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Poisonous Potatoes should be compostable.

Poisonous Potatoes should be put into a composter, so they actually have a use.

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    Putting poison in a Composter to make bone meal doesn't seem healthy for the crops. Can't support it.

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    I'm pretty sure this would make sense; how does nature deal with these little devils? Composting them shouldn't be an issue at all. +1

    Although the likelihood of this happening is near impossible, since the developers intend for the poisonous potato to be a truly useless item.

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    Technically they don't seeing that they don't generate without a village.

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    @Blast Burner Technically, poisonous potatoes are just green potatoes, which are pretty much just unripe (?) potatoes, so I think this would make sense.

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    With that logic right there Lisa, you might've changed my opinion of this idea.

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    @Blast Burner Yup! I believe years ago the poisonous potato was actually called the "green potato." They may be slightly dangerous to humans, but in a compost I'm sure they're perfectly fine!

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    I suggested a different use for poisonous potatoes, to have them used to make starvation potions. I also think that anything poisonous could be healthy for plants.

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    Honestly, I know it's somewhat of a running gag with the developers to keep the potato useless, but it's frustrating just having them lying around the place. I was really surprised when the Village & Pillage update got released and you couldn't compost them.

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    If the developers want the poisonous potatoes to be useless, I don't mind. But as it is, they are a true nuisance. They should be compostable to avoid the necessity of making a garbage disposal just for the potatoes or having to throw them over a cliff or fence so you don't end up picking them up again by mistake. I wish I could just put them in a composter. I wouldn't even mind if they didn't contribute to making the bonemeal.

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    Sorry to tell you, but the uselessness of poisonous potatoes is actually intentional. It's meant to be basically a huge joke.

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    Maybe due to its poison-ness, it would turn the bonemeal into a weak bonemeal which only works half as well.

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    the composter gives then you a potion of poison

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    Absolutely!

    Realistically-speaking, in the "worst" case they might simply grow inside the composter - just like regular potatoes, carrots, beetroot or various seeds and saplings potentially would - and eventually yield a harvest of regular potatoes.
    And if they don't happen to grow, then they just break down like any other plant material in there. 

    The substance (solanine) that makes poisonous potatoes poisonous is produced by the potato for protection when it creates sprouts and starts growing into a new potato plant. The leaves, flowers and fruit of potato plants all contain that same substance as well, and any regular potato planted in the ground for growing will eventually turn poisonous as it produces solanine and starts sprouting. So this is not "spoiled" as in decaying, or infested or diseased, it is simply how the potato plant works normally. So there is really nothing special or evil or whatever about it. 

    As such, in addition to being compostable, poisonous potatoes should also be plantable, starting in growth stage 1 instead of 0 for regular potatoes, since that is exactly what they are: Regular potatoes that simply already started growing before being planted, making them inedible for humans, but faster to grow further, and growing into perfectly normal, regular potato plants, eventually yielding a harvest of regular potatoes.