How to Find Potatoes in Minecraft PE

Last Updated: January 31, 2023 References

Potatoes are a crop in Minecraft PE (Pocket Edition) that can be eaten for health, planted in a garden, and much more. Getting a few potatoes is easy once you know that the quickest way to get them is usually killing zombies. You can find them pre-planted in village gardens, where they can be dug up.

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Getting Potatoes

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Go hunting for zombies at night. If you're playing in the standard survival mode, enemy zombies will spawn every night. You shouldn't have to walk far to find one or two once the sun goes down.
- Make sure to bring a weapon or two that aren't likely to break. Swords are a good choice because they are easy to make and do good damage. See our article on making swords in Minecraft for more information.
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Start killing zombies. You should quickly find a zombie or two. Kill the zombies you see, taking special care if you come across any with ranged weapons or high-level equipment. When killed, zombies may drop one of three items: rotten flesh, carrots, and potatoes.^{[1]
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- Be patient. You may need to kill a few zombies before you get your first potato.
- If you can't see any zombies, listen for their telltale growl. If you hear it, you're definitely close!
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Crank up the difficulty for more zombies. If you aren't seeing as many zombies as you'd like, you can increase the difficulty with the slider in the options menu. The harder the difficulty, the more zombies that will spawn at night.
- Be careful — at higher difficulties, it's easier to get swamped by hordes of deadly zombies. You'll want a few high-damage weapons before you start (armor is also a big plus).
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Alternatively, look for potatoes in village gardens. It's also sometimes possible to get potatoes without resorting to violence. For this, you'll need to find an NPC village on the map. These will be small gatherings of houses, churches, wells, and so on that are populated by computer characters.^{[2]
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- The problem with this method is that not every map has NPC villages. If you do find one, you may be able to get a few potatoes easily, but you may want to be prepared to kill zombies if you can't locate a village.

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Using Potatoes

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Eat them raw for a small amount of health. Like other food items, potatoes can be consumed to satisfy the player's hunger and restore health. A raw potato will not restore very much health — it will only give about half a heart. However, in a pinch, this can be better than nothing.^{[3]
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Put them in a furnace for a baked potato. A much more efficient way to consume potatoes is to cook them first. Place the potato in a furnace block (the same way you would smelt metal ores or cook meat) and allow it to cook for a minute or two. When it's done, you will have a new item: a baked potato. This is much more satisfying than a raw potato — it restores three hearts when eaten.^{[4]
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Plant them as crops. Like the other vegetables in Minecraft, potatoes can be planted in the ground and farmed. Unlike wheat, you don't need a special seed to grow potato crops — you plant the raw potato itself. This is the same way that carrots are planted in the game.^{[5]
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- To convert land for farming, you'll need to till the dirt and irrigate it with a source of water. For a good guide, see our main article on farming in Minecraft.
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Use them to breed pigs. Potatoes can also be used to make new baby pigs in the game. Pigs are the only livestock that eat potatoes, but they will also take carrots and beetroots. To breed pigs:^{[6]
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- Get two adult pigs close to each other.
- Feed them both a potato (or carrot or beetroot).
- They should enter "love mode" — you will see a bunch of hearts appear around them.
- They will move close to each other. In a minute or two, a baby pig will appear.

Community Q&A

Question

How do I get beetroots in Minecraft pocket edition?

Ishan Singh

Community Answer

Beetroot can be found in the village farms of the savanna biome. Beetroot, if eaten raw, will not reduce much hunger, but when crafted into beetroot soup can reduce a lot more hunger and they can be crafted into red dye.
Question

When I harvest a potato, do I just get one potato or more so I can plant more?

Vortrexion

Top Answerer

When harvesting potatoes, they will drop a random number, between 1 - 3, which you can use to continue replanting.
Question

How do I attack in Minecraft Pocket edition?

Ashlyn Martin

Community Answer

You simply tap your screen and tap on the animal/mob. Jump and hit for critical damage.