Golden Apple

Golden Apple

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Restores	4 ()
Status effects	Absorption (2:00) Regeneration II (0:05)

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A golden apple is a food item that bestows beneficial effects when consumed (Absorption and Regeneration) and is also used to cure a zombie villager under the Weakness effect into a normal villager. It is not possible to turn golden apples into enchanted golden apples.

Obtaining

Generated loot

On the base of ancient_city/city_center/city_center_2, a single golden apple is contained in the chest. Eating it at that location unlocks the piston doors to the redstone labs beneath.

Due to a glitch in Bedrock Edition 1 golden apple with Efficiency I generates in a tree chopping room in woodland mansion.‌

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	[hide]Chance
Java Edition
Golden Apple	Monster Room	Chest	1	21.5% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.21505443965101612, "structure": "Monster Room", "container": "Chest" }
	Mineshaft	Chest	1	28.2% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.2816901408450704, "structure": "Mineshaft", "container": "Chest" }
	Bastion Remnant	Hoglin stable chest	1	10% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.09999999999999998, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Hoglin stable chest" }
		Generic chest	1	10.1% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.101123595505618, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Generic chest" }
	Desert Pyramid	Chest	1	23.5% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.23489794603087977, "structure": "Desert Pyramid", "container": "Chest" }
	Igloo	Chest	1	100% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 1, "structure": "Igloo", "container": "Chest" }
	Ruined Portal	Chest	1	20.5% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20469270240551518, "structure": "Ruined Portal", "container": "Chest" }
	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	2.5% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.024800500000000003, "structure": "Stronghold", "container": "Altar chest" }
	Trial Chambers	Ominous Vault	1	8.3% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.08275862068965523, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Ominous Vault" }
		Vault and reward chest	1	8.3% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.08333333333333337, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Vault and reward chest" }
	Underwater Ruins	Big ruins chest	1	4.3% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.04347826086956519, "structure": "Underwater Ruins", "container": "Big ruins chest" }
	Woodland Mansion	Chest	1	21.8% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.21816964893772306, "structure": "Woodland Mansion", "container": "Chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Golden Apple	Monster Room	Chest	1	21.5% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.21505443965101612, "structure": "Monster Room", "container": "Chest" }
	Mineshaft	Chest	1	28.2% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.2816901408450704, "structure": "Mineshaft", "container": "Chest" }
	Bastion Remnant	Hoglin stable chest	1	11.4% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.11363636363636365, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Hoglin stable chest" }
		Generic chest	1	10.1% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.101123595505618, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Generic chest" }
	Desert Pyramid	Chest	1	23.5% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.23489794603087977, "structure": "Desert Pyramid", "container": "Chest" }
	Igloo	Chest	1	100% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 1, "structure": "Igloo", "container": "Chest" }
	Ruined Portal	Chest	1	20.5% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20469270240551518, "structure": "Ruined Portal", "container": "Chest" }
	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	2.4% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.024037471921875886, "structure": "Stronghold", "container": "Altar chest" }
	Trial Chambers	Ominous Vault	1	8.3% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.08275862068965523, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Ominous Vault" }
		Vault and reward chest	1	8.3% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.08333333333333337, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Vault and reward chest" }
	Underwater Ruins	Big ruins chest	1	4.3% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.04347826086956519, "structure": "Underwater Ruins", "container": "Big ruins chest" }
	Woodland Mansion	Chest	1	21.5% { "item": "Golden Apple", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.21505443965101612, "structure": "Woodland Mansion", "container": "Chest" }

Crafting

Ingredients	[hide]Crafting recipe
Gold Ingot + Apple

Usage

To eat a golden apple, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. It restores 4 () points of hunger and 9.6 hunger saturation.

Unlike most foods, golden apples can be eaten even if the hunger bar is full.

The golden apple provides:

• Absorption I for 2 minutes (providing 4HP points of absorption health)
• Regeneration II (1HP every 25 ticks, HP × 0.4 per second) for 5 seconds (long enough to heal 4HP points of damage)

Curing zombie villagers

A golden apple and a potion of Weakness can be used to convert a zombie villager into a regular villager.

Horses

Golden apples can be used for improving the chances of taming a horse by 10%, for breeding, leading and healing horses, and for speeding up the growth of baby horses by 4 minutes.

Piglins

Piglins are attracted to golden apples. They run toward any golden apples on the ground, and inspect it for 6 to 8 seconds before putting it in their inventory. However, piglins do not eat golden apples (or any food).

