Suspicious Stew

Suspicious stew is a food item that can give the player a status effect that depends on the flower used to craft it.

Obtaining[]

In Bedrock Edition, suspicious stew is the only food item in the game that can't be obtained from the Creative inventory only by searching. However, it can be crafted and can also be found in shipwreck chests. Suspicious stew can be given with commands like /give, but in Java Edition, unless NBT data like that listed in the data values section is included, consuming it has no effect and still restores the same hunger points as a normal suspicious stew. In Bedrock Edition, giving the player a suspicious stew through commands causes the stew to choose an allowable status effect at random.

Harvesting[]

Suspicious stew can be obtained by "milking" a brown mooshroom with a bowl after using a small flower on it. When a small flower is used on a brown mooshroom, the brown mooshroom produces a suspicious stew related to that small flower the next time it is milked with a bowl. Red mooshrooms do not produce suspicious stew. The brown mooshroom returns to producing mushroom stew until fed another small flower.

Crafting[]

Suspicious stew is not listed in the recipe book. However, it can be quickly assembled by clicking the mushroom stew recipe and adding one small flower to it.

Chest loot[]

Mob loot[]

After being given a flower, a brown mooshroom can be "milked" for suspicious stew by using a bowl on it. The flower type determines the stew's effect using the same rule as a crafted stew. Milking a red mooshroom after feeding it a flower does not yield a suspicious stew specific to that flower.

Trading[]

In Java Edition, expert-level farmer villagers can offer either 1 or 2 suspicious stew trades, each stew for one emerald.

In Bedrock Edition, expert-level farmer villager offers to sell suspicious stew for one emerald as well.

The trading interface does not indicate the type of suspicious stew being sold, but each trade entry consistently yields the same type of stew, so the player can remember or make a note of the types offered by a given villager, such as "this villager's first stew gives blindness, and their second entry gives saturation".

Usage[]

Food[]

To eat suspicious stew, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores 6 () hunger and 7.2 hunger saturation and gives a few seconds of a status effect that varies depending on which flower was used to craft it. The effect is not displayed in the tooltip, texture, etc., meaning that the player cannot know in advance what the effect is without knowing which flower was used.

The bowl is emptied and returned to the player after the suspicious stew has been eaten, and can be re-used to craft more stews. Unlike most foods, suspicious stew can be eaten even if the player's hunger bar is full.

The Saturation effect effectively makes those two stews a superfood: In those 6 or 7 ticks it can restore up to 6(7) hunger and 12(14) saturation points on top of their food value, for a total of at least 12 ( × 6) hunger, and effectively maximizing saturation. This is the largest amount of hunger and saturation the player can get from a single food item. Regeneration can restore up to 3 health, and Poison or Wither can inflict up to 4 damage.

Sounds[]

Generic[]

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Unique[]

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Data values[]

ID[]

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Item data[]

In Java Edition, suspicious stew uses the following NBT data:

Metadata[]

In Bedrock Edition, suspicious stew uses the following data values:

Achievements[]

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	A Furious Cocktail	Have every potion effect applied at the same time	Local Brewery	Have all of these 17 status effects applied to the player at the same time: Fire Resistance Infestation Invisibility Jump Boost Night Vision Oozing Poison Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Water Breathing Weakness Weaving Wind Charged The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement.	nether/all_potions
	How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	A Furious Cocktail	Have all of these 33 status effects applied to the player at the same time: Absorption Bad Omen Blindness Conduit Power Darkness Dolphin's Grace Fire Resistance Glowing Haste Hero of the Village Hunger Infested Invisibility Jump Boost Levitation Mining Fatigue Nausea Night Vision Oozing Poison Raid Omen Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Trial Omen Water Breathing Weakness Weaving Wither Wind Charged The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.	nether/all_effects
	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 and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/balanced_diet

History[]

Java Edition
1.14		18w43a			Added suspicious stew.
					Suspicious stew is not obtainable in the Creative inventory.
		19w08a			Suspicious stew can be obtained by milking brown mooshrooms.
		19w11a			Trading has been changed, expert-level farmer villagers now sell suspicious stew for an emerald.
1.14.4		Pre-Release 1			Suspicious stew made from poppies now gives Night Vision to the player instead of Speed.
1.16		Pre-release 1			Mooshrooms can now be milked for suspicious stew in Creative mode.[1]
1.17		21w13a			Suspicious stew can now be eaten even if the player is at full hunger.
1.19		22w13a			Suspicious stew may now be found in ancient city chests.
1.19.3		22w45a			Suspicious stew is now available in the Creative inventory.
1.20 (Experimental)		23w07a			Suspicious stew now drops when brushing suspicious sand in desert wells.
		1.19.4-pre1			Torchflowers can now be used to make suspicious stew.
1.20		23w12a			The probability for the suspicious stew to generate in the suspicious sand in desert well has been changed from 1/7 to 1/8.
Bedrock Edition
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			Added suspicious stew.
					Suspicious stew is not obtainable in the Creative inventory.
		beta 1.13.0.15			Master-level farmer villagers can now sell suspicious stew.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.57			Trading has been changed, expert-level farmer villagers now sell suspicious stew for an emerald.
1.20.0 (Experimental)		beta 1.19.70.23			Suspicious stew now drops when brushing suspicious sand in desert wells.
1.20.10					Added one type of suspicious stew to the Items tab in the Creative inventory.
1.20.30		beta 1.20.20.20			Suspicious stew can no longer be found in the Creative inventory.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Suspicious Stew" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

• Suspicious stew was introduced because developers wanted a way of communicating that lilies of the valley are poisonous.^[2]

References[]