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Bowl
MiscellaneousCraftable

Bowl

A wooden container used to craft mushroom stew, rabbit stew, beetroot soup and suspicious stew. The bowl is returned to the inventory after the stew is eaten.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

bowl

Bowl at a glance

Crafting gives you Bowl, an item filed under Miscellaneous. A slot of Bowl holds 64, nine slots hold 576, and 1728 fill a chest. A furnace accepts Bowl, though 2 go into one smelt, 32 items to a stack.

3 recipes in this catalogue start with Bowl, so it behaves less like a single item and more like a supply you keep topped up. It sits between Bottle o' Enchanting and Breeze Rod in Miscellaneous, number 15 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
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Used to craft

Bowl is an ingredient in 3 other recipes across 1 category, 3 of them in Food, Beetroot Soup first and Rabbit Stew last. Every name in the list has a page of its own, grid included, with Bowl in it.

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Mobs that drop it

Turtle drops 1 of them.

Fuel value

Bowl burns for 5 seconds (100 ticks), so 2 Bowl smelt one item

Notes

Any wood type of planks works. Bowls are not a fuel source.

Frequently asked questions about Bowl

  1. Planks going into Bowl, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Bowl in Minecraft?

    Bowl is crafted from Planks at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 4.

  2. Several Bowl at once, the way a kill drops them

    Which mobs drop Bowl?

    Turtle drops 1 of them.

  3. Bowl with the glow of an enchantment behind it, 0 of which fit

    Can Bowl be enchanted?

    No. Bowl cannot be enchanted in vanilla Minecraft.

  4. Bowl turning into Beetroot Soup and Mushroom Stew, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Bowl used for?

    Bowl is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Beetroot Soup, Mushroom Stew, and Rabbit Stew.

  5. 64 Bowl drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Bowl can you stack?

    64 Bowl fill one slot, and filling it costs 48 Planks, since each one returns 4: 16 crafts. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once. A double chest of Bowl comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

  6. Bowl beside a furnace, which is where its 5 seconds of burning go

    Can Bowl be used as fuel?

    Bowl is a small fuel: 5 seconds apiece, against the 10 seconds a furnace spends on one item, so 2 of them cover a single smelt. A furnace throws away no remainder, which is why Bowl works out at exactly 2 to the item.

Building with it

Three planks give four bowls, and bowls hold every stew and soup in the game. Because the bowl comes back when the stew is eaten, one set lasts forever, which makes mushroom stew the cheapest sustainable food a player can live on.