Potato Stem

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 Stem

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	None
Blast resistance	2
Hardness	2
Luminous	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Note block instrument	Bass

A potato stem is a log-type joke block, exclusive to 24w14potato.

Obtaining

Breaking

Potato stems can be broken using any tool, but an axe is the fastest. Additionally, swords speed up the breaking time.

Block	Potato Stem
Hardness	2
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	13 (JE) 3 (BE)
Wooden	11.5 (JE) 1.5 (BE)
Stone	10.75 (JE) 0.75 (BE)
Iron	10.5 (JE) 0.5 (BE)
Diamond	10.4 (JE) 0.4 (BE)
Netherite	10.35 (JE) 0.35 (BE)
Golden	10.25 (JE) 0.25 (BE)
Sword	12 (JE) 2 (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

Natural generation

Potato stems generate naturally as part of potato trees, as well as in potato villages and potato mineshafts.

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Potato Planks	Potato Stem	4
Potato Hanging Sign	Chain + Potato Stem

Potato stems cannot be stripped with an axe and cannot be crafted into wood or hyphae, unlike all other log-like blocks.

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.

stem sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stem.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stem.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.8	0.88	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stem.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.2	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stem.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stem.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Data values

ID

Name	Identifier	Block tags	Translation key
Potato Stem	potato_stem	parrots_spawnable_on completes_find_tree_tutorial logs mineable/axe sword_efficient lava_pool_stone_cannot_replace	block.minecraft.potato_stem

Block states

Issues

Issues relating to "Potato Stem" 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".