Dried Kelp

| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Consumption time |
16 game ticks (0.8 seconds) |
| Hunger |
1 () |
| Saturation | |
| Always consumable |
No |
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
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Dried kelp is a food item that can be eaten by the player. It can also be crafted into dried kelp blocks. A player can eat dried kelp twice as fast as any other food item.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Dried Kelp Block |
Smelting
Kelp can be cooked in a furnace, smoker, or campfire. Each piece of dried kelp removed from a furnace output slot gives 0.1 experience (6.4 experience per stack).
| Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|
| Kelp + Any fuel |
Usage
Food

To eat dried kelp, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores 1 () hunger and 0.6β[JE only] / 0.2β[BE only] hunger saturation.
A player can consume dried kelp in 0.8 seconds which is about twice as fast as any other food item in the game.
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Dried Kelp Block | Dried Kelp |
Composting
Dried kelp placed into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
dried_kelp | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
dried_kelp | 270 | Item | item |
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | ||||||
| Castaway | Eat nothing but dried kelp for three in-game days | Eat dried kelp once; in the following three in-game days, eat nothing but dried kelp. | 20 | Bronze | |||
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:
|
History
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | 18w07a | ||||||
| 18w08b | Dried kelp can now be used to craft dried kelp blocks. | ||||||
| 1.14 | 19w03a | Placing dried kelp into the new composter has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1. | |||||
| 19w05a | Dried kelp now has a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter. | ||||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.14.2 | ||||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Dried kelp can now be used to fill up composters. | |||||
| 1.17.10 | beta 1.17.10.20 | ||||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU69 | 1.76 | 1.76 | 1.76 | Patch 38 | |||
Issues
Issues relating to "Dried Kelp" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

