How To Get & Grow Potatoes in Minecraft: Tutorial

To get Potatoes in Minecraft: Locate a Village and look for Potato to dig up within the gardens. Left Click and Hold to Dig up the Plant. The plant will break and drop 1 to 5 potatoes on the ground. Collect the Potatoes and they will appear on your hotbar.

In Minecraft, Potatoes are essential food items for both the Players and mobs such as Pigs which are useful in breeding the pigs.

They can be found in Villages, Shipwrecks, and Pillager Outposts.

Here’s a quick summary if you are in a hurry!

In this guide, I will show you how to make Potatoes in the game with step-by-step instructions.

How to Get Potatoes in Minecraft?

You can find potatoes in Villages and biomes such as Plains, Deserts, Savanna, etc.

Step 1: Locate a Village

You first need to find a Village in your Minecraft world.

In Survival mode, search for a high ground nearby and climb up to look off into the distance. Use the Spyglass to help you look around for villages.

In Creative mode, follow the same process but this time, you can fly around and up to the clouds to find the villages.

Step 2: Search for Gardens in the Village

After you have found a village, explore and look around the village for patches of crops growing in usually a fenced area.

The potatoes usually grow in the garden along with other crops such as wheat, and carrots, among other crops.

Step 3: Dig up and Harvest the Potato Plant

Next, you can harvest the potato plant by digging it up.

The controls to harvest a potato plant in Minecraft editions are quite similar for all editions. Approach the fully grown potato plant and break it by attacking it with any too.

Once the plant is broken, it will drop 1 to 5 potatoes that you can collect.

Step 4: Collect the Potatoes

The hard part is done. You need to collect the potatoes in Minecraft after digging up the plant.

Approach the potato plant that you have just dug up which usually drops 1 to 5 potatoes, Walk over it or Left-click on the plant to collect the potatoes.

Note that with each drop, you can get a poisonous potato but the chances are very slim to 2%

Alternatively, you can also start a Potato farm in your base to avoid traveling to a Village every time you need a Potato.

Materials Required to Grow Potatoes

• Hoe
• Potatoes
• Bonemeal for fertilizers

How To Grow Potatoes in Minecraft

To grow potatoes in Minecraft, players will need to get the above items first in their inventory and find a place to farm the crop.

Step 1: Find a Location to Grow the Potatoes

You first need to locate a suitable area for your farm which has an adequate light level, and a water source nearby.

A flat / Plain land would be ideal as it will be easier to till the land and reduces the chances of water flowing away.

Step 2: Create a Water Source in the Middle

Make sure the farmland is hydrated by placing water inside the tilled farmland blocks.

Step 3: Till the Land

Use a Hoe and till the land to turn the dirt blocks into farmland blocks. Once you see the blocks turned brown, you can start planting the potatoes.

Step 4: Plant the Potatoes

Go to your inventory and start planting the Potatoes on the ground.

To Plant the potatoes: Right-click on the soil while holding the potatoes.

After you have planted your potatoes, you’ll start to see them grow and this process can be made faster by using a fertilizer called Bonemeal in the game.

Step 5: Bonemeal the Potato Plants

Next, To use bonemeal on potato plants in Minecraft, Find a potato plant that is not fully grown and right-click on it with the bonemeal.

The potato plant will start to grow instantly to its full-grown size, and the potatoes will be ready for your harvest in a short amount of time.

Important: Bonemeal doesn’t work on fully-grown potato plants, and using too much bonemeal on one plant alone can cause it to grow into a poisonous potato plant.

So, avoid over-fertilizing the plant.

Step 6: Harvest the Potato Plant

To harvest the Potato plant, simply approach the plant and break it by attacking it with any tool or even your bare hand will do.

Minecraft Edition	Controls to Harvest Potato Plants
Java Edition (PC/Mac)	Left click and hold
Pocket Edition (PE)	Tap and hold
Xbox 360 and Xbox One	Press and hold RT button
PS3 and PS4	Press and hold R2 button
Wii U	Press and hold ZR button
Nintendo Switch	Press and hold ZR button
Windows 10 Edition	Left click and hold
Education Edition	Left click and hold

Once the potato plant is broken, it will drop 1 to 5 potatoes that you can collect.

Step 7: Collect the Harvested Potato

Simply walk over to collect the potato as it will disappear after a while.

So, make sure to collect it and add it to your inventory ASAP and the potato will appear in your hotbar.

How long do Potatoes take to Grow in Minecraft?

Minecraft Potatoes take 5 minutes to grow to maturity when planted in fully hydrated farmland with plenty of light and more than 30 minutes in inconsistent irrigation and dim light. However, Using a bonemeal on the potato plant will accelerate the growth process.

Alternative Ways to find Potatoes in Minecraft aside from Farming

Here are a few other ways you can get Potatoes aside from farming your own crops or visiting nearby villages:

1. Loot chests

You can get Potatoes in various types of chests found in Randomly Generated Structures such as Pillager Outposts, Villages, and Shipwrecks.

2. Trading with Novice-Level Farmer

Farmers in villages with novice-level farmer villagers have a 25%‌ [Bedrock Edition ] and 40%‌ [Java Edition] to trade 1 emerald for 26 potatoes.

3. Kill Zombies and zombie villagers

You can kill Zombies and zombie villagers to drop potatoes but only has a 2.5% chance of occurring.

Benefits of Potato in Minecraft

Potato Benefits	Description
Food	Potatoes can be eaten to restore hunger points.
Farming	Potatoes are one of the easiest and most efficient crops to farm in Minecraft.
Trading	Villagers will often trade potatoes for emeralds, making them a valuable commodity.
Breeding	Potatoes can be used to breed pigs, which is useful for farming pork chops.
Crafting	Potatoes can be used to make baked potatoes, which restore more hunger points than raw potatoes.

In conclusion, Potatoes are quite an important item in the game and you need to have a few on you at all times. There are many ways to get a Potato and we have gone over a few of them in the guide above.

Hopefully, this tutorial helps you in your Potato hunting.

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