Poisonous Potato Zombie
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.
Poisonous Potato Zombie
| Health points |
20HP |
|---|---|
| Behavior |
Neutral |
| Mob type | |
| Attack strength |
Easy: 3.5HP |
| Spawn |
The |
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A poisonous potato zombie is a joke variant of the zombie, introduced in 24w14potato.
Spawning
Poisonous potato zombies spawn in light level 0, rarely in the Overworld and much more commonly in the Potato dimension. Just like with regular zombies, 5% of poisonous potato zombies spawn as babies, and those have a chance to spawn as chicken jockeys.
Three poisonous potato zombies spawn during the mega spud's 3rd phase.
Drops
| Item | Quantity / Chance / Average | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | ||||||||||
 | Poisonous Potato | 1 | 100.00% | 1.00 | 1 | 100.00% | 1.00 | 1 | 100.00% | 1.00 | 1 | 100.00% | 1.00 |
 | Poisonous Potato Plant[A] | 0–1 | 33.33% | 0.33 | 0–1 | 33.33% | 0.33 | 0–1 | 33.33% | 0.33 | 0–1 | 33.33% | 0.33 |
 | Poisonous Potato Headpiece[A] | 0–1 | 0.83% | 0.01 | 0–1 | 1.16% | 0.01 | 0–1 | 1.49% | 0.01 | 0–1 | 1.82% | 0.02 |
| Item | Quantity / Chance / Average | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | ||||||||||
| Poisonous Potato | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Poisonous Potato Plant[A] | 0–1 | 1⁄3 | 1⁄3 | 0–1 | 1⁄3 | 1⁄3 | 0–1 | 1⁄3 | 1⁄3 | 0–1 | 1⁄3 | 1⁄3 |
| Poisonous Potato Headpiece[A] | 0–1 | 83⁄10000 | 83⁄10000 | 0–1 | 29⁄2500 | 29⁄2500 | 0–1 | 149⁄10000 | 149⁄10000 | 0–1 | 91⁄5000 | 91⁄5000 |
| Item | Amount | Probability | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | |||
| Poisonous Potato | 1 | 1 (100.00%) | 1 (100.00%) | 1 (100.00%) | 1 (100.00%) |
| Average | 1 (1.00) | 1 (1.00) | 1 (1.00) | 1 (1.00) | ||
| Poisonous Potato Plant[A] | 0 | 2⁄3 (66.67%) | 2⁄3 (66.67%) | 2⁄3 (66.67%) | 2⁄3 (66.67%) |
| 1 | 1⁄3 (33.33%) | 1⁄3 (33.33%) | 1⁄3 (33.33%) | 1⁄3 (33.33%) | ||
| Average | 1⁄3 (0.33) | 1⁄3 (0.33) | 1⁄3 (0.33) | 1⁄3 (0.33) | ||
| Poisonous Potato Headpiece[A] | 0 | 9917⁄10000 (99.17%) | 2471⁄2500 (98.84%) | 9851⁄10000 (98.51%) | 4909⁄5000 (98.18%) |
| 1 | 83⁄10000 (0.83%) | 29⁄2500 (1.16%) | 149⁄10000 (1.49%) | 91⁄5000 (1.82%) | ||
| Average | 83⁄10000 (0.01) | 29⁄2500 (0.01) | 149⁄10000 (0.01) | 91⁄5000 (0.02) | ||
| Killed | 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item | Expected Drop | ||||
| Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III | ||
| Poisonous Potato | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Poisonous Potato Plant[A] | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0.33 |
| Poisonous Potato Headpiece[A] | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 |
A poisonous potato headpiece does not drop when a poisonous potato zombie is killed by a charged creeper's explosion; instead, a normal zombie head is dropped.
Behavior
Poisonous potato zombies are hostile not only toward players, but also any other zombie-type mob, including normal zombies, zombie villagers, husks, drowned, and zombified piglins. Any zombie-type mob killed by poisonous potato zombie becomes another poisonous potato zombie. Unlike normal zombies, they don't attack villagers, and villagers don't run away from them.
Poisonous potato zombies are neutral toward players that wear a poisonous potato headpiece: they don't attack first, but they do retaliate if attacked.
Instead of groaning, every sound they make is them saying "potato."
Sounds
Poisonous potato zombies use the Hostile Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Potato Zombie groans | Hostile Mobs | Randomly | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Door shakes | Hostile Mobs | While a poisonous potato zombie is breaking a wooden door | entity | subtitles | 2.0 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Block broken[sound 1] | Hostile Mobs | Unused sound event | entity | subtitles | 2.0 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Door breaks | Hostile Mobs | When a poisonous potato zombie breaks a wooden door | entity | subtitles | 2.0 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Potato Zombie dies | Hostile Mobs | When a poisonous potato zombie dies | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Potato Zombie hurts | Hostile Mobs | When a poisonous potato zombie is damaged | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Potato Zombie infects | Hostile Mobs | When a poisonous potato zombie infects a zombie | entity | subtitles | 2.0 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Hostile Mobs | While a poisonous potato zombie is walking | entity | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 | |
- ↑ There is an unused subtitle with key
subtitles.entity.zombie_potato.attack_iron_doorand text "Potato Zombie breaks Iron Door".
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
 Poisonous Potato Zombie | poisonous_potato_zombie | entity |
Issues
Issues relating to "Poisonous Potato Zombie" 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".
Gallery
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A potato zombie approaching a potato village.
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