Potato
Potato grows on farmland through eight stages and drops edible tubers that can be baked in a furnace.
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Description
Potato crops share the basic growth mechanics of other farmland plants: eight stages, light level nine or higher, water within four blocks. No separate seeds exist — one tuber from inventory plants and grows into the next harvest directly. A mature crop yields two to five tubers, with a small chance of also dropping a poisonous version, which cannot be cooked and causes harm when consumed. Raw tubers are edible but restore only one hunger point, while a furnace-cooked potato gives five points and is one of the better foods available without farming wheat or sugarcane. Pigs breed using this item, and villager farmers occasionally harvest and replant fields, making villages a reliable early source. Because yield is self-sustaining, most survival players keep a small patch alongside their main food supply. Finding the first tuber typically happens through village farms or zombie drops.
