Minecraft:Java Edition exclusive features
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Template:Cleanup This is a list of Java Edition exclusive features. Some of these exclusive features may eventually be added to Template:BE to bring parity.
General
- Supports launching previous versions of Java Edition, including versions dating back to 2009.
- Not all versions of Java Edition are available in the Launcher. Additionally, all versions prior to Alpha v1.1.2_01 do not have working Minecraft:sound, as the sound assets for these versions have been removed from the Minecraft servers.
- Supports loading custom/modified versions of Minecraft, such as OptiFine, Forge, and Fabric.
- The types of particles and their technical names are displayed below. Particle names in italics are shown when using the "Minimal" particles setting.
| Particle name | Block/entity/event | Image |
|---|---|---|
| Template:Anchor sweep_attack | Perform a sweep attack with a sword. | File:Particle sweep attack.png |
| Template:Anchor damage_indicator | When an entity is damaged significantly. | File:Particle damage indicator.png |
- To save space, some recipes in the Minecraft:recipe book are grouped together and can be selected by pressing the right button on the mouse.
- A game feature that allows players to track how many times they have completed certain tasks.
There are 72 items, and 34 more in the Operator Utilities tab, for a total of 106 Java Edition Creative inventory exclusives including operator utilities. The items are as follows:
- Luck effect Template:ItemLink, Template:ItemLink, Template:ItemLink, and Template:ItemLink
- Four no-effect tipped arrows: Template:ItemLink, Template:ItemLink, Template:ItemLink, and Template:ItemLink
- Template:ItemLink
- Template:ItemLink
- Template:ItemLink enchanted books, all three levels.
- Template:ItemLink, no color.
- Template:ItemLink, all three flight durations.
- Template:ItemLink, 46 individual pre-defined paintings, plus four additional in operator utilities.
- All 34 items in the Operator Utilities tab if "Minecraft:Operator Items Tab" is enabled.
Gameplay
- Uses the advancement system instead of the achievement system.
- Can be used to gain Minecraft:experience.
- The range of breaking blocks is 5 blocks in Minecraft:Creative mode, and 4.5 blocks otherwise.
- The Minecraft:potion of Luck cannot be brewed, and can be obtained only by commands such as Template:Cmd, or through the Minecraft:creative inventory.
- Is uncensored by default, though a profanity filter exists for Minecraft:Realms.
- Default font uses much more updated version of Minecraft:Mojangles, with implementation of more characters and even certain Minecraft:emojis.
- There are also more and different font styles such as Illageralt and they are more up-to-date
- The "attack strength" combat mechanic.
- A meter shows up after switching items or attacking.
- Damage done depends on the fullness of the meter, with a quadratic reduction (attack does 20%–100% of normal damage as the meter fills).
- Fills at different rates depending on the new attack speed attribute (see table on the changes to gameplay section for a complete list).
- The Template:EffectLink effect causes the meter to fill faster.
- Can be displayed next to the hotbar (left or right based on the player's main hand), under the crosshair or turned off.
- Looks like the icon for the old Template:EffectLink effect icon on the side of the hotbar, or like a dagger under the crosshair.
- This is controlled in Minecraft:video settings.
- A cooldown animation is displayed of the Minecraft:tool slowly being lifted up, when either first switching to it or after attacking.
- A meter shows up after switching items or attacking.
- Sounds are played when attacked strongly and weakly, as well as sprint-knockback attacks and sweeping attacks.
- Actions can be performed as fast as the player can click. This includes eggs, spawn eggs, etc.
- When the player is in third person while suffocating, the view automatically switches to first person.
- The player takes damage from falling into the void, even in Creative mode.
- By default, can be opened with the Template:Key key.
- Shows the chunk cache, the memory usage, various parameters, the player's map coordinates and a graph that measures the game's current frame rate.
- The player can enchant any item with any enchantment in Creative mode with Minecraft:enchanted books, allowing any applied effects to exhibit themselves.
- Minecraft:Sweeping Edge enchantment.
- Increases sweeping attack damage.
- For players, a "You Died!" screen (or "Game Over!" in Minecraft:Hardcore mode) instantly appears upon death. It also displays the player's Minecraft:score.
