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Steak in Minecraft: Hunger, Saturation and How to Get It
Steak is cooked raw beef and, with cooked porkchops and pumpkin pie, ties for the most hunger of any stackable food: 8 hunger and 12.8 saturation. Cows and mooshrooms drop raw beef, and killing them with fire drops steak directly.
How much does steak restore?
| Hunger | 8 |
| Saturation | 12.8 |
Each hunger point is half a drumstick, so 8 hunger is 4 drumsticks.
How do you get it?
Cook raw beef in a furnace, smoker or campfire; each one gives 0.35 experience from a furnace. Butchers give steak to Hero of the Village players on Java, and ominous trial spawners can drop it.
Tips
Steak also breeds and heals tamed wolves. A cow farm with a smoker keeps a whole base fed.
More about steak
Raw beef restores only 3 hunger and 1.8 saturation, so cooking more than doubles its value. Each steak taken from a furnace gives 0.35 experience, or 22.4 for a full stack.
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 cows.
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Frequently asked questions
Is steak the best food?
Steak, cooked porkchops and pumpkin pie tie for the most hunger of any stackable food (8).
How much hunger does steak restore?
8 hunger and 12.8 saturation.
Sources
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