Beetroot

Beetroot

Other names	Beet (CA)
Rarity tier	Common
Consumption time	32 game ticks (1.6 seconds)
Hunger	1 ()
Saturation	1.2 ()
Saturation boost‌[JE only]	Heals: 0.8HP × 0.4 Duration: 0.4 seconds
Always consumable	No
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

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A beetroot is a food and dye ingredient.

Obtaining

Farming

Beetroots are obtained from harvesting a fully-grown beetroot crop, which drops 1 beetroot in Java Edition or 1 to 2 beetroots in Bedrock Edition and 1 to 4 beetroot seeds (2 ⁵⁄₇ per crop harvested on average). If a crop is harvested before it is fully grown, it just drops one seed. Harvesting with a Fortune-enchanted tool increases the number of seeds dropped but does not increase the yield of beetroots.

Usage

Food

A beetroot can be eaten to restore 1 () hunger and 1.2 hunger saturation. Six beetroots can be crafted into beetroot soup, which restores six times the hunger and saturation of a single beetroot.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Beetroot Soup	Beetroot + Bowl
Red Dye	Beetroot

Breeding

Beetroots can be used to breed and attract pigs.

Villagers can pick up beetroot items to become willing, allowing them to breed. Villagers need 12 beetroots before they can breed.

Composting

Placing a beetroot into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Trading

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Farmer	Novice	40%	25%	15 × Beetroot	Emerald	16	2	0.05

Sounds

Java Edition:

v t e Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Eating	Players	While a player is eating something	entity.generic.eat	subtitles.entity.generic.eat​	varies	0.8–1.2	16
	​Eating	Friendly Mobs	When a player finishes eating something	entity.generic.eat	subtitles.entity.generic.eat​	1.0	0.6–1.4	16
	​Burp​[until: JE 26.4]	Players	When a player finishes eating something	entity.player.burp	subtitles.entity.player.burp​	0.5	0.9–1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Eating	Players	While a player is eating something	random.eat	subtitles.entity.generic.eat​	0.5–1.1	0.8–1.2
	​Burp	Players	When a player finishes eating something	random.burp	subtitles.entity.player.burp​	0.5	0.9–1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Beetroots	beetroots	Block	maintains_farmland crops bee_growables	block.minecraft.beetroots
Beetroot	beetroot	Item	—	item.minecraft.beetroot

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Beetroot	beetroot	285	Item	item.beetroot.name

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	Consume anything that can be consumed, except for cake.
	A Seedy Place	Plant a seed and watch it grow	Plant one of these 7 crops: Other crops and plants can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement.
	A Balanced Diet	Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you	Eat each of these 40 foods: Other foods and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.

History

Announcement

November 13, 2013							Jeb announces on Instagram that Johan Bernhardsson is working on a surprise feature for Pocket Edition v0.8.0 alpha alongside a picture of the player holding beetroots.
November 14, 2013							Johan posts another image of beetroots, confirming that the image previously posted by Jeb was indeed beetroots.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.8.0			build 2				Added beetroots. They are not obtainable in the Creative inventory. They can be used to craft rose red dye.
							Pigs follow players holding beetroots, but cannot be fed yet.
			build 4				Pigs can now be fed beetroots to enter love mode and breed.
v0.12.1			build 1				Beetroots now restore hunger, rather than health.
							Beetroot can now generate in villages as crops.
v0.13.1							Added beetroots to the Creative inventory.
v0.16.2							Beetroots can now be found in chests inside large houses in villages, generating in snowy taigas and snowy tundras.
Pocket Edition
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0				Villagers can now can pick up beetroots to become willing.
Bedrock Edition
1.7.0			beta 1.7.0.2				Beetroots can now be eaten in Creative mode and on Peaceful difficulty.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of beetroots has been changed.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Beetroots can now be used to fill up composters.
			beta 1.11.0.4				Beetroots can now be sold to farmer villagers.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.9			15w31a				Beetroots have been added, along with its seeds and beetroot soup. Beetroot can also be used to craft rose red dye.
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 434.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of beetroots has been changed.
			19w03a				Placing beetroots into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
			19w05a				Beetroots now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
			19w11a				Farmer villagers now buy 15 beetroots for 1 emerald.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13	1.0.1	Added beetroots.
			1.90				The texture of beetroots has been changed.
			1.91				Beetroots can now be used to fill up composters.
							Beetroots can now be sold to farmer villagers.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added beetroots.

Issues

Issues relating to "Beetroot" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• Jeb has stated that beetroots were originally added to Pocket Edition as a developer on the team "thought it would be a nice thing to have." When they were added, though, they served as a more reliable source of rose red dye. Rose red's only other source, red mushrooms, generated uncommonly in the Old worlds of the time or could be spawned, with tedium, using a Nether reactor.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  Image of a beetroot from Jeb's instagram
• 
  The image released by Johan Bernhardsson on Twitter
• 
  Pigs following the player
• 
  Beetroots generated in a village
• 
  A beetroot garden

In other media

• 
  Beetroots in A Minecraft Movie
• 
  A beetroot as seen in Minecraft Earth

External links

• "Taking Inventory: Beetroot" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, October 31, 2024.