Potato

This article is about the raw potato. For the cooked potato, see Baked Potato. For the poisonous potato, see Poisonous Potato.

Potato

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

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

Obtaining

Breaking

See also: Fortune § Seeds

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

Village farm plots have a 20% chance of being potatoes.

Mob loot

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

Farming

Main article: Tutorials/Crop farming

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. Bone meal can be used to mature the potato to its last stage of growth.

Food

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

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

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Baked Potato	Potato + Any fuel	0.35

Trading

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

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

Block

Java Edition:

Sound	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	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.grass.fall	None	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	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

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	?	?	?
	Gear equipped	Players	Sometimes when eating in survival[until JE 1.16.2] See MC-97507	item.armor.equip_generic	subtitles.item.armor.equip	1.0	1.0	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Item form?	Translation key
Potatoes	potatoes	No	block.minecraft.potatoes
Potato	potato	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

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, potatoes use the following data values:

Icon	Value
	0, 1
	2, 3
	4, 5, 6
	7

Block states

See also: Block states

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

Main article: Advancement

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. Other foods, if any, can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/balanced_diet

History

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.
1.8		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			The texture of potatoes has now been changed.
					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.
					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
0.8.0		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.
0.9.0		build 1			Potato crops now naturally spawn in villages.
					Potatoes can now be used to lead and breed pigs.
0.12.1		build 1			Potatoes now restore hunger instead of health.
					Farmer (profession) villagers now plant and harvest potatoes.
0.16.2					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.
					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.
					Added potato crops.
		1.90			The texture of potatoes has now been changed.
					The textures of potato crops have now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added potatoes.
					Added potato crops.

Issues

Issues relating to "Potato" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery

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  All the seeds that exist in the game (except nether wart and cocoa beans).

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  Carrots and potatoes found growing naturally in a village.

References

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