Starvation is the point where your hunger levels are so bad, you start to take damage to your health, so simply run around, doing what you normally do and let your hunger level run down. When you start taking damage, eat some rotten flesh and the achievement is yours. It is important to note that your hunger levels do not deplete if you are inactive, so you cannot stand still and wait for hunger to kick in.
It is wise to have some normal food, such as steak, to hand as well, as rotten flesh can give you food poisoning, which could do further harm.
The easiest way I found to get rotten flesh was to run into a cave armed with bow & arrow, as zombies only spawn at night. You could also find some by building a simple shack in the middle of no where with a bed in it, wait till night time and then sleep till morning. Any monsters that will spawn at night will be cooked in the daylight, leaving behind their drops (apart from creepers and spiders)
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By Leo Deo Neo on 04 Aug 2020 19:18
This seems to be bugged as of 02/11/21
By TheLankeyGuy on 02 Nov 2021 11:35
Yep this is currently bugged
By Flolly1 on 02 Nov 2021 15:05
By MrFlores42 on 02 Nov 2021 19:41
5th November can confirm absolutely bugged. Tried multiple times and even started a new world just for it with no luck.
By Tommyboy9512 on 05 Nov 2021 10:19
10th of November. Still bugged
By RAREBORN on 10 Nov 2021 23:28
Still bugged as of 19/11/2021.
By Mythrihui on 19 Nov 2021 06:04
I can't make it pop up either. I've found forum posts from around 2016 where it's stated that this is a known bug which will be adressed soon. Guess it never happened? :/
Than again there's people who seem to have gotten in very recently. If anyone knows a way to get it, it would be really great to post it here.
By danbu on 21 Nov 2021 05:19
Thanks for that suggestion. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work for me either. :/
Edit: Holy, I somehow got it!
I tried the same thing again on a solo map, eat several pieces of rotten flesh and went to the achievment ingame screen. When it didn't seem to help either and I was just about to give it up it suddenly popped. Thanks again. Finally got rid of those ugly 99%.
By danbu on 23 Nov 2021 05:37
Gxmblin's workaround works, but you do not need to go back to the main menu. So on the achievement Realm hit the switch, eat the rotten flesh, pause the game, click on the Achievement potion. Do this process until the Iron Belly achievement pop.
By shima rin on 25 Nov 2021 21:45
Unfortunately those workarounds, don’t work for me. So I’m stuck at 2660/2680. If anyone has a definitive that would be awesome.
By Leigrez on 28 Nov 2021 17:07
The devs have fixed the bug but I'm not sure when the release will be out. "Early 2022" was mentioned:
Minecraft Iron Belly Bug in 2021Gxmblin's workaround worked for me on PC (as host), but not on Xbox when I joined a server.
Just confirming the latest update (caves and cliffs pt 2, v1.18)
did not contain the fix for this achievement
By FalconRedux on 29 Nov 2021 19:12
Ok, so I just got the achievement and try this: set your world to hard mode and trap yourself in a box and jump to ruduce your hunger, then eat some rotten flesh. Do this in night time with mobs around you, That's how I got this achievement. Just got that today :)
By WEIR720 on 02 Dec 2021 14:23
so pathetic, it is the last achievement i need and the bs is glitched. i have tried everything and it will not unlock, such a garbage game. the xbox one edition was 100 times better
By SMTPS on 22 Dec 2021 02:19
Thanks weir720 for some different ways to try it but I’m still with smtps on this. Nothing I do pops this stupid cheevo. Last one I need too.
By Leigrez on 22 Dec 2021 11:46
Just got it today after trying for hours on different worlds. I ended up getting it on an achievement world and just did it 50 times in a row until it eventually popped.
By PrimeBigTime on 27 Dec 2021 00:02
@nearlybald thanks for your tip, I was able to get iron belly for both the Switch and Kindle versions, after days of trying, in about 10 minutes combined 👍
By SID 6581 on 29 Dec 2021 20:40
@nearlybald, that worked for me, not sure which combination it was, whether it was the amount of times I did it (between 10 and 20) or whether it was the amount of rotten flesh I had (always rounded to 10).
