Bottle o' Enchanting

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Bottle o' Enchanting
Bottle o' Enchanting.gif: Infobox image for Minecraft item entity 'Bottle o' Enchanting'
Invicon Bottle o' Enchanting.png: Inventory sprite for Bottle o' Enchanting in Minecraft as shown in-game with description:

A bottle o' enchanting is an item that can be thrown to break it and release experience orbs.

Obtaining

Generated loot

Item Structure Container Quantity Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Bottle o' Enchanting Ancient City Chest 1–3 23.7%
Pillager Outpost Chest 1 60.9%
Shipwreck Treasure chest 1 14.1%

Trading

VillagerProbabilityVillager wantsPlayer receivesTrades in
stock
Villager
experience
Price
multiplier
JEBE
Cleric Master100%100%3 × EmeraldBottle o' Enchanting12300.05

Usage

A bottle o' enchanting can be thrown by pressing use. On impact, it destroys itself and drops experience orbs worth 3–11XP (average 7.0) and sends out blue particles. Bottles o' enchanting can be used to increase the player's level for enchanting, using an anvil, or repairing tools and armor enchanted with Mending.

Bottles o' enchanting have an enchantment glint like enchanted items do.

Bottle o' enchanting properties
Drag-H 0.99 Gravity -0.07 m/tick2
Drag-Y

0.99

Ticking order 6

Launch angle calculator[calcnote 1]
Given a target coordinate and an initial speed, calculate the bottle o' enchanting launch angle to hit the target. Target is hit after ticks.
X 0 – 10 Yaw deg
Y 0 – 10 Pitch

degUnreachable
1 Direct hit

Z 0 – 10 Speed 3 m/tick
  1. ↑ Yaw and pitch follow the Minecraft's convention, thus zero yaw is directed at +Z (south) and looking upwards corresponds to negative values of pitch.

Sounds

Java Edition:
Bottles o' enchanting use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Bottle smashesFriendly MobsWhen a bottle o' enchanting impacts somethingentity.splash_potion.breaksubtitles.entity.potion.splash​1.00.9–1.016
​Bottle thrownFriendly MobsWhen a bottle o' enchanting is thrown by a playerentity.experience_bottle.throwsubtitles.entity.potion.throw​0.51⁄3-0.516
​Dispensed itemBlocksWhen a bottle o' enchanting is dispensed from a dispenserblock.dispenser.launchsubtitles.block.dispenser.dispense​1.01.216

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitch
​ ?BlocksWhen a splash potion impacts somethingrandom.glass​ ?1.01.0
​ ?PlayersWhen a splash potion is thrown by a playerrandom.bow​ ?0.50.33–0.5
​ ?PlayersWhen a splash potion is dispensed from a dispenserrandom.bow​ ?1.00.83–1.25

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

ItemIdentifierForm Translation key
ItemSprite bottle-o'-enchanting.png: Sprite image for bottle-o'-enchanting in Minecraft Bottle o' Enchantingexperience_bottleItem item.minecraft.experience_bottle
EntityIdentifier Translation key
EntitySprite bottle-o'-enchanting.png: Sprite image for bottle-o'-enchanting in Minecraft Thrown Bottle o' Enchantingexperience_bottle entity.minecraft.experience_bottle

Bedrock Edition:

ItemIdentifierNumeric ID Form Translation key
ItemSprite bottle-o'-enchanting.png: Sprite image for bottle-o'-enchanting in Minecraft Bottle o' Enchantingexperience_bottle508Item item.experience_bottle.name
EntityIdentifierNumeric ID Translation key
EntitySprite bottle-o'-enchanting.png: Sprite image for bottle-o'-enchanting in Minecraft Bottle o' Enchantingxp_bottle68 entity.xp_bottle.name

