Minecraft:Enchantment glint

File:Enchanted Iron Pickaxe.gif

The glint animation applied to an enchanted iron pickaxe.

Enchantment glint is a visual effect applied most often to Minecraft:enchanted items and equipment, as well as other important items such as the Minecraft:End crystal and Minecraft:Nether star.

Summary

Important items such as the Minecraft:enchanted golden apple (which is not actually an item with enchantments), Minecraft:Nether star, Minecraft:End crystal, Minecraft:bottle o' enchanting, Minecraft:lodestone compass, Minecraft:written book, and Minecraft:debug stick, as well as any item with an enchantment, will display a glint effect.

Equipped enchanted Minecraft:armor and Minecraft:carved pumpkins also display a glint when equipped.

While not enchantable in normal survival gameplay, Minecraft:horse armor, Minecraft:nautilus armor, Minecraft:wolf armor, llama Minecraft:carpets, Minecraft:saddles, and Minecraft:harnesses when equipped by their respective Minecraft:mob(s) will also display the glint effect. Minecraft:Eyes of enderTemplate:More info enchanted through commands will appear enchanted when thrown.

Minecraft:Chests on Minecraft:donkeys, Minecraft:mules, and Minecraft:llamas do not display the glint effect.<ref>Template:Bug</ref> Held or framed Minecraft:maps also do not display it.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Animation generation

Template:Info needed section Unlike most animations in the game, which are defined through mcmeta files, the enchantment glint's generation is hardcoded and cannot be fully modified. The color and texture of the enchantment glint can be modified with resource packs in Java Edition versions greater than 1.15. Resource packs in Bedrock Edition can also modify the enchantment glint but green, yellow, and white colors do not render well due to a different rendering engine.

Interestingly, the enchantment glint's rendering is tied to the size of the atlas.<ref>Template:Cite bug</ref> This causes unique visual effects, for example, if all of the game's textures are unloaded:

Unenchanted	Normal	Default	Minimal
File:Missing Model (dropped) JE3.gif	File:Enchanted Missing Model (1024×512) (dropped) JE3.gif	File:Enchanted Missing Model (1024×512) (missing glint) (dropped) JE3.gif	File:Enchanted Missing Model (16×16) (missing glint) (dropped) JE3.gif

Obtaining

There are 3 ways to get an item with an enchantment glint:

• Items that have enchantment glint naturally
• Enchanting items
• Giving them the NBT component: minecraft:enchantment_glint_overrideTemplate:Only.

To obtain a stick with an enchantment glint, use the following command: /give @p stick[minecraft:enchantment_glint_override=true] 1Template:Only.

History

Java Edition

	Unenchanted	Normal	Default	Minimal
JE1	File:Missing Model (dropped) JE1.gif	File:Enchanted Missing Model (512×512) (dropped) JE1.gif	File:Enchanted Missing Model (512×512) (missing glint) (dropped) JE1.gif	?
JE2	File:Missing Model (dropped) JE2.gif	File:Enchanted Missing Model (1024×512) (dropped) JE2.gif	File:Enchanted Missing Model (1024×512) (missing glint) (dropped) JE2.gif	?
JE3	File:Missing Model (dropped) JE3.gif	File:Enchanted Missing Model (1024×512) (dropped) JE3.gif	File:Enchanted Missing Model (1024×512) (missing glint) (dropped) JE3.gif	File:Enchanted Missing Model (16×16) (missing glint) (dropped) JE3.gif