Poisonous Potato Zombie

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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.

Posionous Potato Zombie

👁 Poisonous Potato Zombie.png: Infobox image for Minecraft entity 'Posionous Potato Zombie'

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

Health points	20HP👁 ❤️ × 10
Behavior	Neutral
Mob type	👁 Image Monster 👁 Image Potato 👁 Image Undead
Attack strength	Easy: 3.5HP👁 ❤️ × 1.75 Normal: 5HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 Hard: 7.5HP👁 ❤️ × 3.75
Spawn	The 👁 Image Overworld and the Potato dimension When a Mega Spud reaches the 3rd phase.

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A posionous^{[note 1]} potato zombie is a joke variant of the zombie, introduced in 24w14potato.

Spawning

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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

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Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
Item		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
👁 Image	Poisonous Potato	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00
👁 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
👁 Image	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
Item		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
👁 Image	Poisonous Potato	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
👁 Image	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
👁 Image	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
Item		Amount	Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
👁 Image	Poisonous Potato	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
👁 Image	Poisonous Potato	Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)
👁 Image	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)
👁 Image	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)

Item		Expected Drops
Killed		1
Item		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
👁 Image	Poisonous Potato	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
👁 Image	Poisonous Potato Plant^[A]	0.33	0.33	0.33	0.33
👁 Image	Poisonous Potato Headpiece^[A]	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02

↑ ^a ^b Only when killed by a player.

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

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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 do not attack villagers, and villagers do not run away from them.

Poisonous potato zombies are neutral toward players that wear a poisonous potato headpiece: they do not attack first, but they do retaliate if attacked.

Poisonous potato zombies do not groan, and instead make "POTATO" or "POTAHTOOOOOOO.." sounds repeatedly.

Sounds

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Poisonous potato zombies use the Hostile Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Potato Zombie groans	Hostile Mobs	Randomly	`entity.zombie_potato.ambient`	`subtitles.entity.zombie_potato.ambient`	1.0	0.8–1.2	16
Door shakes	Hostile Mobs	While a poisonous potato zombie is breaking a wooden door	`entity.zombie.attack_wooden_door`	`subtitles.entity.zombie.attack_wooden_door`	2.0	0.8–1.2	16
Block broken^{[sound 1]}	Hostile Mobs	Unused sound event	`entity.zombie_potato.attack_iron_door`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	2.0	0.8–1.2	16
Door breaks	Hostile Mobs	When a poisonous potato zombie breaks a wooden door	`entity.zombie.break_wooden_door`	`subtitles.entity.zombie.break_wooden_door`	2.0	0.8–1.2	16
Potato Zombie dies	Hostile Mobs	When a poisonous potato zombie dies	`entity.zombie_potato.death`	`subtitles.entity.zombie_potato.death`	1.0	0.8–1.2	16
Potato Zombie hurts	Hostile Mobs	When a poisonous potato zombie is damaged	`entity.zombie_potato.hurt`	`subtitles.entity.zombie_potato.hurt`	1.0	0.8–1.2	16
Potato Zombie infects	Hostile Mobs	When a poisonous potato zombie infects a zombie	`entity.zombie_potato.infect`	`subtitles.entity.zombie_potato.infect`	2.0	0.8–1.2	16
Footsteps	Hostile Mobs	While a poisonous potato zombie is walking	`entity.zombie_potato.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

↑ There is an unused subtitle with key subtitles.entity.zombie_potato.attack_iron_door and text "Potato Zombie breaks Iron Door".

Data values

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ID

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Name	Identifier	Translation key
👁 EntitySprite poisonous-potato-zombie.png: Sprite image for poisonous-potato-zombie in Minecraft Poisonous Potato Zombie	`poisonous_potato_zombie`	`entity.minecraft.poisonous_potato_zombie`

Issues

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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".

Notes

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↑ Spelt in this way in-game. For the sake of ease of reading, the correct spelling is used elsewhere.

Gallery

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👁 A potato zombie approaching a potato village.

A potato zombie approaching a potato village.

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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Other entities

Player

Blocks

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Java Edition only	👁 Image Minecart with Furnace 👁 Image with Monster Spawner

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

Mobs

👁 Image
Nerd Creeper

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Items

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👁 Image
Nerd Creeper

World generation

Structures	👁 Image Bonus barrel

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20w14∞ (2020)

Blocks

Items

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Commands

/debugdim
/warp

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Items

Mobs

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

Dimension	👁 Image Potato
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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Items

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Effects

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