A bottle o' enchanting is a throwable item that releases experience orbs on impact.
Obtaining[]
Trading[]
Master-level cleric villagers sell bottles o' enchanting for 3 emeralds as part of their trade.
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% | |
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.
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bottle smashes | Friendly Creatures | When a bottle o' enchanting impacts something | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.9-1.0 | 16 | |
| Bottle thrown | Friendly Creatures | When a bottle o' enchanting is thrown by a player | entity | subtitles | 0.5 | 1⁄3-0.5 | 16 | |
| Dispensed item | Blocks | When a bottle o' enchanting is dispensed from a dispenser | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.2 | 16 |
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blocks | When a splash potion impacts something | random | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| Players | When a splash potion is thrown by a player | random | 0.5 | 0.33-0.5 | |
| Players | When a splash potion is dispensed from a dispenser | random | 1.0 | 0.83-1.25 |
Data values[]
ID[]
| Item | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bottle o' Enchanting | experience_bottle | Item | item.minecraft.experience_bottle |
| Entity | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Thrown Bottle o' Enchanting | experience_bottle | entity.minecraft.experience_bottle |
| Item | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bottle o' Enchanting | experience_bottle | 508 | Item | item.experience_bottle.name |
| Entity | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bottle o' Enchanting | xp_bottle | 68 | entity.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[]
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2.1 | 12w04a |  Added bottles o' enchanting.
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| Bottles o' enchanting can currently be obtained only in creative mode. | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | With the implementation of the trading system, the player can now trade with priest villagers to obtain 2–4 bottles o' enchanting for 1 emerald. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | With the trading revamp, villagers no longer sell bottles o' enchanting, making them again unobtainable in regular survival. | |||
| 14w31a | Cleric villagers now sell bottles o' enchanting for 3–11 emeralds each, making them renewable again. | ||||
| 1.9 | 15w49a | Bottles o' enchanting, like all projectiles, now take thrower's motion into account. | |||
| 1.11 | 16w32a | The entity ID has now been changed from ThrownExpBottle to xp_bottle. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 384. | |||
| 18w11a | Bottles o' enchanting can now generate in shipwreck chests. | ||||
| pre5 | The entity ID has now been changed to experience_bottle. | ||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  The texture of bottles o' enchanting has now been changed. | |||
| 18w47a | Bottles o' enchanting can now generate in pillager outpost chests. | ||||
| 1.19 | 22w13a | Bottles o' enchanting may now be found in ancient city chests. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Added bottles o' enchanting.
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| 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 | |||||
| 1.0.4 | alpha 1.0.4.0 | With villager trading added, it is now possible to obtain bottles o' enchanting legitimately. | |||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | The entity ID has now been changed from potion.experience to xp_bottle. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.14.2 | Bottles o' enchanting can now be found inside shipwreck and buried treasure chests. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Bottles o' enchanting can now be found in pillager outpost chests. | |||
| The texture of bottles o' enchanting has now been changed. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Trading has now been changed and bottles o' enchanting are now sold by cleric villagers for 3 emeralds. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU7 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added bottles o' enchanting.
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| Bottle o' enchanting can be found in the Miscellaneous tab in the Creative inventory. | |||||
| TU12 | Moved bottle o' enchanting to the Brewing tab in the Creative inventory. | ||||
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.90 | The texture of bottles o' enchanting has now been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added bottles o' enchanting.
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| Bottles o' enchanting are not available within the Creative inventory. | |||||
| ? | Added bottles o' enchanting to the Creative inventory.[more information needed] | ||||
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Bottle o' Enchanting" or "Experience Bottle" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery[]
Bottle o' enchanting splash animation on impact.
Players may trade with villagers to obtain bottles o' enchanting in survival mode.