Either way, it worked in that realm you mentioned in your post.
Thanks for the suggestion!
By Andy Wolves on 29 Dec 2021 20:49
That realm also worked for me by starving myself fully and eating back to max hunger, popped on the third try! Thanks nearlybald, I am glad to get this achievement done!
I tried to join that realm but said I need permission from the host to join
By WavyGopal on 04 Jan 2022 04:45
Joined the achievement world and ate rotten flesh for 30 mins and got the achievement. I had 6 hearts when I got the achievement
By WavyGopal on 04 Jan 2022 09:32
nearlybald solution finally worked for me after nothing else was working. Thanks!
By Mysterio400 on 10 Jan 2022 15:38
@nearlybald workaround worked for me as well...
By andreluigo on 10 Jan 2022 18:55
I got it by just spamming both "eating rotten flesh" and "starving button" in the achievement world. Got it in under 10 minutes.
By Malboa77 on 14 Jan 2022 10:40
2/6/22 - Got it by spamming starve and eat button (till youre full). Took about 10 mins.
By MidnitePizzamon on 06 Feb 2022 22:30
This achievement wasn't working for me so came on here (obviously haha). Still didn't work then realised there was an update (1.18.12) and have now got this achievement. Working for me, hope it works for you all too 😊
By XBSWANKNEWT86 on 17 Feb 2022 22:06
By MrWhite2U on 11 Jan 2023 22:38
You only need one rotten flesh. Jump around until hunger bar is gone. Wait for health to get to 1/2 heart. As soon as (but after) it gets to 1/2 heart eat one rotten flesh. You can then eat other food if you need to heal. The achievement will be yours. The notification doesn't always pop up right away (or even at all) sometimes you'll need to just wait a few seconds then check the achievements in game to confirm.
By Jason#5669 on 29 Jan 2023 18:15
By OBlockMafia on 22 Apr 2024 21:32
The important part is that health needs to be under 1/2, otherwise it wont pop, at least for me
By nebojsa986 on 17 May 2024 08:30
As of November 22nd, 2021, it still appears bugged, however I was able to obtain it by doing it on the Achievement Realm, leaving the realm and going to the main menu, and clicking the potion icon in the bottom left of the main menu. This brought up the in-game achievement tracker and it popped as soon as I did that. Give it a try and let us know if it works.
By Gxmblin on 23 Nov 2021 01:10
Hope that helps, note that mobs don't really have to be around you (I guess), just trap your self and it will automatically spawn.
By WEIR720 on 02 Dec 2021 14:26
I was having issues unlocking this using the solutions here. I unlocked it today using this method:
- I joined the realm MecDi7tXYEQ
- After some intro and teleporting I spoke to the NPC outside the achievement area
- After that teleported me to another area I went into the V2 portal
- I went to the iron belly station
- Pressing the button removes 1 or 2 hunger icons and gives you 1 rotten flesh
- I spammed the button until my character was starving with no icons left and then ate the flesh
- I pressed the button once or twice again to become starving again and ate another rotten flesh
- I repeated the previous step about 10 to 20 times and the achievement unlocked
By nearlybald on 27 Dec 2021 15:40
@nearlybald, no go… I’ve tried sitting there for 30 minutes eating the rotten flesh over and over in that world and another achievement world and it still doesnt pop.
**EDIT** I just got it to pop in that world. Spent about 20 minutes the last couple days trying it. What I ended up doing was clearing my inventory and eating enough rotten flesh to be full and heal my character. Once that was done, I kept doing the last steps of your tip and I noticed that it would only take me down a couple mars of hunger. (Normally it takes me down the whole way) then I stocked up and started eating everything until I was completely full. (It would act weird and drop my health, then raise it, then lower it, etc. Until I was full) Low and behold the third try it popped finally! So thanks!
By Leigrez on 27 Dec 2021 22:39
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