Potato

A potato is a food item obtained from potato crops that can be used to plant them, consumed raw or cooked to make baked potatoes.

Potato crops are planted in farmland and used to grow potatoes and, rarely, poisonous potatoes.

Obtaining[]

Natural generation[]

Village farm plots have a chance of being planted with potatoes. The exact chance depends on the style of the village:

Fully grown potato crops drop 2 to 5 potatoes (3 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, with Fortune III harvesting an average of 5 ³⁄₇ potatoes. Bone meal can be used to mature the potato to its last stage of growth.

The first two potatoes always drop, and then three more attempts are made to drop a potato with a success rate of 57.14286% 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% (¹⁄₄₀) chance of dropping either an iron ingot, carrot, or potato when killed by a player or tamed wolf. This is increased by 1% (¹⁄₁₀₀) per level of looting. This gives potatoes the following chances of dropping:

• ¹⁄₁₂₀ (about 0.83%)
• ⁷⁄₆₀₀ (about 1.17%) with Looting I
• ⁹⁄₆₀₀ (1.50%) with Looting II
• ¹¹⁄₆₀₀ (about 1.83%) with Looting III

If a zombie, husk, or zombie villager is killed with fire, it drops a baked potato instead.

Chest loot[]

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. Planted potatoes require a light level of 9 or greater to continue growing. If the light level is 7 or below, the crops instantly un-plant themselves ("pop off"). It is not possible to plant potatoes if the light level is too low.

Crops grow faster if the farmland they are planted in is hydrated. Using bone meal on crops also increases the speed of growth by randomly increasing their growth stage by 2 to 5.

Crops break if pushed by a piston or if their supporting farmland breaks or turns to dirt (i.e. by being trampled), dropping their usual drops.

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[]

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[]

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Data values[]

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Block states[]

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Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	—	Consume anything that can be consumed.	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 40 foods: Apple Baked Potato Beetroot Beetroot Soup Bread Carrot Chorus Fruit Cooked Chicken Cooked Cod Cooked Mutton Cooked Porkchop Cooked Rabbit Cooked Salmon Cookie Dried Kelp Enchanted Golden Apple Glow Berries Golden Apple Golden Carrot Honey Bottle Melon Slice Mushroom Stew Poisonous Potato Potato Pufferfish Pumpkin Pie Rabbit Stew Raw Beef Raw Chicken Raw Cod Raw Mutton Raw Porkchop Raw Rabbit Raw Salmon Rotten Flesh Spider Eye Steak Suspicious Stew Sweet Berries Tropical Fish Other foods and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/balanced_diet

History[]

Java Edition
1.4.2		12w34a			Added potatoes.
					Added potato crops.
		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			Potato crops are now a pixel higher - previously they were offset one pixel down as to match farmland's sunken model. This is likely an accidental result of model conversion.
		14w10a			Potato crops of all stages no longer have a model.
		14w10b			Potato crops now have models again.[2] In addition, they are now offset downwards by one pixel once more.[3]
		14w25a			Potato crops are now darker and subject to directional shading.
		14w27a			Potato crops are no longer subject to directional shading.
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 been changed.
					The textures of potato crops have been changed.
		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.
					The texture of potatoes has 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.
1.17		21w13a			The "crop" template model has changed such that pixels appear in the same physical positions on opposite sides of texture planes, changing the potato crop's appearance in the process.[4]
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.8.0		build 1			Added potatoes.
					[verify] 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.
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.
					The texture of potatoes has been changed.
					[verify] The textures of potato crops have 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.
?					Potato crop planes use a mapping that results in very unnatural mirroring when viewed from certain angles, such as northwest.[5]
Legacy Console Edition
TU14	CU1	1.04	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added potatoes.
					[verify] Added potato crops.
		1.90			The texture of potatoes has been changed.
					[verify] The textures of potato crops have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added potatoes.
					[verify] Added potato crops.

Potatoes "item"[]

The following content is transcluded from Technical blocks/Potatoes.

Appearances[]

Java Edition
1.4.2		12w34a			The potatoes item uses this texture in inventories, when held in first or third person view, as a dropped item or when in an item frame.

Names[]

Java Edition

• 12w34a - 14w21b: 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 seeds from 1.20, nether wart and cocoa beans).

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  Carrots and potatoes found growing naturally in a village.

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  Official render of a potato to celebrate National Potato Day.^[6]

References[]

External Links[]

• Taking Inventory: Potato – Minecraft.net on December 16, 2021