Batato

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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.

Batato

👁 Batato.gif: Infobox image for Minecraft entity 'Batato'

👁 Invicon Batato Spawn Egg.png: Inventory sprite for Batato Spawn Egg in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Batato Spawn Egg

Health points	6HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️
Behavior	Passive
Mob type	👁 Image Potato
Spawn	Potato dimension under the same conditions as bats (light level of 3 or less in neighboring blocks)

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A batato is a modified version of the bat, with a poisonous potato replacing the body and head of the mob. It has the same AI as the regular bat.

1 Spawning
2 Loot
3 Sounds
4 Data values
- 4.1 ID
- 4.2 Entity data
5 Issues
6 Gallery
7 Navigation

Spawning

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Batatos can spawn in groups of 8-16 in the Potato dimension under the same conditions as bats (light level of 3 or less at any height on opaque blocks that are not directly exposed to the sky. They also need at least 1.5 air blocks).

Loot

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Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
Item		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
👁 Image	Poisonous Potato	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–1	50.00%	0.50
👁 Image	Venomous Potato	0–1	5.00%	0.05	0–1	5.00%	0.05	0–1	5.00%	0.05	0–1	5.00%	0.05
👁 Image	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

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
Item		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
👁 Image	Poisonous Potato	0–1	¹⁄₂	¹⁄₂	0–1	¹⁄₂	¹⁄₂	0–1	¹⁄₂	¹⁄₂	0–1	¹⁄₂	¹⁄₂
👁 Image	Venomous Potato	0–1	¹⁄₂₀	¹⁄₂₀	0–1	¹⁄₂₀	¹⁄₂₀	0–1	¹⁄₂₀	¹⁄₂₀	0–1	¹⁄₂₀	¹⁄₂₀
👁 Image	Poisonous Potato Plant^[A]	0–1	^4.16625e+15⁄_1.25e+16	^4.16625e+15⁄_1.25e+16	0–1	^4.16625e+15⁄_1.25e+16	^4.16625e+15⁄_1.25e+16	0–1	^4.16625e+15⁄_1.25e+16	^4.16625e+15⁄_1.25e+16	0–1	^4.16625e+15⁄_1.25e+16	^4.16625e+15⁄_1.25e+16

Item		Amount	Probability
Item		Amount	Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
👁 Image	Poisonous Potato	0	¹⁄₂ (50.00%)	¹⁄₂ (50.00%)	¹⁄₂ (50.00%)	¹⁄₂ (50.00%)
		1	¹⁄₂ (50.00%)	¹⁄₂ (50.00%)	¹⁄₂ (50.00%)	¹⁄₂ (50.00%)
		Average	¹⁄₂ (0.50)	¹⁄₂ (0.50)	¹⁄₂ (0.50)	¹⁄₂ (0.50)
👁 Image	Venomous Potato	0	¹⁹⁄₂₀ (95.00%)	¹⁹⁄₂₀ (95.00%)	¹⁹⁄₂₀ (95.00%)	¹⁹⁄₂₀ (95.00%)
		1	¹⁄₂₀ (5.00%)	¹⁄₂₀ (5.00%)	¹⁄₂₀ (5.00%)	¹⁄₂₀ (5.00%)
		Average	¹⁄₂₀ (0.05)	¹⁄₂₀ (0.05)	¹⁄₂₀ (0.05)	¹⁄₂₀ (0.05)
👁 Image	Poisonous Potato Plant^[A]	0	^8.33375e+15⁄_1.25e+16 (66.67%)	^8.33375e+15⁄_1.25e+16 (66.67%)	^8.33375e+15⁄_1.25e+16 (66.67%)	^8.33375e+15⁄_1.25e+16 (66.67%)
		1	^4.16625e+15⁄_1.25e+16 (33.33%)	^4.16625e+15⁄_1.25e+16 (33.33%)	^4.16625e+15⁄_1.25e+16 (33.33%)	^4.16625e+15⁄_1.25e+16 (33.33%)
		Average	^4.16625e+15⁄_1.25e+16 (0.33)	^4.16625e+15⁄_1.25e+16 (0.33)	^4.16625e+15⁄_1.25e+16 (0.33)	^4.16625e+15⁄_1.25e+16 (0.33)

Item		Expected Drops
Killed		1
Item		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
👁 Image	Poisonous Potato	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50
👁 Image	Venomous Potato	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
👁 Image	Poisonous Potato Plant^[A]	0.33	0.33	0.33	0.33

↑ Only when killed by a player or a tamed wolf.

Sounds

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Batatos use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Bat screeches	Friendly Mobs	Randomly while flying	`entity.bat.ambient`	`subtitles.entity.bat.ambient`	0.1	0.76–1.14	16
Bat dies	Friendly Mobs	When a batato dies	`entity.bat.death`	`subtitles.entity.bat.death`	0.1	0.76–1.14	16
Bat hurts	Friendly Mobs	When a batato is damaged	`entity.bat.hurt`	`subtitles.entity.bat.hurt`	0.1	0.76–1.14	16
None^{[sound 2]}	None	Unused sound event ^{[sound 1]}	`entity.bat.loop`	None^{[sound 2]}	None	None	None
Bat takes off	Friendly Mobs	When a batato starts flying	`entity.bat.takeoff`	`subtitles.entity.bat.takeoff`	0.05	0.8–1.2	16

↑ MC-185413
↑ ^a ^b MC-177087

Data values

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ID

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Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
👁 EntitySprite batato.png: Sprite image for batato in Minecraft Batato	`batato`	`fall_damage_immune`	`entity.minecraft.batato`

Entity data

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Batatos have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

Main article: Entity format

[NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
- Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
- Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
- [Byte] BatFlags: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the batato is hanging upside-down from a block, false if the batato is flying.

Issues

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Issues relating to "Batato" 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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👁 Batato's front face

Batato's front face

Navigation

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Entities

👁 Image
Mobs

Passive

BE & Edu only	👁 Image Agent 👁 Image NPC

Neutral

Hostile

Bosses	👁 Image Ender Dragon 👁 Image Wither

Mob types

Other

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Projectiles

Java Edition only	👁 Image Shot Spectral Arrow
BE & Edu only	👁 Image Thrown Ice Bomb

Stationary
objects

Java Edition only	👁 Image Item Frame 👁 Image Glow

Miscellaneous

JE only	👁 Image Mannequin
BE & Edu only	👁 Image Balloon 👁 Image Camera

Technical
objects

JE only	👁 Image Display Block Item Text 👁 Image Interaction 👁 Image Marker
Editor only	Location Pointer Idle Location Pointer Selected 👁 Image Map Marker Ruler Idle

Unimplemented

Unused

JE only	👁 Image Giant 👁 Image Illusioner
BE & Edu only	👁 Image Elder Guardian Ghost 👁 Image Old Villager 👁 Image Old Zombie Villager

Removed

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👁 Image
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World generation

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Blocks

Items

World generation

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Commands

/debugdim
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Entities

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👁 EnvSprite potato.png: Sprite image for potato in Minecraft
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Blocks

Items

Mobs

Effects

Enchantments

👁 Image
Potatofication

World generation

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Structures	👁 Image Colosseum 👁 Image Potato Mineshaft 👁 Image Potato Village 👁 Image Ruined Portatol
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Rarities

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Fonts

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Add-Ons

👁 Image
Poisonous Potato Add-On

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