Item
An item is an object that exists only within the player's inventory and hands, or displayed in item frames or Armor Stands.
Behavior
Some items, when used, place a block or entity version of themselves into the game world. Put simply, they are an item when in the inventory, and a block when placed. For example, boats turn into an entity when placed, and beds turn into a group of blocks when placed. When selected in the hotbar, items briefly display their names above the HUD.
The only method by which an item can be properly displayed within the game environment is to place it into an item frame.
If an item that does not become a block is dropped, it becomes an entity represented by a sprite that floats above the ground for 5 minutes in a loaded chunk before despawning, unless the player walks over it to pick it up before it despawns.
List of items
Items
Items that create blocks, fluids or entities
- Acacia Boat
- Armor Stand
- Beetroot Seeds
- Birch Boat
- Bottle o' Enchanting
- Bow
- Bucket
- Bucket of Axolotl
- Bucket of Cod
- Bucket of Pufferfish
- Bucket of Salmon
- Bucket of Tropical Fish
- Carrot
- Cocoa Beans
- Crossbow
- Dark Oak Boat
- Egg
- End Crystal
- Ender Pearl
- Eye of Ender
- Fire Charge
- Firework Rocket
- Fishing Rod
- Flint and Steel
- Item Frame
- Jungle Boat
- Kelp
- Lava Bucket
- Lead
- Lingering Potion
- Melon Seeds
- Minecart
- Minecart with Chest
- Minecart with Command Block
- Minecart with Furnace[Java Edition only]
- Minecart with Hopper
- Minecart with TNT
- Nether Wart
- Oak Boat
- Painting
- Potato
- Pumpkin Seeds
- Redstone Dust
- Snowball
- Splash Potion
- Spruce Boat
- String
- Sweet Berries
- Trident
- Water Bucket
- Wheat Seeds
Items with use in the world
- Apple
- Arrow
- Baked Potato
- Beetroot
- Beetroot Soup
- Black Dye
- Blue Dye
- Bone
- Bone Meal
- Book and Quill
- Bowl
- Bread
- Brown Dye
- Bundle
- Carrot on a Stick
- Chainmail Boots
- Chainmail Chestplate
- Chainmail Helmet
- Chainmail Leggings
- Chorus Fruit
- Compass
- Cooked Chicken
- Cooked Cod
- Cooked Mutton
- Cooked Porkchop
- Cooked Rabbit
- Cooked Salmon
- Cookie
- Cyan Dye
- Debug Stick[Java Edition only]
- Diamond Axe
- Diamond Boots
- Diamond Chestplate
- Diamond Helmet
- Diamond Hoe
- Diamond Horse Armor
- Diamond Leggings
- Diamond Pickaxe
- Diamond Shovel
- Diamond Sword
- Dried Kelp
- Elytra
- Empty Map
- Enchanted Golden Apple
- Goat Horn
- Glass Bottle
- Gold Ingot
- Golden Apple
- Golden Axe
- Golden Boots
- Golden Carrot
- Golden Chestplate
- Golden Helmet
- Golden Hoe
- Golden Horse Armor
- Golden Leggings
- Golden Pickaxe
- Golden Shovel
- Golden Sword
- Gray Dye
- Green Dye
- Honey Bottle
- Ink Sac[Bedrock Edition only]
- Iron Axe
- Iron Boots
- Iron Chestplate
- Iron Helmet
- Iron Hoe
- Iron Horse Armor
- Iron Ingot[Java Edition only]
- Iron Leggings
- Iron Pickaxe
- Iron Shovel
- Iron Sword
- Knowledge Book[Java Edition only]
- Lapis Lazuli[Bedrock Edition only]
- Leather Boots
- Leather Cap
- Leather Horse Armor
- Leather Pants
- Leather Tunic
- Light Blue Dye
- Light Gray Dye
- Lime Dye
- Magenta Dye
- Map or Explorer Map
- Melon Slice
- Milk Bucket
- Mushroom Stew
- Music Disc (11)
- Music Disc (13)
- Music Disc (Blocks)
- Music Disc (Cat)
- Music Disc (Chirp)
- Music Disc (Far)
- Music Disc (Mall)
- Music Disc (Mellohi)
- Music Disc (Pigstep)
- Music Disc (Stal)
- Music Disc (Strad)
- Music Disc (Wait)
- Music Disc (Ward)
- Name Tag
- Netherite Axe
- Netherite Boots
- Netherite Chestplate
- Netherite Helmet
- Netherite Hoe
- Netherite Leggings
- Netherite Pickaxe
- Netherite Shovel
- Netherite Sword
- Orange Dye
- Pink Dye
- Poisonous Potato
- Potions
- Pufferfish (item)
- Pumpkin Pie
- Purple Dye
- Rabbit Stew
- Raw Beef
- Raw Chicken
- Raw Cod
- Raw Mutton
- Raw Porkchop
- Raw Rabbit
- Raw Salmon
- Red Dye
- Rotten Flesh
- Saddle
- Shears
- Shield
- Spectral Arrow[Java Edition only]
- Spider Eye
- Spyglass
- Steak
- Stone Axe
- Stone Hoe
- Stone Pickaxe
- Stone Shovel
- Stone Sword
- Sugar
- Suspicious Stew
- Tipped Arrows
- Totem of Undying
- Tropical Fish
- Turtle Shell
- Wheat
- White Dye
- Wooden Axe
- Wooden Hoe
- Wooden Pickaxe
- Wooden Shovel
- Wooden Sword
- Written Book
- Yellow Dye
Items with indirect use in the world
The player cannot interact with or directly use these items; however, they are used for trading, brewing, enchanting or as crafting ingredients for other items that do have direct uses. The exception is clocks, which are not used in any recipes but serve an informative function.
