Potato

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

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

Zombies
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

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.

Food
To eat a potato, press and hold while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating a potato restores 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
This recipe awards 0.35 experience.

Trading
Novice-level farmer villagers have a 25% or 40% 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.

Block data
In Bedrock Edition, potatoes use the following data values: