Quadruple Compressed Poisonous Potato Block

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.

Quadruple Compressed Poisonous Potato Block

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	1,312.2
Hardness	1312.2
Luminous	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

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A quadruple compressed poisonous potato block is a compacted block made of triple compressed poisonous potato blocks in 24w14potato.

Obtaining

Breaking

A quadruple compressed poisonous potato block can be broken using anything, but a pickaxe is the fastest. Quadruple compressed poisonous potato blocks always drop themselves when mined.

Block	Quadruple Compressed Poisonous Potato Block
Hardness	1312.2
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	1968.3
Wooden	984.15
Stone	492.1
Iron	328.05
Diamond	246.05
Netherite	218.7
Golden	164.05
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
Triple Compressed Poisonous Potato Block

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Quadruple Compressed Poisonous Potato Block	9

Sounds

Java Edition:

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

Trivia

• One quadruple compressed poisonous potato block is made up of 59,049 poisonous potatoes (approximately 923 stacks of 64 or 34.2 shulker boxes).
  • On average (with a drop rate of 2%), 2,952,450 potatoes have to be farmed to obtain all of the poisonous potatoes.
  • A stack of these blocks would be made up of 3,779,136 poisonous potatoes, which could fill 2,187 single chests.
• The quadruple compressed poisonous potato block is the block with the most hardness in the game with 1,312.2.
  • The highest hardness in the game prior to 24w14potato was 100.
  • Unbreakable blocks use a hardness of -1.
• The hardness of the quadruple compressed poisonous potato block is 6,561 times more than the hardness of the poisonous potato block as 6,561 poisonous potato blocks make up one quadruple compressed poisonous potato block.
• This block has the longest name of any block in Minecraft's history at 43 characters.
  • For comparison, the longest block name in any release version is the waxed weathered copper golem statue at 35 characters, and the longest block name in any non-joke development version is the waxed lightly weathered cut copper stairs at 41 characters.
• This block would weigh 7,127.1 tons if it existed in real life.

Issues

Issues relating to "Quadruple Compressed Poisonous Potato Block" 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".

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