Raw Beef

Raw Beef

Rarity tier	Common
Consumption time	32 game ticks (1.6 seconds)
Hunger	3 ()
Saturation	1.8 ()
Saturation boost‌[JE only]	Heals: 1.2HP × 0.6 Duration: 0.6 seconds
Always consumable	No
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

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Raw beef is a food item that can be eaten by the player or cooked in a furnace, smoker, or campfire to make steak.

Obtaining

Mob loot

Java Edition:

Mob		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Cow	1–3	100.00%	2.00	1–4	100.00%	2.50	1–5	100.00%	3.00	1–6	100.00%	3.50
	Mooshroom	1–3	100.00%	2.00	1–4	100.00%	2.50	1–5	100.00%	3.00	1–6	100.00%	3.50

Mob		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Cow	1–3	1	2	1–4	1	5⁄2	1–5	1	3	1–6	1	7⁄2
	Mooshroom	1–3	1	2	1–4	1	5⁄2	1–5	1	3	1–6	1	7⁄2

Mob		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Cow	1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		5	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		6	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)	3 (3.00)	7⁄2 (3.50)
	Mooshroom	1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		5	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		6	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)	3 (3.00)	7⁄2 (3.50)

Drops		1
Mob		Expected Number of Kills
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Cow	0.50	0.40	0.33	0.29
	Mooshroom	0.50	0.40	0.33	0.29

Bedrock Edition:

Mob		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Cow	1–3	100.00%	2.00	1–4	100.00%	2.50	1–5	100.00%	3.00	1–6	100.00%	3.50
	Mooshroom	1–3	100.00%	2.00	1–4	100.00%	2.50	1–5	100.00%	3.00	1–6	100.00%	3.50

Mob		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Cow	1–3	1	2	1–4	1	5⁄2	1–5	1	3	1–6	1	7⁄2
	Mooshroom	1–3	1	2	1–4	1	5⁄2	1–5	1	3	1–6	1	7⁄2

Mob		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Cow	1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		5	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		6	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)	3 (3.00)	7⁄2 (3.50)
	Mooshroom	1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		5	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		6	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)	3 (3.00)	7⁄2 (3.50)

Drops		1
Mob		Expected Number of Kills
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Cow	0.50	0.40	0.33	0.29
	Mooshroom	0.50	0.40	0.33	0.29

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Raw Beef	Village	Butcher's chest	1–3	48.6% { "item": "Raw Beef", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.4862627922889272, "structure": "Village", "container": "Butcher's chest" }

Usage

Food

To eat raw beef, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores 3 () hunger and 1.8 hunger saturation.

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Steak	Raw Beef + Any fuel	0.35

Wolves

Raw beef 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.

Trading

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Butcher	Journeyman	100%	50%	10 × Raw Beef	Emerald	16	20	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	Translation key
Raw Beef	beef	Item	item.minecraft.beef

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Raw Beef	beef	273	Item	item.beef.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 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

Java Edition

Java Edition Beta
1.8			Pre-release				Added raw beef.
							Raw beef is one of the new food items, dropped by cows in addition to their leather.
Java Edition
1.2.1			12w03a				Raw beef can now be used to breed wolves.
1.3.1			12w21a				Raw beef can now be sold to butcher villagers, at 14–17 raw beef for 1 emerald.
			1.3				The texture of raw beef has been changed.
1.4.2			12w37a				The texture of raw beef has been changed, so that it no longer has a dark outline.
1.8			14w02a				Villagers no longer trade for raw beef.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of raw beef has been changed.
			18w49a				Raw beef can now be found in chests in village butcher shops.
			19w11a				Butcher villagers now buy 10 raw beef for 1 emerald.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0							Added raw beef.
v0.5.0							Raw beef now restores 3HP instead of 1HP.
v0.8.0			build 1				The texture of raw beef has been changed, so that it no longer has a dark outline.
v0.9.0			build 1				Raw beef has been added to Creative mode.
v0.12.1			build 1				Raw beef now restores hunger instead of health.
Bedrock Edition
1.7.0			beta 1.7.0.2				Raw beef can now be eaten in Creative mode and on Peaceful difficulty.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of raw beef has been changed.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Raw beef can now be found in village butcher chests.
			beta 1.11.0.4				Raw beef can now be sold to butcher villagers.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU5	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1		Added raw beef.
TU12							The texture of raw beef has been changed, so that it no longer has a dark outline.
TU14		1.04				1.0.1	Raw beef can now be sold to butcher villagers, at 14–17 raw beef for 1 emerald.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Villagers no longer trade for raw beef.
			1.90				The texture of raw beef has been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added raw beef.

Data history

Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 363.

Issues

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

Gallery

Screenshots

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  Raw beef and steak in a preview screenshot

In other media

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  Raw beef as it appeared in Minecraft Earth
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  Raw beef as it appeared in A Minecraft Movie Live Event