Minecraft:Item tag (Java Edition)

An item tag is a group of Minecraft:items. They are used when a Minecraft:recipe allows multiple different items as inputs and control many other gameplay features. See below for the use of each item tag. They can also be used when testing for item arguments in commands with Template:Cd, which succeeds if the item matches any of the items specified in the tag, and can be searched in the Minecraft:Creative inventory by searching Template:Cd.

List of tags

acacia_logs

Used in the Template:Cd recipe and its recipe-unlocking advancement.

armadillo_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt Minecraft:armadillos, setting Template:Cd to true in their memory when a player is holding an item in this tag.

Items in this tag can be used to feed a non-scared armadillos. Non-baby armadillos cannot be feed with a brush.

arrows

Controls what items can be shot by bows and crossbows. Any items added to the tag can be shot and picked up as a normal arrow.

axolotl_food

Items in this tag can be used to feed and tempt Minecraft:axolotls. When a player is holding an item from this tag, nearby axolotls' Template:Cd memory is set to true. Axolotls cannot be fed with a Minecraft:water bucket.

When feeding an axolotl a Minecraft:bucket of tropical fish, the remainder item is always a water bucket, ignoring the item's Template:DCL component.

banners

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 300.

beacon_payment_items

Used by beacons to check which items can be placed inside of its GUI to select an effect.

bee_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt Minecraft:bees.

Items in this tag can be used to feed bees, potentially causing them to grow or breeding. However, if the item is an (open or clossed) Minecraft:eyeblossom or a Minecraft:wither rose, it will only give the bee an Minecraft:effect, respectively a Minecraft:poison for 25 ticks and a wither for 40 ticks, and will not cause the bee to grow or breeding.

birch_logs

Used in the Template:Cd recipe and its recipe-unlocking advancement.

boats

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 1200.

bookshelf_books

Items in this tag can be placed on the Minecraft:chiseled bookshelf, either by interacting with it or using a Minecraft:hopper, Minecraft:minecarts with hoppers, Minecraft:dropper, or Template:Cmd.

The Minecraft:enchanted book makes a different sound when placed on the stand. This is a hardcoded property.

book_cloning_target

Used in the Template:Cd recipe.

brewing_fuel

Item in this list can be used as fuel in the Minecraft:brewing stand.

bundles

Used in the various Template:Cd recipes to add bundle dyeing.

camel_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt Minecraft:camels, setting Template:Cd to true in their memory when a player is holding an item in this tag.

Items in this tag can be used to feed a camels. Having the effects of, regardless of the item, speeds growth by 10s (200 ticks) for non-age-locked babys, restore health in 2, and activates love mode for tamed adults. Unlike most mobs, equipping items and using name tags take priority over feeding camels, although it is still possible to feed them with name tags without a custom name or with an equipable item if they are already equipped.

camel_husk_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt Minecraft:camel husks, setting Template:Cd to true in their memory when a player is holding an item in this tag.

Items in this tag can be used to feed a camel husks. The feeding effects and conditions are the same as for regular camels, see Template:Tag link.

candles

Cakes use this tag to determine if a candle item can be placed on it or not.

Adding items to this tag has no effect.

cat_food

Stray Minecraft:cats approach a player holding an item in this tag within 10 blocks, allowing the player to feed and tame it. If the player turns too quickly or stops holding the fish within 6 blocks, the cat flees and does not attempt to approach the player for a few seconds. Normally, stray cats sprint away from any player within 7 blocks, and actively try to avoid players within 16 blocks.

Items with this tag can be used to feed cats. This includes stray cats for try tame, increasing their health by Template:DCL (or one, if nutrition does not exist) for cats tamed by the player and without maximum health, setting adult cats in love, or increasing the age of non-aged-locked baby cats. However, feeding tamed cats has a lower priority than changing the collar color.

chicken_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt and feed Minecraft:chickens.

cluster_max_harvestables

When amethyst clusters are broken with an item in this tag, they drop 4 amethyst shards.

coals

Used in the Template:Cd recipe and its recipe-unlocking advancements.

completes_find_tree_tutorial

Used in various checks to either skip or progress with the "find_tree" tutorial step.

copper_tool_materials

Items in this tag can be used to repair copper tools in an anvil, because is used in the Template:DCL default data component of copper tools.

cow_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt and feed Minecraft:cow and Minecraft:mooshrooms.

