Maize

Maize is a food item added in 1.18: Savannah Update. It is primarily obtained by farming. 
== Maize Items ==
Maize Kernels: The seeds used to grow maize. Can be put in a furnace to make Popped Maize Kernels. Obtained by crafting 1 Maize into 6 Maize Kernels. Can be used to breed Chickens or tame Parrots.
Popped Maize Kernels: A Food Item obtained by putting Maize Kernels in a furnace or on a Campfire. Restore 1 Point of Hunger. Can be used to breed Chickens.
Maize: The crop obtained by breaking a Maize Crop. Can be eaten to restore 2 Points of Hunger. It is much more efficent to smelt them into ears of corn if you want to eat them. Maize can be used to breed Pigs, Goats, and Bison. You can also craft Maize into 6 Maize Kernels.
Ear of Corn: The food obtained by smelting Maize in a furnace. Restores 6 Points of Hunger. Can be used to breed Pigs and Goats. It can also be used to craft Oil, with 6 Ears of Corn and a Bucket.
== Obtaining ==
Maize is primarily obtained by Farming. Breaking 1 Maize Crop drops 1 Maize, though this number can be increased to 2 if Fortune is used, by increasing the chance for it to drop 2 by 33% per level of fortune. If a crop is harvested before it is fully grown, it will drop nothing, not even a Maize Kernel. Maize needs light to grow, the crop will be destroyed if planted without light. 
You can also put the Maize Kernels in a furnace to obtain Popped Maize Kernels (Popcorn) which restores half a hunger shank (1 Hunger Point) each.
* Maize Kernels can be found in a village savannah house chest, replacing the previous Wheat Seeds. They can also be found growing in farms in Savannah Villages.
* Popped Maize Kernels can be found in a Savannah Fisher Chest, replacing Wheat Seeds.
Wandering Traders will trade 1 Maize Kernel for 1 Emerald.
== Usage ==
=== Food ===
When Maize is held, you can eat it to restore 2 Hunger Points (1 Hunger Shank). But if you put it in your furnace to turn the Maize into an Ear of Corn, it will restore 6 Hunger Points (3 Hunger Shanks). It is the most-restoring plant in Minecraft, apart from Stews and Golden Carrots. Popped Maize Kernels restore 1 Hunger Point (Half a hunger shank) when eaten.
* Popped Maize Kernels are the food with the fastest eating time in the game, at 15 ticks (3/4 of a second to eat)
* Up to 8 Maize, Corn Ears, or Popped Maize Kernels can be put in a Tin Can to eat. However, you should never put more than 4 Ears of Corn in a Tin Can, because putting any more is just a waste of food, because 4 Ears already restores all 20 Hunger Points.
If you hold an Ear of Corn, it will cause nearby Goats and Pigs to follow the player, either until the player stops holding the corn or he goes too far away so that they lose interest. The same will go for if the player holds Maize, except that Bison will also follow the player, as they do not eat cooked corn.
If you hold Maize Kernels or Popped Maize Kernels, Chickens will follow you, either until the player stops holding the kernels or until he goes too far away. Parrots can be tamed with Maize Kernels.
Maize and Ears of Corn can be used to breed Goats and Pigs. Maize can be used to breed Buffalo. Maize Kernels and Popped Maize Kernels can be used to breed Chickens.
=== Smelting ===
Putting Maize in a furnace or on a campfire will yield 1 Ear of Corn. Putting Maize Kernels in a Furnace or on a campfire will yield 1 Popped Maize Kernels.
The Oil obtained from crafting 6 Ears of Corn with a Bucket can be used as smelting fuel.
=== Crafting Ingredient ===
One Maize can be crafted into six Maize Kernels, which can be planted in the ground.
Six Ears of Corn and 1 Bucket can be crafted into a Bucket of Oil, to teach about renewable energy.
=== Farming ===
Maize Kernels can be planted in the ground to grow Maize. Unlike other crops, they grow to be two blocks high, but otherwise, they work like any other crop. They must have an unobscured block of air above them to grow. When Maize Kernels are planted, over time, they grow from a small sprout to a large, two-block high plant. Like other crops, they need light to grow and can be bone mealed to grow faster.
* Maize will grow 15% faster if it is within 8 Blocks of a Shiitake Mushroom. It will grow 10% Slower if it is within 8 Blocks of a White, Yellow, or Grey Honeyspore Mushroom. This is in direct contrast with a Beetroot, which grows slower when next to Shiitake Mushrooms and faster when next to faster when next to a White Mushroom.
=== Composting ===
Placing Maize Kernels or Popped Maize Kernels has a 30% chance to raise the compost level by 1. 
Placing Maize or an Ear of Corn has an 85% chance to raise the compost level by 1.
=== Trading ===
Apprentice-Level Farmers have a 25% chance to offer 1 Emerald for 16 Maize, as opposed to its trades for Carrots, Potatoes, and Beetroots. 
Wandering Traders have a small chance to offer 1 Maize Kernel for 1 Emerald.
== Achievements ==
A Seedy Place: Plant a seed and watch it grow (Can also be done with Wheat, Barley, Rye, Rice, Pumpkins, Melons, and Beetroots)
Conservationist: Breed two Bison (Can also be done with Wheat)
== Data ==
Can be stackable to 64. All forms of Corn/Maize are renewable.
== History ==
1.18: Savannah Update: Added Maize, Maize Kernels, Popped Maize Kernels, and Ears of Corn. It can be eaten, used to breed Bison, Chickens, Pigs, and Goats, and used to tame parrots.
1.19: Combat, Enchanting, Adventure:
23w28a: Food eating speeds have been changed. Popped Maize Kernels now take 15 Ticks to eat, and Maize/Corn now take 21 Ticks to eat.
23w35a: Popped Maize Kernels have replaced Wheat Seeds in the Savannah Fisher Chest.
1.20: A New World:
24w34d: Maize can now be grown 15% faster if it is within 8 Blocks of a Shiitake Mushroom. It will grow 10% Slower if it is within 8 blocks of a White, Yellow, Grey, and Honeyspore Mushrooms.
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