Java Edition exclusive features

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This is a list of Java Edition exclusive features. Some of these exclusive features may eventually be added to Bedrock Edition to bring parity.

General

Minecraft Launcher

Supports loading custom skins for use in the game.
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 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.

Particles

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
underwater	When underwater.
sweep_attack	Perform a sweep attack with a sword.
damage_indicator	When an entity is damaged significantly.

Recipes

To save space, some recipes in the recipe book are grouped together and can be selected by pressing the right button on the mouse.

Statistics

A game feature that allows players to track how many times they have completed certain tasks.

Creative inventory

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 tipped arrow, potion, splash potion, and lingering potion
Four no-effect tipped arrows: arrow of splashing, awkward tipped arrow, thick tipped arrow, and mundane tipped arrow
Spectral arrow
Minecart with furnace
Sweeping Edge enchanted books, all three levels.
Firework star, no color.
Firework rocket, all three flight durations.
Painting, 46 individual pre-defined paintings, plus four additional in operator utilities.
All 34 items in the Operator Utilities tab if "Operator Items Tab" is enabled.

Gameplay

Advancements

Uses the advancement system instead of the achievement system.
Can be used to gain experience.

Breaking

The range of breaking blocks is 5 blocks in Creative mode, and 4.5 blocks otherwise.

Brewing

The potion of Luck cannot be brewed, and can be obtained only by commands such as /give @p minecraft:potion{Potion:"minecraft:luck"} 1, or through the creative inventory.

Chat

Is uncensored by default, though a profanity filter exists for Realms.
Default font uses much more updated version of Mojangles, with implementation of more characters and even certain emojis.
- There are also more and different font styles such as Illageralt and they are more up-to-date

Combat

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 Haste 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 Strength effect icon on the side of the hotbar, or like a dagger under the crosshair.
    - This is controlled in video settings.
- A cooldown animation is displayed of the tool slowly being lifted up, when either first switching to it or after attacking.
Sounds are played when attacked strongly and weakly, as well as sprint-knockback attacks, sweeping attacks, and critical hits.

Damage

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.

Debug screen

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.

Enchanting

The player can enchant any item with any enchantment in Creative mode with enchanted books, allowing any applied effects to exhibit themselves.
Sweeping Edge enchantment.
- Increases sweeping attack damage.

Health

For players, a "You Died!" screen (or "Game Over!" in Hardcore mode) instantly appears upon death. It also displays the player's 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 (wolf, cat, or parrot).
- Death message: "<Player> fell from a high place", caused by a fall greater than 5 blocks.

Inventory

Creative inventory and survival inventory looks different from inventories in Bedrock Edition.

Spectator mode

Can be entered by using F3 + N, or F3 + F4, 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.

Status effect

Summary of effects:

ID	Name	Effect
24	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	Luck	Increases chances of high-quality loot. Cannot be obtained without cheats or creative mode.
27	Bad Luck	Reduces chances of high-quality loot. Cannot be obtained without cheats.
28	Dolphin's Grace	Dolphin's Grace is a status effect that increases the player's swimming speed when a dolphin is nearby.

Subtitles

A feature that displays text for sounds in game.

Trading

Has different trades than in Bedrock Edition.
Trade inventory slots of a villager or wandering trader is different from Bedrock Edition.

Blocks

Carpet

Carpet can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.335 items per carpet.

Chest

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 ⇧ Shift 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 /data 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 /data merge block 0 64 0 {Lock:"Player's Key"}.

Cobweb

Paintings can be placed on their sides.
Jumping vibrates the player, similar to jumping in a 2-block-high space.
Primed TNT can pass through cobwebs without slowing down if shot through fast enough.

Dispenser and Dropper

Support quasi-connectivity.

Farmland

Transparency: Partial (blocks light)
Mobs smaller than 0.512 cubic block cannot destroy farmland. This includes parrots, rabbits, chickens, bats, ocelots, wolves, cave spiders, endermites, silverfish, baby mobs, small slimes, and small magma cubes.

Furnace

The lit furnace block cannot be obtained, not even with commands.
Fuel lasts differently, see Furnace/table.

Dirt Path

Doesn't drop itself when broken with a Silk Touch tool.

