Potato
Material Stack: 64 Since 1.4.2 (Pretty Scary Update)
Quick answer: Harvest fully grown potato crops: 2-5 potatoes each plus a 2% chance of a poisonous potato; Fortune III raises the average to 5.7.
How to get it
- Harvest fully grown potato crops: 2-5 potatoes each plus a 2% chance of a poisonous potato; Fortune III raises the average to 5.7
- Find them planted in village farm plots (plains and snowy villages)
- Rare drop from zombies, zombie villagers and husks killed by a player
Uses
- Eat raw for just 1 hunger - always bake it first: a baked potato gives 5 hunger and 6.0 saturation
- Breed and lead pigs (carrots, potatoes and beetroots all work)
- Cook in a furnace, smoker or campfire for baked potatoes, one of the best early-game foods
- Compost extras for bone meal
Renewability
Renewable: one potato planted on farmland becomes a self-sustaining farm.
Java vs Bedrock
Identical in Java and Bedrock. Poisonous potatoes are edible but poison you for 5 seconds - compost them instead.