Overview
In Minecraft 1.21.4, Potatoes is a plant block. This is a Creative-mode block; Survival players will never hold one. It breaks almost instantly, with a hardness of just 0.
You can break it by hand without losing the drop. Breaking it produces Potato. Light passes through it, so it will not darken the space behind it.
It offers almost no protection from explosions (0 blast resistance). No recipe takes it as an ingredient.
How long it takes to break
Potatoes sits at hardness 0: 0 seconds per block with your fists, 0 with the correct netherite tool.
There is no tier requirement to worry about. Any tool, or none, returns the drop; the numbers below just say how fast.
Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, and on something this soft that reaches instant mining almost at once.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand | instant | instant | instant |
| Wooden | instant | instant | instant |
| Stone | instant | instant | instant |
| Iron | instant | instant | instant |
| Diamond | instant | instant | instant |
| Netherite | instant | instant | instant |
| Golden | instant | instant | instant |
Properties
Potatoes has a blast resistance of 0, so any explosion nearby destroys it. It lets light through and emits no light of its own. An axe is fastest here; any other class mines it at bare-hand speed, because the bonus only applies to the class the block is tagged for. Broken normally it drops Potato rather than itself; Silk Touch is what returns the block, and Fortune raises the ordinary drop instead.
- Required tool
- Any
- Renewable
- Yes
Drops
Potatoes drops Potato.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Potatoes in Minecraft?
Potatoes generates naturally in the world; breaking it yields Potato.
What tool do you need to break Potatoes?
No specific tool is required — Potatoes can be broken by hand.
Is Potatoes blast resistant?
Potatoes has a blast resistance of 0, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
Is Potatoes renewable?
Yes. Potatoes can be obtained again and again in one world, so building with it does not exhaust the supply.
How long does Potatoes take to break?
About 0 seconds if you bring the correct netherite tool; 0 seconds with your fists.
