Potato Planks
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 Planks

| Renewable |
Yes |
|---|---|
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
| Tool | |
| Blast resistance |
3 |
| Hardness |
2 |
| Luminous |
No |
| Transparent |
No |
| Flammable |
No |
| Catches fire from lava |
No |
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Potato planks are a joke block, only present in 24w14potato.
Obtaining
Breaking
| Block | ||
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 2 | |
| Tool | ||
| Breaking time (sec)[A] | ||
| Default | 3 | |
| 1.5 | ||
| 0.75 | ||
|
0.6 | |
| 0.5 | ||
| 0.4 | ||
| 0.35 | ||
| 0.25 | ||
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.
Natural generation
Potato planks generate as part of potato villages and potato mineshafts. Additionally, they generate in arboretum biome on "park lanes".
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Potato Stem |
Usage
Crafting ingredient
Potato planks recipes
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Frying Table | Stick + Iron Ingot + Gold Nugget + |
|
| Potato Stairs | ||
| Potato Slab | ||
| Potato Fence | + Stick |
|
| Potato Fence Gate | Stick + |
|
| Potato Door | ||
| Potato Pressure Plate | ||
| Potato Sign | + Stick |
|
| Potato Trapdoor | ||
| Potato Button |
Any planks recipes
Any combination of regular planks and potato planks can be used to craft the following items.
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Barrel | + Any Wooden Slab |
|
| Bed | Matching Wool + |
|
| Beehive | + Honeycomb |
|
| Bookshelf | + Book |
|
| Bowl | ||
| Cartography Table | Paper + |
|
| Chest | ||
| Chiseled Bookshelf | + Any Wooden Slab |
|
| Crafting Table | ||
| Fletching Table | Flint + |
|
| Grindstone | Stick + Stone Slab + |
|
| Jukebox | + Diamond |
|
| Loom | String + |
|
| Note Block | + Redstone Dust |
|
| Piston | + Cobblestone + Iron Ingot + Redstone Dust |
|
| Shield | + Iron Ingot |
|
| Smithing Table | Iron Ingot + |
|
| Stick | ||
| Tripwire Hook | Iron Ingot + Stick + |
|
| Wooden Axe | + Stick |
|
| Wooden Hoe | + Stick |
|
| Wooden Pickaxe | + Stick |
|
| Wooden Shovel | + Stick |
|
| Wooden Sword | + Stick |
Sounds
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 | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Block tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
potato_planks | planksmineable/axe | block |
Issues
Issues relating to "Potato Planks" 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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