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Bread in Minecraft: Hunger, Saturation and How to Get It
Bread is an easy early food made from 3 wheat. It restores 5 hunger and 6 saturation. Farmer villagers sell 6 bread for one emerald, and bread is common in village, mineshaft and stronghold chests.
How much does bread restore?
| Hunger | 5 |
| Saturation | 6 |
Each hunger point is half a drumstick, so 5 hunger is 2.5 drumsticks.
How do you get it?
Craft 3 wheat in a row. Farmers trade it, bake it from their own wheat, and on Java throw it to Hero of the Village players. It is also found in many chests and from trial spawners.
Tips
Villagers need 3 bread to become willing to breed. Composting wheat is better than composting bread made from it.
More about bread
Farmer villagers bake bread from the wheat they harvest and share it with other villagers. A wheat farm next to a crafting table makes bread the easiest renewable food early on, before you have animals to cook.
How hunger works
Hunger points refill the hunger bar (20 points, 10 drumsticks), and saturation is a hidden buffer that drains first. With 18 or more hunger, or any saturation, health regenerates naturally; at 6 or less you cannot sprint, and at 0 you take starvation damage. Most foods take 1.6 seconds to eat, and you cannot eat at full hunger except a few special foods. Foods with high saturation keep you healing longer, which matters most in fights. Raw food cooks the same in a furnace, a smoker or a campfire: smokers are twice as fast, and campfires need no fuel at all. See food and hunger and crop farming.
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Frequently asked questions
How much wheat makes bread?
3 wheat makes 1 bread.
How much hunger does bread restore?
5 hunger and 6 saturation.
Sources
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