Raw Beef

Raw beef is a food item that can be eaten by the player or cooked in a furnace, smoker, or campfire to make steak.

Obtaining

Mob loot

When adult cows and mooshrooms are killed, they drop 1-3 raw beef. The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 1-6 with Looting III. If killed while on fire, they drop steak instead.

Chest loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Raw Beef	Village	Butcher's chest	1–3	48.6%
Bedrock Edition
Raw Beef	Village	Butcher's chest	1–3	48.6%

Usage

Food

To eat raw beef, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores 3 () hunger and 1.8 hunger saturation.

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Steak	Raw Beef + Any fuel	0.35

Wolves

Raw beef can be used to breed and heal tamed wolves, lead them around, and make baby tamed wolves grow up faster by 10% of the remaining time.

Trading

Journeyman-level Butcher villagers have a 50% chance to buy 10 raw beef for an emerald.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Journeyman-level Butcher villagers always offer buy 10 raw beef for an emerald.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Sounds

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Eating	Players	While a player is eating something	`entity.generic.eat`	`subtitles.entity.generic.eat`	varies ^{[sound 1]}	0.8-1.2	16
Eating	Friendly Creatures	When a player finishes eating something	`entity.generic.eat`	`subtitles.entity.generic.eat`	1.0	0.6-1.4	16
Burp	Players	When a player finishes eating something	`entity.player.burp`	`subtitles.entity.player.burp`	0.5	0.9-1.0	16

↑ Can be 0.5, 1.0, or 1.5

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Players	While a player is eating something	`random.eat`	0.5-1.1	0.8-1.2
	Players	When a player finishes eating something	`random.burp`	0.5	0.9-1.0

Advancements

	Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
		Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	—	Consume anything that can be consumed.	`husbandry/root`
		A Balanced Diet	Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you	A Seedy Place	Eat each of these 40 foods: Apple Baked Potato Beetroot Beetroot Soup Bread Carrot Chorus Fruit Cooked Chicken Cooked Cod Cooked Mutton Cooked Porkchop Cooked Rabbit Cooked Salmon Cookie Dried Kelp Enchanted Golden Apple Glow Berries Golden Apple Golden Carrot Honey Bottle Melon Slice Mushroom Stew Poisonous Potato Potato Pufferfish Pumpkin Pie Rabbit Stew Raw Beef Raw Chicken Raw Cod Raw Mutton Raw Porkchop Raw Rabbit Raw Salmon Rotten Flesh Spider Eye Steak Suspicious Stew Sweet Berries Tropical Fish Other foods and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.	`husbandry/balanced_diet`

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Raw Beef	`beef`	Item	`item.minecraft.beef`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Raw Beef	`beef`	`273`	Item	`item.beef.name`

History

Java Edition Beta
1.8		Pre-release		Added raw beef.
1.8		Pre-release		Raw beef is one of the new food items, dropped by cows in addition to their leather.
Java Edition
1.2.1		12w03a		Raw beef can now be used to breed wolves.
1.3.1		12w21a		Raw beef can now be sold to butcher villagers, at 14–17 raw beef for 1 emerald.
1.3.1		1.3		The texture of raw beef has been changed.
1.4.2		12w37a		The texture of raw beef has been changed, so that it no longer has a dark outline.
1.8		14w02a		Villagers no longer trade for raw beef.
1.13		17w47a		Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 363.
1.14		18w43a		The texture of raw beef has been changed.
		18w49a		Raw beef can now be found in chests in village butcher shops.
		19w11a		Butcher villagers now buy raw beef.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0				Added raw beef.
v0.5.0				Raw beef now restores 3 instead of 1.
v0.8.0		build 1		The texture of raw beef has been changed, so that it no longer has a dark outline.
v0.9.0		build 1		Raw beef has been added to Creative mode.
v0.12.1		build 1		Raw beef now restores hunger instead of health.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3		The texture of raw beef has been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1		Raw beef can now be found in village butcher chests.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4		Raw beef can now be sold to butcher villagers.
Legacy Console Edition
TU5	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	Added raw beef.
TU12	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	The texture of raw beef has been changed, so that it no longer has a dark outline.
		1.90		The texture of raw beef has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0				Added raw beef.