A glass bottle is an item that can hold water, potions, honey, or dragon's breath.
Obtaining[]
Glass bottles can be obtained by crafting, drinking from bottles, fishing, or from witch drops.
Crafting[]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Glass |
Drinking[]
Drinking a potion or honey bottle returns the empty glass bottle. Throwing a splash potion or a lingering potion does not return a glass bottle, but brewing a lingering potion gives back a glass bottle.
Mob loot[]
Witches have a chance of dropping 0–6 glass bottles upon death. This is increased by 3 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0–15 glass bottles.
Mud[]
Using a water bottle, splash water bottle or lingering water bottle on dirt, coarse dirt or rooted dirt will transforming it into a mud block, at the same time leaving the player with an empty glass bottle.
Cauldrons[]
Using a water bottle (or, in Bedrock Edition, a potion, splash potion, or lingering potion) on a cauldron that is not yet full adds that liquid to the cauldron, leaving the player with an empty glass bottle.
Usage[]
Glass bottles can be filled to make water bottles, which can then be used to brew items with a brewing stand. Glass bottles are also used to hold the resulting potion.
Collecting liquids[]
Water[]
A bottle may be filled with water by holding it in the hand and using it on a water source block or a cauldron that has water in it. It can also be filled using a waterlogged block.[Java Edition only][1]
Also, a bottle may be filled by powering a dispenser containing a bottle and pointed at a water source block. This does not work with cauldrons.[2]
If filled via a water source, the water is unaffected. If filled via a cauldron, 1⁄3 of the water in the cauldron is removed. Therefore, using a cauldron to fill water bottles is inefficient, except in the Nether where it is normally the only way to fill bottles.
Potion[]
In Bedrock Edition, a bottle may be filled with potion by using it on a cauldron containing potion. When the bottle is filled, 1⁄3 of the cauldron's potion is removed.
Honey[]
If a bee nest or beehive is full, the player can use a glass bottle on the block, or may power a dispenser that contains a bottle and is pointed at the block, which empties the block and creates a honey bottle. Honey bottles can also be emptied by using them in crafting recipes (such as sugar or honey block). However, a lingering potion use on tipped arrow recipe does not give the bottle back.
Dragon's breath[]
Using a glass bottle in clouds emitted when the ender dragon breathes or shoots a dragon fireball fills the bottle with dragon's breath.
When put 2 or more dragon's breath in the brewing stand, after the brewing process, a glass bottle will drop as an entity. However, if put only 1 dragon's breath in the brewing stand, after the brewing process, the glass bottle is consumed and cannot be retrieved.[3]
Trading[]
Expert-level cleric villagers have a 50% chance to buy 9 glass bottles for one emerald as part of their trade.[Bedrock Edition only]
Expert-level cleric villagers have a 2⁄3 chance to buy 9 glass bottles for one emerald.[Java Edition only]
Crafting ingredients[]
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Air (April Fools joke) | Glass Bottle | |
| Honey Bottle | Glass Bottle + Honey Block |
Sounds[]
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bottle fills | Blocks | When a bottle is filled with a liquid from a cauldron, or honey from a bee nest or beehive | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Bottle fills | Friendly Creatures | When a bottle is filled with water from a water source | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Bottle empties | Blocks | When a water bottle is emptied | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Bottle fills | Friendly Creatures | When a bottle is filled with dragon's breath | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 |
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blocks | When water from a bottle is placed in a cauldron | cauldron | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
| Blocks | When water from a bottle is taken from a cauldron | cauldron | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
| Blocks | When a bottle is filled with a potion from a cauldron | cauldron | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
| Blocks | When a potion bottle is emptied into a cauldron | cauldron | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
| Sound | When a bottle is emptied | bottle | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| Sound | When a bottle is filled | bottle | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| Blocks | When a bottle is filled with honey from a bee nest or beehive | bucket | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| Sound | When a bottle is filled with dragon's breath | bottle | 0.7 1.0 | 1.0 |
- ↑ a b c d MCPE-174867
- ↑ MCPE-53881
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glass Bottle | glass_bottle | Item | item.minecraft.glass_bottle |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glass Bottle | glass_bottle | 427 | Item | item.glass_bottle.name |
Achievements[]
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
| Local Brewery | Brew a potion. | Pick up a potion from a brewing stand potion slot. An already-created potion placed and removed qualifies. | 15G | Bronze | ||
| You Need a Mint | Collect dragons [sic] breath in a glass bottle | Have a dragon's breath bottle in your inventory | 30G | Silver | ||
| Bee our guest | Use a Campfire to collect Honey from a Beehive using a Bottle without aggravating the bees. | — | 15G | Bronze | ||
Advancements[]
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Local Brewery | Brew a Potion | Into Fire | Pick up an item from a brewing stand potion slot. This does not need to be a potion. Water bottles or even glass bottles can also trigger this advancement.[4] | nether/brew_potion
|
 | You Need a Mint | Collect Dragon's Breath in a Glass Bottle | Free the End | Have a bottle of dragon's breath in your inventory. | end/dragon_breath
|
| Bee Our Guest | Use a Campfire to collect Honey from a Beehive using a Glass Bottle without aggravating the Bees | Husbandry | Use a glass bottle on a beehive or bee nest while not angering the bees inside. | husbandry/safely_harvest_honey
|
History[]
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 |  Added glass bottles. | |||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 |  Glass bottles have been given their sole function of picking up water for the brewing of potions. | ||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w38b | Witches now have a chance of dropping glass bottles upon death. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w33a |  Glass bottles can now be used to obtain dragon's breath. | |||
| 15w43a | A glass bottle can be found in the brewing stand in an igloo basement. | ||||
| 15w43c | The glass bottle has been removed from igloo basements. | ||||
| 15w50a | Added sounds: item.bottle.fill and item.bottle.fill_dragonbreath. | ||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 374. | |||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |    The textures of glass bottles, water bottles and dragon's breath have been changed. | |||
| 19w11a | Cleric villagers now buy glass bottles. | ||||
| 1.15 | 19w34a |  Glass bottles can now be used to collect honey.
| |||
| Dispensers may now use glass bottles to collect water and honey. | |||||
| 19w46a | Using glass bottles to collect honey now unlocks the Bee Our Guest advancement. | ||||
| 1.19 | 22w11a | Converting dirt, coarse dirt or rooted dirt into mud using a water bottle, splash water bottle or lingering water bottle now leaves the player with an empty glass bottle. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Added glass bottles. | |||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Glass bottles can now be used to empty cauldrons filled with water or potions. | |||
| Glass bottles can now be dropped by witches. | |||||
| Potions and splash potions can now be used to fill cauldrons, which turns them into glass bottles. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Glass bottles can now be used to obtain dragon's breath.
| |||
| Lingering potions can now be used to fill cauldrons, which turns them into glass bottles. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | The texture of glass bottles has been changed. | |||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Glass bottles can now be sold to cleric villagers. | |||
| 1.14.0 | beta 1.14.0.1 |  Glass bottles can now be used to collect honey.
| |||
| Dispensers may now use glass bottles to collect water and honey. | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU7 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added glass bottles. | |
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.90 | The texture of glass bottles has been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added glass bottles. | ||||
| 1.7.10 | Glass bottles can now be used to obtain dragon's breath. | ||||
Issues[]
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