Entity data

Thrown bottles o' enchanting have entity data that define various properties of the entity.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.2.112w04a Added bottles o' enchanting.
Bottles o' enchanting can currently be obtained only in Creative mode.
1.3.112w21aWith the implementation of the trading system, the player can now trade with priest villagers to obtain 2–4 bottles o' enchanting for 1 emerald.
1.814w02aWith the trading revamp, villagers no longer sell bottles o' enchanting, making them again unobtainable in Survival.
14w31aCleric villagers now sell bottles o' enchanting for 3–11 emeralds each, making them renewable again.
1.915w49aBottles o' enchanting, like all projectiles, now take thrower's motion into account.
1.1318w11aBottles o' enchanting can now generate in shipwreck chests.
18w21aThe rarity of bottles o' enchanting has been changed from "Common" to "Uncommon".
1.1418w43a The texture of bottles o' enchanting has now been changed.
18w47aBottles o' enchanting can now generate in pillager outpost chests.
18w50aNow have an optional Item tag that can specify a different item stack to render.
19w11aCleric villagers now sell bottles o' enchanting for 3 emeralds.
1.1922w13aBottles o' enchanting may now be found in ancient city chests.
1.20.5
Experiment
Update 1.21
24w13aBottles o' enchanting are used as projectiles summoned by ominous trial spawners.
1.2124w18aReverted change made above.
1.21.224w34aThrown bottles o' enchanting no longer go through the world border if hit.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1build 1 Added bottles o' enchanting.
Due to the lack of trading, bottles o' enchanting are currently available only in Creative mode, similar to 12w04a when it was first released.
Pocket Edition
1.0.4alpha 1.0.4.0With villager trading added, it is now possible to obtain bottles o' enchanting legitimately.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0beta 1.2.14.2Bottles o' enchanting can now be found inside shipwreck and buried treasure chests.
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3Bottles o' enchanting can now be found in pillager outpost chests.
The texture of bottles o' enchanting has now been changed.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.4Trading has now been changed and bottles o' enchanting are now sold by cleric villagers for 3 emeralds.
1.21.30Preview 1.21.30.21The rarity of bottles o' enchanting has been changed from "Common" to "Uncommon" to match Java Edition.
1.21.100Preview 1.21.100.20The sprites of bottles o' enchanting, when rendered in the world, now have the correct scaling and positional offset.
They now match Java Edition and also match better with their collider.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
TU7CU11.001.001.00Patch 11.0.1 Added bottles o' enchanting.
Bottles o' enchanting can currently be obtained only in creative mode.
Bottle o' enchanting can be found in the Miscellaneous tab in the Creative inventory.
TU12Moved bottle o' enchanting to the Brewing tab in the Creative inventory.
TU141.04With the implementation of the trading system, the player can now trade with priest villagers to obtain 2–4 bottles o' enchanting for 1 emerald.
TU25CU141.171.171.17The distance how far bottles o' enchanting can be thrown has been massively reduced to match Java Edition.
TU31CU191.221.221.22Patch 3Cleric villagers now sell bottles o' enchanting for 3–11 emeralds each.
TU46CU361.381.381.38Patch 15Bottles o' enchanting, like all projectiles, now take thrower's motion into account.
TU69 1.761.761.76Patch 38 Bottles o' enchanting can now be found inside shipwreck and buried treasure chests.
1.90 The texture of bottles o' enchanting has now been changed.
1.91Bottles o' enchanting can now be found in pillager outpost chests.
Trading has now been changed and bottles o' enchanting are now sold by cleric villagers for 3 emeralds.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0 Added bottles o' enchanting.
Bottles o' enchanting are not available within the Creative inventory.
?Added bottles o' enchanting to the Creative inventory.

Data history

Java Edition
Java Edition
1.1116w32aThe entity ID has now been changed from ThrownExpBottle to xp_bottle.
1.1317w47aPrior to The Flattening, the item's numeral ID was 384 and the entity's numeral ID was 17.
pre5The entity ID has now been changed to experience_bottle.
Bedrock Edition
Pocket Edition
1.1.0alpha 1.1.0.0The entity ID has now been changed from potion.experience to xp_bottle.

Issues

Issues relating to "Bottle o' Enchanting" or "Experience Bottle" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Texture

Screenshots

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