Sounds

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	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 Creatures	When a player finishes eating something	entity.generic.eat	subtitles.entity.generic.eat​	1.0	0.6-1.4	16
	​Burp	Players	When a player finishes eating something	entity.player.burp	subtitles.entity.player.burp​	0.5	0.9-1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Players	While a player is eating something	random.eat	0.5-1.1	0.8-1.2
	Players	When a player finishes eating something	random.burp	0.5	0.9-1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	[hide]Translation key
Golden Apple	golden_apple	Item	item.minecraft.golden_apple

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	[hide]Translation key
Golden Apple	golden_apple	258	Item	item.golden_apple.name

Achievements

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Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Oooh, shiny!	Distract a Piglin using gold	Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player.	30	Silver
		Zombie Doctor	Cure a zombie villager.	Throw a splash potion of weakness at a zombie villager and give it a golden apple (by facing the zombie and pressing the use key with a golden apple in your hand).	40	Gold

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Balanced Diet	Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you	Eat each of these 40 foods:[hide] Other foods and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.
	A Furious Cocktail	Have every potion effect applied at the same time	Have all of these 17 status effects applied to the player at the same time:[hide] The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement.
	How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	Have all of these 33 status effects applied to the player at the same time:[hide] The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	Consume anything that can be consumed, except for cake.
	Oh Shiny	Distract Piglins with gold	While aggravated, give a piglin one of these 25 gold-related items in the #piglin_loved item tag:[hide] The player must not be wearing any gold armor. Other gold-related items do not distract the piglin and do not trigger this advancement.
	Zombie Doctor	Weaken and then cure a Zombie Villager	Use a golden apple on a zombie villager under the Weakness effect; the advancement is granted when the zombie villager converts into a villager. In multiplayer, only the player that feeds the golden apple gets the advancement.

