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Feather
Miscellaneous

Feather

An item dropped by chickens and parrots. It is used to craft arrows.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

feather

Feather at a glance

Minecraft files Feather under Miscellaneous: an item you get from mob drops. Carrying Feather is cheap: 64 to a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 1728 in a chest.

Feather is also a hub ingredient, feeding 3 different recipes in this catalogue, so a stock in a chest unlocks that many crafts at once. Of the 3 kinds of generated chest that can hold Feather, shipwreck map chests are the best bet at about 60% per chest. It sits between Eye of Ender and Fermented Spider Eye in Miscellaneous, number 44 of 147 there.

Used to craft

Follow Feather forward and you land on 3 recipes: 1 in Weapons, the rest spread over 2 other categories, Arrow through Brush. Each link below opens that recipe with Feather in the grid.

How to obtain

  • Mob drops

Mobs that drop it

You can get Feather off 2 mobs, and the richest of them give 0 to 2 per kill. Looting III turns Chicken into 5 Feather instead of 2, 1 per level.

Notes

Used to craft Arrows and the Brush.

Frequently asked questions about Feather

  1. Mob drops leading to Feather, the way this answer says Feather arrives

    How do you get Feather in Minecraft?

    Feather is obtained through mob drops. You never craft Feather; 3 recipes spend it.

  2. 64 Feather drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Feather can you stack?

    Feather at 64 a slot, and Arrow takes 1 per craft, so a full slot is 64 Arrow with nothing left over. A double chest of Feather comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

  3. A chest beside Feather, the loot this answer lists

    Where do you find Feather in chests?

    Feather is chest loot in shipwreck map chests (about 60%, 1 to 5 at a time), village fletcher chests (about 56%, 1 to 3 at a time), and plains village houses (about 12%). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

  4. Several Feather at once, the way a kill drops them

    Which mobs drop Feather?

    You can get Feather off 2 mobs, and the richest of them give 0 to 2 per kill. Looting III turns Chicken into 5 Feather instead of 2, 1 per level.

  5. Feather turning into Arrow and Book and Quill, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Feather used for?

    Feather is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Arrow, Book and Quill, and Brush.

  6. Feather coming forward out of the past, in the game since Alpha

    When was Feather added to Minecraft?

    Feather was added in the early Alpha development period.

Building with it

Chickens drop feathers, and feathers make arrows and the brush. A chicken farm running on thrown eggs produces both feathers and food without any input at all, which is why arrows stop being a concern in most worlds surprisingly early.

Related Astroworld Resources

Villager trades for Feather

What villagers ask for Feather on Astroworld Trades

Chicken drops Feather

The Chicken page on Astroworld Mobs, where Feather is listed as a drop

Parrot drops Feather

The Parrot page on Astroworld Mobs, where Feather is listed as a drop

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