Mojang has pushed out Minecraft update 2.86 on all platforms, and this is to usher in the “Poisonous Potato Update” this April 1! Yes, we know it’s April Fools’ Day, but this really is in the game, albeit temporarily. Read on for the skinny (get it?) in this new update to Minecraft.
Minecraft Update 2.86 Patch Notes for April 1:
Update: Mojang has also included the following fix as part of 1.20.73:
Fixes:
- Fixed a crash that could occur during gameplay
GAMEPLAY & FEATURES
GENERAL
- Poisonous potatoes – LOTS of poisonous potatoes!
- A few normal potatoes too!
- Added the Poisonous Potato Dimension
- The homeland of all potato kind
- Five spud-tastic biomes: fields, hash, arboretum, corruption, and wasteland
- Experience the life of a potato – from its inception as a raw potato picked from the fields, through cooked hash browns, to its eventual decay
- Local weather with a-mashing effects
- Added the Colosseum, home to the lord of potato kind…
BLOCKS
- A whole sack of a-peeling new blocks
- Rich in Vitamin C, Vitamin B6, and Niacin!
- No new mineral blocks. No need! The blocks themselves contain minerals: Potassium, Magnesium, and Iron!
ITEMS
- Added the frying table – everyone asked for it, so we added it. It fries potato things. It’s a really nice model!
- Added functionality to the fletching table. You can now fletch toxic resin into more refined versions of the resin.
- Added impurities because purity is overrated
- Added a whole bunch new gadgets that will tune your poisonous potato game up to eleven!
MOBS
- You get it by now. They’re all poisonous potatoes…
TECHNICAL CHANGES
- The flux capacitor integration now synergizes with quantum voxelization, which enables a 360-noscope enhancing real-time RTX terrain-rendering nightshade multibox spectrum acceleration while optimizing transdimensional entity synchronization for seamless vitelotte-king edwards-russel burbank experiences!
Mojang also published an “FAQ” of sorts for this potato update.
FAQ:
WHAT HAPPENS IF I DOWNLOAD THE UPDATE?
Then you will be the proud owner of the file that contains the update.
WHAT CAN I EXPECT IN TERMS OF GAMEPLAY?
Poisonous potatoes. We hope this article has made that perfectly clear.
I DON’T BELIEVE I ASKED FOR THIS UPDATE, IF I’M HONEST.
You might not have – but your brain (or maybe belly) did!
ARE THERE CURRENTLY ANY OTHER CARB-BASED UPDATES IN THE WORKS?
Great question! Please look forward to the Radioactive Rice Update and Toxic Taro Update in the very distant future!
If we get a proper changelog from Mojang in terms of bug fixes and whatnot, we’ll be sure to let our readers know.
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