- Amethyst Shard
- Banner Pattern (Creeper Charge)
- Banner Pattern (Flower Charge)
- Banner Pattern (Globe)
- Banner Pattern (Skull Charge)
- Banner Pattern (Snout)
- Banner Pattern (Thing)
- Blaze Powder
- Blaze Rod
- Book
- Brick
- Charcoal
- Clay Ball
- Clock
- Coal
- Copper Ingot
- Diamond
- Dragon's Breath
- Emerald
- Enchanted Book
- Feather
- Fermented Spider Eye
- Firework Star
- Flint
- Ghast Tear
- Glistering Melon Slice
- Glowstone Dust
- Gold Nugget
- Gunpowder
- Heart of the Sea
- Honeycomb
- Ink Sac[Java Edition only]
- Iron Ingot[Bedrock Edition only]
- Iron Nugget
- Lapis Lazuli[Java Edition only]
- Leather
- Magma Cream
- Nautilus Shell
- Nether Brick
- Nether Quartz
- Nether Star
- Netherite Ingot
- Netherite Scrap
- Paper
- Phantom Membrane
- Popped Chorus Fruit
- Prismarine Crystals
- Prismarine Shard
- Rabbit Hide
- Rabbit's Foot
- Scute
- Shulker Shell
- Slimeball
- Stick
Spawn eggs
- Axolotl Spawn Egg
- Bat Spawn Egg
- Bee Spawn Egg
- Blaze Spawn Egg
- Cat Spawn Egg
- Cave Spider Spawn Egg
- Chicken Spawn Egg
- Cod Spawn Egg
- Cow Spawn Egg
- Creeper Spawn Egg
- Dolphin Spawn Egg
- Donkey Spawn Egg
- Drowned Spawn Egg
- Elder Guardian Spawn Egg
- Enderman Spawn Egg
- Endermite Spawn Egg
- Evoker Spawn Egg
- Fox Spawn Egg
- Ghast Spawn Egg
- Goat Spawn Egg
- Guardian Spawn Egg
- Hoglin Spawn Egg
- Horse Spawn Egg
- Husk Spawn Egg
- Llama Spawn Egg
- Magma Cube Spawn Egg
- Mooshroom Spawn Egg
- Mule Spawn Egg
- Spawn NPC [Bedrock Edition only]
- Ocelot Spawn Egg
- Panda Spawn Egg
- Parrot Spawn Egg
- Phantom Spawn Egg
- Pig Spawn Egg
- Piglin Spawn Egg
- Piglin Brute Spawn Egg
- Pillager Spawn Egg
- Polar Bear Spawn Egg
- Pufferfish Spawn Egg
- Rabbit Spawn Egg
- Ravager Spawn Egg
- Salmon Spawn Egg
- Sheep Spawn Egg
- Shulker Spawn Egg
- Silverfish Spawn Egg
- Skeleton Horse Spawn Egg
- Skeleton Spawn Egg
- Slime Spawn Egg
- Spider Spawn Egg
- Squid Spawn Egg
- Stray Spawn Egg
- Strider Spawn Egg
- Trader Llama Spawn Egg
- Tropical Fish Spawn Egg
- Turtle Spawn Egg
- Vex Spawn Egg
- Villager Spawn Egg
- Vindicator Spawn Egg
- Wandering Trader Spawn Egg
- Witch Spawn Egg
- Wither Skeleton Spawn Egg
- Wolf Spawn Egg
- Zoglin Spawn Egg
- Zombie Horse Spawn Egg
- Zombie Spawn Egg
- Zombie Villager Spawn Egg
- Zombified Piglin Spawn Egg
Education Edition only
These items can be accessed only in Education Edition. The spawn agent, portfolio and camera are obtainable through Creative mode and the /give
command. The Garbage item is only obtainable through unknown Lab Table recipes or via inventory editing.