Even if included in this tag, adult cows cannot be fed a Minecraft:bucket, as those are used to milk the cow instead.

Even if included in this tag, adult mooshrooms cannot be fed a Minecraft:bowl or Minecraft:shears, as those are used respectively to milk or shear the mooshroom instead.

Brown mooshrooms can be fed any small flower, even if it is not included in this tag. Furthermore, if attempting to feed the mob a flower fails, the item will not be used to feed it as normal food, even if included in this tag.

creeper_drop_music_discs

Used in Template:Cd loot table, to determine what a Minecraft:creeper drops when killed by an entity in Template:Tag link.

crimson_stems

Used in the Template:Cd recipe and its recipe-unlocking advancement.

dampens_vibrations

As thrown entities, items in this tag do not trigger vibrations.

dark_oak_logs

Used in the Template:Cd recipe and its recipe-unlocking advancement.

diamond_tool_materials

Items in this tag can be used to repair diamond tools in an anvil, because is used in the Template:DCL default data component of diamond tools.

eggs

Used in the Template:Cd recipe and its recipe-unlocking advancement.

Used in the Template:Cd recipe.

Items in this tag cannot be picked up by Minecraft:zombie babies riding an entity.

fence_gates

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 300.

fishes

Used by dolphins to pick a player to swim to. The item can be both in the main and offhand.

Feeding a dolphin one of these items increases its 'trust' in the player.

Items in this tag add 1 to the fish_caught statistic when caught through fishing.

flowers

Temporarily removed between 24w45a and 25w09b.

fox_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt and feed Minecraft:foxes.

freeze_immune_wearables

Entities with an item in this tag in any armor slot do not freeze.

frog_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt Minecraft:frogss and Minecraft:tadpoles, setting Template:Cd to true in their memory when a player is holding an item in this tag.

Items in this tag can be to feed frogs and tadpoles. It is not possible to increase the age of frogs by feeding them, even when setting it to less than 0 using commands.

gaze_disguise_equipment

Item in this list don't make Enderman angry when looking directly at them.

goat_food

Items in this tag can be used to feed and tempt Minecraft:goats. Nearby goats' Template:Cd memory is set to true when a player is holding an item in this tag.

Even if included in this tag, adult goats cannot be fed a Minecraft:bucket, as those are used to milk the goat instead.

gold_tool_materials

Items in this tag can be used to repair golden tools in an anvil, because used in the Template:DCL default data component of golden tools.

hanging_signs

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 200.

happy_ghast_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt Minecraft:happy ghasts. For Minecraft:ghastling, set Template:Cd to true in their memory when a player is holding an item in this tag. Some adult happy ghasts slot are actually tempt with Template:Tag link (see below), so they are not tempt for items that are only present in this tag.

Items in this tag can be used to feed ghastlings.

happy_ghast_tempt_items

Items in this tag can be used to tempt adult Minecraft:happy ghasts without valid equipable equipment (usually a Minecraft:harness, but it can be customized with Template:DCL component) on their body slot.

harnesses

Items in this tag are used to test whether the visual design of ropes fastened to a leashed holder Minecraft:happy ghast should be rendered. The ropes fastened are rendered in happy ghasts that are leashed holder (i.e are carrying leashed boats, boat with chest, or Template:Tooltip or were carrying up to 5 ticks) and have an item from this tag in their body slot.

hoglin_food

Items in this tag can be used to feed Minecraft:hoglins. Also set persistence required.

horse_food

This tag affects how certain items can be used on Minecraft:donkeys, Minecraft:horses, Minecraft:mules and riding tamed Minecraft:skeleton horses. Template:Collapse

Unlike most food tags, this tag does not control which items can be used to tempt horses as that is controlled by Template:Tag link.

ignored_by_piglin_babies

Baby piglins do not attempt to pick up items in this tag. Baby piglins still follow the other rules adult piglins follow.

iron_tool_materials

Items in this tag can be used to repair iron tools in an anvil, because is used in the Template:DCL default data component of iron tools.

jungle_logs

Used in the Template:Cd recipe and its recipe-unlocking advancement.

lectern_books

Controls what items can be put on a lectern.

llama_food

Items in this tag can be used to feed Minecraft:llamas and Minecraft:trader llamas.

