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Although many aspects of Minecraft mirror the nature players know from real life, there are also countless ways in which Mojang's sandbox survival game innovates by introducing strange items, foods, and blocks to spice things up. This gives the game its signature fantasy feel, and a slight RPG flavor as well.
Among many strange objects like Blaze Rods, Nether Stars, Heart of the Sea, and so on, is the purple chorus fruit. This is one of the most unique items in the game, a type of food that has special properties and can only be found in one location in the whole of Minecraft.
How To Get Chorus Fruit
Chorus fruit, despite not being the best item in the game, is definitely an endgame item. Players will need to enter the End dimension through a stronghold's End portal and access the End islands, which are away from the central island where the Ender Dragon spawns.
Once players have defeated the Ender Dragon, a small portal encased in bedrock will appear somewhere on the central island, and players can throw an Ender Pearl into it in order to teleport through it. Just be careful not to miss the Ender Pearl throw and teleport into the void.
Players will have now spawned somewhere near the End islands. Here, they can find a huge abundance of chorus fruit in the form of bizarre purple trees that look like thin coral. Breaking these trees will drop chorus fruit for the player.
What Chorus Fruit Is Used For
The chorus fruit is seemingly a pretty useless item and not even a great source of food. But it does have a few interesting uses that players might enjoy exploring.
Food & Teleportation
Chorus fruits, when consumed, will restore four hunger points, meaning two drumsticks on the hunger bar. This is decent in an emergency situation, but the main issue is its poor saturation. A single chorus fruit will restore hunger saturation by 2.4 points only, whereas a cooked steak for example has a value of 12.8. This means that chorus fruits are decent at filling up the hunger points but terrible at filling up the saturation. For more information on how these two values work, check out this guide on how hunger works in Minecraft.
That said, consuming a chorus fruit has the fun effect of teleporting the player, much like how Endermen teleport randomly around. The range of teleportation is any horizontal spot within eight blocks in any direction, but no higher than two blocks. Since this is completely random, it can be quite disorienting for players, especially when using this in the End where the islands tend to look the same.
Craft End Rods & Purpur Blocks
Chorus fruits can be smelted in a furnace, which will turn them into popped chorus fruit, a nice homage to popcorn. Popped chorus fruit is used in two key crafting recipes: End rods and purpur blocks.
- End Rod: on the crafting table, combine one Blaze Rod and a popped chorus fruit underneath it to create an End rod, which emits light similarly to a torch.
- Purpur Block: combine four popped chorus fruits in a crafting grid into a 2x2 square to get a purpur block, the same block found in End Cities.
Purpur block variants can be accessed via the stonecutter, in case players are looking for a specific kind of purpur block.
Minecraft is available on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, and many other platforms.