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Raw Salmon - Every Way to Craft, Find, and Use It in Minecraft

Raw Salmon is a common food item in Minecraft 1.21.4, obtained without crafting, restoring 2 hunger.

What is Raw Salmon?

Raw Salmon is a Minecraft Food with rarity Common. It stacks up to 64 per inventory slot.

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

How to obtain Raw Salmon

Dropped by mobs

What Raw Salmon is used to craft

Raw Salmon is an ingredient in 1 other Minecraft recipes:

Food properties

  • Restores 2 hunger (1 drumsticks)
  • Saturation: 0.4

What Raw Salmon smelts into

Placing Raw Salmon in a furnace, blast furnace, smoker, or campfire produces:

  • Furnace for 10s → 1× Cooked Salmon (0.35 XP)
  • Campfire for 30s → 1× Cooked Salmon (0.35 XP)
  • Smoker for 5s → 1× Cooked Salmon (0.35 XP)

Tags

  • Food
  • Common
  • Non-Craftable
  • Crafting Material
  • Edible

Technical properties

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

Overview

Raw Salmon 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. Raw Salmon has no crafting recipe - the most reliable source is killing Polar Bear.
  2. Stock up early - this item is a dependency for 1 other recipe.
  3. Eating Raw Salmon restores 2 hunger points and 0.4 saturation - best eaten when your hunger bar has room to absorb it.

Common mistakes to avoid

  • Use /give @p minecraft:salmon 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 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 get Raw Salmon?

Raw Salmon has no crafting recipe. It drops from Polar Bear, Salmon.

What is the stack size of Raw Salmon?

Raw Salmon stacks up to 64 per inventory slot, the standard maximum stack size.

How much hunger does Raw Salmon restore?

Eating Raw Salmon restores 2 hunger points and 0.4 saturation (a saturation ratio of 0.2), giving an effective food quality score of 2.4.

What can I craft with Raw Salmon?

Raw Salmon is used as an ingredient in 1 other recipe. See the "Used In Crafting" section on this page for the full list.

What is the internal Minecraft ID for Raw Salmon?

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

Variants

  • No same-family material variants were detected for Raw Salmon in the current dataset.

Obtaining

  • Mob loot: Raw Salmon appears in 2 mob loot tables.

Uses

  • Crafting uses: this item is consumed by 1 downstream recipe.

Combat and Stats

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

Repairing

  • Repairing data: durability and repair mappings are not present in the current source dataset for Raw Salmon; 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:salmon.
  • Category classification: Food.
  • Stack size: 64.

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