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

• Age 0-1
• Age 2-3
• Age 4-6
• Age 7

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Restores	1 ()

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    "title": "Potato",
    "rows": [
        {
            "field": "Common",
            "label": "(link to Rarity article, displayed as Rarity tier)"
        },
        {
            "field": "Yes",
            "label": "(link to Renewable resource article, displayed as Renewable)"
        },
        {
            "field": "Yes (64)",
            "label": "Stackable"
        },
        {
            "field": "<span class=\"nowrap\">1 (<span class=\"iconbar pixel-image nowrap\" style=\"--icon-offset:-1px;\" title=\"0.5  hunger points\">(link to File:Half Hunger (icon).png article, displayed as 9px|link=|alt=🍗)</span>)</span>",
            "label": "(link to Food article, displayed as Restores)"
        }
    ],
    "invimages": [
        "Potato"
    ],
    "images": [
        "Potatoes Age 0-1.png",
        "Potatoes Age 0-1 BE.png",
        "Potatoes Age 2-3.png",
        "Potatoes Age 2-3 BE.png",
        "Potatoes Age 4-6.png",
        "Potatoes Age 4-6 BE.png",
        "Potatoes Age 7.png",
        "Potatoes Age 7 BE.png",
        "Potato.png"
    ]
}

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

Obtaining

Breaking

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.

Block	Potatoes
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	0.05

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Axes are considered the preferred tool, and swords would also increase the breaking speedif it were not instant; however, in actual gameplay, the tool makes no difference because the mining speed is instant by default.

Natural generation

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

Village style	Chance
Snowy	70%
Plains	15%
Taiga	10%

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

In Java Edition, when killed with fire, a zombie drops a baked potato instead.

Source	Roll Chance	Quantity (Roll Chance)
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
Husk	0.83%–1.82%	1 (0.83%)	1 (1.16%)	1 (1.49%)	1 (1.82%)
Zombie Villager (old)	0.83%–1.82%	1 (0.83%)	1 (1.16%)	1 (1.49%)	1 (1.82%)
Zombie Villager	0.83%–1.82%	1 (0.83%)	1 (1.16%)	1 (1.49%)	1 (1.82%)
Zombie	0.83%–1.82%	1 (0.83%)	1 (1.16%)	1 (1.49%)	1 (1.82%)

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	[hide]Chance
Java Edition
Potato	Pillager Outpost	Chest	2–5	57.5% { "item": "Potato", "stacksize": "2–5", "chance": 0.5750050885406066, "structure": "Pillager Outpost", "container": "Chest" }
	Shipwreck	Supply chest	2–6	42.1% { "item": "Potato", "stacksize": "2–6", "chance": 0.42061090139687074, "structure": "Shipwreck", "container": "Supply chest" }
	Village	Snowy house chest	1–7	66.3% { "item": "Potato", "stacksize": "1–7", "chance": 0.662802357880901, "structure": "Village", "container": "Snowy house chest" }
		Taiga house chest	1–7	65.6% { "item": "Potato", "stacksize": "1–7", "chance": 0.6556091848091459, "structure": "Village", "container": "Taiga house chest" }
		Plains house chest	1–7	74.2% { "item": "Potato", "stacksize": "1–7", "chance": 0.7422481146272464, "structure": "Village", "container": "Plains house chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Potato	Bonus Chest	Chest	1–2	50% { "item": "Potato", "stacksize": "1–2", "chance": 0.5, "structure": "Bonus Chest", "container": "Chest" }
	Pillager Outpost	Chest	2–5	57.5% { "item": "Potato", "stacksize": "2–5", "chance": 0.5750050885406066, "structure": "Pillager Outpost", "container": "Chest" }
	Shipwreck	Supply chest	2–6	42.1% { "item": "Potato", "stacksize": "2–6", "chance": 0.42061090139687074, "structure": "Shipwreck", "container": "Supply chest" }
	Village	Snowy house chest	1–7	66.3% { "item": "Potato", "stacksize": "1–7", "chance": 0.662802357880901, "structure": "Village", "container": "Snowy house chest" }
		Taiga house chest	1–7	69.3% { "item": "Potato", "stacksize": "1–7", "chance": 0.6929135530018191, "structure": "Village", "container": "Taiga house chest" }
		Plains house chest	1–7	74.2% { "item": "Potato", "stacksize": "1–7", "chance": 0.7422481146272464, "structure": "Village", "container": "Plains house chest" }

Usage

Farming

When farmed, potatoes go through 8 stages of growth. However, there are four apparent stages because the texture only changes upon reaching stages 1, 3, 5, and 8 with stage 8 being the final, mature appearance.

