This article is about a food item. For other uses of the word "chicken", see Chicken (disambiguation).
Cooked chicken is a food item that can be eaten by the player.
Obtaining
Mob loot
When a chicken dies while on fire, it drops one cooked chicken. The maximum is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 1–4 cooked chicken with Looting III.
Cooking
Raw chicken can be cooked in a furnace, smoker, or campfire. Each piece of cooked chicken removed from a furnace output slot gives 0.35 experience (22.4 experience per stack).
| Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|
| Raw Chicken + Any fuel |
Trading
In Java Edition, apprentice-level butcher villagers have a 2⁄3 chance to sell 8 cooked chicken for an emerald.
Butcher villagers may give cooked chicken to players with the Hero of the Village effect.[Java Edition only]
In Bedrock Edition, apprentice-level butcher villagers have a 25% chance to sell 8 cooked chicken for an emerald as part of their trades.
Usage
Food
To eat cooked chicken, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores 6 (
) hunger and 7.2 hunger saturation.
Wolves
Cooked chicken 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.
Sounds
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eating | Players | While a player is eating something | entity | subtitles | varies [sound 1] | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Eating | Friendly Creatures | When a player finishes eating something | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.6-1.4 | 16 | |
| Burp | Players | When a player finishes eating something | entity | subtitles | 0.5 | 0.9-1.0 | 16 |
- ↑ Can be 0.5, 1.0, or 1.5
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | While a player is eating something | random | 0.5-1.1 | 0.8-1.2 | |
| Players | When a player finishes eating something | random | 0.5 | 0.9-1.0 |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooked Chicken | cooked_chicken | Item | item.minecraft.cooked_chicken |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooked Chicken | cooked_chicken | 276 | Item | item.cooked_chicken.name |
Advancements
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Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|
 | Husbandry | The world is full of friends and food | — | Consume anything that can be consumed. | husbandry/root
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 | 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:
| husbandry/balanced_diet
|
Video
History
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 19, 2011 |  A teaser image for cooked chicken is revealed by Jeb. | ||||
| July 19, 2011 |  Jens changes the texture based on feedback, saying "the chicken may be too smooth compared to other MC items."[1] | ||||
| 1.8 | Pre-release |  Added cooked chicken. | |||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.2.1 | 12w03a | Cooked chicken can now be used to breed wolves. | |||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Farmer villagers now sell 7–8 cooked chicken for 1 emerald. | |||
| 1.4.2 | 12w37a |  The texture of cooked chicken has been changed so that it no longer has a dark outline. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Butcher villagers now sell 6–8 cooked chicken for 1 emerald. Farmer villagers no longer sell cooked chicken. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w43a | Chickens can now drop several cooked chickens if killed with a Looting-enchanted weapon. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 366. | |||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | The texture of cooked chicken has been changed. | |||
| 19w13a | Butcher villagers now give cooked chicken to players under the Hero of the Village effect. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.4.0 | Added cooked chicken. | ||||
| v0.5.0 | Cooked chicken now restores 6 instead of 3 . | ||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | The texture of cooked chicken has been changed so that it no longer has a dark outline. | |||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Cooked chicken now restores hunger instead of health. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.4 | alpha 1.0.4.0 | Butcher villagers now sell 6–8 cooked chicken for 1 emerald. | |||
| ? | Chickens can now drop several cooked chickens if killed with a Looting-enchanted weapon. | ||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | The texture of cooked chicken has been changed. | |||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Trading has been changed, butcher villagers now have a 25% chance to sell 4 cooked chicken as part of their second-tier trade. | |||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Trading has been changed, apprentice butcher villagers now have a 25% chance to sell 8 cooked chicken instead of 4. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU5 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added cooked chicken. | |
| TU12 | The texture of cooked chicken has been changed so that it no longer has a dark outline. | ||||
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.90 | The texture of cooked chicken has been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added cooked chicken. | ||||
Trivia
- In A Minecraft Movie, Lava Chicken is a similar variant to cooked chicken, however it involves dumping Lava on Chickens. This technique is clearly seen in the film, where Steve (enacted by Jack Black) pulls down a lever, which drops a chicken in a lava chamber.
- This technique is possible in-game, and could be a reference to automated chicken farms in game, where dispensers with lava are used to burn a chicken and take back the lava as it dies.
- How this machine would work is chickens are stored on top, redstone staircases up and activates both a trapdoor and a dispenser, lava falls on the chicken, and steve sings the song, however in game this cooking process would be instantaneous. Seeing as the lava is not removed as the cooked chicken comes out, there must be a slab with hopper under. Then a hopper pipe transports it into a dropper, which drops it on a oak plank,then the garbage man eats it.
- When a player eats a Lava Chicken, flame or smoke comes out of the mouth or nose. This doesn't happen in game.
- The "Lava Chicken" song became a popular hit, when the film came out in the theaters. Because of this, Mojang added the Lava Chicken Music Disc, a remix of the original song by HyperPotions.
Issues
Issues relating to "Cooked Chicken" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
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