Onion
Food and effects
Restores 2 hunger points (1 hunger icons) and supplies 1.6 saturation. Saturation is the hidden food reserve used before your hunger bar drains; the amount stored is capped by your food level.
No timed status effect is declared in this item’s default consumption data.
Eating and client controls
Hold the item and use it until consumption finishes. On Java, hold right-click; on Bedrock, hold the assigned use control. Normally you need room in your hunger bar to eat it. Aim away from interactive blocks if using it opens a block or places an ingredient instead.
Food rules are applied by the server on both clients. Custom status artwork can differ on Bedrock; the effect names above identify the registered behavior.
Preparation equipment
Cutting Board · 
Crafting Table. These are the available recipe routes; you do not necessarily need every station. Follow the recipe below for ingredients, tools, heat, fuel and serving containers.
Where to get it
- Block dropOnions
Break or harvest this block with the appropriate tool.
- Block dropOnions
Break or harvest this block with the appropriate tool. age 7
- Block dropWild Onion
Break or harvest this block with the appropriate tool.
- Chest lootPillager Outpost
Possible chest contents; not every chest contains it.
- Chest lootShipwreck Supply
Possible chest contents; not every chest contains it.
- Chest lootVillage Plains House
Possible chest contents; not every chest contains it.
More sources (1)
- Chest lootVillage Snowy House
Possible chest contents; not every chest contains it.
How to make or process it
2 recipes in the installed content. Ingredient links show how to obtain the parts; expand a recipe for the full method.
Cutting board1 × Onion · 2 × Magenta Dye · 1 × Lime Dye
Workstation: Cutting Board
Ingredients
- 1 ×
Wild Onion
Tool: Any tools / knife (ingredient group)
Results
- 1 × Onion
- 2 ×
Magenta Dye - 1 ×
Lime Dye · 10% chance
Shapeless crafting9 × Onion
Workstation: Crafting Table
Ingredients
- 1 ×
Onion Crate
Results
- 9 × Onion
Used for
Recipes that explicitly use this item. Ingredient-group recipes can also accept it.
- Onion Crate · Crafting grid
- Sliced Onion · Cutting board
Item properties
Stack limit64
Raritycommon
Food2 hunger points
Block hardness0
Item data is tied to the installed 26.3 content. Recipe availability can change with server settings or added datapacks. Data coverage and sources.