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 to make baked potatoes.

Obtaining [ edit ]

Breaking [ edit ]

The looting 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.

Natural generation [ edit ]

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

Mob loot [ edit ]

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%)

⁄ (about 0.83%) 11 ⁄ 600 (about 1.83%) with Looting I

⁄ (about 1.83%) with Looting I 17 ⁄ 600 (about 2.83%) with Looting II

⁄ (about 2.83%) with Looting II 23⁄ 600 (about 3.83%) with Looting III





Usage [ edit ]

Farming [ edit ]

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.

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. Bone meal can be used to mature the potato to its last stage of growth.

Food [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

Trading [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

Block [ edit ]

Java Edition:

a b ↑ Unlike all other block placement sound events, these are listed under items. Confirmed to be intentional by Mojang, see

Item [ edit ]

Java Edition:

Sound Subtitle Source Description Namespaced ID Translation key Volume Pitch Attenuation

distance Sound parameters Volume Pitch Attenuation

distance Stream Preload https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/File:Eat1.ogg https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/File:Eat2.ogg https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/File:Eat3.ogg Eating ? Eating one single food entity.generic.eat subtitles.entity.generic.eat ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/File:Burp.ogg Burp ? Eating a singular food entity.generic.burp subtitles.entity.generic.burp ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Data values [ edit ]

ID [ edit ]

Java Edition:

Name Namespaced ID Block tags (JE) Item form? Translation key Potatoes potatoes bee_growables

crops No block.minecraft.potatoes Potato potato None Yes item.minecraft.potato

Bedrock Edition:

Name Namespaced ID Numeric ID Translation key Potatoes potatoes 142 tile.potatoes.name Potato potato 392 item.potato.name

Block data [ edit ]

In Bedrock Edition, potatoes use the following data values:

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

Block states [ edit ]

Java Edition:

Name Default value Allowed values Description age‌[ JE only ]

growth‌[ BE only ] 0 0

1 2

3 4

5

6 7 Fully-grown.

Advancements [ edit ]

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Namespaced ID Husbandry

The world is full of friends and food — Eat anything that can be eaten. 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 39 foods . Other foods, if any, can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement. husbandry/balanced_diet

History [ edit ]

Issues [ edit ]

Issues relating to "Potato" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery [ edit ]

All the seeds that exist in the game (except nether wart and cocoa beans).

Carrots and potatoes found growing naturally in a village.