Bread

Bread is a food item that can be eaten by the player.

Obtaining[]

Crafting[]

Chest loot[]

Trading[]

Novice-level farmer villagers sell 6 bread for one emerald as part of their trades. In Java Edition they only have a 40% chance of offering this trade.

Villager gifts[]

Farmer villagers may use wheat they have harvested to craft bread, which they can trade with other villagers.

Farmer villagers may throw bread at players under the Hero of the Village effect.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Usage[]

Food[]

Bread can be eaten with the use control while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating bread restores 5 () hunger and 6.0 hunger saturation.

Breeding[]

Villagers can pick up bread items to become willing, allowing them to breed. Villagers require 3 bread to become willing.

Composting[]

Placing bread into a composter has an 85% chance of raising the compost level by 1. It is more efficient to compost wheat than bread made from wheat.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Achievements[]

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	—	Consume anything that can be consumed.	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 40 foods: Apple Baked Potato Beetroot Beetroot Soup Bread Carrot Chorus Fruit Cooked Chicken Cooked Cod Cooked Mutton Cooked Porkchop Cooked Rabbit Cooked Salmon Cookie Dried Kelp Enchanted Golden Apple Glow Berries Golden Apple Golden Carrot Honey Bottle Melon Slice Mushroom Stew Poisonous Potato Potato Pufferfish Pumpkin Pie Rabbit Stew Raw Beef Raw Chicken Raw Cod Raw Mutton Raw Porkchop Raw Rabbit Raw Salmon Rotten Flesh Spider Eye Steak Suspicious Stew Sweet Berries Tropical Fish Other foods and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/balanced_diet

History[]

Java Edition Indev
20100206					Bread has been added, which now restores 5.
20100223					Bread now requires 3 wheat (1 row of 3) instead of 6 (2 rows of 3) to be crafted.
Java Edition Infdev
?					Bread is no longer stackable.
20100625-2					Bread can now be found in the new dungeon chests.
Java Edition Beta
1.8		Pre-release			Bread is now stackable to 64.
					Bread now restores 5 () instead of 5.
					Dungeon chests now contain more bread, now that it stacks.
					Bread can now be found in the new stronghold storerooms and mineshaft chests.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3			Bread can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests.
1.1		12w01a			Bread can now be found in the new village blacksmith chests.
1.3.1		12w16a			Bread can now be found in the new bonus chests.
		12w21a			Farmer villagers now sell 3–4 loaves of bread for 1 emerald.
1.4.2		12w37a			The dark outline has now been removed from the bread texture.
1.6.1		13w16a			Bread can now be used to feed horses.
1.8		14w02a			Farmer villagers now sell 2–4 loaves of bread for 1 emerald.
		14w26c			Horses no longer can eat bread.
1.9		15w44a			The average yield of bread from mineshaft and dungeon chests has now been decreased.
1.11		16w39a			Bread can now found in the new woodland mansion chests.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 297.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of bread has now been changed.
		18w48a			Bread can now generate inside chests in cartographer houses, tanneries and plains village houses.
		18w49a			Bread can now generate inside chests in mason houses, and savanna and snowy village houses.
		18w50a			Bread can now generate inside chests in village temples, toolsmith, and desert and taiga village houses.
		19w03a			Placing bread into the new composter now has an 80% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
		19w05a			Bread now has an 85% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
		19w13a			Farmer villagers now give bread to players under the Hero of the Village effect.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0					Added bread.
v0.5.0					Bread now restores 5 instead of 2.
v0.8.0		build 1			The dark outline has now been removed from the bread texture.
v0.12.1		build 1			Bread now restores hunger instead of health.
v0.14.0		build 1			Bread can now be found inside minecart with chests in mineshafts.
Pocket Edition
1.0.4		alpha 1.0.4.0			Villagers now require bread to become willing, in order to breed.
					Farmer villagers now sell 2-4 loaves of bread for 1 emerald.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Bread can now be found in woodland mansion chests.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Bread can now be found inside bonus chests.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of bread has now been changed.
					Bread can now be found inside plains village houses chests, plains tannery house chests, village cartographer house chests and plains weaponsmith chests.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Bread can now be found in village chests other than plains.
					Bread can now be used to fill up composters.
		beta 1.11.0.4			Farmer villagers now sell 6 bread for one emerald.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added bread.
TU5					Bread is now stackable to 64.
					Bread now restores hunger instead of health.
TU12					The dark outline has now been removed from the bread texture.
		1.90			The texture of bread has now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added bread.

Issues[]

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

External Links[]

• Taking Inventory: Bread – Minecraft.net on February 25, 2021