How to Make a Golden Apple in Minecraft

Use this simple recipe to make a Golden Apple in Minecraft. You can see the exact ingredients, recipe layout, and workstation below.

Golden Apple recipe

Follow the recipe below. The pattern must use the correct slots when the recipe is shaped.

Place 8 Gold Ingots and 1 Apple in a Crafting Table to make 1 Golden Apple.

The 3 × 3 pattern needs the 3 × 3 grid of a crafting table. Ingredients must stay in the shown positions, and most patterns can also be mirrored.
Each craft uses 9 ingredient items and produces 1 Golden Apple. A full stack of 64 takes 64 crafts and 576 ingredient items in total.

Output: 1 Golden Apple

A golden apple gives Regeneration and Absorption, and together with Weakness it cures a zombie villager.

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Golden Apple. It includes the exact ingredients, recipe layout, required workstation, and amount produced.

The data comes from Minecraft Java 26.3. Recipes can change in later game versions, so check the version you play before crafting.