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Golden Apple - Every Way to Craft, Find, and Use It in Minecraft

Golden Apple is an uncommon food item in Minecraft 1.21.4 with 3 known crafting recipes, restoring 4 hunger.

What is Golden Apple?

Golden Apple is a Minecraft Food with rarity Uncommon. It stacks up to 64 per inventory slot and is craftable. It belongs to the Gold material tier.

Namespaced identifier: minecraft:golden_apple. Command: /give @p minecraft:golden_apple 1.

Golden Apple crafting recipes

There are 1 unique ways to craft Golden Apple (after removing 2 duplicate entries):

Recipe 1

Ingredients:

Yields 1 × Golden Apple per craft.

Food properties

  • Restores 4 hunger (2 drumsticks)
  • Saturation: 9.6

Wiki-verified item facts

  • Rarity tier: Common
  • Renewable: Yes
  • Stack size: 64

Sourced from Minecraft Wiki: Golden Apple (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Verified for Java Edition 1.21.4.

Tags

  • Food
  • Uncommon
  • Craftable
  • Gold Tier
  • Edible

Technical properties

  • Namespaced ID: minecraft:golden_apple
  • Category: Food
  • Rarity: Uncommon
  • Material tier: Gold
  • Stack size: 64
  • Craftable: Yes
  • /give command: /give @p minecraft:golden_apple 1

Overview

Golden Apple is a food item in Minecraft 1.21.4. This page covers its stack size, crafting recipe, and every recipe that uses it as an ingredient and real nutrition data.

Step-by-step walkthrough

  1. Gather the ingredients shown in the crafting recipe below and open a crafting table.
  2. Match the ingredient layout exactly - shaped recipes only work when items sit in the correct grid slots.
  3. Eating Golden Apple restores 4 hunger points and 9.6 saturation - best eaten when your hunger bar has room to absorb it.

Common mistakes to avoid

  • Use /give @p minecraft:golden_apple 1 in a test world to check builds without farming it first.
  • Craft in batches at once to avoid re-opening the crafting menu repeatedly.

Pro tips

  • This item belongs to the Food category - related items in that category may share similar crafting paths.

Difficulty and time commitment

  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Estimated time per run: 5-15 min

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I craft Golden Apple?

Golden Apple can be crafted at a crafting table. This page lists 3 known recipes - match the ingredient layout shown in the crafting grid exactly.

What is the stack size of Golden Apple?

Golden Apple stacks up to 64 per inventory slot, the standard maximum stack size.

How much hunger does Golden Apple restore?

Eating Golden Apple restores 4 hunger points and 9.6 saturation (a saturation ratio of 2.4), giving an effective food quality score of 13.6.

What is the internal Minecraft ID for Golden Apple?

The namespaced ID is minecraft:golden_apple, usable in commands such as /give, /clear, and loot tables.

Variants

  • No same-family material variants were detected for Golden Apple in the current dataset.

Obtaining

  • Crafting: Golden Apple has 3 known recipe variants in this dataset.

Uses

  • Crafting input profile: 8 Gold Ingot + 1 Apple -> 1 Golden Apple.

Combat and Stats

  • No direct combat profile is mapped for Golden Apple; treat it as utility, progression, or crafting support.

Repairing

  • Repairing data: durability and repair mappings are not present in the current source dataset for Golden Apple; verify repair behavior in-game before publishing hard numbers.

Enchantments

  • No dedicated enchantment compatibility categories are currently mapped for this item.

Data Values

  • Internal namespaced ID: minecraft:golden_apple.
  • Category classification: Food.
  • Stack size: 64.

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