Minecraft resource gathering/Apple

Apples are a renewable food source and crafting material obtainable from Oak trees and Villager trading.

The texture for apples looks like this real-life red apple

Obtaining

Oak trees

The simplest way to gather an Apple is to cut down an Oak or Dark Oak tree and wait for its leaves to decay: each leaf has a 1 in 200 chance of dropping an apple.

A faster method is to manually break the leaves. You don't need a tool for this, but a Hoe enchanted with Efficiency lets you instantly break them. Furthermore, the Fortune enchantment (with any tool) improves your chances of receiving an apple.

How Fortune affects the drop rate for Apples

Enchantment	Drop rate
None	1 in 200
Fortune I	1 in 180
Fortune II	1 in 160
Fortune III	1 in 120

Villagers

Farmer villagers can sell 4 Apples for 1 Emerald. This is one of three possible second-tier (Apprentice) trades, meaning that ⅔ of Farmers will sell Apples.

Since the base price is 1 Emerald, this offer doesn't have any discounts and therefore isn't affected by positive reputation or curing. However, it is still worth curing Farmers to receive discounts on their other useful trades, including selling Golden Carrots and buying Potatoes/Carrots.

Chests

Apples can be found as loot in some naturally-generating Chests.

Chances of finding apples in different Chests

Chest	Chance	Chance (%)	Count
Bonus chest	5 in 11	45%	1–2
Stronghold crossing	15 in 62	24%	1–3
Igloo	5 in 21	24%	1–3
Village Plains house	10 in 43	23%	1–5
Village Weaponsmith	15 in 94	16%	1–3
Stronghold corridor	3 in 20	15%	1–3

Uses

An apple provides 4 hunger points and 2.4 saturation when eaten. In addition, surrounding an apple with 8 Gold Ingots at a Crafting Table makes a Golden Apple, which gives Regeneration II for 5 seconds and Absorption for 2 minutes.

You can feed Horses Apples to heal them by 4 health, or breed them if they are at full health.

Apples can also be composted, with a 65% chance of adding a compost layer. On average, you'll need 10.77 Apples to get 1 Bonemeal.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition Indev 0.31

• Apples were first added in Indev version 0.31 as the second food item, after Mushrooms
• They were only obtainable from the starter chest
• Apples restored 4 health points when eaten (this was before the hunger bar was added)

Java Edition Infdev

• When Minecraft left the Indev development stage, the starter house was removed, making Apples unobtainable

Java Edition Beta 1.8

• Beta 1.8 introduced the hunger system, meaning that apples now restored hunger instead of health points
• Apples (along with other foods) can now be stacked
• Apples can now be found in Stronghold Chests

Java Edition 1.1

• Apples were made a renewable resource in version 1.1, which added apples as a possible drop from Oak Leaves
• 1.1 also added Chests to Blacksmith Village buildings, which could contain apples

Java Edition 1.3.1

• Farmer Villagers can now sell apples
• Bonus Chests were added, which often contain apples

Java Edition 1.5

• The drop rate for Apples from Leaves is now affected by Fortune

Java Edition 1.9

• Igloos were added with Chests that sometimes contain Apples