Potato
Potatoes are food items that can be planted, consumed raw, or cooked in a furnace or a campfire to make baked potatoes.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Breaking[edit]
The looting is calculated by a binomial distribution: 2 drops are fixed, then a drop is attempted three times with a success rate of around 57% to yield the extra 0–3 drops. Each level of Fortune enchantment increases the number of attempts by one.
Natural generation[edit]
Village farm plots have a 20% chance of being potatoes.
Mob loot[edit]
Zombies, husks, and zombie villagers have a 2.5% chance of dropping either an iron ingot, carrot, or potato when killed by a player or tamed wolf. This is increased by 1% per level of looting. This gives potatoes the following chances of dropping:
- 1⁄120 (about 0.83%)
- 11⁄600 (about 1.83%) with Looting I
- 17⁄600 (about 2.83%) with Looting II
- 23⁄600 (about 3.83%) with Looting III
Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
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Java Edition | ||||
Potato | Pillager Outpost | Chest | 2–5 | 57.5% |
Shipwreck | Supply chest | 2–6 | 44.9% | |
Village | Taiga house chest | 1–7 | 65.6% | |
Snowy house chest | 1–7 | 66.3% | ||
Plains house chest | 1–7 | 74.2% | ||
Bedrock Edition | ||||
Potato | Bonus chest | Chest | 1–2 | 50% |
Pillager Outpost | Chest | 2–5 | 57.5% | |
Shipwreck | Supply chest | 2–6 | 44.9% | |
Village | Taiga house chest | 1–7 | 69.3% | |
Snowy house chest | 1–7 | 66.3% | ||
Plains house chest | 1–7 | 74.2% |
Usage[edit]
Farming[edit]
When farmed, potatoes require 8 stages to grow. However, there are four visible stages due to having only four distinct textures: every two stages have the same texture, except that growth stage 7 keeps the same appearance as stages 5–6, so that only stage 8 has the final, mature appearance.
Fully grown potato crops drop 1 to 5 potatoes (about 3 per crop harvested on average) and have a 2% chance of dropping an additional poisonous potato. Potato yield can be increased using a tool enchanted with Fortune, with Fortune III harvesting an average of 5.3 potatoes. Bone meal can be used to mature the potato to its last stage of growth.
Food[edit]
To eat a potato, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating a potato restores 1 () hunger and 0.6 saturation.
Breeding[edit]
Pigs follow and can be bred by a player holding a potato.
Villagers can pick up potato items to become willing, which allow them to breed. Villagers require 12 potatoes to become willing.
Smelting ingredient[edit]
Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
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Baked Potato | Potato + Any fuel |
Trading[edit]
Novice-level farmer villagers have a 25%[Bedrock Edition only] or 40%[Java Edition only] chance to buy 26 potatoes for an emerald as part of their trade.
Composting[edit]
Placing a potato into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1. This is less efficient than composting with baked potatoes, which has a higher success chance of 85%.
Sounds[edit]
Block[edit]
Sound | Subtitle | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
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Block broken | Blocks | Breaking the block | block.crop.break | subtitles.block.generic.break | 0.9 | ? | 16 | |
None[sound 1] | Blocks | Falling on the block with fall damage | block.grass.fall | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
Block breaking | Blocks | Mining the block | block.grass.hit | subtitles.block.generic.hit | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
Block placed | Blocks | Placing the block | item.crop.plant[sound 2] | subtitles.block.generic.place | 0.45 | ?, 1.2 | 16 | |
Footsteps | Blocks | Walking on the block | block.grass.step | subtitles.block.generic.footsteps | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
Item[edit]
Sound | Subtitle | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
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Eating | ? | Eating one single food | entity.generic.eat | subtitles.entity.generic.eat | ? | ? | ? | |
Burp | ? | Eating a singular food | entity.generic.burp | subtitles.entity.generic.burp | ? | ? | ? |
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
Name | Namespaced ID | Block tags (JE) | Item form? | Translation key |
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Potatoes | potatoes | bee_growables crops | No | block.minecraft.potatoes |
Potato | potato | None | Yes | item.minecraft.potato |
Name | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID | Translation key |
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Potatoes | potatoes | 142 | tile.potatoes.name |
Potato | potato | 392 | item.potato.name |
Block data[edit]
In Bedrock Edition, potatoes use the following data values:
Icon | Value |
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0, 1 | |
2, 3 | |
4, 5, 6 | |
7 |
Block states[edit]
Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
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age[JE only] growth[BE only] | 0
| 0 1 | |
2 3 | |||
4 5 6 | |||
7 | Fully-grown. |
Advancements[edit]
Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Namespaced ID |
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![]() | Husbandry | The world is full of friends and food | — | Eat anything that can be eaten. | husbandry/root
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![]() | A Balanced Diet | Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you | A Seedy Place | Eat each of these 39 foods:
| husbandry/balanced_diet
|
History[edit]
Java Edition | |||||
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1.4.2 | 12w34a | ![]() | |||
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12w36a | Potatoes can now be found in villages. | ||||
1.5 | 13w09b | The Fortune enchantment now works when harvesting potatoes.[1] | |||
1.8 | 14w02a | Potatoes can now be sold to farmer villagers, at 15–19 potatoes for 1 emerald. | |||
14w04a | Farmer villagers now harvest fully grown potatoes. | ||||
Villagers can now be made willing using 12 potatoes. | |||||
14w25a | Potato crop block has now been removed from the game. It can no longer exist in inventories, only as a block in the world. | ||||
1.9 | 15w31a | Potatoes can now be used to lead and breed pigs. | |||
15w38a | The drop chances of potatoes has now been slightly improved from average 2 3⁄5 per potato crop harvested to 2 5⁄7. | ||||
1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 142, and the item's 392. | |||
18w11a | Potatoes now have a chance of generating in shipwreck chests. | ||||
1.14 | 18w43a | ![]() | |||
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18w47a | Potatoes now generate in pillager outpost chests. | ||||
18w50a | ![]() | ||||
19w03a | Added placement and new breaking sounds to potatoes. | ||||
Placing a potato into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1. | |||||
19w05a | Potatoes now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1. | ||||
1.15 | 19w34a | Bees can now pollinate potato crops. | |||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
v0.8.0 | build 2 | ![]() | |||
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Potatoes are a rare drop from killing zombies. | |||||
build 3 | Potatoes now have a chance to drop when tilling grass blocks. | ||||
build 4 | Potatoes are no longer dropped from tilling grass blocks. | ||||
v0.9.0 | build 1 | Potato crops now naturally spawn in villages. | |||
Potatoes can now be used to lead and breed pigs. | |||||
v0.12.1 | build 1 | Potatoes now restore hunger instead of health. | |||
Farmer (profession) villagers now plant and harvest potatoes. | |||||
v0.16.2 | Potatoes can now be found in the chest inside large houses in ice plains and cold taiga villages. | ||||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Potatoes can now be found in pillager outposts and plains village houses. | |||
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1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Potatoes can now be used to fill up composters. | |||
Potatoes can now be found in taiga, snowy taiga and snowy tundra village house chests. | |||||
beta 1.11.0.4 | Trading has now been changed, farmer villagers now have a 25% chance to buy 26 potatoes for an emerald. | ||||
1.14.0 | beta 1.14.0.1 | Bees can now pollinate potato crops. | |||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||
TU14 | CU1 | 1.04 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | ![]() |
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1.90 | ![]() | ||||
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New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
0.1.0 | ![]() | ||||
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Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Potato" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery[edit]
All the seeds that exist in the game (except nether wart and cocoa beans).