Potato Battery

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 Battery

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	3
Hardness	3
Luminous	Yes (9) (when active)
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

A potato battery is a toggleable block that emits a redstone signal and damages entities above it when activated. It is exclusive to 24w14potato.

Obtaining

Breaking

A potato battery can be broken using any tool with equal efficiency, and always drops itself.

Block	Potato Battery
Hardness	3
Breaking time (secs)
Default	14.5 (JE) 4.5 (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
Iron Ingot + Copper Ingot + Poisonous Potato + Redstone Dust

Usage

Redstone signal

When used, a potato battery toggles its state. When active, it emits a redstone signal of 15.

Damage

If an entity is on top of it while it is active, the entity is damaged by 0.5HP × 0.25 per tick. However, due to damage immunity, the entity actually receives damage only every half a second.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

terredepomme sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.terredepomme.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.terredepomme.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.terredepomme.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	None​[sound 1]​	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.terredepomme.fall	None​[sound 1]​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.terredepomme.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Unique

Data values

ID

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Potato Battery	potato_battery	block.minecraft.potato_battery

Block states

The potato_battery block uses following block states:

Issues

Issues relating to "Potato Battery" 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".

Trivia

• In real life, potato batteries are a type of electrochemical battery often created for educational purposes. These batteries employ reactions between copper and zinc electrodes and the acidic electrolytes inside the potato to produce power.

Gallery

• 
  The potato battery in its shock animation.