Food items are very important in Minecraft. Players need to understand that food not only helps with the hunger level of the avatar but also increases the saturation of the avatar and restores their health. The Minecraft gameplay provides their players with fishing, hunting, and farming as modes of acquiring food for their avatars. As a player you can choose from a variety of food. You also have the option to combine two food items together in order to produce a third food item (or potion) that will help you throughout the game. It is important for you to understand that the correct food item will make the game better for you.
One such food item amongst these is the golden carrot. It is a valuable food item as well as a good brewing ingredient. After the stew crafted with blue orchid, the golden carrot provides the second best saturation to your avatar; specifically, you can boost your hunger level to level 6 using the golden carrot. You can also use golden carrots for breeding purposes as it increases the growth level of the animal. Similarly, the golden carrot can be used to create a potion of night vision as well as heal animal mobs in the game.
How to Make A Golden Carrot in Minecraft?
However, even though the golden carrot is a priceless possession, you need to understand that acquiring these kinds of food items is not easy. You can either craft them on your own or trade them at the village market. The golden carrot is just as rare as the golden apple which makes the food item more precious and harder to come by.
Where Can You Find A Golden Carrot?
Finding a golden carrot in Minecraft is tough. Whether you’re playing the Javascript edition or the Bedrock edition, the majority of the time you will only be able to find a golden carrot in a Ruined Portal chest. If you’re a Javascript player then at times you can find a golden carrot from a normal chest at hoglin stable in Bastion remnants.
Another alternative to finding and obtaining a golden carrot is to simply craft them. You can craft a golden carrot by combining a regular carrot with eight gold nuggets. Gold nugget is another separate item in the Minecraft gameplay. You can procure this gold nugget by simply placing a gold ingot into your crafting table and then breaking it down into smaller pieces (nuggets). Usually you get 9 gold nuggets upon crafting one gold ingot. You can also purchase these golden nuggets from farmer villagers for the price of three emeralds.
How to Craft A Golden Carrot?
The process for crafting a golden carrot is pretty simple. To craft a golden carrot from scratch you will need one carrot and eight gold nuggets. You can find carrots by digging in the village farms or in village chests. You can also collect them from carrot seeds.
Once you have the carrot and eight golden nuggets, you have to place the single carrot in the middlebox of the crafting table and the eight nuggets around the carrot. That’s it, you will immediately get a golden carrot in the palm of your hand.
Once you have the golden carrot you can use it for several other things. One such example is crafting a night potion. The golden carrot is one of the essential ingredients in crafting a night potion. This night potion is very valuable because it significantly increases your avatar’s vision at night, in the Nether, or any other location where there isn’t much light.
Moreover, you can use the golden carrot to feed horses, mules, and donkeys in order to heal them. You can use the golden carrot to speed up the growing process of such baby animals by five percent. Similarly, you can also feed the golden carrot to horses and donkeys when you want them to breed better and quicker. Another great use of the golden carrot comes into play when you want to tame an animal and improve their temperament rate. You can do this by selecting the food you want to feed the animal, hold it in your hand while approaching the animal and use the food on the animal. At first you may be shoved away, don’t worry, that’s completely normal and realistic. Try again and you will see the results.
Furthermore, you can also craft foals by combining a golden carrot and donkey. Foals are basically an offspring of a horse. However, here you can craft a foal by combining two donkeys and a golden carrot. When you feed the donkeys your golden carrot it grows into an adult in a span of twenty minutes. The foal will then need to be tamed which you can also do using a golden carrot as explained above.
Conclusion
Golden carrot is a rare item to come by in Minecraft. However, it is rare due to its abundant uses and effects on your character’s health as well as how it interacts with the external world of Minecraft. The next time you find yourself walking into a dark corner or wanting to breed a horse fast, don’t forget to craft yourself a golden carrot and speed up the process.
