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For other uses, see Luck (disambiguation).
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Luck is a status effect that makes it more likely to receive better loot from certain loot tables, contrary to Bad Luck.

Effect

Adds 1 × level to attribute generic.luck, making loot table entries with a high quality score more likely, and entries with negative quality less likely. It also increases the chances of bonus_rolls occurring. Currently, only fishing uses quality. The new weight of each entry is floor(base_weight + quality * generic.luck). Negative levels decrease luck.

Using a fishing rod enchanted with Luck of the Sea increases a player's generic.luck attribute, but doesn't actually grant the Luck status effect.

Luck will not do any of the following things, Decrease mob spawning, make structures generate more often, increase critical hit chances(Critical hits are actually hitting someone in the air going up or down), make rare mobs more likely to spawn, increase wither skeleton or other mob drop chances, cure negative effects randomly, make arrows fly directly to the crosshair or cause projectiles to miss, make you survive on 1 hp.

Causes

Cause Potency Length
Potion of Luck[tn 1] I 5:00
Splash Potion of Luck[tn 1] I 5:00
Lingering Potion of Luck[tn 1] I 1:15
Arrow of Luck I 0:37
  1. a b c Potions of Luck are unobtainable in Survival without using cheats.

Immune mobs

While no mobs, except bosses, are immune to Luck, only players are actually affected.

Data values

ID

This section is about the effect IDs. For the IDs on potions, see Potion § Item data. For for the IDs on tipped arrows, see Arrow § Metadata.
NameIdentifierNumeric ID Translation key
Luckluck26effect.minecraft.luck

History

Java Edition
1.915w44bLuck JE1 Added Luck.
The effect was initially purely experimental and was intended to be removed later (hence its unobtainability in survival), but was ultimately kept in the game due to usage by mapmakers.[1]
1.1418w43aLuck JE2 Changed effect icon texture.
19w08aLuck JE3 Changed effect icon texture again.
19w13aLuck is now obtainable in survival mode as an arrow of luck is a reward item from fletcher villagers when the player has the Hero of the Village status effect.
Pre-Release 1Arrow of luck can no longer be obtained from fletcher villagers.
Legacy Console Edition
TU46CU36 1.38 Patch 151.0.1Added potions of Luck.

Issues

Issues relating to "Luck" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

  • Contrary to real-life superstition, a rabbit's foot has no effect on luck in the game.
  • Bedrock Edition has unused textures for Luck potions, despite the fact that Luck is not present in said edition.

References

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