POTATO
1 trade involving this item across 1 trader.
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- 11 August 2026
- Java Edition
- 26.2, 1 of 1 row found
- Bedrock Edition
- 1.26.30.5, 1 of 1 matching
- Edition differences
- none, both editions match
Potato in villager trading
Potato is a raw-material trade: villagers pay emeralds for it, which makes it a candidate for an automated emerald farm rather than something you purchase back.
Potato is a farmable crop. Large automated farms make it trivial to mass-produce, which is exactly why villagers buying it form the backbone of most emerald farms. No recipe in Java 26.2 produces it: it drops from husks, zombie villagers and zombies, and it comes out of potatoes.
Villagers that buy Potato(you give Potato, get emeralds)
Java 26.2
Bedrock 1.26.30.5
The 1 trade on this item was read out of the trade files Minecraft Java 26.2 ships in its own data, checked on against the item, both amounts and the use limit. Bedrock 1.26.30.5 is read as well, and where it disagrees the row says how. Which files, and what is not checked.
Your odds of finding Potato
A villager only shows part of its trade table, so knowing who trades potato is not the same as getting it. The friendliest roll here is the farmer (novice): 40% of them carry it, so it takes about 2.5 of them on average before one does.
| Villager | Tier | Villagers with this offer | Rolls to see it | Most from one villager | After a cure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmer | Novice | 40% (2 in 5)Bedrock 25% (1 in 4) | about 2.5 | 32 emeralds a day2 restocks a day | 20 potatowas 26, 6 off |
The chance is the draw size over the pool size in the game's own trade set file for that tier. The Bedrock line under it is the same sum on Bedrock's own table, which splits a tier into groups and draws out of each one separately, so the two editions often disagree. The day figure is the trade's use limit times the 2 restocks a villager is allowed per in-game day (Villager.allowedToRestock), so it is a ceiling and not an average: it assumes you are there for every restock. The cure column is 125 reputation times the trade's own multiplier, floored, and never takes a cost below one. Counted from the game's own draw sizes. How that check works.
Who trades Potato, and at what price
To sell Potato for emeralds, bring it to a Farmer at the Novice tier (26 units per 1 emerald).
Is trading Potato worth it?
The best rate any villager offers is an emerald per 26 potatoes, from the Farmer, and nothing else on that list asks for more. No villager sells potato back, so it is emeralds out and nothing in.
Potato against the other 71 ways to earn an emerald
One slot at the Farmer takes 26 potatoes a trade, 16 trades, 16 emeralds. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:
| A full slot of | To | Emeralds | Worth in Potato |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 acacia boats | master Fisherman | 12 | 312 potatoes |
| 24 book and quills | expert Librarian | 12 | 312 potatoes |
| 60 ink sacs | journeyman Librarian | 12 | 312 potatoes |
| 96 tripwire hooks | master Fletcher | 12 | 312 potatoes |
| 208 raw salmon | journeyman Fisherman | 16 | 416 potatoes |
| 240 coal | novice Toolsmith | 16 | 416 potatoes |
| 264 nether wart | master Cleric | 12 | 312 potatoes |
| 312 flint | apprentice Leatherworker | 12 | 312 potatoes |
16 acacia boats against 416 flint for the same 16 emeralds, 26 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Fisherman at 10 real minutes of shelf, gathering not counted. Potato itself pays 26 an emerald, so 66 of the 72 ask less and 3 ask more.
How Potato trading works
Every potato offer here locks after 16 uses, and a villager restocks up to twice per Minecraft day, so one is good for 32 of these trades a day and no more.
The earliest potato shows up is the Farmer's Novice tier, which a villager has the moment it claims the workstation.
How long Potato takes in real time
416 potatoes empty one slot at the Farmer, 2400 ticks (Villager.allowedToRestock) at 20 a second (TickRateManager) refill it 2 real minutes later, and the 24000-tick villager day (Timelines) holds 2 of those fills in 20 real minutes.
So one farmer moves 832 potatoes against 32 emeralds a Minecraft day, 26 potatoes every 37.5 real seconds, 1.6 emeralds a real minute. 64 potatoes fit inside one of those slots, refill untouched.
Tips for trading Potato
- One villager, one restock: the Farmer pays an emerald per 26 potatoes and that slot runs 16 trades, so 416 potatoes (6.5 stacks) is all one will take before it locks, for 16 emeralds in total.
- Where they go back: that Farmer also sells bread, 6 for 1 emerald, its cheapest offer.
- Also on the Farmer's list: carrot, beetroot, pumpkin, pumpkin pie, apple, melon.
Bread
Pumpkin Pie
Apple