Unimplemented items
Some items are unimplemented, or have been mentioned to be implemented in the future.
Removed items
Removed items no longer exist in current versions of the game.
Video
History
Item additions and removals
Java Edition Classic | |||||
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0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST | |||||
Added Arrows. | |||||
Total items: 1 (+1, -0) | |||||
Java Edition Indev | |||||
0.31 | 20091231-2 | Added Leather, Studded, Chainmail, and Iron Armor, Quiver, Apple, Shovel, and Sword. | |||
Total items: 21 (+20, -0) | |||||
20100110 | Added Flint and steel, Axes, Pickaxes, and Bows. | ||||
Total items: 25 (+4, -0) | |||||
20100129 | Added Coal, Diamond, Gold ingot, Iron ingot, and new Wooden, Stone and Diamond swords, axes, pickaxes and shovels variants. | ||||
Total items: 41 (+16, -0) | |||||
20100128 | Added Stick. | ||||
Total items: 42 (+1, -0) | |||||
20100130 | Added Golden swords, axes, pickaxes, and shovels; Bowl, Mushroom stew, Gunpowder, String, and Feather. | ||||
Total items: 51 (+9, -0) | |||||
Indev | 20100206 | Added Bread, Hoes, Seeds, and Wheat. | |||
Total items: 55 (+4, -0) | |||||
20100212-1 | Added Gold and Diamond armor. | ||||
Studded armor were removed between Indev 0.31 20100204-1 and Indev 20100206. | |||||
Total items: 59 (+8, -4) | |||||
20100219 | Added Flint, Raw Porkchop, and Cooked Porkchop. | ||||
Total items: 62 (+3, -0) | |||||
Java Edition Infdev | |||||
Infdev | 20100227-1 | Added Golden Apples. | |||
Total items: 63 (+1, -0) | |||||
20100615 | Added Bucket, Water Bucket, and Lava Bucket. | ||||
Total items: 66 (+3, -0) | |||||
20100625-2 | Added Saddles. | ||||
Total items: 67 (+1, -0) | |||||
Java Edition Alpha | |||||
v1.0.5 | Added Snowballs. | ||||
Total items: 68 (+1, -0) | |||||
v1.0.8 | Added Leather and Milk Bucket. | ||||
Total items: 70 (+2 ,-0) | |||||
v1.0.11 | Added Paper, Book, Clay ball, Brick, and Slimeball. | ||||
Total items: 75 (+5, -0) | |||||
v1.0.14 | Added Eggs, 2 new Music discs, Minecart with Furnace, and Minecart with Chest. | ||||
Total items: 80 (+5, -0) | |||||
v1.1.0 | Added Compass. | ||||
Total items: 81 (+1, -0) | |||||
v1.1.1 | Added Fishing Rod. | ||||
Total items: 82 (+1, -0) | |||||
v1.2.0 | Added Clock, Glowstone Dust, Cooked Cod, and Raw Cod. | ||||
Total items :86 (+4, -0) | |||||
Java Edition Beta | |||||
1.2 | Added Bone, Bone Meal, Lapis Lazuli, Cocoa Beans, Ink Sac, Charcoal, Dyes, Sugar. | ||||
Total items: 94 (+8, -0) | |||||
1.4 | Added Cookie. | ||||
Total items: 95 (+1, -0) | |||||
1.6 | Added Maps. | ||||
Total items: 96 (+1, -0) | |||||
1.7 | Added Shears. | ||||
Total items: 97 (+1, -0) | |||||
1.8 | Added Raw Chicken, Cooked Chicken, Raw Beef, Steak, Ender Pearls, Melon Seeds, Melons, Pumpkin Seeds, and Rotten Flesh. | ||||
Total items: 106 (+9, -0) | |||||
Java Edition | |||||
1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease | Added Blaze Rod, Ghast Tear, Gold Nugget, and Nether Wart. | |||
Total items: 110 (+4, -0) | |||||
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 | Added Blaze Powder, Fermented Spider Eye, Glass Bottle, Magma Cream, 9 new Music Disc, and Spider Eye. | ||||
Total items: 124 (+14, -0) | |||||
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 | Added Eye of Ender. | ||||
Total items: 125 (+1, -0) | |||||
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 | Added Glistering Melon Slice, Ghast Tear, Potions, and Splash Potions. | ||||
Total items: 129 (+4, -0) | |||||
1.1 | 11w49a | Added 20 types of Spawn Eggs. | |||
