How to Get Apples in Minecraft Fast: 4 Step-by-Step Tutorials
Apples are a food source eaten by the player in Minecraft produced by an apple tree.
Oak trees are found naturally in certain forest biomes, but you can craft an apple into seeds and plant the seeds in the ground.
To Get Apples in Minecraft – Locate an Oak Tree. Use an Axe to Chop down the Tree. Collect the Apples from the ground and add them to your inventory before it disappears. Once you collected the apple, they will appear in your hot bar for later use.
In this tutorial, we will show you to learn how to get Apples in Minecraft along with Golden Apple.
Also Read: How to Get Minecraft Golden Apples & Enchanted Golden Apples
Method 1: How to Get Apples from Apple Tree in Minecraft
Note: Another thing to note, not all the Oak trees you chop will give you Apple Fruit.
Step 1: Locate an Oak Tree
First of all, find an oak tree in your Minecraft biomes because only oak trees grow apples from the various kinds of trees available.
Step 2. Hold an Axe
Get hold of an Axe in your hand and chop down the oak tree. To Hold the axe, open your inventory by pressing E, then simply move the axe into the slot with the shield icon.
Alternatively, you can also chop down the tree with your hand even if they are not recommended.
Step 3. Chop down the Oak Tree
To chop down the oak tree, there are different actions depending on the Minecraft Version:
- Education Edition, Pocket Edition (PE), Java Edition (PC/Mac), and Windows 10 Edition: Left click and hold on the oak tree.
- Xbox 360 and Xbox One: Press and hold the RT button on the console.
- PS3 and PS4: Press and hold the R2 button on the PS console.
- Nintendo Switch and Wii U: Press and hold the ZR button on the controller.
TIP: Chop down the tree short until an apple falls to pick up with your hands.
Step 4. Pick up the Apple
After chopping the trees, collect the apples on the ground and add them to your inventory before it disappears.
Once you collected the apple, they will appear in your hot bar for later use.
Method 2: How to Get Minecraft Apples by Trading
A farmer villager owns 4 apples for trade and is available for transaction 16 times with an availability percentage chance of 66.7% for Java edition and 50% for bedrock players.
Note: Each villager has a level with the newly spawn ones having only a few trades available. So, to get apples, you need to level him up by trading until he should level up enough to sell you apples and unlock new trades.
To Trades Apples with a Villager:
- Select the villager to trade
- A trade window will pop up.
- Next, offer the villager x emerald for x amount of apples into a box on the left side of the trade.
- Now that you have offered the villager x emeralds, the apples will appear in the box on the right. The villager is offering you x apples in exchange for x emeralds. Move the apples into your hot bar to complete the trade.
- Now that the trade is complete, the villager will take emeralds from the left box and leave whatever emeralds are left behind.
Congratulations, you just learned how to trade Apples with a villager in Minecraft.
Method 3: Get Minecraft Apples by Looting Chests
Loot chests items may depend on where they are found – items ranging from bread to diamonds, saddles, diamond horse armor, music disks, nametags, to apples.
Open up the loot chests to obtain useful and sometimes even rare items such as Apple in this case.
The percentage chances of getting up to 5 apples from a village in the plain chests are 74.2% both for Java and Bedrock with a 59.8% chance in Weaponsmith’s chest and stronghold chests.
Method 4: Break Oak Leaves using Fortune Enchanted Tools
Fortune-enchanted tools increase the resources drop from cutting/ mining/ etc.
For example, with the Fortune enchantment, you will have a better chance of getting Clay from the Honeycomb block.
Infuse the Fortune enchantment with a tool such as a pickaxe, axe, or shovel.
Next, use the Enchanted tool and break the oak tree leaves. It will drop apples on the ground.
Pick them up quickly before they disappear. However, the chances of getting apples by cutting leaves are very slim with a 0.5% chance of dropping an apple from every leaf decay and breakage.
How to Start an Apple Farm in Minecraft
You can avoid apple scarcity by cultivating your own farm and reaping from it rather than searching in the wild or trading previous emeralds with the Villagers.
Step 1: Find Land with Water
First, for your Apple farm, you need to find an area of land with water.
Step 2: Use the Hoe
Hoe is a technique to loosen the soil and remove weeds growing alongside the crops.
To control the hoe depending on the Minecraft version:
- Education Edition, Pocket Edition (PE), Java Edition (PC/Mac), and Windows 10 Edition: Left click and hold on the block
- Xbox 360 and Xbox One: Press and hold the RT button on the block
- PS3 and PS4: Press and hold the R2 button on the block
- Nintendo Switch and Wii U: Press and hold the ZR button on the block
Step 3: Plant the Apple Seed Item
Choose the Apple seed from the hot bar.
To plant the seed into the ground:
- Education Edition, Pocket Edition (PE), Java Edition (PC/Mac), and Windows 10 Edition: Left click and hold on the block
- Xbox 360 and Xbox One: Press and hold the RT button on the block
- PS3 and PS4: Press and hold the R2 button on the block
- Nintendo Switch and Wii U: Press and hold the ZR button on the block
Step 4: Fertilize your Apple Saplings with Bone Meal
Select bone meal from the items and
- Education Edition, Pocket Edition (PE), Java Edition (PC/Mac), and Windows 10 Edition: Left click and hold on the plants
- Xbox 360 and Xbox One: Press and hold the RT button on the plants
- PS3 and PS4: Press and hold the R2 button on the Plants
- Nintendo Switch and Wii U: Press and hold the ZR button on the Plants.
Wait for the Apple tree to full-grow.
Step 5: Harvest the Apples
To harvest the Apples, you need to chop down the tree.
- Education Edition, Pocket Edition (PE), Java Edition (PC/Mac), and Windows 10 Edition: Left click and hold on the oak tree.
- Xbox 360 and Xbox One: Press and hold the RT button on the console.
- PS3 and PS4: Press and hold the R2 button on the PS console.
- Nintendo Switch and Wii U: Press and hold the ZR button on the controller.
After you have chopped down the tree, you should see your Apples floating on the ground.
TIP: Make sure your Apples are full-grown before breaking them.
How To Eat Apples in Minecraft
- Select Apple from the Hotbar from the food inventory.
- Select and right-click and hold.
- Now, You should be eating Apple.
Alternatively, you can consume Apples similar to a cake one slice at a time.
Put the Apple down on the ground and eat the Apple slices one point at a time.
Benefits of Apples in Minecraft
- Consuming 1 Apple restore 2 full points of hunger.
- Restore 2.4 hunger saturation.
- Apple can be crafted into golden apples
- Feed your Horses with apples too
- Compost Apples to make Bone Meal
Apples are a food source and can be acquired from Oak Trees, Bonus Chests, Igloos, and Strongholds, and traded with the Villages.
That is all for now. Let us know below in the comment section for any other queries.
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