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A bottle o' enchanting is a throwable item that releases experience orbs on impact.

Obtaining[]

Natural generation[]

Item Structure Container Quantity Chance
Java Edition
Bottle o' Enchanting Ancient City Chest 1–3 23.2%
Pillager Outpost Chest 1 60.9%
Shipwreck Treasure chest 1 14.1%
Bedrock Edition
Bottle o' Enchanting Ancient City Chest 1–3 23.2%
Buried treasure Chest 1 11.8%
Pillager Outpost Chest 1 60.9%
Shipwreck Treasure chest 1 14.1%

Trading[]

Master-level cleric villagers sell bottles o' enchanting for 3 emeralds as part of their trade.

Usage[]

A bottle o' enchanting can be thrown by pressing use. On impact, it drops experience orbs worth 3–11 (average 7.0) and sends out blue particles.

Sounds[]

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

SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
File:Glass dig1.oggFile:Glass dig2.oggFile:Glass dig3.oggBottle smashesFriendly CreaturesWhen a bottle o' enchanting impacts somethingentity.splash_potion.breaksubtitles.entity.potion.splash1.00.9-1.016
File:Bow shoot.oggBottle thrownFriendly CreaturesWhen a bottle o' enchanting is thrown by a playerentity.experience_bottle.throwsubtitles.entity.potion.throw0.513-0.516
Dispensed itemBlocksWhen a bottle o' enchanting is dispensed from a dispenserblock.dispenser.launchsubtitles.block.dispenser.dispense1.01.216

Bedrock Edition:

SoundSourceDescriptionResource locationVolumePitch
File:Glass dig1.oggFile:Glass dig2.oggFile:Glass dig3.oggBlocksWhen a splash potion impacts somethingrandom.glass1.01.0
File:Bow shoot.oggPlayersWhen a splash potion is thrown by a playerrandom.bow0.50.33-0.5
PlayersWhen a splash potion is dispensed from a dispenserrandom.bow1.00.83-1.25

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

ItemIdentifierFormTranslation key
Bottle o' Enchantingexperience_bottleItemitem.minecraft.experience_bottle
EntityIdentifierTranslation key
Thrown Bottle o' Enchantingexperience_bottleentity.minecraft.experience_bottle

Bedrock Edition:

ItemIdentifierNumeric ID FormTranslation key
Bottle o' Enchantingexperience_bottle508Itemitem.experience_bottle.name
EntityIdentifierNumeric ID Translation key
Bottle o' Enchantingxp_bottle68entity.xp_bottle.name

Entity data[]

See also: Chunk format

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

  • Entity data
    • Tags common to all entities
    • Tags common to all projectiles
    •  Item: The item to render as, may be absent.
      • Tags common to all items

History[]

This article is missing information about when were dispensers made able to fire these? Or was this always a thing?. 
Please expand the article to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page.
Java Edition
1.2.112w04aBottle o' Enchanting JE1 BE1 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 regular 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.
1.1116w32aThe entity ID has now been changed from ThrownExpBottle to xp_bottle.
1.1317w47aPrior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 384.
18w11aBottles o' enchanting can now generate in shipwreck chests.
pre5The entity ID has now been changed to experience_bottle.
1.1418w43aBottle o' Enchanting JE2 BE2 The texture of bottles o' enchanting has now been changed.
18w47aBottles o' enchanting can now generate in pillager outpost chests.
1.1922w13aBottles o' enchanting may now be found in ancient city chests.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1build 1Bottle o' Enchanting JE1 BE1 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.
1.1.0alpha 1.1.0.0The entity ID has now been changed from potion.experience to xp_bottle.
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.
Bottle o' Enchanting JE2 BE2 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.
Legacy Console Edition
TU7CU1 1.0 Patch 1Bottle o' Enchanting JE1 BE1 Added bottles o' enchanting.
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.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90Bottle o' Enchanting JE2 BE2 The texture of bottles o' enchanting has now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0Bottle o' Enchanting JE1 BE1 Added bottles o' enchanting.
Bottles o' enchanting are not available within the Creative inventory.
?Added bottles o' enchanting to the Creative inventory.[more information needed]

Issues[]

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