The effects of adding an item to this tag are similar to those of Template:Tag link, only it applies exclusively to llamas and trader llamas and the effects of the hardcoded items are only:

• Minecraft:Wheat heals by 3, ages up by 10, and increases temper by 2
• Minecraft:Hay bales heal by 10, ages up by 90, and age up by 6. They also activate Minecraft:love mode if the mob is an adult.

Additionally, holding a Minecraft:golden dandelion in either of your hands will have no effect.

logs

Used in various checks to either skip or progress with the "punch_tree" tutorial step.

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 300.

Used in the 3 recipes: minecraft:campfire, minecraft:smoker, and minecraft:soul_campfire.

logs_that_burn

Used in the Template:Cd recipe and its recipe-unlocking advancement.

map_invisibility_equipment

If a player is equipped with an item of this tag in an equipment slot other than Template:Cd or Template:Cd, it removes their player markers (Template:Cd of Template:Cd type) from other players' maps.

metal_nuggets

Used in the Template:Cd recipe and its recipe-unlocking advancement.

nautilus_bucket_food

Feeding a Minecraft:nautilus or Minecraft:zombie nautilus with an item in this tag, the remainder item is a Minecraft:water bucket instead the item in Template:DCL component. The item must also be in Template:Tag link or Template:Tag link, otherwise it will not be able to feed nautilus with the item.

nautilus_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt Minecraft:nautilus and Minecraft:zombie nautilus, setting Template:Cd to true in their memory when a player is holding an item in this tag.

Items in this tag can be used to feed a tamed or baby nautilus or a tamed zombie nautilus. For non-baby non-full health nautilus, feeding them will increase their health by up to two times Template:DCL or one (if nutrition does not exist). For adult full health nautilus, setting them in love mode, but feeding it has a lower priority than equipping an item or using a name tag. For baby non-aged-locked nautilus, feeding them will speeds growth by 10%.

Zombie nautilus are always considered non-baby and putting they in love mode has no effect.

nautilus_taming_items

Items in this tag can be used to feed a non-temed non-baby Minecraft:nautilus and Minecraft:zombie nautilus. Feeding them will make the player try to tame them.

netherite_tool_materials

Items in this tag can be used to repair netherite tools in an anvil, because is used in the Template:DCL default data component of netherite tools.

non_flammable_wood

Items in this tag cannot be used as fuel in a furnace.

If items are removed from this tag, they can be used as fuel only if they are part of a tag that can be used as fuel.

noteblock_top_instruments

Controls what blocks can be placed on top of the music block, without playing the noteblock sound.

oak_logs

Used in the Template:Cd recipe and its recipe-unlocking advancement.

ocelot_food

Used in OcelotTemptGoalTemplate:Info needed for Minecraft:ocelots, to test the items that can temp the ocelot.

Item in this tag cam be used to feed an ocelots. If the oclote is tempted, non-trusting and at a distance of up to 3 blocks, each food item has a Template:Frac chance of gaining the ocelot's trust.

panda_eats_from_ground

Pandas can pick up items with this tag. Adult pandas will try to go after these items within a distance of up to 8 blocks on each axis.

panda_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt Minecraft:pandas.

