How to craft a cake in minecraft

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Cake is one type of food that can be crafted and eaten in the game of Minecraft. It appears as a solid block (the only edible block so far in the game), consisting of a sponge base topped by icing and cherries.

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How to craft a cake in minecraft

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    Get three buckets of milk. To get milk, right click on a cow while your character is holding a bucket.

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    Get one chicken egg. These are laid by chickens, which can be found in the wilderness. You can also keep chickens if you capture them inside a fence.

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    Get two sugar. Sugar is made from sugarcane and can only be eaten when used as an ingredient in a recipe.

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    Get three wheat. This acts as "flour" for the cake. Wheat can be farmed or it can be found in dungeon chests.

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    Place the ingredients into the crafting grid. The following pattern is required:

    • Place three buckets of milk across the top three slots.
    • Place one sugar to the left of the center slot, and one to the right.
    • Place the egg in the center slot.
    • Place the wheat in the remaining three bottom slots of the grid.

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    Craft your cake. To remove to the inventory, shift click or drag. Three empty milk buckets will also be returned to your inventory automatically.

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Each cake block contains six slices.

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    Place the cake block down on another block. You cannot eat cake by holding the block.[1] You cannot place a cake where you're not able to build.

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    Right click on the cake to eat a slice.

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    Share your cake. It is possible to share slices of cake with other players if you want to because there are six slices in each cake block. Enjoy your Minecraft cake!

    • You can create servers to allow your friends to play with you from different devices.[2]
    • For example, you can use a Minecraft pocket edition server.[3]
    • It is a Minecraft world on the mobile version of the game.[4]

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    What do I do if my chicken in Minecraft won't lay an egg?

    How to craft a cake in minecraft

    Wait longer. 5-10 minutes should do. If it still won't lay an egg, find another chicken.

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    Is there any other way to make a cake?

    How to craft a cake in minecraft

    No, since there is only one way to make a cake.

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    How do you put down sugar?

    How to craft a cake in minecraft

    You craft in a crafting table.

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  • After crafting your first cake, you will gain the achievement "The Lie".

  • Cakes are really for fun more than being a reliable food source. They're ingredient intensive, they do not stack (and so take up a lot of inventory space if more than one is kept) and they only provide a low level of saturation. They're probably best kept for a celebration or for a sharing activity during the game. And it does have the advantage of restoring six units of the hunger bar.

  • It takes time to gather the ingredients to make a cake. It's not something a new player will be able to rush into doing.

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  • If you destroy a cake, you lose the cake and gain nothing, as nothing is dropped.

  • Partly eaten cake does not return to your inventory. To finish it, you'll have to come back to where you left it to keep eating it.

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Easter eggs

  • By naming a cake "Explosions" in an anvil, the cake will explode upon any player/entity taking a bite. This is a reference to the popular 1985 movie "Prank Calls".

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1. Gather 3 milks, 1 egg, 2 sugars, and 3 wheat bundles.
2. Place ingredients on the crafting grid.
3. Drag the cake to the inventory.

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Do you need iron to make cake Minecraft?

Minecraft cake recipe The recipe for a cake in Minecraft is three buckets of milk (so you also need nine iron ingots for buckets), one egg, two sugar and three wheat, and you use the full 3×3 grid of a Crafting Table, so you need one of those, too.

How do you make a Minecraft cake 2022?

To make a cake, open the crafting area made up of the 3x3 grid. Place 3 buckets of milk in the first row, then fill up the third row with wheat. As for the remaining three boxes, place sugar on either side of the second row and an egg in the center to finish making a cake.

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