Potato

Potato

Type	Food
Restores	1 ()
Cookable	Yes
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Experience	Cooked: 0.35
First appearances	See History
Data values	Block dec: 142 hex: 8E bin: 10001110 Item dec: 392 hex: 188 bin: 110001000
Name	Block potatoes Item potato

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

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

Obtaining

Zombies

Zombies have a rare chance of dropping a potato when killed by the player.

Natural generation

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

Potatoes can be found in 82.0% of village two-room house chests in stacks of 5–8.^{[Pocket Edition only]}

Farming

Main article: Tutorials/Crop farming

When farmed, potatoes will take 8 stages to grow. However, there are only 4 distinct textures, so only 4 visible stages: 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 4 potatoes (about 2 ⁵⁄₇ 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.

Usage

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 will follow and can be bred by a player holding a potato.^{[Java and Pocket editions only]}

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

Cooking ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Baked Potato	Potato + Any fuel

Trading

Villager farmers will buy 15-19 potatoes for an emerald as one of their initial tier trades.

Data values

ID

Potato	ID Name	Numerical ID
Item	potato	392
Block	potatoes	142

Block data

See also: Data values

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

Block state

See also: Block states

Name	Value	Description
age	0–1
	2–3
	4–6
	7	Fully-grown.

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Internal ID
	Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	—	Eat anything that can be eaten.	minecraft: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 35 foods. Other foods, if any, are ignored for the advancement.	minecraft:husbandry/balanced_diet

History

Official release
1.4.2			12w34a		Added potatoes.
			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 (profession) villagers now harvest fully grown potatoes.
					Villagers can be made willing using 12 potatoes.
			14w25a		Potato crop block was removed from the /give command.
1.9			15w31a		Can now be used to lead and breed pigs.
			15w38a		Slightly improved drop chances from average 2 3⁄5 per crop harvested to 2 5⁄7.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.8.0			build 2		Added potatoes. They are a rare drop from killing zombies.
			build 3		Now has a chance to drop when tilling grass blocks.
			build 4		Are no longer dropped from tilling grass blocks.
0.9.0			build 1		Potato crops now naturally spawn in villages.
					Potatoes can be used to lead and breed pigs.
0.12.1			build 1		Potatoes now restore hunger instead of health.
					Farmer (profession) villagers can plant and harvest potatoes.
0.16.2					Potatoes can be found in chest inside large house in Ice Plains and Cold Taiga villages.
Console Edition
TU14	CU1	1.04	Patch 1		Added potatoes.

Issues

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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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