How to Make a Golden Apple in Minecraft

Guide Java Bedrock

Quick answer: Craft a golden apple from an apple and gold ingots. Eating it gives Absorption I for 2 minutes and Regeneration II for 5 seconds, restores 4 hunger and 9.6 saturation, and takes 1.6 seconds. It also cures zombie villagers under Weakness.

What you need

8 gold ingots
1 apple

Step by step

Craft the golden apple: 1 apple in the center surrounded by 8 gold ingots.
Eat it any time, even at full hunger. It restores 4 hunger and 9.6 saturation and takes 32 game ticks (1.6 seconds).
Effects: Absorption I for 2 minutes and Regeneration II for 5 seconds.
Cure a zombie villager: throw a splash potion of Weakness at it, then use a golden apple on it.
Horses: a golden apple raises taming chance by 10%, and also works for breeding, leading, healing and speeding up foal growth by 4 minutes.
Find one in chests instead: igloo (100%), desert pyramid (22.2%), woodland mansion (25.5%), mineshaft (28.2%), monster room (19.4%), ruined portal (20.5%), bastion remnant (about 10%) and trial chambers vaults (8.3%).
Piglins run to a golden apple on the ground and inspect it, but do not eat it.

Java vs Bedrock

In Bedrock, eating several golden apples in a row stacks Absorption, up to 16 HP (8 points). Java has a saturation boost on eating. Piglins inspect a dropped apple for 6 seconds in Java and 8 in Bedrock.

Versions: Describes the current Java and Bedrock releases. See the edition note above for differences.

Frequently asked questions

What does a golden apple do?

Absorption I for 2 minutes and Regeneration II for 5 seconds.

Does a golden apple cure zombie villagers?

Yes, after a splash potion of Weakness.

Can I eat it at full hunger?

Yes, it is always consumable.

Is it renewable?

Yes.