A glass bottle is an item that can hold water, potions, dragon's breath, or honey.
Obtaining
Glass bottles can be obtained by crafting, drinking potions, fishing, or from witch drops.
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Glass |
Potions
Drinking a potion 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.
Witches
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
The specific instructions are: filling from beehives sound event, and anything else potentially missing
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bottle fills | ? | ? | item | subtitles | ? | ? | 16 | |
| Bottle fills | ? | ? | item | subtitles | ? | ? | 16 | |
| Bottle empties | ? | Emptying a bottle in a cauldron[verify] | item | subtitles | ? | ? | 16 | |
| ? | Gulping | ? | Drinking a honey bottle | ? | subtitles | ? | ? | ? |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Glass Bottle | glass_bottle | item.minecraft.glass_bottle |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glass Bottle | glass_bottle | 374 | 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 breath in a glass bottle | Have a dragon's breath bottle in your inventory | 30G | Silver | ||
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.[3] | nether/brew_potion
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![]() | 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
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![]() | 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
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History
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 | ||||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 | |||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w38b | Witches now have a chance of dropping glass bottles upon death. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w33a | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 1.15 | 19w34a | ||||
| 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. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | ||||
| 0.14.0 | 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Dispensers may now use glass bottles to collect water and honey. | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU7 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | ||
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.90 | |||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||
Issues
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