Floatato

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.

Floatato

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0.3
Hardness	0.3
Luminous	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Note block instrument	Bass Drum

A floatato is a block that generates in cloud formations and is used to craft floataters that is exclusive to 24w14potato.

Obtaining

Breaking

A floatato can be broken using anything, but a hoe is the fastest. Floatatoes always drop as an item.

Block	Floatato
Hardness	0.3
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	10.45 (JE) 0.45 (BE)
Wooden	10.25 (JE) 0.25 (BE)
Stone	10.15 (JE) 0.15 (BE)
Iron	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Diamond	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Netherite	10.1 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Golden	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

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

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Poisonous Potato + Ghast Tear	8

Natural generation

Floatatos naturally generate in clouds in the Potato dimension; these generate in any biome, around Y-level 110, hovering over the void. Potato clouds never generate underground and they very rarely touch terrain. A potato cloud has on average around 60 floatato blocks.

Usage

Placing

Feature unique to floatatoes is that they can be placed 2 blocks away from the player midair, without looking at another block.

Crafting ingredient

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Poisonous Potato + Floatato + Hot potato

Sounds

This section uses a sound table which may not accurately represent the sounds associated with this feature.

Because of MC-177082, subtitles for falling on blocks may not have existed at this point in development, so a dedicated sound table accounting for this may be required.

wool sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wool.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wool.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wool.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wool.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.wool.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Data values

ID

Name	Identifier	Block tags	Translation key
Floatato	floatato	mineable/hoe	block.minecraft.floatato

Issues

Issues relating to "Floatato" 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

Screenshots

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  A few naturally generated potato clouds, made out of the floatato block.