Items in this tag can be used used to feed pandas that are not scared and are lying on back. Feeding them causes speeds growth by 10% in non-age-locked baby panda, activate love mode in non-in-love adults panda. For adult pandas not in love, in the water or sitting, when fed, it will drop the item from its mainhand (unless the player is in creative mode); set in its mainhand a new item stack with count equals one, the same ID of the given item, and the default Minecraft:data components; sit down; and perform an animation of eating the item.

parrot_food

Items in this tag can be used used to feed untamed Minecraft:parrots. Each item fed has a Template:Frac chance of successfully taming them.

parrot_poisonous_food

Items in this tag can be used used to feed Minecraft:parrots. Feeding them causes a Minecraft:Poison effect for 900 ticks (45 seconds) and a damage of (2−2⁻³²)·2¹²⁷ of the Template:Cd Minecraft:damage type coming from the player, exception if the parrot is invulnerable and the player is not in creative mode. If the item is also in Template:Tag link and the parrot is untamed, it will be used as normal parrot food, but if the parrot is tamed, it will be used as poisonous food.

piglin_food

Minecraft:Piglins can eat and wants to picking up items in this tag. Eating refers to the piglin picking up and seeking out an item without appearing in its inventory, thus vanishing, and saves your memory Template:Cd for 200 ticks

Piglins cannot eat Minecraft:gold nugget and items in the tag Template:Tag link. Piglins cannot eat if Template:Cd is true.

piglin_loved

Piglins actively seek out items in this tag.

Piglins view players holding items in this tag as holding a "loved" item.

Used in the Template:Cd advancement.

piglin_repellents

Piglins do not attempt to pick up items in this tag.

piglin_safe_armor

Minecraft:Piglins won't attack the player if the player is wearing one of these items. Piglins can still be aggroed at the player by other means.

pig_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt and feed Minecraft:pigs.

planks

Used in various checks to either skip or progress with the "craft_planks" tutorial step.

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 300.

Used in various recipes that use any type of wooden plank, and their respective recipe-unlocking advancements. These recipes include: barrel, crafting table, stick, beds, beehive, bookshelves, bowl, cartography table, chests, fletching table, grindstone, jukebox, loom, note block, piston, shield, smithing table, tripwire hook, and wooden tools/weapons.

rabbit_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt and feed Minecraft:rabbits.

repairs_copper_armor

These items can be used to repair Minecraft:copper armor in an Minecraft:anvil, because is used in the Template:DCL default data component of copper armor.

repairs_chain_armor

These items can be used to repair Minecraft:chain armor in an Minecraft:anvil, because is used in the Template:DCL default data component of chain armor.

repairs_diamond_armor

These items can be used to repair Minecraft:diamond armor in an Minecraft:anvil, because is used in the Template:DCL default data component of diamond armor.

repairs_gold_armor

These items can be used to repair Minecraft:gold armor in an Minecraft:anvil, because is used in the Template:DCL default data component of gold armor.

repairs_iron_armor

These items can be used to repair Minecraft:iron armor in an Minecraft:anvil, because is used in the Template:DCL default data component of iron armor.

repairs_leather_armor

These items can be used to repair Minecraft:leather armor in an Minecraft:anvil, because is used in the Template:DCL default data component of leather armor.

repairs_netherite_armor

These items can be used to repair Minecraft:netherite armor in an Minecraft:anvil, because is used in the Template:DCL default data component of netherite armor.

repairs_turtle_helmet

These items can be used to repair Minecraft:turtle helmet in an Minecraft:anvil, because is used in the Template:DCL default data component of turtle helmet.

repairs_wolf_armor

These items can be used to repair Minecraft:wolf armor in an Minecraft:anvil or in a seated wolf tamed by the player, with damaged armor, because is used in the Template:DCL default data component of wolf armor. Template:Tag list

saplings

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 100.

sheep_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt and feed Minecraft:sheep. Sheep cannot be fed with a Minecraft:shears.

shulker_boxes

Used in the various Template:Cd recipes to add shulker box dyeing.

signs

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 200.

smelts_to_glass

Used in the Template:Cd recipe and its recipe-unlocking advancement.

sniffer_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt Minecraft:sniffers, setting Template:Cd to true in their memory when a player is holding an item in this tag.

Items in this tag can be used to feed sniffers.

