Minecraft's annual April Fools gag is upon us once again, and this time it's a celebration of the game's most useless item that offers so many new features it might as well be a proper new update.
Normally, poisonous potatoes have a very small chance of dropping when harvesting potato plants, and you can eat them to restore slightly more hunger than a normal potato while running the risk of getting poisoned. That's it. The poisonous potato is certainly in the running as the most pointless object in Minecraft, and that's the sentiment Mojang is playing with with the official introduction to the Poisonous Potato update.
