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Raw Beef
Food

Raw Beef

Uncooked beef dropped by cows and mooshrooms. It restores 3 hunger points and is usually cooked first.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Food

Version Added

1.0

Item ID

raw_beef

Raw Beef at a glance

Raw Beef, a food item out of killing cows and mooshrooms, sits under Food. A single slot takes 64 Raw Beef, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest. Eating Raw Beef restores 3 hunger, 1.5 drumsticks on the bar, plus 1.8 saturation.

Restoring 3 hunger and 1.8 saturation, Raw Beef keeps your hunger bar topped up so natural health regeneration can continue, and the 1.8 is the part that decides how long it takes before you reach for Raw Beef again. It sits between Rabbit Stew and Raw Chicken in Food, number 26 of 37 there.

How to obtain

  • Killing cows and mooshrooms

Food value

Hunger Restored

3 (1.5 drumsticks)

Saturation

1.8

Time to Eat

1.6 seconds

Eat On A Full Bar

No

Mobs that drop it

Cow is one of the 2 mobs dropping Raw Beef, at 1 to 3 a kill. Looting III turns Cow into 6 Raw Beef instead of 3, 1 per level.

Eating

Eating Raw Beef takes 1.6 seconds a helping, and 7 of them fill an empty bar, so 11.2 seconds of chewing takes you from starving to full. Per point of hunger you get 0.6 saturation out of Raw Beef, and saturation is what drains before hunger does. That is 22 of 37 on saturation, between Chorus Fruit at 2.4 and Raw Porkchop at 1.8.

Notes

Smelts into steak. Can be used to breed and lead cows.

Frequently asked questions about Raw Beef

  1. Killing cows and mooshrooms leading to Raw Beef, the way this answer says Raw Beef arrives

    How do you get Raw Beef in Minecraft?

    Raw Beef is obtained through killing cows and mooshrooms. It cannot be crafted, only obtained the way described.

  2. Raw Beef on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Raw Beef used for?

    Raw Beef is eaten to restore 3 hunger and 1.8 saturation, helping you keep your hunger bar full and regenerate health.

  3. Several Raw Beef at once, the way a kill drops them

    Which mobs drop Raw Beef?

    Cow is one of the 2 mobs dropping Raw Beef, at 1 to 3 a kill. Looting III turns Cow into 6 Raw Beef instead of 3, 1 per level.

  4. 64 Raw Beef drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Raw Beef can you stack?

    64 Raw Beef fit one slot, and eating all 64 is 9.6 bars of hunger. A shulker box of Raw Beef comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

  5. Raw Beef coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.0

    When was Raw Beef added to Minecraft?

    Raw Beef was added in the 1.0 full release.

  6. Raw Beef beside the 3 hunger points one helping restores

    How long does it take to eat Raw Beef?

    Hold right click 1.6 seconds for one Raw Beef, 7 times for a full bar, 11.2 seconds for that meal of Raw Beef. Each bite hands back 3 hunger, so the 7 of them add up to a full bar.

Building with it

Three hunger raw against eight cooked makes beef the clearest argument for carrying a furnace. Cows drop one to three each, and with Looting the number climbs, so a single herd fills a smoker for a long while.