Metal Potato Thing

Metal Potato Thing
Stacks up to	Does not stack
DebugSpawn	"teleportato_potato"

Metal Potato
Stacks up to	Does not stack
DebugSpawn	"teleportato_potato"

See also: Wooden Potato Thing

“This metal potato contains great and fearful power...”

–Wilson

“Perhaps I could melt it into a more pleasing shape.”

–Willow

“Ha ha! Ha ha! What ugly potato!”

–Wolfgang

“What a hideous creation!”

–Wendy

“REMINDS ME OF MY MOTHER”

–WX-78

“Neither fully organic nor inorganic!”

–Wickerbottom

“Potato-y, eh?”

–Woodie

“The gears in here are so small they turn the fabric of reality.”

–Maxwell

“Nö decency. It's nöt even metal meat.”

–Wigfrid

“It looks like this goes with something...”

–Webber

“Heh heh.”

–Walani

“This, I do not even...”

–Warly

“Strange armor be this.”

–Woodlegs

The Metal Potato Thing is one of four Things used on the Wooden Thing to travel to the next world. It spawns naturally in every world in its own Set Piece. It is located near some Basic Farms, which are surrounded by some Grass and Twigs, a Shovel, and unpicked Carrots.

There are two version of it, one that spawns in Sandbox Mode and one in Adventure Mode, that differ from their color schemes. Player can craft a Divining Rod to help them track the Metal Potato Thing.

The only purpose of the Metal Potato Thing is to be used on the Wooden Thing. It's an important gameplay Item and as such it cannot be destroyed or stolen by Mobs (e.g. Krampus, Splumonkeys etc.)

Trivia 

• This part of the machine is found near a garden, and Wickerbottom claims it's neither fully organic nor inorganic, suggesting it may have been grown there (or someone tried to grow it).
• Wilson mentions that the metal potato contains great and fearful power.
• The Metal potato thing is actually a robotic Maxwell's head. Calling it a potato may just be making fun of the game's antagonist, though being near a farm make the potato similarities more obvious.
• The Metal potato thing is the reason the Wooden Thing, when fully constructed, is more commonly referred to as the 'Teleportato'.
• This may be a reference to the game Portal 2, in which deuteragonist Wheatley puts the antagonist GLaDOS into a potato battery. This is reinforced by WX-78's quote, seen above.

Gallery

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  The Metal Potato Thing's Set Piece.

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  Metal Potato Thing added to the Wooden Thing.