Overview
A Baked Potato restores 5 hunger and 6 saturation, stacks to 64, and comes from a crop that yields more per plant than any other staple — which is why potato farms feed more servers than wheat does. One harvested plant drops 2 to 5 potatoes, so replanting a field costs a fraction of what it produces, and the surplus grows exponentially over a couple of harvests. Smelting is the only processing step, and a smoker does it in 5 seconds per item. The crop itself comes from village farm plots or from a zombie's occasional drop, so a fresh world without a village nearby can wait a surprisingly long time before seeing its first potato. Beyond food, potatoes feed pigs for breeding and go into rabbit stew, and the occasional Poisonous Potato that drops from a harvest is a mild joke rather than a threat. For anyone building an automatic farm, potatoes and carrots are the easiest crops to harvest with a villager-based design, since a farmer villager will replant them on its own. Plant one field properly and the food question is answered for the rest of the world.
Bulk food that stacks to 64 from the highest-yielding common crop — the practical staple for feeding a server, a villager breeder or a long mining trip.
Baked Potato is a food item that restores hunger when eaten. One serving is worth 5 hunger and 6 saturation. A full stack holds 64.
It is smelted from Potato. It goes into exactly one recipe: Rabbit Stew.
How to get it
Smelt a Potato in a furnace, smoker or campfire. Each mature potato plant drops 2 to 5 potatoes, and village farm plots are the usual first source in a new world.
Tips
- One plant drops up to 5 potatoes, so a field doubles itself within two harvests without bone meal.
- A farmer villager replants potatoes and carrots automatically, which is the basis of the simplest auto-farm.
- Bake in a smoker at 5 seconds per item rather than a furnace's 10; the fuel cost is identical.
- Poisonous potatoes appear at about a 2% chance per harvest — throw them away rather than eating them.
Properties
Eating it restores 5 hunger and 6 saturation — a ratio of 1.2, which is what decides how long you stay full rather than how fast the bar refills. One inventory slot holds 64, so a double chest holds 3,456.
- Stack size
- 64
- Hunger restored
- 5
- Saturation
- 6
- Saturation ratio
- 1.2
- Category
- Food
How to get it
Furnace · 10s · 0.35 XP
Baked Potato
Also works in: Smoker, Campfire
Used to craft
Baked Potato is an ingredient in 1 recipes, producing Rabbit Stew.
How it compares to other foods
Sorted by saturation ratio, Baked Potato is 16 of 41 foods in the game. Ratio is saturation divided by hunger restored: it is what decides how long the hunger bar stays still, not how fast it refills.
Golden Carrot leads the list at a ratio of 2.4, and anything at or above 1.6 is worth carrying on a long trip.
| Item | Hunger restored | Saturation | Saturation ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bread | 5 | 6 | 1.2 |
| Cooked Cod | 5 | 6 | 1.2 |
| Baked Potato ← | 5 | 6 | 1.2 |
| Cooked Rabbit | 5 | 6 | 1.2 |
| Carrot | 3 | 3.6 | 1.2 |
| Beetroot | 1 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
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Frequently asked questions
How do you make Baked Potato in Minecraft?
Baked Potato comes out of a Furnace: put Potato in and let it cook.
What is the stack size of Baked Potato?
Baked Potato stacks to 64.
Is Baked Potato worth eating?
It restores 5 hunger and 6 saturation, a ratio of 1.2. Anything above a ratio of 1.6 keeps you full longer per slot, so treat this as a stopgap rather than a staple.
