Rotten Flesh
A drop from zombies that restores 4 hunger points but has an 80% chance to inflict Hunger.
Stack Size
64
Durability
N/A
Category
Food
Version Added
Alpha
Item ID
rotten_flesh
Rotten Flesh at a glance
Rotten Flesh, a food item out of killing zombies, husks, drowned, and zombie villagers and fishing (junk), sits under Food. Carrying Rotten Flesh is cheap: 64 to a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 1728 in a chest. Hunger goes up 4 and saturation 0.8 when you eat Rotten Flesh, so 2 drumsticks a time.
4 hunger back per Rotten Flesh keeps natural regeneration running, and the 0.8 saturation behind it is what buys you the time until the next meal, rather longer than the hunger number on its own suggests. Of the 8 kinds of generated chest that can hold Rotten Flesh, village temple chests are the best bet at about 89% per chest. It sits between Raw Salmon and Spider Eye in Food, number 33 of 37 there.
How to obtain
- Killing zombies, husks, drowned, and zombie villagers
- Fishing (junk)
Food value
Hunger Restored
4 (2 drumsticks)
Saturation
0.8
Time to Eat
1.6 seconds
Eat On A Full Bar
No
Mobs that drop it
You can get Rotten Flesh off 9 mobs, and the richest of them give 2 to 3 per kill. Looting on Camel Husk pays 1 more Rotten Flesh a level, 3 becoming 6.
Eating
Count 8 seconds to eat back a whole bar with Rotten Flesh: 5 helpings at 1.6 seconds each. The saturation behind each point is 0.2, so Rotten Flesh holds the bar steady that much longer after the meal. On saturation Rotten Flesh lands at 29 of 37, just under Raw Mutton and just over Dried Kelp. Swallowing Rotten Flesh comes with Hunger for 30 seconds, but only 80 times out of 100.
Notes
Eating has an 80% chance to apply Hunger for 30 seconds. Can be fed to tamed wolves safely and used to breed them.
