Hot potato

This article documents an April Fools' Day joke.
 
This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.
Hot potato
Hot Potato.png: Infobox image for Hot potato the item in Minecraft
Invicon Hot potato.png: Inventory sprite for Hot potato in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Hot potato
Rarity tier

Common

Renewable

Yes

Stackable

No

Restores

5 (πŸ—πŸ—πŸ—)

A hot potato is an item which damages players who hold it in 24w14potato.

Obtaining

Throwing a potato, poisonous potato, or a baked potato into lava turns it into a hot potato, which is then ejected from lava in a random direction​. The hot potato retains data from the original potato, such as its custom name, or how many times it has been lubricated.

Crafting

Ingredients Crafting recipe
Baked Potato +
Lava Bucket
Invicon Baked Potato.png: Inventory sprite for Baked Potato in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Baked Potato with description: Baked PotatoInvicon Lava Bucket.png: Inventory sprite for Lava Bucket in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Lava Bucket with description: Lava Bucket
Invicon Hot potato.png: Inventory sprite for Hot potato in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Hot potato

Usage

Damage

Each hot potato stores a heat value. This value starts from 0 and goes up by 1 every tick it is in a player's inventory to a maximum of 200. Once the heat value reaches 20 and the potato is in a player's inventory, the player begins taking damage. Based on the heat value, a player takes between 1HPβ™₯ and 5HPβ™₯β™₯β™₯ damage each tick. However, due to damage immunity, the player only actually takes damage every 10 game ticks (0.5 seconds).

Fire Resistance does not prevent the player from taking damage from happening. If there are multiple hot potatoes in a player's inventory, the effect is the same as if there was only one. Hot potatoes do not damage other entities if they hold the item.

Food

Eating a hot potato restores 5 (πŸ—πŸ—πŸ—) hunger. When a hot potato is consumed, the player is set on fire for 16940 ticks, or 847 seconds.

Burning immunity

Hot potato can't be burned in fire or lava, like netherite items.

Hot potato item jumps in lava.

Crafting ingredient

Ingredients Crafting recipe
Poisonous Potato +
Floatato +
Invicon Poisonous Potato.png: Inventory sprite for Poisonous Potato in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Poisonous Potato with description: Poisonous PotatoInvicon Poisonous Potato.png: Inventory sprite for Poisonous Potato in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Poisonous Potato with description: Poisonous PotatoInvicon Poisonous Potato.png: Inventory sprite for Poisonous Potato in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Poisonous Potato with description: Poisonous PotatoInvicon Floatato.png: Inventory sprite for Floatato in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Floatato with description: FloatatoInvicon Hot potato.png: Inventory sprite for Hot potato in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Hot potatoInvicon Floatato.png: Inventory sprite for Floatato in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Floatato with description: FloatatoInvicon Floatato.png: Inventory sprite for Floatato in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Floatato with description: FloatatoInvicon Floatato.png: Inventory sprite for Floatato in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Floatato with description: FloatatoInvicon Floatato.png: Inventory sprite for Floatato in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Floatato with description: Floatato
Invicon Floatater.png: Inventory sprite for Floatater in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Floatater with description: Floatater

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sounds
SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​EatingPlayersWhile a player is eating somethingentity.generic.eatsubtitles.entity.generic.eat​varies [sound 1]0.8-1.216
​EatingFriendly MobsWhen a player finishes eating somethingentity.generic.eatsubtitles.entity.generic.eat​1.00.6-1.416
​BurpPlayersWhen a player finishes eating somethingentity.player.burpsubtitles.entity.player.burp​0.50.9-1.016
  1. ↑ Can be 0.5, 1.0, or 1.5

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
SoundSourceDescriptionResource locationVolumePitch
PlayersWhile a player is eating somethingrandom.eat0.5-1.10.8-1.2
PlayersWhen a player finishes eating somethingrandom.burp0.50.9-1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierFormTranslation key
ItemSprite hot-potato.png: Sprite image for hot-potato in Minecraft Hot potatohot_potatoItemitem.minecraft.hot_potato

Issues

Issues relating to "Hot potato" are not maintained on the bug tracker because it is an April Fools' joke, and is therefore not in the newest stable version or snapshot. Issues reported there are closed as "Invalid".

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