Potatoes require a light level of 8 or greater to plant‌ and 9 or greater to grow. In Bedrock Edition they can be planted at any light level, but need an internal light level of 9 to grow. 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 (e.g. 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

Name	Ingredients	[hide]Smelting recipe
Baked Potato	Potato + Any fuel	0.35

Trading

Villager	Probability		Villager wants	Player receives
	JE	BE
Novice Farmer	40%	25%	26 × Potato	Emerald

Composting

Placing a potato into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1, less than composting with baked potatoes, which has a higher success chance of 85%.

Sounds

Block

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e crop sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.crop.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	0.9	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	item.crop.plant​​	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.45	varies	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
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.grass.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.grass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e grass sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.grass	0.7	0.8–1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.grass	0.8	0.8–1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.grass	0.3	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.grass	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	0.11	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.grass	0.21	1.0

Item

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Eating	Players	While a player is eating something	entity.generic.eat	subtitles.entity.generic.eat​	varies	0.8-1.2	16
	​Eating	Friendly Creatures	When a player finishes eating something	entity.generic.eat	subtitles.entity.generic.eat​	1.0	0.6-1.4	16
	​Burp	Players	When a player finishes eating something	entity.player.burp	subtitles.entity.player.burp​	0.5	0.9-1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Players	While a player is eating something	random.eat	0.5-1.1	0.8-1.2
	Players	When a player finishes eating something	random.burp	0.5	0.9-1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	[hide]Translation key
Potatoes	potatoes	Block	bee_growables crops	block.minecraft.potatoes
Potato	potato	Item	—	item.minecraft.potato

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	[hide]Translation key
Potatoes	potatoes	142	Block & Ungiveable Item	Identical	tile.potatoes.name
Potato	potato	280	Item	—	item.potato.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	[hide]Description
age	0	0 1
		2 3
		4 5 6
		7	Fully grown.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	[hide]Description
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	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Balanced Diet	Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you	Eat each of these 40 foods:[hide] Other foods and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	Consume anything that can be consumed, except for cake.

History

[hide]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.
1.8			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. In addition, they are now offset downwards by one pixel once more.
			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.
			15w49a				The hitbox of planted potatoes now adjusts depending on their growth state.
1.13			18w06a				Potatoes can now grow at night.
			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.
			19w09a				Potato growth is now determined by the light level of the crop's block. Previously it was determined by the light level of the block above.
			19w11a				Farmer villagers now buy 26 potatoes for 1 emerald.
							Potatoes can now be planted by aiming at the side and underside of blocks rather than just on top of the farmland.
							Potatoes can now replace replaceable blocks such as fire when planted.
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.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
October 15, 2013							Johan Bernhardsson announces potatoes alongside carrots for 0.8.0.
v0.8.0			build 1				Added potatoes.
							Added potato crops.
							Potatoes are a rare drop from killing zombies.
							Pigs follow players holding potatoes, but cannot be fed yet.
			build 3				Potatoes now have a chance to drop when tilling grass blocks.
			build 4				Potatoes are no longer dropped from tilling grass blocks.
							Pigs can now be fed potatoes to enter love mode and breed.
v0.9.0			build 1				Potato crops now naturally spawn in villages.
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.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.7.0			beta 1.7.0.2				Potatoes can now be eaten in Creative mode and on Peaceful difficulty.
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.
							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.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU14	CU1	1.04	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added potatoes.
							Added potato crops.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Potatoes can now be sold to farmer villagers, at 15–19 potatoes for 1 emerald.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Potatoes can now be used to lead and breed pigs.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		The hitbox of planted potatoes now adjusts depending on their growth state.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Potatoes now have a chance of generating in shipwreck chests.
			1.90				The texture of potatoes has been changed.
							The textures of potato crops have been changed.
			1.91				Potatoes now generate in pillager outpost chests.
							Potatoes can now be used to fill up composters.
							Trading has now been changed, farmer villagers now have a chance to buy 26 potatoes for an emerald.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added potatoes.
							Added potato crops.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 142, and the item's 392.

Issues

Issues relating to "Potato" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Java Edition

• MC-222060 – Poisonous potatoes grant more hunger points than regular potatoes upon being eaten
• MC-266414 – Villagers do not compost bread, carrots, beetroots and potatoes

Bedrock Edition

• MCPE-122492 – Zombie that is killed on fire/by lava do not drop baked potatoes
• MCPE-183936 – Poisonous potatoes grant more hunger points than regular potatoes upon being eaten

Gallery

Screenshots

• 

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

• 

  Carrots and potatoes found growing naturally in a village.

• 

  Several potatoes in Ari’s inventory.

In other media

• 

  Official render of a potato to celebrate National Potato Day.

External links

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