Used in the Template:Cd advancement.

soul_fire_base_blocks

Used in the Template:Cd and Template:Cd recipes and their respective recipe-unlocking advancements.

spruce_logs

Used in the Template:Cd recipe and its recipe-unlocking advancement.

stone_bricks

Used in the Template:Cd, Template:Cd, and Template:Cd recipes and their respective recipe-unlocking advancements.

stone_crafting_materials

Used in the Template:Cd and Template:Cd recipes and their respective recipe-unlocking advancements.

stone_tool_materials

Used in the recipes for stone tools and weapons, and their respective recipe-unlocking advancements.

Items in this tag can also be used to repair stone tools in an anvil, as the tag is referenced in the items' default Template:DCL components.

strider_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt Minecraft:striders, setting Template:Cd to true in their memory when a player is holding an item in this tag.

Items in this tag can be used to feed striders.

sulfur_cube_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt and feed Minecraft:sulfur cubes.

trimmable_armor

Used as Template:Cd in armor trim Minecraft:smithing recipes.

trim_materials

Used as Template:Cd in armor trim Minecraft:smithing recipes.

turtle_food

Items in this tag can be used to tempt and feed Minecraft:turtles.

villager_plantable_seeds

Contains seeds that villagers use to farm.

warped_stems

Used in the Template:Cd recipe and its recipe-unlocking advancement.

wolf_food

Items in this tag can be used to feed temed Minecraft:wolfs. If the wolf has not a full health, this increasing their health by two times Template:DCL, or two, if nutrition does not exist.

For full health wolves, feeding them can activate love mode in adults or speeds growth by 10% for non-age-locked babys. However, in this case, feeding takes less priority than changing the collar color, equipping armor, or repairing armor.

wooden_buttons

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 100.

wooden_doors

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 200.

wooden_fences

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 300.

wooden_pressure_plates

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 300.

wooden_shelves

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 300.

wooden_slabs

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 150.

Used in the Template:Cd and Template:Cd recipes and their respective recipe-unlocking advancements.

Also used in the Template:Cd, Template:Cd, and Template:Cd recipes.

wooden_stairs

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 300.

wooden_tool_materials

Items in this tag can be used to repair wooden tools and shields in an anvil, because is used in the Template:DCL default data component of wooden tools and shield.

wooden_trapdoors

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 300.

wool

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 100.

Used in the Template:Cd recipe and its recipe-unlocking advancement.

wool_carpets

Used to check if an item can go in the fuel slot of a furnace and to return a burn time of 67.

zombie_horse_food

Items in this tag can be used to feed and tempt Minecraft:zombie horses.

The effects of adding an item to this tag are similar to those of Template:Tag link, only it applies exclusively to zombie horses and holding a Minecraft:golden dandelion in either of your hands will have no effect.

Activating love mode has no real effect, as they don't reproduce. Although it still consumes the item, it creates particles.

Unlike Template:Tag link, any item added to this tag can be used to tempt a zombie horse, rather than it being split into a separate tag.

enchantable/equippable

Used for Minecraft:Curse of Binding

Removed tags

coral_blocks

Version added: 18w16a. Version removed: 1.13 Pre-release 8.

coral_fans

Version added: 18w10a. Version removed: 1.13 Pre-release 8.

corals

Version added: 18w09a. Version removed: 1.13 Pre-release 8.

dead_coral_blocks

Version added: 18w16a. Version removed: 1.13 Pre-release 8.

furnace_materials

Version added: 20w15a. Version removed: 20w28a.

live_coral_blocks

Version added: 18w14b. Version removed: 1.13 Pre-release 8.

music_discs

Replaced with data driven music discs.

Version added: 18w43a. Version removed: 24w21a.

overworld_natural_logs

The block tag with the same name still exists.

Version added: 22w17a. Version removed: 22w45a.

stripped_logs

Version added: 22w42a. Version removed: 22w46a.

tall_flowers

Version added: 19w34a. Version removed: 24w45a.

tools

Version added: 23w07a. Version removed: 1.20.5 Pre-Release 1.

trim_templates

Version added: 23w04a. Version removed: 24w46a.

dyeable

Items in this tag can be crafted alongside any combination of Minecraft:dye to change the item's color.

The item's model definition file must contain Template:Cd as a tint source for the item to change color.

Version added: 24w19a. Version removed: 26.1 Snapshot 5.