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Raw Mutton
Food

Raw Mutton

Uncooked mutton dropped by sheep. It restores 2 hunger points and is usually cooked first.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Food

Version Added

1.8

Item ID

raw_mutton

Raw Mutton at a glance

Food holds Raw Mutton: a food item out of killing sheep. 64 Raw Mutton fit in a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 3456 in a double chest. Eating Raw Mutton restores 2 hunger, 1 drumstick on the bar, plus 1.2 saturation.

Restoring 2 hunger and 1.2 saturation, Raw Mutton keeps your hunger bar topped up so natural health regeneration can continue, and the 1.2 is the part that decides how long it takes before you reach for Raw Mutton again. It additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Cooked Mutton. It sits between Raw Cod and Raw Porkchop in Food, number 29 of 37 there.

Used to craft

Only Cooked Mutton uses Raw Mutton as an ingredient, so this list runs to a single link. Every name in the list has a page of its own, grid included, with Raw Mutton in it.

How to obtain

  • Killing sheep

Food value

Hunger Restored

2 (1 drumsticks)

Saturation

1.2

Time to Eat

1.6 seconds

Eat On A Full Bar

No

Mobs that drop it

Killing a Sheep leaves 1 to 2 behind. Looting III turns Sheep into 5 Raw Mutton instead of 2, 1 per level.

Eating

Eating Raw Mutton takes 1.6 seconds a helping, and 10 of them fill an empty bar, so 16 seconds of chewing takes you from starving to full. The saturation behind each point is 0.6, so Raw Mutton holds the bar steady that much longer after the meal. That is 28 of 37 on saturation, between Raw Chicken at 1.2 and Rotten Flesh at 0.8.

Notes

Smelts into cooked mutton.

Frequently asked questions about Raw Mutton

  1. Killing sheep leading to Raw Mutton, the way this answer says Raw Mutton arrives

    How do you get Raw Mutton in Minecraft?

    Raw Mutton is obtained through killing sheep. It is not craftable, but it is an ingredient in 1 recipe.

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

    Which mobs drop Raw Mutton?

    Killing a Sheep leaves 1 to 2 behind. Looting III turns Sheep into 5 Raw Mutton instead of 2, 1 per level.

  3. Raw Mutton coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.8

    When was Raw Mutton added to Minecraft?

    Raw Mutton was added in version 1.8.

  4. Raw Mutton turning into Cooked Mutton, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Raw Mutton used for?

    Raw Mutton is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Cooked Mutton.

  5. 64 Raw Mutton drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Raw Mutton can you stack?

    64 Raw Mutton fit one slot, and eating all 64 is 6.4 bars of hunger. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once. A double chest of Raw Mutton comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

  6. Raw Mutton beside the 2 hunger points one helping restores

    How long does it take to eat Raw Mutton?

    1.6 seconds for one Raw Mutton, 10 Raw Mutton for an empty bar, 16 seconds for the two multiplied out. What that time buys is 0.6 saturation for every hunger point, which is where Raw Mutton sits against the rest.

Building with it

Two hunger raw and six cooked makes mutton one of the bigger cooking gains in the game. Sheep drop one to two each, and since a wool farm kills nothing, most mutton comes from deliberate breeding rather than shearing.