Potato
A vegetable that restores 1 hunger point when eaten raw. It is usually baked first.
Stack Size
64
Durability
N/A
Category
Food
Version Added
1.4.2
Item ID
potato
Potato at a glance
Harvesting potato crops, killing zombies (rare drop), chest loot, and trading (Farmer) give you Potato, a food item filed under Food. 64 Potato fit in a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 3456 in a double chest. Hunger goes up 1 and saturation 0.6 when you eat Potato, so 0.5 drumsticks a time.
1 hunger back per Potato keeps natural regeneration running, and the 0.6 saturation behind it is what buys you the time until the next meal, rather longer than the hunger number on its own suggests. It additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Baked Potato. Of the 5 kinds of generated chest that can hold Potato, plains village houses are the best bet at about 74% per chest. It sits between Mushroom Stew and Pufferfish in Food, number 22 of 37 there.
Used to craft
Baked Potato is the one recipe that asks for Potato, and the link below opens that grid. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Potato.
Baked PotatoHow to obtain
- Harvesting potato crops
- Killing zombies (rare drop)
- Chest loot
- Trading (Farmer)
Food value
Hunger Restored
1 (0.5 drumsticks)
Saturation
0.6
Time to Eat
1.6 seconds
Eat On A Full Bar
No
Mobs that drop it
3 different mobs drop Potato, Husk, Zombie, and Zombie Villager, and the best of them leave 1 a kill.
Eating
20 helpings clear an empty hunger bar, at 1.6 seconds each, which is 32 seconds before Potato has done the job. Every hunger point Potato gives back carries 0.6 saturation with it, which is what decides how long you stay full. On saturation Potato lands at 31 of 37, just under Dried Kelp and just over Cookie.
Notes
Can be smelted into a baked potato. Harvesting may rarely yield a poisonous potato.
