Cooked Chicken
This article is about the food item. For the food in A Minecraft Movie, see Movie:Chicken Β§ Cooked. For other uses of the word "chicken", see Chicken (disambiguation).
Cooked Chicken

| Other names |
Roast Chicken (GBGB, NZNZ) |
|---|---|
| Rarity tier |
Common |
| Consumption time |
32 game ticks (1.6 seconds) |
| Hunger |
6 () |
| Saturation |
7.2 () |
| Always consumable |
No |
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
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Cooked chicken[a] is a food item that is obtained by cooking raw chicken.
Obtaining
See also: Animal farming
Mob loot
| Mob | Quantity / Chance / Average | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | ||||||||||
| Chicken[A] | 1 | 100.00% | 1.00 | 1β2 | 100.00% | 1.50 | 1β3 | 100.00% | 2.00 | 1β4 | 100.00% | 2.50 | |
| Mob | Quantity / Chance / Average | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | ||||||||||
| Chicken[A] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1β2 | 1 | 3β2 | 1β3 | 1 | 2 | 1β4 | 1 | 5β2 | |
- β Only when on fire or killed with a weapon enchanted with Fire Aspect.
| Mob | Quantity / Chance / Average | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | ||||||||||
| Chicken[A] | 1 | 100.00% | 1.00 | 1β2 | 100.00% | 1.50 | 1β3 | 100.00% | 2.00 | 1β4 | 100.00% | 2.50 | |
| Mob | Quantity / Chance / Average | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | ||||||||||
| Chicken[A] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1β2 | 1 | 3β2 | 1β3 | 1 | 2 | 1β4 | 1 | 5β2 | |
- β Only when on fire.
Generated loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition and Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Trial spawner | 1 | 15%{ "item": "Cooked Chicken", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.15000000000000002, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Trial spawner" }
| ||
Cooking
| Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|
| Raw Chicken + Any fuel |
Trading
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | Trades in stock | Villager experience | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | ||||||
| 67% | 50% | 8 Γ | 16 | 5 | |||
Villager gifts
Butcher villagers may give cooked chicken to players with the Hero of the Village effect.β[Java Edition only]
Usage
Food
See also: Hunger management
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
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| βEating | Players | While a player is eating something | entity | subtitlesβ | varies [sound 1] | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| βEating | Friendly Mobs | When a player finishes eating something | entity | subtitlesβ | 1.0 | 0.6-1.4 | 16 | |
| βBurp | Players | When a player finishes eating something | entity | subtitlesβ | 0.5 | 0.9-1.0 | 16 | |
- β Can be 0.5, 1.0, or 1.5
| Sounds | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
cooked_chicken | 276 | Item | item |
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Husbandry | The world is full of friends and food | Consume anything that can be consumed, except for cake. |
![]() | A Balanced Diet | Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you | Eat each of these 40 foods:
|
Video
History
| July 19, 2011 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 21, 2011 | |||||||
Java Edition
| Java Edition Beta | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | Pre-release | ||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.2.1 | 12w03a | Cooked chicken can now be used to breed wolves. | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Farmer villagers now sell 7β8 cooked chicken for 1 emerald. | |||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w37a | ||||||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Butcher villagers now sell 6β8 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. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||||
| 19w11a | Butcher villagers now sell 8 cooked chicken for 1 emerald. | ||||||
| 19w13a | Butcher villagers now give cooked chicken to players under the Hero of the Village effect. | ||||||
| 1.20.5 Experiment | 24w13a | Cooked chicken can now be ejected as loot from trial spawners. | |||||
Bedrock Edition
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.4.0 | |||||||
| v0.5.0 | Cooked chicken now restores 6HP instead of 3HP. | ||||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | ||||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Cooked chicken now restores hunger instead of health. | |||||
| Chickens can now drop several cooked chickens if killed with a Looting-enchanted weapon. | |||||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.4 | alpha 1.0.4.0 | Butcher villagers now sell 6β8 cooked chicken for 1 emerald. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.7.0 | beta 1.7.0.2 | Cooked chicken can now be eaten in Creative mode and on Peaceful difficulty. | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||||
| 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. | |||||
| 1.21.0 Experiment | Preview 1.21.0.20 | Cooked chicken can now be ejected as loot from trial spawners. | |||||
Legacy Console Edition
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU5 | CU1 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| TU12 | |||||||
| TU14 | 1.04 | Farmer villagers now sell 7β8 cooked chicken for 1 emerald. | |||||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Butcher villagers now sell 6β8 cooked chicken for 1 emerald. Farmer villagers no longer sell cooked chicken. | |
| 1.90 | |||||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1.0 | |||||||
Data history
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 366. | |||||
Texture history
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edition | shown | shown | since | since | since |
| Java Edition | July 19, 2011[1] | July 21, 2011[3] | Beta 1.8 pre-release | Java Edition 1.4.2 (12w37a) | Java Edition 1.14 (18w43a) |
| September 9, 2011 | September 9, 2012 | October 24, 2018 | |||
| Bedrock Edition | β | β | v0.4.0 | v0.8.0 build 1 | beta 1.10.0.3 |
| September 6, 2012 | November 18, 2013 | January 30, 2019 | |||
| Xbox 360 Edition | β | β | TU5 | TU12 | β |
| November 16, 2012 | July 23, 2013 | ||||
| Xbox One Edition | β | β | β | CU1 | β |
| September 5, 2014 | |||||
| PS3 Edition | β | β | β | 1.00 | β |
| December 17, 2013 | |||||
| PS4 Edition | β | β | β | 1.00 | 1.90 |
| September 4, 2014 | April 15, 2019 | ||||
| PS Vita Edition | β | β | β | 1.00 | β |
| October 14, 2014 | |||||
| Wii U Edition | β | β | β | Patch 1 | β |
| December 17, 2015 | |||||
| Nintendo Switch Edition | β | β | β | 1.0.1 | β |
| May 11, 2017 | |||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Editon | β | β | β | 0.1.0 | β |
| September 13, 2017 |
Issues
Issues relating to "Cooked Chicken" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Gallery
Mojang screenshots
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First image of cooked chicken. -
Second image of cooked chicken. -
A full row of cooked chicken in Ariβs inventory.
In other media
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A cooked chicken in A Minecraft Movie.
Notes
- β Also known as roast chicken in British and New Zealand English.
References
- β "As you say, the chicken may be too smooth compared to other MC items. Thanks for the C&C!" β @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), July 19, 2011





