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Rotten flesh is a food item that can be eaten by the player, with high risk of inflicting Hunger and low Saturation.

Obtaining[]

Mob loot[]

Zombies[]

Zombies, zombie villagers, zombie horses, husks, and drowned drop from 0 to 2 units of rotten flesh. Looting can increase this by one per level, for a maximum of 5 rotten flesh.

Zoglins[]

Zoglins drop 1-3. Looting III grants a maximum of 6.

Zombified piglins[]

Zombified piglins drop 0-1. Looting III grants a maximum of 4.

Fishing[]

Rotten flesh can be obtained as a "junk" item while fishing.

Chest loot[]

Item Structure Container Quantity Chance
Java Edition
Rotten Flesh Dungeon Chest 1–8 57.8%
Desert temple Chest 3–7 28.7%
Chest 1–8 59%
Igloo Chest 1 55.3%
Jungle temple Chest 3–7 53.4%
Shipwreck Supply chest 5–24 32.2%
Underwater ruins Small ruins chest 1 59.6%
Village Temple chest 1–4 89.3%
Woodland mansion Chest 1–8 57.8%
Bedrock Edition
Rotten Flesh Dungeon Chest 1–8 57.8%
Desert temple Chest 3–7 28.7%
Chest 1–8 59%
Igloo Chest 1 55.3%
Jungle temple Chest 3–7 53.3%
Shipwreck Supply chest 5–24 32.2%
Underwater ruins Small ruins chest 1 59.6%
Village Temple chest 1–4 89.3%
Woodland mansion Chest 1–8 57.8%

Cat gifts[]

Main article: Cat § Gifts

Tamed cats have a 70% chance of giving the player a gift when they wake up from a bed, and the gift has a 16.13% chance to be a rotten flesh.

Usage[]

Food[]

To eat rotten flesh, press and hold use while rotten flesh is selected in the hotbar.

Eating rotten flesh restores 4 (🍗🍗) hunger and 0.8 hunger saturation, but has an 80% chance of inflicting Hunger (effect) for 30 seconds. Note that the duration does not accumulate when eating multiple pieces. However, if more is consumed and the Hunger status effect is inflicted, the duration resets to 30 seconds.

Wolves[]

Rotten flesh can be used to breed and heal tamed wolves, lead them around, and make baby tamed wolves grow up faster by 10% of the remaining time.

Wolves are immune to the Hunger effect.

Trading[]

Novice-level cleric villagers buy 32 rotten flesh for 1 emerald as part of their trades.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
EatingPlayersWhile a player is eating somethingentity.generic.eatsubtitles.entity.generic.eatvaries [sound 1]0.8-1.216
EatingFriendly CreaturesWhen a player finishes eating somethingentity.generic.eatsubtitles.entity.generic.eat1.00.6-1.416
BurpPlayersWhen a player finishes eating somethingentity.player.burpsubtitles.entity.player.burp0.50.9-1.016
  1. Can be 0.5, 1.0, or 1.5

Bedrock Edition:

SoundSourceDescriptionResource locationVolumePitch
PlayersWhile a player is eating somethingrandom.eat0.5-1.10.8-1.2
PlayersWhen a player finishes eating somethingrandom.burp0.50.9-1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierFormTranslation key
Rotten Fleshrotten_fleshItemitem.minecraft.rotten_flesh

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID FormTranslation key
Rotten Fleshrotten_flesh277Itemitem.rotten_flesh.name

Achievements[]

Icon Achievement In-game description Actual requirements (if different) Gamerscore earned Trophy type (PS4)
PS4 Other
Iron BellyStop starvation using Rotten Flesh.Eat a piece of rotten flesh while starving (zero hunger points).20GBronze

Advancements[]

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Resource location
Advancement-plain-rawHusbandry
The world is full of friends and food Consume anything that can be consumed.husbandry/root
Advancement-fancy-rawA Balanced Diet
Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you A Seedy PlaceEat each of these 40 foods: Other foods and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.husbandry/balanced_diet

Video[]

Note: The video is outdated, as rotten flesh can now be also gained from fishing, trading, or loot chests.

