A potato is a food item that can be planted, consumed raw, or cooked in a furnace or a campfire to make baked potatoes.
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Obtaining[]
Natural generation[]
Village farm plots have a 20% chance of being planted with potatoes.
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.
The yield 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.
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
Chest loot[]
Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
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Java Edition | ||||
Potato | Pillager Outpost | Chest | 2–5 | 57.5% |
Shipwreck | Supply chest | 2–6 | 42.1% | |
Village | Plains house chest | 1–7 | 74.2% | |
Taiga house chest | 1–7 | 65.6% | ||
Snowy house chest | 1–7 | 66.3% | ||
Bedrock Edition | ||||
Potato | Bonus chest | Chest | 1–2 | 50% |
Pillager Outpost | Chest | 2–5 | 57.5% | |
Shipwreck | Supply chest | 2–6 | 42.1% | |
Village | Snowy house chest | 1–7 | 66.3% | |
Plains house chest | 1–7 | 74.2% | ||
Taiga house chest | 1–7 | 69.3% |
Usage[]
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.
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 |
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Baked Potato | Potato + Any fuel |
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[]
Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
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Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | 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 | While the block is in the process of being broken | block.grass.hit | subtitles.block.generic.hit | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
Footsteps | Blocks | When the block is placed | block.grass.step | subtitles.block.generic.footsteps | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Block placed | Blocks | Placing the block | item.crop.plant[sound 2] | subtitles.block.generic.place | 0.45 | ?, 1.2 | 16 |
Bedrock Edition:[more information needed]
Item[]
Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
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Eating | ? | Eating one single food | entity.generic.eat | subtitles.entity.generic.eat | ? | ? | ? | |
Burp | ? | Eating a singular food | entity.generic.burp | subtitles.entity.generic.burp | ? | ? | ? |
Bedrock Edition:[more information needed]
Data values[]
ID[]
Name | Identifier | Form | Block tags | Translation key |
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Potatoes | potatoes | Block | bee_growables crops | block.minecraft.potatoes |
Potato | potato | Item | — | item.minecraft.potato |
Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
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Potatoes | potatoes | 142 | Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile.potatoes.name |
Potato | potato | 280 | Item | — | item.potato.name |
Block states[]
Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
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age | 0
| 0 1 | |
2 3 | |||
4 5 6 | |||
7 | Fully grown. |
Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
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growth | 0x1 0x2 0x4 | 0
| 0 1 | 0 1 | |
2 3 | 2 3 | ||||
4 5 6 | 4 5 6 | ||||
7 | 7 | Fully grown. |
Advancements[]
Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
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![]() | Husbandry | The world is full of friends and food | — | Consume anything that can be consumed. | husbandry/root
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![]() | A Balanced Diet | Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you | A Seedy Place | Eat each of these 40 foods:
| husbandry/balanced_diet
|
History[]
Java Edition | |||||
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1.4.2 | 12w34a | ![]() | |||
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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. | ||||
Villagers can now be made willing using 12 potatoes. | |||||
14w06a | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
14w10a | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Potato crops of all stages no longer have a model. | ||||
14w10b | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
14w25a | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
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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 | ![]() | |||
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18w47a | Potatoes now generate in pillager outpost chests. | ||||
18w48a | Potatoes can now be found in chests in plains village houses. | ||||
18w49a | Potatoes can now be found in chests in snowy village houses. | ||||
18w50a | Potatoes can now be found in chests in taiga village houses. | ||||
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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. | |||
1.17 | 21w13a | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
v0.8.0 | build 2 | ![]() | |||
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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. | |||
Potatoes can now be used to lead and breed pigs. | |||||
v0.12.1 | build 1 | Potatoes now restore hunger instead of health. | |||
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. | |||
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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. | |||
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Legacy Console Edition | |||||
TU14 | CU1 | 1.04 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | ![]() |
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1.90 | ![]() | ||||
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New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
0.1.0 | ![]() | ||||
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Potatoes "item"[]
- The following content is transcluded from Technical blocks/Potatoes.
Java Edition | |||||
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1.4.2 | 12w34a | Potatoes have an extra, unobtainable item form corresponding to its block ID. It can be obtained via the /give command or inventory editors with numeric item ID 142.
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Unlike the proper potato item, it had a placement sound, and was capable of directly replacing replaceable blocks such as grass provided it would result in a valid placement. | |||||
1.8 | 14w25a | The direct item form of potatoes has been removed from the game. It can no longer exist as an item in any way, only as a placed block. | |||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
? | Potatoes exist as an item. |
Appearances[]
Java Edition | |||||
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1.4.2 | 12w34a | ![]() |
Names[]
- 12w34a - 14w21b: Potatoes
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Potato" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery[]
All the seeds that exist in the game (except nether wart and cocoa beans).
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