Total items: 149 (+20, -0) | |||||
1.2.1 | 12w04a | Added Bottle o' Enchanting, Fire Charge, and Ocelot spawn egg. | |||
Total items: 152 (+3, -0) | |||||
1.3.1 | 12w17a | Added Book and Quill and Written Book. | |||
Total items: 154 (+2, -0) | |||||
12w21a | Added Emerald and Enchanted Golden Apple. | ||||
Total items: 156 (+2, -0) | |||||
1.4.2 | 12w32a | Added potion and splash potion of Night Vision. | |||
Total items: 158 (+2, -0) | |||||
12w34a | Added Carrot, Golden Carrot, Potato, Baked Potato, Poisonous Potato, and Potion and Splash Potion of Invisibility. | ||||
Total items: 165 (+7, -0) | |||||
12w36a | Added Carrot on a Stick and Nether Star. | ||||
Total items: 167 (+2, -0) | |||||
12w37a | Added Pumpkin Pie. | ||||
Total items: 168 (+1, -0) | |||||
1.4.4 | 1.4.3 | Added the Music Disc "Wait". | |||
Total items: 169 (+1, -0) | |||||
1.4.6 | 12w49a | Added Enchanted Book, Firework Rocket, and Firework Star. | |||
Total items: 172 (+3, -0) | |||||
1.5 | 13w01a | Added Nether Brick and Nether Quartz. | |||
Total items: 174 (+2, -0) | |||||
1.6.1 | 13w16a | Added Diamond, Gold, and Iron Horse Armor, Leads, and Horse spawn egg. | |||
Total items: 179 (+5, -0) | |||||
13w16b | Added Name Tag. | ||||
Total items: 180 (+1, -0) | |||||
1.7.2 | 13w36a | Added Clownfish, Raw Salmon, Cooked Salmon, Pufferfish, and Potion and Splash Potion of Water Breathing. | |||
Total items: 185 (+5, -0) | |||||
1.8 | 14w11a | Added Endermite spawn egg. | |||
Total items: 186 (+1, -0) | |||||
14w25a | Added Prismarine Crystals, Prismarine Shard, and Guardian spawn egg. | ||||
Total items: 189 (+3, -0) | |||||
14w27a | Added Raw Mutton, Cooked Mutton, Raw Rabbit, Cooked Rabbit, Potion and Splash Potion of Leaping, Rabbit's Foot, Rabbit Hide, Rabbit spawn egg, and Rabbit Stew. | ||||
Total items: 199 (+10, -0) | |||||
1.9 | 15w31a | Added Spectral Arrow, 14 new Tipped Arrows, Beetroot, Beetroot Seeds, Beetroot Soup, Chorus Fruit, Popped Chorus Fruit, Shulker spawn egg, splash water bottles, mundane, thick, and awkward splash potions. | |||
Total items: 223 (+24, -0) | |||||
15w33a | Added Dragon's Breath and Lingering Potions. | ||||
Total items: 241 (+18, -0) | |||||
15w33c | Added Shield. | ||||
Total items: 242 (+1, -0) | |||||
15w41a | Added Elytra. | ||||
Total items: 243 (+1, -0) | |||||
15w44a | Added End Crystal. | ||||
Total items: 244 (+1, -0) | |||||
15w44b | Added Potion of Luck and Uncraftable potion. | ||||
Total items: 246 (+2, -0) | |||||
1.10 | 16w20a | Added 10 new types of spawn eggs. | |||
Total items: 256 (+10, -0) | |||||
1.11 | 16w32a | Added Zombie Villager spawn eggs. | |||
Total items: 257 (+1, -0) | |||||
16w39a | Added Llama, Evoker, Vex, and Vindicator spawn eggs, Shulker Shell, Totem of Undying, and Explorer Map. | ||||
Total items: 264 (+7, -0) | |||||
1.11.1 | 16w50a | Added Iron Nugget. | |||
Total items: 265 (+1, -0) | |||||
1.12 | 17w13a | Added Knowledge Book and Parrot spawn egg. | |||
Total items: 267 (+2, -0) | |||||
1.13 | 17w47a | Added Bark, Mushroom Blocks, Mushroom Stem, Petrified Oak Slab, Smooth Quartz, Smooth Red Sandstone, Smooth Sandstone, Smooth Stone, and Debug Stick. | |||
Total items: 276 (+9, -0) | |||||
18w07a | Added Trident weapon, Kelp, Dried Kelp, Scute, Turtle Shell, Potion of the Turtle Master, Arrow of the Turtle Master, Turtle and Phantom spawn eggs. | ||||
Total items: 285 (+9, -0) | |||||
18w08b | Added 3 Fish Buckets and Spawn eggs for Cod, Salmon, and Pufferfish. | ||||
Total items: 291 (+6, -0) | |||||
18w10a | Added Spawn egg and Bucket of Tropical Fish and Buried Treasure Exploration Map. | ||||
