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Minecraft resource gathering/Apple
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alt=A traditional red apple with a brown stalk at the top|thumb|The texture for apples looks like this real-life red apple
Apples are a renewable food source and crafting material obtainable from Oak trees and Villager trading.
Obtaining
Oak trees
The simplest way to gather an Apple is to cut down an Oak or Dark Oak tree and wait for its leaves to decay: each leaf has a 1 in 200 chance of dropping an apple.
A faster method is to manually break the leaves. You don't need a tool for this, but a Hoe enchanted with Efficiency lets you instantly break them. Furthermore, the Fortune enchantment (with any tool) improves your chances of receiving an apple.
+How Fortune affects the drop rate for ApplesEnchantmentDrop rateNone1 in 200Fortune I1 in 180Fortune II1 in 160Fortune III1 in 120
Villagers
Farmer villagers can sell 4 Apples for 1 Emerald. This is one of three possible second-tier (Apprentice) trades, meaning that 2 3 of Farmers will sell Apples.
Since the base price is 1 Emerald, this offer doesn't have any discounts and therefore isn't affected by positive reputation or curing. However, it is still worth curing Farmers to receive discounts on their other useful trades, including selling Golden Carrots and buying Potatoes/Carrots.
Chests
Apples can be found as loot in some naturally-generating Chests.
+Chances of finding apples in different ChestsChestChanceChance (%)CountBonus chest5 in 1145%1–2Stronghold crossing15 in 6224%1–3Igloo5 in 2124%1–3Village Plains house10 in 4323%1–5Village Weaponsmith15 in 9416%1–3Stronghold corridor3 in 2015%1–3
Uses
An apple provides 4 hunger points and 2.4 saturation when eaten. In addition, surrounding an apple with 8 Gold Ingots at a Crafting Table makes a Golden Apple, which gives Regeneration II for 5 seconds and Absorption for 2 minutes.
You can feed Horses Apples to heal them by 4 health, or breed them if they are at full health.
Apples can also be composted, with a 65% chance of adding a compost layer. On average, you'll need 10.77 Apples to get 1 Bonemeal.
History
Java Edition
Java Edition Indev 0.31
Apples were first added in Indev version 0.31 as the second food item, after Mushrooms
They were only obtainable from the starter chest
Apples restored 4 health points when eaten (this was before the hunger bar was added)
Java Edition Infdev
When Minecraft left the Indev development stage, the starter house was removed, making Apples unobtainable
Java Edition Beta 1.8
Beta 1.8 introduced the hunger system, meaning that apples now restored hunger instead of health points
Apples (along with other foods) can now be stacked
Apples can now be found in Stronghold Chests
Java Edition 1.1
Apples were made a renewable resource in version 1.1, which added apples as a possible drop from Oak Leaves
1.1 also added Chests to Blacksmith Village buildings, which could contain apples
Java Edition 1.3.1
Farmer Villagers can now sell apples
Bonus Chests were added, which often contain apples
Java Edition 1.5
The drop rate for Apples from Leaves is now affected by Fortune
Java Edition 1.9
Igloos were added with Chests that sometimes contain Apples
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