- To make a golden apple in Minecraft, you will need eight gold ingots, one apple, and a crafting table.
- For the golden apple crafting recipe, place the apple in the center slot and surround it completely with gold ingots.
- Consuming a golden apple grants you absorption I for two minutes and regeneration II for five seconds.
With so many different food items in Minecraft, choosing one can get a bit overwhelming. However, it’s a fact that some of the food items are superior to others. They can grant you more hunger points, saturation points, and even some status effects. One of those special items is the golden apple. It’s a pretty valuable food item that can save your life in certain situations. So, in this guide, we will show you exactly how you can make the golden apple in Minecraft and what it does.
Resources You Need to Make a Golden Apple
As you might expect from the name “golden apple”, you’ll need the following resources to craft this food item:
- 8 Gold ingots
- 1 Apple
- Crafting table
Gold ingots are one of the precious materials in the game. They are a result of smelting raw gold or Nether gold ore in the furnace or blast furnace. You can also obtain them from loot chests in various structures and by placing 9 gold nuggets in a crafting grid. Apples are common items you can easily obtain from decaying leaves or by purchasing them from farmer Minecraft villagers.
The crafting table is one of the main utility blocks that provides you with a 3×3 crafting grid you can use to make more complex crafting recipes.
Minecraft Golden Apple: Crafting Recipe
If you’ve got the necessary ingredients, follow the steps below to make a golden apple in this blocky game.
- First, place the crafting table in your world. Then, right-click on it or use the secondary action button to open its UI.
- Now, you first need to place an apple in the central slot of the grid.
- Next, all you need to do is surround the apple with eight gold ingots, filling every remaining slot of the grid.
- As soon as you do that, the golden apple will appear on the right. You can now move it to your inventory and consume it.
Alternatively, you can use a crafter in Minecraft 1.21 instead of a crafting table, but it will require a redstone signal to craft the golden apple.
Where Can You Find a Golden Apple
The golden apple is a fairly common part of various loot tables of the game. You will find it in chests of the following structures:
- Dungeon
- Mineshaft
- Bastion Remnant (hoglin stable and generic chest)
- Desert Temple
- Igloo
- Ruined Portal
- Stronghold (altar chest)
- Ocean Ruins (big ruins chest)
- Woodland Mansion
- Ancient City (chest in front of the large Warden statue)
How to Use a Golden Apple in Minecraft
1. Food Source
The main function of this golden item is as a food source. When it’s selected on your hotbar, you can hold down the right-click or the secondary action button to start eating it. Once you have consumed it, you will receive 2 hunger points (drumsticks) and 9.6 saturation points.
2. Status Effects
However, apart from that, the golden apple grants you two useful status effects – absorption I for two minutes and regeneration II for five seconds.
The absorption effect yields 2 extra yellow hearts, whereas the regeneration effect may last for such a short amount of time but is enough to restore two hearts. This may seem like not a big deal, but it can certainly help keep you alive in a difficult battle.
3. Cure Zombie Villagers
Furthermore, the golden apple is part of another relevant game mechanic, which is curing zombie villagers. Once you splash the zombie with the potion of weakness, you can right-click it or use the secondary action button to feed it the golden apple.
After that, they’ll start shaking and turning slowly back into a regular villager. You can go through our linked guide on the topic to understand this process better.
4. Feeding Mobs
Golden apple is also a food source for horses, though it’s far more expensive than the equally good golden carrots food item for animals. And finally, since golden carrots are golden items, piglins are attracted to them.
If it’s thrown on the ground, any nearby piglins will rush toward it and pick it up. However, keep in mind that they won’t give you anything in return.
There we go, everyone. Now you know how to make golden apples, where you can find them, and what you can do with them in Minecraft. This food item is valued by players due to the absorption and regen effects they provide. So, it’s a good idea to start collecting them early in your world. Now, stop beating around the bush and make the golden apple right away!
The best thing you can do with the golden apple is just to eat it. As you can read above, the buffs it provides can easily save your life.
No, you cannot. Dogs will only eat raw and cooked meat, as well as rotten flesh, rabbit stew, and only on the Bedrock edition – raw and cooked fish.
You can’t farm golden apples directly, as they are not a mob drop. But you can farm gold and easily get apples from villagers. So, in that sense, you can quickly make tons of golden apples with minimal effort.
