Potato

Potato

Type	Food
Restores	1 ()
Cookable	Yes
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Experience	Cooked: 0.35
Data values	See § Data values
Name	See § Data values

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 or a campfire ‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14 & BE 1.11.0]} to make baked potatoes.

Obtaining

Zombies

Zombies have a 0.8% chance to drop a potato when killed by the player.

Natural generation

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

Potatoes can be found in 50.7% of shipwreck supply chests in stacks of 2–6. In 1.14‌^[upcoming] they can be found in 44.9% of shipwreck supply chests in stacks of 2–6; in 66.3% of village house chests, 76.9% of village house chests, and 65.6% of village house chests, all in stacks of 1–7; and in 57.5% of pillager outpost chests in stacks of 2–5.

In Bedrock Edition, they can be found in 50.0% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–2, and in 81.7% of village two-room house chests in stacks of 5–8.‌^{[Legacy Console 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.

Potatoes must be directly planted on the top of a farmland block; unlike most blocks, targeting the side of a block which would result in it being placed on top of farmland will not allow it to be placed.

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.

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.^{[until BE 1.11.0]}

Farmer villagers have a 25% chance to buy 26 potatoes for an emerald as part of their first tier trade.‌^{[upcoming: BE 1.11.0]}

Composting

Placing a potato into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14 & BE 1.11.0]}

Data values

ID

Potato	Name ID	Numeric ID ‌[BE only]
Block	potatoes	142
Item	potato	392

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	0	0 1
		2 3
		4 5 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 36 foods. Other foods, like cake, are ignored for the advancement.	minecraft:husbandry/balanced_diet

Video

Note: This video is outdated, as it takes >1 bone-meal to mature a potato plant.

History

Java Edition
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 now be made willing using 12 potatoes.
			14w25a		Potato crop block was 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		Slightly improved drop chances from average 2 3⁄5 per 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 will now have a chance of generating in shipwreck chests.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.14			18w43a		Changed the texture of potatoes.
			18w47a		Potatoes will now generate in Pillager outpost chests.
			18w50a		Changed the texture of potatoes again.
			19w03a		Added placement and 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.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.8.0			build 2		Added potatoes. They 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 will 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.
					Changed the texture of potatoes.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
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 changed, farmer villagers now have a 25% chance to buy 26 potatoes for an emerald.
Legacy Console Edition
TU14	CU1	1.04	Patch 1		Added potatoes.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added potatoes.

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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