Edible Dirt

Quickstart

1. Collect dirt.
2. Use a crafting table to craft Edible Dirt:

1. Put Edible Dirt in your hotbar and hold the use button to eat it.
2. Try it when your hunger bar is not full. It restores a small amount of hunger, but it has no additional effects.

In Creative mode, look for Edible Dirt in the Equipment category.

Overview

Edible Dirt turns ordinary dirt into a food item. It is useful as an emergency food source when better food is unavailable—or simply for the experience of eating one of Minecraft’s strangest meals.

What It Adds

• Edible Dirt food item
• Shapeless crafting recipe using one dirt block
• Stack size of 64
• Standard eating behavior with no special side effects

How To Use

Hold Edible Dirt and press or hold the use button to begin eating. The eating action takes about 1.6 seconds, during which your movement is slowed.

Edible Dirt cannot be eaten while your hunger bar is full. After eating, it restores 1 hunger point—half a hunger icon—and provides very little saturation.

Crafting And Obtaining

Craft one Edible Dirt from one dirt block at a crafting table:

You can also obtain it from the Creative inventory’s Equipment category.

Abilities And Mechanics

Progression And Strategy

Use Edible Dirt as a last-resort food during early exploration or after running out of normal supplies. Because it restores very little hunger and saturation, carry other food whenever possible. Its low crafting cost makes it easy to produce in an emergency, as long as you can reach a crafting table.