How To Get Dried Kelp In Minecraft

This article is about the item. For the block, see Dried Kelp Block.

Dried Kelp

Dried Kelp JE1.png

Rarity color	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Restores	1 ( )

Dried kelp is a food item that can be quickly eaten by the player. It can also be crafted into dried kelp blocks.

1 Obtaining
- 1.1 Cooking
- 1.2 Crafting
2 Usage
- 2.1 Food
- 2.2 Crafting ingredient
- 2.3 Composting
3 Sounds
4 Achievements
5 Advancements
6 Data values
- 6.1 ID
7 History
8 Issues

Obtaining [ ]

Cooking [ ]

Kelp can be cooked in a furnace, smoker, or campfire. Each piece of dried kelp removed from a furnace output slot gives 0.1 experience (6.4 experience per stack).

Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Kelp + Any fuel	0.1

Crafting [ ]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Dried Kelp Block	9

Usage [ ]

Food [ ]

To eat dried kelp, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores 1 ( ) hunger and 0.6‌^{[ JE only ]} / 0.2‌^{[ BE only ]} hunger saturation.

A player can consume dried kelp about twice as fast as any other food item in the game.

Crafting ingredient [ ]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Dried Kelp Block	Dried Kelp

Composting [ ]

Dried kelp placed into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Sounds [ ]

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Eating	?	Eating one single food	`entity.generic.eat`	`subtitles.entity.generic.eat`	?	?	?
	Burp	?	Eating a singular food	`entity.generic.burp`	`subtitles.entity.generic.burp`	?	?	?

Bedrock Edition:^{[ more information needed ]}

Achievements [ ]

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other platforms	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
		Castaway	Eat nothing but dried kelp for three in-game days	Eat dried kelp once; in the following three in-game days, eat nothing but dried kelp.	20G	Bronze

Advancements [ ]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	—	Consume anything that can be consumed.	`husbandry/root`
	A Balanced Diet	Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you	A Seedy Place	Eat each of these 40 foods: Apple Baked Potato Beetroot Beetroot Soup Bread Carrot Chorus Fruit Cooked Chicken Cooked Cod Cooked Mutton Cooked Porkchop Cooked Rabbit Cooked Salmon Cookie Dried Kelp Enchanted Golden Apple Glow Berries Golden Apple Golden Carrot Honey Bottle Melon Slice Mushroom Stew Poisonous Potato Potato Pufferfish Pumpkin Pie Rabbit Stew Raw Beef Raw Chicken Raw Cod Raw Mutton Raw Porkchop Raw Rabbit Raw Salmon Rotten Flesh Spider Eye Steak Suspicious Stew Sweet Berries Tropical Fish Other foods, if any, can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.	`husbandry/balanced_diet`

Data values [ ]

ID [ ]

Java Edition:

Name	Resource location	Form	Translation key
Dried Kelp	`dried_kelp`	Item	`item.minecraft.dried_kelp`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Resource location	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Dried Kelp	`dried_kelp`	`464`	Item	`item.dried_kelp.name`

History [ ]

Java Edition
1.13	18w07a		Added dried kelp.
1.13	18w08b		Dried kelp can now be used to craft dried kelp blocks.
1.14	19w03a		Placing dried kelp into the new composter has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
1.14	19w05a		Dried kelp now has a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0	beta 1.2.14.2		Added dried kelp.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.1		Dried kelp can now be used to fill up composters.
1.17.10	beta 1.17.10.20		The texture of dried kelp has been changed to match Java Edition.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69	1.76	Patch 38	Added dried kelp.