- Death messages are broadcast to everyone upon the death of a player, and to the pet's owner on the death of a pet (Minecraft:wolf, Minecraft:cat, or Minecraft:parrot).
- Death message: "<Player> fell from a high place", caused by a fall greater than 5 blocks.
Minecraft:Spectator mode
- Can be entered by using Template:Key, or Template:Key, if commands are enabled.
- Players in Spectator mode can teleport to other players using the hotbar.
- Players in Spectator mode can click other entities to spectate them, or spectate via /spectate.
- Summary of effects:
| ID | Name | Effect | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | Template:EffectSprite | Minecraft:Glowing | Outlines entities (can be seen through blocks). Can be applied to any hostile mob that is in the village when a player or a villager rings the bell. |
| 26 | Template:EffectSprite | Minecraft:Luck | Increases chances of high-quality loot. Cannot be obtained without cheats or creative mode. |
| 27 | Template:EffectSprite | Minecraft:Bad Luck | Reduces chances of high-quality loot. Cannot be obtained without cheats. |
| 28 | Template:EffectSprite | Minecraft:Dolphin's Grace | Dolphin's Grace is a Minecraft:status effect that increases the player's Minecraft:swimming speed when a Minecraft:dolphin is nearby. This speed boost is applied without an effect in Bedrock Edition. |
Blocks
- Carpet can be used as a fuel in Minecraft:furnaces, smelting 0.335 items per carpet.
- Bonus chests always contain the same items.
- The top three rows for a large chest correspond to the western or northern half and the bottom three to the southern or eastern half.
- Holding Template:Keys and double-clicking while holding an item moves all items of the type clicked on in or out of the chest, to the extent that space is available for them.
- A chest can be "locked" by setting its Lock tag using the Template:Cmd command. If a chest's Lock tag is not blank, the chest cannot be opened except by players holding an item with the same name as the Lock tag's text. For example, to lock a chest at (0,64,0) so that only players holding an item named "Player's Key" can open the chest, use Template:Cmd.
- Minecraft:Paintings can be placed on their sides.
- Minecraft:Jumping vibrates the player, similar to jumping in a 2-block-high space.
- Minecraft:Primed TNT can pass through cobwebs without slowing down if shot through fast enough.
Minecraft:Dispenser and Minecraft:Dropper
- Support Minecraft:quasi-connectivity.
- Transparency: Partial (blocks light)
- Mobs smaller than 0.512 cubic block cannot destroy farmland. This includes Minecraft:parrots, Minecraft:rabbits, Minecraft:chickens, Minecraft:bats, Minecraft:ocelots, Minecraft:wolves, Minecraft:cave spiders, Minecraft:endermites, Minecraft:silverfish, baby mobs, small slimes, and small magma cubes.
Minecraft:Piston and Minecraft:Sticky Piston
- Cannot push or pull Minecraft:block entities.
- Minecraft:Sticky pistons drop blocks when a single redstone tick pulse occurs, rather than retracting them.
- Redstone wire runs next to pistons instead of curving into them.
- Support Minecraft:quasi-connectivity.
- Can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.5 items per wool block.
Items
- Has a 5% chance of being dropped by any kind of Minecraft:fish.
- Can be used to change block states.
- Minecraft:Leather armor, Minecraft:leather horse armor, and Minecraft:wolf armor can be dyed by combining them with dyes in a crafting grid.
- Tropical fish and pufferfish can be fed to Minecraft:ocelots and Minecraft:cats, like raw cod and salmon.
- A utility item that reveals crafting recipes to the player when used.
- What makes it a lingering potion as opposed to a splash potion is that their
Potiontag stores aminecraft:lingering_potionitem.
- Each spawn egg has a different ID.
Entities
General
- All zombies and skeleton varians, and zombified piglins have a chance to wear Minecraft:carved pumpkins or Minecraft:jack o'lanterns on October 31.
- Zombies, zombie villagers, and zombified piglins have a chance to spawn other zombies as reinforcements on Hard difficulty.
- Newly generated Minecraft:chunks have a chance to generate an initial set of mobs.
- If arms are visible, Minecraft:shields are always placed in the off-hand.
- Can be placed by Minecraft:dispensers.
