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Forgotten Foods

Rabbit Stew

Rabbit stew fills five hunger icons in one meal, with a steep ingredient cost and a bowl that takes up its own slot.

SurvivalJava & Bedrock

What is Rabbit Stew?

Rabbit stew is a bowl meal made from cooked rabbit and farm ingredients. A serving restores 10 hunger points and 12 saturation. Hunger is what you see on the food bar, while saturation is the hidden reserve that gets spent before the bar starts dropping. Eating the stew returns an empty bowl.

Why players overlook it

The recipe draws from three different activities: farming vegetables, collecting mushrooms and hunting rabbits. It also consumes one baked potato you could have eaten on its own. That prep is hard to justify when you want a whole stack of food ready to go.

How to get it

  • Cook raw rabbit and bake a potato first. Combine cooked rabbit, baked potato, carrot, bowl and one red, brown or shelf mushroom anywhere in the crafting table. The recipe is shapeless.
  • A novice butcher can offer a bowl for an emerald. Check the trade before setting up a rabbit pen specifically for stew.

Crafting recipe

Shapeless crafting

  • 1×Cooked Rabbit
  • 1×Carrot
  • 1×Baked Potato
  • 1×Red, Brown or Shelf Mushroom
  • 1×Bowl
1× Rabbit Stew

What is it used for?

  • Have one bowl after a long mining stretch when you have room to recover all 10 hunger points.
  • A stew can also heal an injured tamed wolf. The edition-specific bowl and breeding behavior is listed below.

When it comes in handy

If your base already has a butcher, try buying a bowl before spending time growing every ingredient. For a themed tavern or farm kitchen, a butcher station and a mushroom shelf make the recipe an activity visitors can repeat.

Limitations

Full bowls do not stack, and each bowl occupies a slot while full. Eating it when you are only a few points short of a full bar wastes part of the refill. Its high hunger number does not make it the highest-saturation meal.

Editorial recommendation

Is it worth using?

Keep one as a quick refill for a nearby project or serve it at a base. The recipe is most appealing when the ingredients are already part of your routine or you can buy a bowl outright.

Alternatives

Take baked potatoes for an easy farm-to-furnace supply, pumpkin pie when you want stackable food, or steak for stronger saturation on longer trips.

Java and Bedrock

Java Edition. A novice butcher has a chance to offer the trade. Feeding an injured wolf the stew returns a bowl. Java 26.3 adds shelf mushroom as a recipe option.

Bedrock Edition. A novice butcher offers the trade. The stew can heal an injured wolf but cannot breed wolves or speed up pup growth. The 26.60-series recipe also accepts shelf mushroom.

Sources

Checked for Java 26.3 and Bedrock 26.60 series (including 26.63 where available).

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