How do you get Golden Carrot in Minecraft?

Golden Carrot is crafted from Gold Nugget and Carrot at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from trading (Farmer), and Golden Carrot from Ruined Portal chest loot, not just the recipe above.

What is Golden Carrot used for?

Golden Carrot is eaten to restore 6 hunger and 14.4 saturation, helping you keep your hunger bar full and regenerate health.

How many Golden Carrot can you stack?

64 Golden Carrot go in a slot, and eaten out again that is 19.2 bars. A double chest of Golden Carrot comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

How long does it take to eat Golden Carrot?

1.6 seconds for one Golden Carrot, and an empty bar of Golden Carrot means 4 of those, or 6.4 seconds in total. Each bite hands back 6 hunger, so the 4 of them add up to a full bar.

When was Golden Carrot added to Minecraft?

Golden Carrot was added in version 1.4.2.

Where do you find Golden Carrot in chests?

Golden Carrot is chest loot in the ancient city ice box (about 55%, 1 to 10 at a time), bastion chests (about 14%, 6 to 17 at a time), bastion hoglin stable chests (about 10%, 8 to 17 at a time), and trial chamber vaults (roughly 1 in 11, 1 to 2 at a time). It shows up in 5 kinds of chest in total. Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

FoodCraftable

Golden Carrot

A food item with the highest saturation of any food in the game. Also used as a brewing ingredient for Night Vision potions.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Golden Carrot at a glance

Golden Carrot, a food item out of crafting, trading (Farmer), and Ruined Portal chest loot, sits under Food. 64 Golden Carrot fit in a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 3456 in a double chest. It is worth 6 hunger and 14.4 saturation, which reads as 3 drumsticks.

Eating Golden Carrot puts 6 hunger and 14.4 saturation back on the clock, and while the hunger number fills the bar in front of you, the saturation is what keeps it working for you long afterwards. Of the 5 kinds of generated chest that can hold Golden Carrot, the ancient city ice box is the best bet at about 55% per chest. It sits between Golden Apple and Honey Bottle in Food, number 19 of 37 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Gold Nugget
Gold Nugget
Gold Nugget
Gold Nugget
Carrot
Gold Nugget
Gold Nugget
Gold Nugget
Gold Nugget
Golden Carrot
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Golden Carrot has the grid for Golden Carrot

How to obtain

Crafting
Trading (Farmer)
Ruined Portal chest loot

Food value

Hunger Restored

6 (3 drumsticks)

Saturation

14.4

Time to Eat

1.6 seconds

Eat On A Full Bar

Eating

Eating Golden Carrot takes 1.6 seconds a helping, and 4 of them fill an empty bar, so 6.4 seconds of chewing takes you from starving to full. Per point of hunger you get 2.4 saturation out of Golden Carrot, and saturation is what drains before hunger does. Nothing here restores more saturation than Golden Carrot; the next one down is Cooked Beef at 12.8.

Notes

Highest saturation of any food. Used to brew Potion of Night Vision. Preferred food for speedrunning and PvP.

Frequently asked questions about Golden Carrot

How do you get Golden Carrot in Minecraft?
Golden Carrot is crafted from Gold Nugget and Carrot at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from trading (Farmer), and Golden Carrot from Ruined Portal chest loot, not just the recipe above.
What is Golden Carrot used for?
Golden Carrot is eaten to restore 6 hunger and 14.4 saturation, helping you keep your hunger bar full and regenerate health.
How many Golden Carrot can you stack?
64 Golden Carrot go in a slot, and eaten out again that is 19.2 bars. A double chest of Golden Carrot comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.
How long does it take to eat Golden Carrot?
1.6 seconds for one Golden Carrot, and an empty bar of Golden Carrot means 4 of those, or 6.4 seconds in total. Each bite hands back 6 hunger, so the 4 of them add up to a full bar.
When was Golden Carrot added to Minecraft?
Golden Carrot was added in version 1.4.2.
Where do you find Golden Carrot in chests?
Golden Carrot is chest loot in the ancient city ice box (about 55%, 1 to 10 at a time), bastion chests (about 14%, 6 to 17 at a time), bastion hoglin stable chests (about 10%, 8 to 17 at a time), and trial chamber vaults (roughly 1 in 11, 1 to 2 at a time). It shows up in 5 kinds of chest in total. Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

Building with it

Eight gold nuggets around a carrot give the highest saturation food in the game: six hunger but far more staying power than anything else. It is also the ingredient for night vision potions, so a gold farm and a carrot farm together solve two problems at once.

In practice

Saturation is what golden carrots are really for: they keep the hunger bar from moving for far longer than any ordinary food, which is why they are the standard food for a raid or a long trip. Eight nuggets each means a gold farm rather than a carrot farm is the limit.

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