History[]

Java Edition Beta
1.8Pre-releaseRotten Flesh JE1 Added rotten flesh.
Zombies and zombie pigmen now drop rotten flesh instead of feathers and cooked porkchops respectively.
Java Edition
1.0.0Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2Food poisoning can now be stopped by drinking milk.
1.2.112w03aRotten flesh can now be used to breed wolves. When a wolf eats rotten flesh, it will not receive the Hunger effect.
1.3.112w21aRotten flesh can now be found in desert temple chests.
Priest villagers now buy rotten flesh.
1.3Rotten Flesh JE2 BE1 The texture of rotten flesh has been changed.
12w22aRotten flesh now generates in jungle temple chests.
Priest villagers no longer buy rotten flesh.
1.7.213w36aRotten flesh can now be obtained as one of the "junk" items from fishing.
1.814w02aCleric villagers now buy 36–40 rotten flesh for 1 emerald, as their tier I trade.
1.915w43aRotten flesh may now be found in igloo basement chests.
15w44aRotten flesh now generates in dungeon chests.
The average yield of rotten flesh has been decreased in desert temple chests.
1.1116w39aRotten flesh can now be found in woodland mansion chests.
1.1317w47aPrior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 367.
18w09aRotten flesh now generates in the loot chests of underwater ruins.
18w11aDrowned may now drop rotten flesh upon death.
Rotten flesh now sometimes generates in shipwreck chests.
1.1418w43aRotten Flesh JE3 BE2 The texture of rotten flesh has been changed.
18w44aCats now offer rotten flesh as gifts.
18w50aRotten flesh can now be found in village temple chests.
1.1620w06aAdded hoglins, which can drop rotten flesh if killed.
20w07aRotten flesh has a 10109 (~9.17%) chance of being given by the new piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 4–12.
Hoglins no longer drop rotten flesh.
20w09aRotten flesh can no longer be obtained by bartering with piglins.
20w14aAdded zoglins, which drop rotten flesh when killed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0build 1Rotten Flesh JE2 BE1 Added rotten flesh.
As the hunger bar has not yet been added, rotten flesh inflicts poison rather than hunger.
Zombies and zombie pigmen now drop rotten flesh.
build 11Rotten flesh can now be used to feed wolves.
v0.12.1build 1Eating rotten flesh now gives the player the Hunger status effect.
Rotten flesh now restores hunger instead of health.
Added zombie villagers, which drop rotten flesh when killed.
v0.13.0build 1Rotten flesh can now be found inside desert temple chests.
v0.15.0build 1Added husks and zombie horses, both of which drop rotten flesh when killed.
Rotten flesh can now be found inside jungle temple chests.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0alpha 0.17.0.1Rotten flesh can now be found inside the basement chests of igloos.
1.0.4alpha 1.0.4.036-40 rotten flesh can now be sold to cleric villagers.
1.1.0alpha 1.1.0.0Rotten flesh can now be found in woodland mansion chests.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0beta 1.2.13.8Added drowned, which drop rotten flesh when killed.
beta 1.2.14.2Rotten flesh can now be found in some shipwreck chests.
beta 1.2.20.1Rotten flesh can now be found inside underwater ruins chests.
1.8.0beta 1.8.0.8Tamed cats can now give the player rotten flesh as a gift.
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3Rotten Flesh JE3 BE2 The texture of rotten flesh has been changed.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.1Rotten flesh can now be found in desert village temple chests.
beta 1.11.0.4Trading has been changed, cleric villagers now buy 32 rotten flesh for an emerald.
Legacy Console Edition
TU5CU1 1.0 Patch 11.0.1Rotten Flesh JE2 BE1 Added rotten flesh.
1.90 Rotten Flesh JE3 BE2 The texture of rotten flesh has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0Rotten Flesh JE2 BE1 Added rotten flesh.

Issues[]

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