Tooltip

A tooltip is extra information that appears when hovering over or focusing on items or certain UI elements.

When hovering over an item with the cursor while in the inventory or a container screen, a tooltip with the item’s name appears next to the cursor. When playing with touch controls, tapping an item displays its tooltip on the bottom of the screen. Some items display extra information on their tooltips, such as enchantments and shulker box contents. In Java Edition, basic item tooltips are also visible in the "Items" section of the statistics menu when hovering over a block or item on the left side of the screen.

In Java Edition, advanced tooltips, including item IDs and the exact remaining durability of tools, can be displayed by pressing the debug hotkey F3 + H.

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The table below describes all possible tooltip lines in Java Edition, including these shown when advanced tooltips are enabled. Note that table preserves the order of these lines too.

In "Content" column, cells with yellow background means the exact text displayed. Additionally, cells marked "[...]" means that this field has variable lines count.

Bedrock Edition tooltips display the following information. They are formatted with § to make them show different colors or italics.

Text in bold is directly shown as such on the tooltip.

• Item name
  • Depending on the rarity, this uses a color code.
  • Custom names created by the player, such as by renaming in an anvil or signing a book, are in italics (§o). These can override formatting codes.
  • The item name can be variable, such as for buckets of tropical fish and filled maps.
• Bundle contents (not in Creative inventory/recipe book):
  • When empty, displays "§8 Can hold a mixed stack of items".
  • With items, displays the first 12 item types in slots that can be scrolled over, displaying a second tooltip containing only the selected item name above the bundle tooltip. With 13 item types or more, displays the first 11 items and an unselectable counter of the remaining item quantity.
  • Below, always shows the progress bar.
• Map information:
  • Level 0/4 (or any other available level)
  • Locked (only when the map is locked)
• §9 Item category from the Creative inventory or recipe book, only shown when the "All" tab of the menu is opened.​^{[until: BE 26.50]}
  • Can be "Construction", "Equipment", "Items", or "Nature". Not shown when any of the above elements are displayed.
• §9 Item description:​^{[upcoming: BE 26.50]}

• Smithing template description:
  • §7 Smithing Template
  • line break​^{[until: BE 26.50]}
  • §7 Applies to:​^{[until: BE 26.50]}
  • §9 Armor (on armor trims) / Diamond Equipment (on netherite upgrades)​^{[until: BE 26.50]}
  • §7 Ingredients:​^{[until: BE 26.50]}
  • §9 Ingots & Cristals (on armor trims) / Netherite Ingot (on netherite upgrades)​^{[until: BE 26.50]}
• §7 Goat horn instrument (e.g. Ponder)
• §7 Shulker box contents:
  • Displays the item names of the first 5 items in the shulker box followed by the stack size (e.g. String x64).
  • Displayes the amount of stacks not shown (e.g. and 6 more...)
• Banner patterns:
  • Displays all banner patterns preceded by their color.
• §7 Decorated pot configuration:
  • line break
  • Displays all items the decorated pot has been crafted with, either pottery sherds or bricks. The order is front, left, right, rear.
• §7 Written book information:
  • Author, can be chosen in the book and quill. This can override formatting codes in the tooltip.
  • Generation (Original, Copy of original, or Copy of a copy)
• Firework information:
  • Flight duration (e.g. Flight Duration: 3)
  • All firework star effects, also shown per firework star. Each firework star effect is shown as follows, multiple can be on one firework rocket:
    • Shape (Small Ball, Large Ball, Burst, Star-shaped, or Creeper-shaped)
    • All colors (e.g. Black, Light Blue, Gray, Gray, Lime, Pink)
    • Trail, if applied
    • Twinkle, if applied
• Effect information, shown on potions and suspicious stew in Creative):
  • §7 Effect name, level (if higher than 1), and duration (e.g. Slowness IV (0:20)). When the effect is negative, shown in red (§c). There can be multiple effects.
  • line break​^{[until: BE 26.50]}
  • §5 When Applied:​^{[until: BE 26.50]}
  • Attribute information, e.g. (+2.99 Attack Damage). When positive, color coded blue (§9), when negative color coded red (§c). Can only show Speed and Attack Damage.
• §7 Music disc name (e.g. C418 - strad)
• Armor trim information:
  • §7 Upgrade:​^{[until: BE 26.50]}
  • Armor trim name (e.g. Tide Armor Trim)​^{[until: BE 26.50]}
  • Material (e.g. Diamond Material)​^{[until: BE 26.50]}
  • Material and armor trim name (e.g. Diamond Tide Trim)​^{[upcoming: BE 26.50]}
    • These are color coded depending on the material used with unique colors.
• §7 Enchantments (e.g. Feather Falling IV), can have multiple. Curses are color coded red (§c).
• Attribute modifiers:
  • line break​^{[until: BE 26.50]}
  • §7 Required armor slot (e.g. When on Head:)​^{[until: BE 26.50]}
  • §9 Attribute modifier (e.g. +11 Armor). Only shows Armor, Armor Toughness, Knockback Resistance, Attack Damage, Chop Efficiency,​^{[upcoming: BE 26.50]} Mining Efficiency,​^{[upcoming: BE 26.50]} and Dig Efficicency.​^{[upcoming: BE 26.50]}
• Dyed, shown on dyed leather armor and wolf armor. Preceded by a line break.
• NBT components:
  • can_place_on: ​^{[more information needed]}
  • can_destroy: ​^{[more information needed]}
  • lock_in_inventory: ☆ Can't Drop Items can't be:
    • - dropped
    • - removed
    • - crafted with
  • lock_in_slot: ★ Can't Move Items can't be:
    • - moved
    • - dropped
    • - removed
    • - crafted with
  • keep_on_death: This item is not lost on death
• §o§5 (+DATA)
  • Shown on items obtained using ⎈ Control + Pick block, making them contain data (such as a command block with commands).

This feature is exclusive to Java Edition.

 

When effects in the inventory are displayed in the compact style, hovering over an effect icon displays more information about that effect.

In Java Edition, when certain buttons, text fields, and sliders are hovered over, or focused on when navigating with ↹ Tab, they show a description in the form of a tooltip. The “Key Binds” options menu also has tooltips to provide details on conflicts between keys.

In Bedrock Edition, most options have descriptions that are always visible instead of tooltips. Menu tooltips are only used in the game menu for the small buttons on the bottom, and a message with the tooltip texture appears in the chat if there are unread messages below.

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  The old Java Edition item tooltip as seen in the statistics menu before 1.20.2

Issues relating to "Tooltip" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

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  An example of a smithing template tooltip
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  An example of a tooltip for a trimmed piece of armor
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  An example of a painting tooltip in the Creative inventory in Java Edition
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  An example of a goat horn tooltip
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  An example of a written book tooltip
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  Tooltip in the game menu
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  An example of a crossbow tooltip
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  An example of a decorated pot tooltip
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  An example of a bucket of tropical fish tooltip in Java Edition
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  An example of a key bind conflict tooltip in Java Edition