			Crafting an enchanted golden apple now gives the player the achievement "Overpowered".
1.9		15w37a			The Regeneration effect from normal golden apples has now been reduced to Regeneration I (from II in Java Edition 1.8).
					Enchanted golden apples now give Regeneration II (down from V) and Absorption IV (up from I), in addition to the unchanged Resistance and Fire Resistance effects. The duration of the Regeneration effect has now also been decreased to 20 seconds.
		15w43a			A single golden apple can now sometimes be found in igloo chests.
		15w43b			A single golden apple is now always found in igloo chests.
		15w44a			Enchanted golden apples are now uncraftable, making them no longer renewable.
					The Regeneration effect from normal golden apples has now been returned to Regeneration II, as it had been in 1.8.
					The average yield of normal golden apples from dungeon chests has now been increased.
					Normal golden apples have now been added to desert temple and mineshaft chests.
					Enchanted golden apples have now been added to dungeon, desert temple and mineshaft chests.
1.11		16w39a			Normal and enchanted golden apples are now found in the new woodland mansion chests.
1.13		17w47a			The names and IDs have now been split into golden apple and enchanted golden apple.
					Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 322.
		18w09a			Golden apples (non-enchanted) can now generate in the chests of underwater ruins.
1.14		18w43a			The texture for golden apples has now been changed.
					The texture for enchanted golden apples has now been changed.
1.16		20w16a			Regular and enchanted golden apples can now be found inside ruined portal chests.
		20w18a			Golden apple are more common in ruined portal chests
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.12.1		build 1			Added golden apples and enchanted golden apples.
		build 3			A crafting recipe has now been added for golden apples.
		build 4			A crafting recipe has now been added for enchanted golden apples.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Enchanted golden apples are now known as "Enchanted Apple".
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		?			Enchanted apples now give Absorption IV rather than Absorption I.
1.2.13		?			Enchanted golden apples are now uncraftable, making them no longer renewable.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.20.1			Golden apples can now generate in the chests of underwater ruins.
?					Enchanted apples now gives Regeneration V rather than IV.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Enchanted apples are no longer used to craft patterns on banners directly, but are now used to craft Thing banner patterns.
					The texture for golden apples has now been changed.
					The texture for the enchanted golden apple has now been changed.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.57			Regular and enchanted golden apples can now be found inside ruined portal chests.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added golden apples.
TU5					Due to the addition of hunger, golden apples have been changed, so that they restored 10 () instead of 20 × 10 health points, but also give Regeneration for 30 seconds.
TU14		1.04			Added enchanted golden apples.
TU19	CU7	1.12			Golden apples now give extra "Absorption" health for a short period.
		1.90			The texture for golden apples has now been changed.
					The texture for the enchanted golden apple has now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added golden apples and enchanted golden apples.

Issues

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

Trivia

• The damage tag of an enchanted apple obtained in Bedrock Edition is 1.
• They are the only food source in the game that restores health points when eaten.

Gallery

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  A comparison of the two golden apple variations.

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  The effects of consuming an enchanted golden apple.

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  A chest in a stronghold containing a golden apple.

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  A golden apple found in a dungeon.

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  An extremely rare occasion where a regular golden apple and an enchanted apple being found in the same woodland mansion chest in Education Edition.

Notes

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