Where to Find Golden Carrot in Minecraft

Golden Carrot, a food source filed under Food in Minecraft, comes from 3 places, and this page walks through all 3 methods that end with Golden Carrot in your inventory, fastest one first. Short version: Golden Carrot sits in All Overworld biomes (crafting), Ruined Portals, and Bastions, and craft using 8 Gold Nuggets and 1 Carrot. Difficulty for Golden Carrot: 2 of 5, which we call easy, since most players can secure it within their first in-game day with basic tools. You will not be hunting for Golden Carrot across biomes at all: a Crafting Table is the whole source, so read on for what goes into it, what each part costs you and the best moment to make one.

Biomes & Dimensions

• All Overworld biomes (crafting)
• Ruined Portals
• Bastions

All Methods

1. 1Craft using 8 Gold Nuggets and 1 Carrot
2. 2Found in Ruined Portal and Bastion Remnant chests
3. 3Sold by Master-level Farmer villagers (3 emeralds for 3 golden carrots)

• Gold Nuggets come from smelting gold tools/armor or mining Nether Gold Ore
• Carrots grow on farmland and are found in Village farms, or dropped by Zombies (rare)
• The best food in the game by saturation (14.4), keeping you full the longest
• Also a brewing ingredient for Potion of Night Vision
• Piglins dropping gold nuggets when bartering makes this easier in the Nether

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

A golden carrot is eight gold nuggets around a carrot, which makes it expensive as food and worth it as a brewing ingredient: it is the base of night vision. It also breeds and heals horses better than anything else, so a stable and a brewing stand compete for the same carrots.

Eight nuggets per carrot means the gold, not the carrot, is what limits production. A piglin bartering setup or a gold farm in the Nether solves that, and the result feeds both the potion of night vision and the best saturation food in the game.