Carrot & Potato Farm

Beginner Java + Bedrock

Produces: Carrots and potatoes - the best villager-trade crops and a solid baked-potato food supply

How it works

• Both crops go through 8 growth stages (4 visible) on farmland, grow faster hydrated and need light level 9 or more to grow (Java needs 8 to plant).
• A mature crop drops 2-5 (average 3 5/7); each Fortune level adds one drop attempt, and Fortune III averages 5 3/7.
• Potatoes have a 2% chance to also drop a poisonous potato.
• Bone meal randomly increases the crop's growth stage.
• No seeds needed: replant part of what you harvest.
• Starter crops come from village fields, or a 2.5% drop when a zombie, husk or zombie villager is killed by a player or wolf.
• Rabbits raid mature carrot crops (mob_griefing): fence them out.

Materials

• Starter carrots or potatoes (village farms or rare zombie drops)
• Hoe, dirt, water, torches
• Optional automation: farmer villager + composter, hoppers or a hopper minecart
• Fortune III tool for manual harvests

Build steps

1. Raid a village's carrot and potato plots - replant what you take, it is polite and renewable.
2. Hoe and hydrate a plot, plant the crops directly, light it to 9+.
3. Harvest mature crops with a Fortune III tool and replant 2 per block - the surplus is yours.
4. Automate: a farmer villager harvests and replants; see our villager farming guide.
5. Cook potatoes into baked potatoes to eat them.
6. Villagers need 12 carrots or potatoes to become willing to breed.

Rates

A villager-run 9x9 carrot field fills a chest with several stacks per in-game day; baked potatoes turn the potato half into one of the best foods you can mass-produce without animals.

Tips

• Carrots and potatoes breed pigs; carrots also breed rabbits.
• Both carrots and potatoes in a composter have a 65% chance to raise the level.
• In Java, a zombie killed by fire drops a baked potato.
• Rabbits eat mature carrot crops if mob_griefing is on: fence them out.
• Source: minecraft.wiki Carrot and Potato.

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