- Hitting an armor stand wearing armor enchanted with Minecraft:Thorns deals damage.
- Stand on top of Minecraft:powder snow when wearing Minecraft:leather boots.
- Have 20 health points.
- Get visually stuck in players.
- Have a unique sound when an arrow shot by a player hits another player.
- Minecraft:Regeneration effect given to players is limited to 2 minutes.
- Collision box does not interact with the player or Minecraft:redstone components.
- Stinger is visible on the player after successfull attack.
- Sink in water and lava.
- Can be destroyed in one hit by weapons that deal more that Template:Health damage.
- Sink when submerged.
- Mobs riding a boat don't despawn.
- Falling boats stop on top of other entities.
- Their eyebrows and surrounding wind are unaffected by Minecraft:Invisibility.
- Float upwards in water and lava faster than other mobs.
- Spawn in any Minecraft:light level.
- All cats spawned within the Minecraft:swamp hut always spawn as black.
- Each cat has 70% chance of giving a gift when they cannnot reach a player.
- Hiss at phantoms that are currently pursuing a player.
- Drop Template:Xp experiance orbs if they were part of a chicken jockey.
- Can drop Minecraft:bone meal.
- The detection range is reduced to half of their normal range (8 blocks) when the player is wearing a Minecraft:creeper head.
- Can be ignited with Minecraft:fire charge.
- An explosion of a creeper with status effect creates an Minecraft:area effect cloud.
- Are used to display blocks, items, or text.
- Grant the Minecraft:Dolphin's Grace effect.
- Are lured by dropped items.
- Drop any fish variant.
- Drop 0-1 Template:ItemLink or Template:ItemLink if killed by fire.
- Drop only Template:Xp experience points when re-summoned.
- Staring an aggravated enderman in the eyes causes it to stop moving as long as the player maintains eye contact.
- Start shaking when provoked.
- Arrows that are unable to teleport bounce off the enderman.
- Continue to chase the player regardless of the distance or Minecraft:dimension of the targeted player.
- Become hostile toward any mob that attacks them.
- Are given three seconds of the Minecraft:Glowing effect if a Minecraft:bell is rung.
- Drop Minecraft:bone meal instead of bones.
- Only target players.
- Do not retaliate when attacked by other mobs.
- A giant-sized zombie.
- Have no AI, do not fight back when hit.
- Can be summoned via commands only.
- Can swim against a current.
- Two screaming goats always produce a screaming baby.
- Two normal goats have a 2% chance of producing a screaming baby.
- Drop any fish variant.
- Drop 0-1 Template:ItemLink or Template:ItemLink if killed by fire.
- Do not attack players under the Invisibility effect that wear one or no piece of armor.
- An adult knock their target upward.
- Retaliate when attacked by a goat.
- An unused Minecraft:illager hostile mob.
- Attack using a bow and casting spells, such as creating clones of itself.
- Can be summoned via commands only.
- Record the Minecraft:UUID of the last player that left-clicked and right-clicked them.
- Can be reeled by fishing rods.
- Function like a player avatar.
- Entities intended for use in data packs and map-making.
- Can be merged by pushing them into each other.
- They do not lose speed while traveling on straight Minecraft:rails.
Minecraft:Minecart with Furnace
- Can be powered with Minecraft:coal or Minecraft:charcoal.
- Can be used to move other minecarts.
Minecraft:Minecart with Monster Spawner
- Behaves the same way as normal monster spawners.
- Can imitate piglins, hoglins and piglin brutes.
- Retaliate to being rammed by a goat.
- Their axe may be enchanted.
- Can spawn in Minecraft:lukewarm ocean and Minecraft:deep lukewarm ocean.
- Can spawn in Minecraft:old growth spruce taiga and Minecraft:old growth pine taiga.
- Have a hostile variant, The Killer Bunny, that can only be spawned using commands.
- Attacked ravager alerts other ravagers in the area to target the attacker.
- Can spawn with vindicator riding them.
- There is a chance for a new shulker to spawn when a shulker is hit with a shulker bullet.
- Can also spawn on stone types they can enter at any Minecraft:light level.
Minecraft:Skeleton, Minecraft:Stray, and Minecraft:Bogged
- They use different AI, and strafe side to side when shooting arrows instead of standing still.
