Hot potato
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"label": "(link to Saturation article, displayed as Saturation)"
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"field": "<abbr title=\"Assumes saturation is 0 before eating.\">'''Heals'''</abbr>: 4<span class=\"hidden-alt-text\">HP</span><span class=\"nowrap mc-hearts\"><span class=\"iconbar pixel-image nowrap\" title=\"2 hearts\">(link to File:Heart (icon).png article, displayed as 9px|link=|alt=❤️)(link to File:Heart (icon).png article, displayed as 9px|link=|alt=❤️)</span></span><br/><abbr title=\"The time it takes for saturation boost to fully finish healing, assuming the player does not reach full health before it finishes.\">'''Duration'''</abbr>: 2 seconds",
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A hot potato is an item which damages players who hold it, only present 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[more information needed]. 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 |
  |
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 1HP
and 5HP
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 (
) hunger and 6 saturation. When a hot potato is consumed, the player is set on fire for 1000000 game ticks (50000 seconds). This value exceeds the range of the short integer type, so only the last 16 bits modulo 215 (32768) will be saved to the player's [Short] Fire data.
Unlike most foods, hot potatoes can be eaten even if the hunger bar is full.
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 + Hot potato |
   |
Composting
Placing a hot potato into a composter has a 85% (17⁄20) chance of raising the compost level by 1.
Sounds
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Eating | Players | While a player is eating something | entity | subtitles | varies [sound 1] | 0.8–1.2 | 16 | |
| Eating | Friendly Mobs | When a player finishes eating something | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.6–1.4 | 16 | |
| Burp | Players | When a player finishes eating something | entity | subtitles | 0.5 | 0.9–1.0 | 16 | |
- ↑ Can be 0.5, 1.0, or 1.5
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
 Hot potato | hot_potato | Item | item |
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".
Navigation
Sources
- Hot potato — Minecraft Wiki, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, revision 3721880.