Total items: 294 (+3, -0) | |||||
18w11a | Added Drowned spawn egg. | ||||
Total items: 295 (+1, -0) | |||||
18w14a | Added Phantom Membrane, Potion and Arrow of Slow Falling. | ||||
Total items: 298 (+3, -0) | |||||
18w15a | Added Heart of the Sea and Nautilus Shell. | ||||
Total items: 300 (+2, -0) | |||||
1.14 | 18w43a | Added 4 Banner Patterns, Crossbow, 4 new Dyes, Illager Beast, Panda, and Pillager spawn eggs, and Suspicious Stew. | |||
Total items: 313 (+13, -0) | |||||
18w49a | Added Sweet Berries. | ||||
Total items: 314 (+1, -0) | |||||
19w05a | Added Wandering Trader and Trader Llama spawn eggs. | ||||
Total items: 316 (+2, -0) | |||||
19w07a | Added Fox spawn egg. | ||||
Total items: 317 (+1 ,-0) | |||||
19w08a | Added Leather Horse Armor. | ||||
Total items: 318 (+1, -0) | |||||
19w11a | Added a new "Globe" banner pattern. | ||||
Total items: 319 (+1, -0) | |||||
1.15 | 19w34a | Added Honey Bottle, Honeycomb, and Bee spawn egg. | |||
Total items: 320 (+1, -0) | |||||
1.16 | 20w06a | Added Netherite armor, Axe, Shovel, Pickaxe, and Sword, Netherite Ingot, Netherite Scrap, and Hoglin spawn egg. | |||
Total items: 331 (+11, -0) | |||||
20w07a | Added Piglin spawn egg. | ||||
Total items: 332 (+1, -0) | |||||
20w13a | Added Warped Fungus on a Stick, and Strider spawn egg. | ||||
Total items: 334 (+2, -0) | |||||
20w14a | Added Zoglin spawn egg. | ||||
Total items: 335 (+1, -0) | |||||
20w15a | Added Piglin Banner Pattern. | ||||
Total items: 336 (+1, -0) | |||||
20w16a | Added Pigstep Music disc. | ||||
Total items: 337 (+1, -0) | |||||
1.16.2 | 20w27a | Added Piglin Brute spawn egg. | |||
Total items: 338 (+1, -0) | |||||
Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
1.17 | 20w45a | Added Amethyst Shard, Bundle, Copper Ingot, and Spyglass. | |||
Total items: 342 (+4, -0) | |||||
20w46a | Added Powder Snow Bucket. | ||||
Total items: 343 (+1, -0) | |||||
20w51a | Added Spawn egg and Bucket of Axolotl. | ||||
Total items: 345 (+2, -0) |
Other changes
Java Edition Classic | |||||
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0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST | Arrows were added as an object and were fired by pressing Tab ↹. | ||||
Java Edition Indev | |||||
December 31, 2009 | Added the inventory, and with it, the first "non-tile" items. | ||||
Notch was hard at work making items and the inventory fully functional.[1][2] | |||||
0.31 | January 11, 2010, 1 | Because the crafting system did not exist at this point, items were automatically added to the inventory after creating a new world.[3] | |||
Apples were added, but they currently serve no function. | |||||
January 22, 2010 | Can now place blocks on resource items | ||||
Dropped items now experience gravity. | |||||
January 24, 2010 | Can now drop a whole stack of items instead of just one at a time. | ||||
January 28, 2010 | Items are now 3D. | ||||
January 29, 2010 | Added crafting. | ||||
Right-clicking drops one of a stack. | |||||
January 30, 2010 | Crafting improved; now has 36 recipes. | ||||
Java Edition | |||||
1.3.1 | 12w15a | Stackable items now stack outside inventory when thrown to the ground individually. | |||
1.8 | 14w25a | All items are now models, some are still generated from item icons. | |||
Resource packs can make models for all items. | |||||
1.13 | 17w49a | Items can be "tagged" with an ID. | |||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.16.0 | beta 1.15.0.51 | Dropped items now turn into a 3D model and spin. |
Issues
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