Why can't I craft a notch apple now?

I put eight gold blocks and an apple in a crafting table, but no notch apple appeared.

Why is this so? I thought it was always there.

3 Answers

After Minecraft 1.9, this recipe was removed, probably because it was rather OP, and gold blocks could be easily obtained by a gold farm. If you want more "Notch" apples, you may have to downgrade Minecraft to 1.8, and come back to 1.16 or whatever version you are using.

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The Enchanted Golden Apple (also known as "God Apple" or just "Gapple") had their crafting recipe removed in Java Edition 1.9, more precisely in 15w44a.

• Enchanted golden apples can no longer be crafted. - Minecraft Wiki

There is a simple way to bypass it though, with the use of datapacks, go to vannilatweaks.com and the crafting tweaks section has a craft able notch apple datapack

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