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Food on the Run
If you are getting dangerously hungry, head to the nearest equivalent of a fast food out-
let—a passive mob—sword at the ready. Your best bet is to look for cows and pigs be-
causetheyeachcandropuptothreepiecesofrawmeat,witheachpiecerestoring3hunger
units and 1.8 in saturation. They're an excellent target of opportunity. You can also eat raw
chicken, although with a 30% chance of developing food poisoning, or you can try rotten
meatharvestedfromzombies,whichisguaranteedtogiveyouatasteofthestomachaches.
But you can also cure any type of food poisoning by drinking milk obtained with a bucket
clicked on a cow, and you can eat any amount of poisoned meat, gaining the restorative
benefits, and curing the whole lot with one serving of milk. So keep that rotten flesh the
zombies drop around! And the bucket o' milk.
That said, unless you are desperate, it is actually much better to take the time to cook all
your meat first. In fact, the secondary processing of foods makes them all healthier, restor-
ing more hunger and saturation points. It's therefore quite handy to always carry a furnace
in your inventory, along with fuel. When you've finished cooking, break the furnace down
with a pickaxe, and it floats back into your inventory. If you don't mind seeming like a
crazed pyromaniac, you can also both kill and cook pigs, chickens, and cows in one blaz-
ing swoop by setting the ground beneath them on fire with a flint and steel (right-click on
the ground, not the animal), or a little more chaotically by pouring lava from a bucket. Just
take caution that you don't do this anywhere it could pose a risk, such as near that fantastic
wood cabin you just spent the last three weeks building; there's no Undo key in Minecraft.
Note:
Fishing in the Sea of Plenty
Mobs such as chicken, cows, and pigs spawn quite rarely compared to
hostile mobs, so consider them a nonrenewable resource if you kill them
in the wild. You're better off breeding them in a farm so they can't
wander off and can be readily replaced. Fish, on the other hand, are un-
limited in quantity and very plentiful. You can even fish in waterfalls!
By the way, your hunger bar never decreases when travelling by boat,
making ittheperfect opportunity togetinaspotoffishing.Andyoucan
nevergetfoodpoisoningfromrawfish.Sushianyone?See
Chapter7
for
more information.
