How to Get and Farm Potatoes in Minecraft

Guide Java Bedrock

Quick answer: Find potatoes in village farm plots or as a rare zombie drop (about 0.83% per kill), then plant one on farmland. A fully grown crop drops 2 to 5 potatoes (3 5/7 on average) and has a 2% chance of an extra poisonous potato. Fortune III raises the average to 5 3/7.

What you need

Hoe and farmland
Bone meal (optional)

Step by step

Find potatoes in a village farm plot, or kill zombies, husks or zombie villagers: each has a 2.5% chance to drop an iron ingot, carrot or potato, so about 1/120 (0.83%) for a potato.
Add Looting for better odds: 1.17% with Looting I, 1.50% with II.
Plant a potato on farmland.
Use bone meal to bring the crop to its last stage of growth.
Harvest a fully grown crop: 2 drops are guaranteed, then three attempts at 57.14% each give 0 to 3 extra. There is a 2% chance of a poisonous potato too.
Use a Fortune tool to add one more attempt per level. Fortune III averages 5 3/7 potatoes.
Cook potatoes into baked potatoes.

Java vs Bedrock

Eating a raw potato restores 1 hunger and 0.6 saturation.

Versions: Potatoes can be cooked to make baked potatoes.

Frequently asked questions

How many potatoes does a crop drop?

2 to 5, averaging 3 5/7, plus a 2% chance of a poisonous potato.

Do zombies drop potatoes?

Rarely: about 0.83% per kill, with Looting increasing it.

How much hunger does a raw potato restore?

1 hunger point with 0.6 saturation.