Potato Button
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.
Potato Button
| Renewable |
Yes |
|---|---|
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
| Tool |
|
| Blast resistance |
0.5 |
| Hardness |
0.5 |
| Luminous |
No |
| Transparent |
Yes |
| Waterloggable |
No |
| Flammable |
No |
| Catches fire from lava |
No |
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A potato button is a variant of the button made of potato planks in 24w14potato.
Obtaining
Breaking
| Block | 
| |
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 0.5 | |
| Tool | 
| |
| Breaking time (sec)[A] | ||
| Default | 0.75 | |
 Wooden
|
0.4 | |
 Stone
|
0.2 | |
 Copper |
0.15 | |
 Iron
|
0.15 | |
 Diamond
|
0.1 | |
 Netherite
|
0.1 | |
 Golden
|
0.1 | |
Legend
- incorrect tool, drops nothing
- correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
- correct tool, drops the block itself
- italicized can be instant mined
- ↑ These durations ignore other influential factors (e.g. Mining Fatigue), and are measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Note: No version exists with both copper tools and this block, but the breaking time can be calculated from the block's hardness.
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Potato Planks |  |
Usage
For information on all wooden buttons, see Wooden Button § Usage.
Sounds
Generic
 nether_wood sound type | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.72 | 16 | |
| Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.72 | 16 | |
| Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.45 | 16 | |
| Something falls on a block | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | subtitles | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Unique
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Button clicks | Blocks | When a potato button deactivates | block | subtitles | 0.3 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| Button clicks | Blocks | When a potato button activates | block | subtitles | 0.3 | 0.6 | 16 | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Block tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potato Button | potato_button | wooden_buttonsmineable/axebuttons | block |
Block states
See also: Block states
| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| face | wall | ceilingfloorwall | The face of the block it's placed on. Floor is on top of a block, ceiling is on the bottom, and wall is on one of its sides. |
| facing | north | eastnorthsouthwest | The direction it's facing. Opposite to the direction the player is facing if placed on the side of a block. |
| powered | false | falsetrue | If true, the button is currently activated. |
Issues
Issues relating to "Potato Button" 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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