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What is Poisonous Potato in Minecraft?

A poisonous potato is a strange and unappetizing food item in Minecraft that you should probably avoid eating. It is a greenish, sickly looking potato that has a small chance of dropping when you harvest regular potatoes. Its main purpose is to be a bit of a trap or a nuisance. If you eat a poisonous potato, it has a high chance of giving you the poison effect, which will drain your health for a few seconds. It does restore a little bit of hunger, but the risk of getting poisoned makes it a very poor food choice. It is one of the few items in the game that is almost entirely useless, making it a bit of a funny and quirky part of Minecraft's world.

How to get Poisonous Potato in Minecraft

There is only one way to get a poisonous potato in survival mode, and it is completely up to chance. You get it when you are harvesting potato crops. To start, you need to find a potato. You can find them in village farms, or sometimes they are dropped by zombies. Once you have a potato, you can plant it on farmland. When the potato plant is fully grown, you can break it to harvest several potatoes. Every time you harvest a fully grown potato plant, there is a two percent chance that a poisonous potato will drop along with the regular ones. The Fortune enchantment on a tool does not increase this chance, so getting one is purely a matter of luck. The more potatoes you farm, the more likely you are to eventually find a poisonous potato.

How to use Poisonous Potato in Minecraft

The poisonous potato has very few uses. Its most obvious use is to eat it, but this is not a good idea. Eating one restores two hunger points, but it also has a sixty percent chance of giving you the Poison effect for four seconds, which will take away some of your health. Because of this, it is a terrible food source. Some players like to collect them as a rare novelty item. You can also use a poisonous potato in a composter. It has a sixty five percent chance to add a layer to the composter, helping you create bone meal. Other than that, it cannot be used in any crafting recipes. You could use it to play a prank on a friend by leaving it in a chest full of food.

How to craft Poisonous Potato in Minecraft

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What can Poisonous Potato make in Minecraft

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My Story

How This All Started

So basically, I was playing Minecraft one night after a long day doing deliveries, and I was trying to remember what drops what and how to craft certain things. Every website I went to was either dead slow, missing loads of stuff, or just looked terrible. I thought "bloody hell, surely I can do better than this?"

By the way, this My Story section is something new I've only just started adding things here! Most of the site was actually built before I ever wrote this part. Now that the website is live, I'm running into problems galore! So if things look a bit rough or unfinished, bear with me I'm updating and adding as I go.

That was probably a mistake.

A half finished story, oh well. I'll keep adding more as I go!

Learning the Hard Way

I knew absolutely nothing about making websites. Like, properly nothing. I didn't even know what PHP was. But I'm stubborn as anything, so I just started watching YouTube tutorials and reading random stuff online while I was on my breaks.

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The worst part is when you spend hours trying to figure out why something doesn't work, and it turns out you missed a semicolon. Or when everything works fine on your computer but looks like complete rubbish on someone else's. Fun times.

The Reality of It

Look, I'm not gonna lie this has been a right pain sometimes. I work full time doing deliveries, so most of this gets done late at night when I should probably be sleeping. I've had way too many energy drinks and definitely not enough sleep.

The database has corrupted itself more times than I care to remember. I've had images that wouldn't load for no reason. CSS that worked yesterday but decided to have a tantrum today. The usual web development nightmare stuff.

But every time I get something working properly, it feels brilliant. Like when I finally got all the block images showing up correctly, or when the search actually started finding things. Small wins, but they keep me going.

What I Actually Want to Build

Here's the thing I want this to be your go to place for everything Minecraft. Not just blocks and items, but proper guides, build tutorials, maybe even schematics you can download. Server info, community stuff, the lot.

I know it doesn't look like much right now, and there's loads missing. But I'm working on it. It takes time when you're learning as you go and doing it around a full time job. But I'd rather take my time and do it properly than rush it and end up with something rubbish.

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Why I Keep Going

Honestly? Because every time someone uses this site or gives me feedback, it reminds me why I started. I love Minecraft, I love building things (both in game and apparently websites), and I love the community.

Plus, I've learned loads doing this. Sure, I've wanted to give up more times than I can count, but seeing it slowly come together is pretty satisfying. And if it helps other people find what they're looking for without having to trawl through ten different outdated websites, then that's worth it.

So yeah, bear with me while I figure this all out. It's going to take a while, but it'll get there eventually. Thanks for checking it out, and if you spot anything broken or have suggestions, let me know. I'm still learning, but I'm determined to make this work.