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Rotten Flesh - Every Way to Craft, Find, and Use It in Minecraft

Rotten Flesh is a common miscellaneous item in Minecraft 1.21.4, obtained without crafting, restoring 4 hunger.

What is Rotten Flesh?

Rotten Flesh is a Minecraft Miscellaneous with rarity Common. It stacks up to 64 per inventory slot.

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

How to obtain Rotten Flesh

Dropped by mobs

Food properties

  • Restores 4 hunger (2 drumsticks)
  • Saturation: 0.8

Wiki-verified item facts

  • Renewable: Yes
  • Stack size: 64

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

Tags

  • Miscellaneous
  • Common
  • Non-Craftable
  • Edible

Technical properties

  • Namespaced ID: minecraft:rotten_flesh
  • Category: Miscellaneous
  • Rarity: Common
  • Stack size: 64
  • Craftable: No
  • /give command: /give @p minecraft:rotten_flesh 1

Overview

Rotten Flesh is a miscellaneous 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.

Common mistakes to avoid

  • Use /give @p minecraft:rotten_flesh 1 in a test world to check builds without farming it first.

Pro tips

  • Track your best source and repeat short farming loops instead of one long session.
  • This item belongs to the Miscellaneous 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 get Rotten Flesh?

Rotten Flesh has no crafting recipe. It drops from Drowned, Husk, Zoglin, Zombie.

What is the stack size of Rotten Flesh?

Rotten Flesh stacks up to 64 per inventory slot, the standard maximum stack size.

How much hunger does Rotten Flesh restore?

Eating Rotten Flesh restores 4 hunger points and 0.8 saturation (a saturation ratio of 0.2), giving an effective food quality score of 4.8.

What is the internal Minecraft ID for Rotten Flesh?

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

Variants

  • No same-family material variants were detected for Rotten Flesh in the current dataset.

Obtaining

  • Mob loot: Rotten Flesh appears in 6 mob loot tables.

Uses

  • Usage: treat this primarily as a material or utility node in linked crafting and progression systems.

Combat and Stats

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

Repairing

  • Repairing data: durability and repair mappings are not present in the current source dataset for Rotten Flesh; 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:rotten_flesh.
  • Category classification: Miscellaneous.
  • Stack size: 64.

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