History

[hide]Java Edition Infdev
February 23, 2010							A player named JTE put a crafting recipe for golden apples as a joke at the bottom of a crafting guide she made. The recipe used gold ingots instead of blocks of gold.
20100227-1414							Added golden apples.
							Golden apples heal a full 20HP × 10 health points (internally 42HP × 21 health points), making them the best food in the entire game.
							Golden apples are crafted with an apple and eight gold blocks. However, since apples were not yet obtainable in normal gameplay, golden apples were not obtainable either.
20100625-1917							Golden apples can now be rarely found in dungeons, making them obtainable in normal gameplay.
[hide]Java Edition Beta
1.8			Pre-release				Due to the addition of hunger, golden apples have been changed so that they restore 10 (), instead of 20HP × 10 health points, but also give Regeneration for 30 seconds.
							Apples can now be found in stronghold storeroom chests, making golden apples craftable in normal gameplay for the first time.
[hide]Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2				Golden apples have been given 'glint' (animated purple glow) when viewed from the player's inventory, and its tooltip has now changed from the standard white to a magenta color.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				Golden apples can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests.
1.1			11w48a				Golden apples are now easier to craft. Standard apples now rarely drop from oak leaves, meaning that players no longer need to venture into strongholds to find one.
							As gold is also renewable via zombie pigmen, golden apples have become a renewable resource.
			release				Golden apples have been changed, so that they now restore 4 () and give only 5 seconds of Regeneration.
							The crafting recipe of golden apples has been modified, requiring 8 gold nuggets instead of 8 blocks of gold to craft. Although its natural spawn is rare, it is easier to obtain through crafting.
1.3.1			12w21a				With the addition of enchanted golden apples, which got a purple tooltip, the standard golden apple's tooltip changed to blue and its glint was removed. However, the standard golden apple's effects remain unchanged.
1.4.2			12w32a				Golden apples can now be fed to zombie villagers with the Weakness debuff causing them to revert to villagers after a delay of about 3 minutes.
1.6.1			13w16a				Golden apples can now be used to tame, breed and heal horses and donkeys.
			13w23a				Golden apples now use 8 gold ingots instead of 8 gold nuggets.
							The Regeneration effect of golden apples has been slowed down.
			13w23b				Golden apples now give the player Health Boost for 1:30 and Regeneration II for 0:10. This temporarily gives the player 4 extra base health points, and it heals a total of 4HP health points.
			13w24b				The Health Boost effect has been replaced with Absorption, lasting 1:30.
			13w25a				Absorption from golden apples now lasts 2:00.
1.9			15w37a				The Regeneration effect from golden apples has been reduced to Regeneration I (down from II).
			15w43a				A single golden apple can now sometimes be found in igloo chests.
			15w43b				A single golden apple is now always found in igloo chests.
			15w44a				The Regeneration effect from golden apples has been returned to Regeneration II (up from I).
							The average yield of golden apples from dungeon chests has been increased.
							Golden apples have been added to desert pyramid and mineshaft chests.
1.11			16w39a				Golden apples are now found in the new woodland mansion chests.
1.13			18w09a				Golden apples can now generate in the chests of underwater ruins.
1.14			18w43a				The texture for golden apples has been changed.
1.16			20w16a				Golden apples can now be found inside ruined portal chests.
			20w18a				Golden apples are now less common in ruined portal chests.
1.16.2			20w30a				Golden apples are now found in bastion remnant chests.
1.18			experimental snapshot 6				Horses, donkeys and mules now follow players holding golden apples.
1.19			22w14a				A single golden apple may now be found in the chest at city_center_2 in ancient cities.
1.20.5 Experiment Update 1.21			24w11a				Golden apples can now be obtained from vaults.
			24w13a				Golden apples can now be obtained from ominous vaults.
1.21.2			24w33a				The rarity of golden apples has been changed from "Rare" to "Common".
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1			build 1				Added golden apples.
			build 3				A crafting recipe has been added for golden apples.
v0.15.0			build 1				Golden apples can now be fed to horses, donkeys and mules.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.20.1				Golden apples can now generate in the chests of underwater ruins.
1.7.0			beta 1.7.0.2				Golden apples can now be eaten in Creative mode and on Peaceful difficulty.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture for golden apples has been changed.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.57				Golden apples can now be found inside ruined portal chests.
1.20.10			Preview 1.20.10.20				Horses, donkeys and mules now follow players holding golden apples.
1.20.80 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.80.22				Golden apples can now be obtained from vaults.
1.21.0 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.21.0.20				Golden apples can now be obtained from ominous vaults.
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.21				Golden apples now have a Common rarity.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added golden apples.
TU5							Due to the addition of hunger, golden apples have been changed, so that they restore 10 () instead of 20HP × 10 health points, but also give Regeneration for 30 seconds.
TU6							A crafting recipe has been added for golden apples, using 8 gold ingots instead of 8 gold nuggets. This change predates the release of 13w23a.
TU7							Golden apples have been given 'glint' (animated purple glow) when viewed from the player's inventory, and its tooltip has now changed from the standard white to a magenta color.
							Golden apples now use 8 gold nuggets instead of 8 gold ingots.
TU14		1.04					With the addition of enchanted golden apples, which got a purple tooltip, the standard golden apple's tooltip changed to blue and its glint was removed. However, the standard golden apple's effects remain unchanged.
							Golden apples can now be fed to zombie villagers with the Weakness debuff causing them to revert to villagers after a delay of about 3 minutes.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Golden apples can now be used to tame, breed and heal horses and donkeys.
							Golden apples now again use 8 gold ingots instead of 8 gold nuggets.
							Golden apples now give extra "Absorption" health for a short period.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		A single golden apple is now always found in igloo chests.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Golden apples can now be eaten in creative mode.
TU48	CU38	1.41	1.41	1.41	Patch 17		Golden apples are no longer consumed when eaten in creative mode.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Golden apples are now found in the new woodland mansion chests.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Golden apples can now generate in the chests of underwater ruins.
			1.90				The texture for golden apples has been changed.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added golden apples.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 322.
							The IDs and names of the golden apple and the enchanted golden apple have been split into golden_apple ("Golden Apple") and enchanted_golden_apple ("Enchanted Golden Apple").

Issues

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

Trivia

• A golden apple is featured in the Cotán painting.
• Golden apple is an element that appears in various national and ethnic folk legends and fairy tales.

Gallery

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  A comparison of the two golden apple variations.

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  A golden apple found in a dungeon.

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  Both types of golden apples found in the same woodland mansion chest in Minecraft Education.

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  A golden apple was found in a minecart chest in a mineshaft.

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  Golden apple in a monster room chest, prior to 1.3.1. It is equivalent to the now-separate enchanted golden apple.

Mojang screenshots

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  Steve eats a golden apple.

In other media

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  Sunny holding a golden apple in a trial chamber.

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  A golden apple as it appeared in Minecraft Earth.