Potato

Rarity color	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Restores	1 ()

Potatoes are food items that can be planted, consumed raw, or cooked in a furnace or a campfire to make baked potatoes.

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
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
Baked Potato	Potato + Any fuel	0.35

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]

Java Edition:

Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
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

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082
↑ Unlike all other block placement sound events, these are listed under items. Confirmed to be intentional by Mojang, see MC-177459

Item[edit]

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	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]

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Block tags (JE)	Item form?	Translation key
Potatoes	`potatoes`	`bee_growables` `crops`	No	`block.minecraft.potatoes`
Potato	`potato`	None	Yes	`item.minecraft.potato`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
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
	0, 1
	2, 3
	4, 5, 6
	7

Block states[edit]

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
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
	Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	—	Eat anything that can be eaten.	`husbandry/root`
	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: Apple Baked Potato Beetroot Beetroot Soup Bread Carrot Chorus Fruit Cooked Chicken Cooked Cod Cooked Mutton Cooked Porkchop Cooked Rabbit Cooked Salmon Cookie Dried Kelp Enchanted Golden Apple Golden Apple Golden Carrot Honey Bottle Melon Slice Mushroom Stew Poisonous Potato Potato Pufferfish Pumpkin Pie Rabbit Stew Raw Beef Raw Chicken Raw Cod Raw Mutton Raw Porkchop Raw Rabbit Raw Salmon Rotten Flesh Spider Eye Steak Suspicious Stew Sweet Berries Tropical Fish Other foods, if any, can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.	`husbandry/balanced_diet`

History[edit]

Java Edition
1.4.2		12w34a			Added potatoes.
					Added potato crops.
					The block form of potato crops, when in the inventory, shows the newly planted texture.
		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.
		14w04a			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.
1.9		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.
1.13		18w11a			Potatoes now have a chance of generating in shipwreck chests.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of potatoes has now been changed.
		18w43a			The textures of potato crops have now been changed.
		18w47a			Potatoes now generate in pillager outpost chests.
		18w50a			The texture of potatoes has now been changed, once again.
		19w03a			Added placement and new breaking sounds to potatoes.
		19w03a			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			Added potatoes.
					Added potato crops.
					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.
v0.9.0		build 1			Potatoes can now be used to lead and breed pigs.
v0.12.1		build 1			Potatoes now restore hunger instead of health.
v0.12.1		build 1			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.
					The texture of potatoes has now been changed.
					The textures of potato crops have now been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Potatoes can now be used to fill up composters.
		beta 1.11.0.1			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	Added potatoes.
TU14	CU1	1.04	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added potato crops.
		1.90			The texture of potatoes has now been changed.
		1.90			The textures of potato crops have now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added potatoes.
0.1.0					Added potato crops.