How To Get Potatoes In Minecraft (Minecraft Potato Farm)

In this tutorial we will show you how to get potatoes in Minecraft. Learn how to plant potatoes step by step and help them grow with your own Minecraft potato farm.

Minecraft potatoes are food that, when eaten, restores 1 hunger and 0.6 satiety. They can also be used to breed and raise pigs.

Available Platforms

Edition	Platform	Available
Java Edition	Windows, Mac & Linux PC’s	Yes
Bedrock Edition	Xbox One, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Fire OS, Windows 10 PC’s	Yes
Education Edition	Mac, iOs 12, Windows 10 PC’s	Yes
PlayStation Edition	PlayStation 3 & 4	Yes

Required To Grow Potatoes

• Potatoes
• Hoe
• Bonemeal (optional)

How To Get Potatoes In Minecraft

1. Find Or Place Down Water

First we need to find a small body of water or create our own. In our example, we simply dug a hole 5 blocks long and filled it with water.

2. Use Your Hoe

Next, pick a hoe on your Hotbar and prepare the soil around the water. You can hoe with the following controls on your game controller:

• Java Edition (PC/Mac), Windows 10 Edition, Education Edition – Right click on the block.
• Pocket Edition (PE): Tap the block.
• Xbox 360, Xbox One: Press the LT button.
• PS3, PS4: Press the L2 button.
• Wii U, Nintendo Switch: Press the ZL button.

After using the hoe and removing the top layer of soil, you will notice that the blocks have turned brown. Now they are ready to plant potatoes.

3. Plant The Potatoes

Select the potatoes in your Hotbar and plant them in the soil blocks you used your hoe on before. Plant your potatoes using the following controls on your game controller:

• Java Edition (PC/Mac), Windows 10 Edition, Education Edition – Right click on the block.
• Pocket Edition (PE): Tap the block.
• Xbox 360, Xbox One: Press the LT button.
• PS3, PS4: Press the L2 button.
• Wii U, Nintendo Switch: Press the ZL button.

Once you have planted your potatoes, you will start to see them grow. We can speed up that process by using fertilizers!

4. Fertilize The Potatoes

Your potatoes will grow slowly over time. Planted potatoes will go through 8 growth stages (although you will notice 4 of those stages visibly). However, we can speed it up by fertilizing the plants with bone meal.

Select bone meal on your Hotbar and use the following in-game controls to fertilize your potatoes:

• Java Edition (PC/Mac), Windows 10 Edition, Education Edition – Right click on the plant.
• Pocket Edition (PE): Tap the plant.
• Xbox 360, Xbox One: Press the LT button.
• PS3, PS4: Press the L2 button.
• Wii U, Nintendo Switch: Press the ZL button.

If you use the bone meal, you will notice that the plants get bigger. When your potato company is fully developed, we can harvest the potatoes.

5. Harvest The Potatoes

Finally, we want to bring in the harvest. To do this, simply break the potato crops using the following controls on your game controller:

• Java Edition (PC/Mac), Windows 10 Edition, Education Edition – Left click on the plant.
• Pocket Edition (PE) – Touch and hold the plant.
• Xbox 360, Xbox One: Press the RT button.
• PS3, PS4: Press the R2 button.
• Wii U, Nintendo Switch: Press the ZR button.

After breaking the plant you will see a potato floating where the plant used to be. Make sure to pick up the potato before it disappears. A fully grown plant will yield between 1 and 4 potatoes. And there is a 2% chance of dropping a poisonous potato.

And that is! Minecraft potatoes are food that, when eaten, restores 1 hunger and 0.6 satiety. They can also be used to breed and raise pigs.

FAQ’s

1. How do you make an automatic potato farm in Minecraft?

Build an automatic potato farm in Minecraft
Step 1: Build a 9×9 farm area using dirt/grass blocks. Build dirt area of 9×9 (Image via Minecraft).
Step 2: Till the dirt/grass blocks using a hoe and plant potatoes.
Step 3: Surround the farm with two high block wall.
Step 4: Collection system.
Step 5: Bring the villagers.

2. How much XP do you get from cooking potatoes?

equal 11 levels which equate to 19 XP bottles. That is 512 potatoes. You will need at least 4.27 potato patches to equal 11 levels. Therefore, if you want to produce a single stack of XP bottles, you will need to repeat this process 4 times to achieve 1.1875 stacks of XP.

3. Are baked potatoes better than bread Minecraft?

The Baked Potato has slightly better saturation than Bread and an equal value of saturation to Cooked Chicken. Cooked Chicken is renewable (and can be obtained from Villagers), but baked potatoes are hard to get and easy to farm. It’s really a choice of the player which one to use.

4. Do potatoes need water Minecraft?

Potatoes and carrots do need water to grow. This is because you right click on a dirt block. To let it stay in that state it needs water. Its like irrigation.

5. How do you get potatoes in Minecraft without a village?

Finding potatoes

Another common way to find potatoes is through mob drops. Zombies, husks and zombie villagers have a 0.83% chance of dropping a potato when killed. If a player cannot find a village anywhere, they can start slaying zombies for a chance at finding a potato.

6. Can villagers pick up poisonous potatoes?

When potato crops are harvested by villagers they don’t collect the poisonous potatoes that are dropped. Instead, the potatoes are left on the ground and eventually disappear within 5 minutes, so a player can miss out on potentially collecting poisonous potatoes.

7. How much XP does smelting potatoes give Minecraft?

Kelp gives little experience (6.4 XP/stack), but the smelted kelp can be turned into fuel for the smelter, with a surplus for other uses. Potatoes give more experience (22.4 XP/stack); the cooked potatoes make a solid mid-tier food supply, and they can be composted for more bone-meal than the raw potatoes.

8. Why can’t I plant potatoes in Minecraft?

because of growing condition, Any of wheat, carrots, beetroots and/or potatoes grow only under the following conditions: It is directly above a block of farmland. If the farmland is removed or reverts to dirt, the crop breaks. A light level of 9 or higher at the plant.

9. How rare are poisonous potatoes in Minecraft?

A Poisonous Potato is a type of potato that has a 60% chance of poisoning the player. They can be obtained by either harvesting potato crops, which will have a 2% chance of dropping, by killing a zombie, or by finding them in stacks of 2-6 in shipwrecks, which will be found in 45% of their supply chests.

10. What is the fastest way to get potatoes in Minecraft?

Getting a few potatoes is easy once you know that the quickest way to get them is usually killing zombies. You can find them pre-planted in village gardens, where they can be dug up.

11. How do you make poisonous potatoes in Minecraft?

A Poisonous Potato is a type of potato that has a 60% chance of poisoning the player. They can be obtained by either harvesting potato crops, which will have a 2% chance of dropping, by killing a zombie, or by finding them in stacks of 2-6 in shipwrecks, which will be found in 45% of their supply chests.

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