Minecraft:Potato

A potato is a Minecraft:food Minecraft:item obtained from potato crops that can be used to plant them, consumed raw or Minecraft:cooked to make Minecraft:baked potatoes.

Potato crops are planted in Minecraft:farmland and used to grow potatoes and, rarely, poisonous potatoes.

Obtaining

Breaking

Fully grown potato crops drop 2 to 5 potatoes (Template:Frac per crop harvested on average) and have a 2% chance of dropping an additional Minecraft:poisonous potato. Potato yield can be increased using a tool enchanted with Minecraft:Fortune, with Fortune III harvesting an average of Template:Frac potatoes. Minecraft:Bone meal can be used to mature the potato to its last stage of growth.

The first two potatoes always drop, and then three more attempts are made to drop a potato with a success rate of 57.14286% to yield the extra 0–3 drops. Each level of Fortune enchantment increases the number of attempts by one. Template:Breaking row

Natural generation

Minecraft:Village farm plots have a chance of being planted with potatoes. The exact chance depends on the style of the village:

Village style	Chance
Template:EnvSprite Snowy	70%
Template:EnvSprite Plains	15%
Template:EnvSprite Taiga	10%

Mob loot

Minecraft:Zombies, Minecraft:husks, and Minecraft:zombie villagers have a 2.5% (Template:Frac) chance of dropping either an Minecraft:iron ingot, Minecraft:carrot, or potato when killed by a player or tamed wolf. This is increased by 1% (Template:Frac) per level of looting. This gives potatoes the following chances of dropping:

• Template:Frac (about 0.83%)
• Template:Frac (about 1.17%) with Looting I
• Template:Frac (1.50%) with Looting II
• Template:Frac (about 1.83%) with Looting III

Template:IN, when killed with fire, a zombie drops a Minecraft:baked potato instead.

Usage

Farming

Template:Main When farmed, potatoes go through 8 stages of growth. However, there are four apparent stages because the texture only changes upon reaching stages 1, 3, 5, and 8 with stage 8 being the final, mature appearance.

Potatoes require a light level of 8 or greater to plantTemplate:Only and 9 or greater to grow. Template:IN they can be planted at any light level, but need an internal light level of 9 to grow. Crops grow faster if the farmland they are planted in is hydrated. Using Minecraft:bone meal on crops also increases the speed of growth by randomly increasing their growth stage by 2 to 5.

Crops break if pushed by a Minecraft:piston or if their supporting farmland breaks or turns to dirt (e.g. by being trampled), dropping their usual drops.

Food

To eat a potato, press and hold Template:Control while it is selected in the Minecraft:hotbar. Eating a potato restores Template:Hunger hunger and 0.6 saturation.

Breeding

Minecraft:Pigs follow and can be Minecraft:bred by a player holding a potato.

Minecraft:Villagers can pick up potato items to become willing, which allow them to breed. Villagers require 12 potatoes to become willing.

Composting

Placing a potato into a Minecraft:composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1, less than composting with Minecraft:baked potatoes, which has a higher success chance of 85%.

Sounds

Data values

ID

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Block states

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History

Gallery

Screenshots

• All the seeds that exist in the game (except Minecraft:nether wart and Minecraft:cocoa beans).
  All the seeds that exist in the game (except Minecraft:nether wart and Minecraft:cocoa beans).
• Minecraft:Carrots and potatoes found growing naturally in a Minecraft:village.
  Minecraft:Carrots and potatoes found growing naturally in a Minecraft:village.
• Several potatoes in Minecraft:Ari’s inventory.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
  Several potatoes in Minecraft:Ari’s inventory.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

In other media

• Official render of a potato to celebrate National Potato Day.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
  Official render of a potato to celebrate National Potato Day.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
• Potatoes in Template:Amcm.
  Potatoes in Template:Amcm.

External links

• Template:Mcnet