Minecraft:Hot potato

Template:Hatnote Template:Message boxTemplate:Article other Template:Infobox item A hot potato is an item which damages players who hold it in 24w14potato.

Obtaining

Throwing a Minecraft:potato, poisonous potato, or a baked potato into Minecraft:lava turns it into a hot potato, which is then ejected from lava in a random direction

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Template:Redr. The hot potato retains data from the original potato, such as its custom name, or how many times it has been lubricated.

Usage

Damage

Each hot potato stores a heat value. This value starts from 0 and goes up by 1 every tick it is in a player's inventory to a maximum of 200. Once the heat value reaches 20 and the potato is in a player's inventory, the player begins taking damage. Based on the heat value, a player takes between Template:Hp and Template:Hp damage each tick. However, due to damage immunity, the player only actually takes damage every .

Fire Resistance does not prevent the player from taking damage from happening. If there are multiple hot potatoes in a player's inventory, the effect is the same as if there was only one. Hot potatoes do not damage other entities if they hold the item.

Food

Eating a hot potato restores Template:Hunger hunger. When a hot potato is consumed, the player is set on fire for . This value exceeds the range of the short integer type, so only the last 16 bits modulo 32768 will be saved to the player's Template:Nbt/sprite Fire data.

Unlike most foods, hot potatoes can be eaten even if the hunger bar is full.

Burning immunity

File:Hot Potato Jumping in Lava.gif

Hot potato can't be burned in fire or lava, like netherite items.

Hot potato item jumps in lava.

Composting

Placing a hot potato into a Minecraft:composter has a 85% (Template:Frac) chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Data values

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