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Potato in Minecraft: Hunger, Saturation and How to Get It
A raw potato restores only 1 hunger and 0.6 saturation, so bake it first. Grown potato crops drop 2 to 5 potatoes and have a 2% chance of a poisonous potato, which can poison you.
How much does potato restore?
| Hunger | 1 |
| Saturation | 0.6 |
Each hunger point is half a drumstick, so 1 hunger is 0.5 drumsticks.
How do you get it?
Harvest potato crops from villages or farms; Fortune raises the yield. Zombies sometimes drop them.
Tips
A poisonous potato gives Poison for 5 seconds 60% of the time. Pigs breed with potatoes.
More about potato
A baked potato restores 5 hunger and 6 saturation, five times a raw one. On Java, zombies killed by fire drop baked potatoes instead of raw ones. Each crop always drops at least 2 potatoes.
How hunger works
Hunger points refill the hunger bar (20 points, 10 drumsticks), and saturation is a hidden buffer that drains first. With 18 or more hunger, or any saturation, health regenerates naturally; at 6 or less you cannot sprint, and at 0 you take starvation damage. Most foods take 1.6 seconds to eat, and you cannot eat at full hunger except a few special foods. Foods with high saturation keep you healing longer, which matters most in fights. Raw food cooks the same in a furnace, a smoker or a campfire: smokers are twice as fast, and campfires need no fuel at all. See food and hunger and crop farming.
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Frequently asked questions
What is a poisonous potato?
A rare potato drop that can poison you for 5 seconds.
How much hunger does potato restore?
1 hunger and 0.6 saturation.
Sources
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