- Their bow is animated like the player's, with the arrow visibly being drawn back before shooting.
- Their detection range is reduced to half of their normal range (8 blocks) when the player is wearing a Minecraft:skeleton skull.
- Holding Minecraft:tipped arrows in their offhand causes them to shoot that type of arrow; these arrows are not consumed.
- Can be equipped with a saddle.
- Take damage when are in contact with water in Minecraft:savannas.
- Leave a trail of snow in any biome.
- Occasionally spawn with status effects in Minecraft:Hard difficulty.
- If a spider tries to go through the world border, it starts climbing the world border instead.
- Can swim against a current.
- Are slightly faster than in Bedrock Edition.
- A dispenser can be used to equip armor on a villager.
- Throw a gift toward a nearby player with the Minecraft:Hero of the Village effect.
- If a villager have at least 24 food items, it gives the extra amount to a villager with 4 or fewer.
- Display water particles on random occasions as if sweating during a raid..
- Clicking use on an unemployed or nitwit causes it to grunt and bobble their head.
- Wandering traders spawned with a spawn egg via commands do not spawn with trader llamas.
- Regenerate health.
- Have a "wither armor" effect if itheir health drops below half, which makes it immune to damage from arrows and thrown tridents.
- Sit after being tamed.
- Adult zoglins attack once every two seconds.
- Up to 20 zombies may spawn in a village at midnight.
- Prioritize players.
- Raise their arms up higher when pursuing a player.
- Zombie villager spawned in Minecraft:igloo basement is always a cleric.
- Non-hostile zombified piglins do not prevent a nearby player from sleeping in a bed.
World generation
General
- Solid terrain, structures and biomes can generate all the way to 30 million blocks in a vanilla game, or 2,147 million blocks if the hardcoded 30-million-block limit is removed by modifying the game.
Minecraft:Single Biome world type
- Consists of only a single Minecraft:biome.
Minecraft:Large Biomes world type
- A world type that has its biome scale set to 6.
Minecraft:Debug mode world type
- Used to test block states, block models, and textures.
- Minecraft:Badlands and Minecraft:eroded badlands
- Red sandstone can generate in regular badlands and eroded badlands.
- If the player smelts a number of items in the igloo furnace, the light generated melts the igloo window, turning the ice into a water source block.
- If generates with a villager, it's always a villager without profession.
- They generate in rings with the strongholds evenly spaced around the circle until the total of 128 is reached.
Minecraft:Superflat world type
- Also allows the player to access the End, which generates as in a normal world, by finding a stronghold or by creating an end portal in Creative mode.
- Structures such as villages can generate in superflat worlds.
- By default, a customizable Minecraft:world border appears to prevent players passing through.
Commands
- Gives, removes, or checks player advancements.
- Adds, removes or sets an entity attribute.
- Adds player to banlist.
- Adds IP address to banlist.
- Displays banlist.
- Creates, modifies and lists bossbars.
- Modifies the data tag of a block or entity.
- Manages and lists datapacks.
- Starts or stops a debugging session.
- Sets the default game mode.
- Manages dialog screens.
- The maximum experience that the player can earn from the Template:Cmd command is 2,147,483,647 levels.
- Fetches the profile of a target player.
- Fills a selected area with a specific biome.
- Force chunks to load constantly or not.
- Manipulate items in inventories.
- Starts or stops a JFR profiling.
- Removes entries from the banlist.
- Captures information and metrics about the game.
- Opens singleplayer world to the local network.
- Generates a random integer.
- Controls the execution of a function.
- Changes the rotation of an entity.
- Displays the world seed.
- Sets the time before idle players are kicked.
- Causes a player in spectator mode to spectate another entity.
- Controls teams.
- Sends message to all players in a team.
- Manage and execute GameTests.
- Controls the tick rate of the game.
- Sets a trigger to be activated.
- Presents the server's game version.
- Manages waypoints.
- Manages the world border.
Command format
- Data tags are used in commands to specify complex data for players, entities, and some blocks.
- Most selector arguments were renamed and remade, and some behave differently. Others, like
distanceandlevel, support a range (1is exactly one,1..is one or more,..1is one or less, and1..10is between one and ten, inclusive).
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