Piston and Sticky Piston

Cannot push or pull certain blocks (those with block entities):
- Anvil
- Banners
- Barrel
- Beacon
- Brewing stand
- Chest
- Conduit
- Daylight detector
- Dispenser
- Dropper
- Furnace
- Hopper
- Jukebox
- Signs
- Trapped chest
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 quasi-connectivity.

Wool

Can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.5 items per wool block.

Items

Bone Meal

Has a 5% chance of being dropped by any kind of fish.

Debug Stick

Can be used to change block states.

Dyes

Leather armor, leather horse armor, and wolf armor can be dyed by combining them with dyes in a crafting grid.

Fish

Tropical fish and pufferfish can be fed to ocelots and cats, like raw cod and salmon.

Knowledge Book

A utility item that reveals crafting recipes to the player when used.

Lingering Potion

What makes it a lingering potion as opposed to a splash potion is that their Potion tag stores a minecraft:lingering_potion item.

Map

The name for "Empty Locator Map" (requires compass) in Java Edition is called "Empty Map", which is different from the "Empty Map" that uses no compass in Bedrock Edition.

Spawn Egg

Each spawn egg has a different ID.

Mobs

Creeper

The detection range of creepers is reduced to half of their normal range (8 blocks) when the player is wearing a creeper head.

Elder Guardian and Guardian

Drops 0-1 cooked cod if killed by fire.

Enderman

Cannot normally be attacked with projectiles (including splash potions of Harming), as they always teleport away just before being hit.
- However, they do not teleport if positive potions are thrown at them, including splash potions of regeneration and strength, and do not teleport away from poison potions either.
  - If all available blocks within teleport distance are removed or unable to be transported to, it is possible to hit endermen with a projectile, though arrows tend to bounce off dealing no damage on occasion.
  - Even though rare, endermen can create iron and snow golems.

Giant

A giant-sized zombie.
Has no AI, does not fight back when hit.
Can be summoned via commands only.

Illusioner

An unused illager hostile mob.
Attacks using a bow and casting spells, such as creating clones of itself.
Can be summoned via commands only.

Killer Bunny

A hostile version of rabbit, featuring horizontal red eyes and a nameplate reading "The Killer Bunny".
Attacks players and wolves (both wild and tamed) unprovoked.
Can be summoned via commands only.
A reference to the "Rabbit of Caerbannog" from the movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".

Ocelot

Do not scare phantoms.

Skeleton, Stray, and 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 skeleton skull.
Holding tipped arrows in their offhand causes them to shoot that type of arrow; these arrows are not consumed.

Squid

Can drown in lava.

Wandering Trader

Wandering traders spawned with a spawn egg via commands do not spawn with trader llamas.

Zombie

Automatically holds any item it comes across (except jack o'lanterns).
Can spawn naturally with a carved pumpkin or a jack o'lantern on Halloween, or if the computer's calendar is set to October 31st.
On Halloween, if a zombie wearing a carved pumpkin or jack o'lantern is killed using a weapon enchanted with Looting, there is a chance equivalent to the level of Looting used to drop the carved pumpkin or jack o'lantern, up to a maximum of a 3% chance of a drop.
The detection range of zombies is reduced to half of their normal range (20 blocks) when the player is wearing a zombie head.

Zombified Piglin

Non-hostile zombified piglins do not prevent a nearby player from sleeping in a bed.

Non-mob entities

Item

Takes damage from all types of fire and lava.

Arrow

Can get visually stuck in players.
Includes arrow of Luck.
Includes spectral arrows, imbues the Glowing status effect for 10 seconds

Minecart with Furnace

Exists.
A self-propelling minecart that can be fueled using coal or charcoal. This can also be found in the Legacy Console Edition.

Minecart with Monster Spawner

Exists.
A combination of minecart and monster spawner.
Can be obtained only via commands.
When summoned, it spawns pigs by default.

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.

Single Biome world type

Consists of only a single biome.

Large Biomes world type

A world type that has its biome scale set to 6.

Debug mode world type

Used to test block states, block models, and textures.

Biomes

Badlands and eroded badlands
- Red sandstone can generate in regular badlands and eroded badlands.

Igloo

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.

Strongholds

They generate in rings with the strongholds evenly spaced around the circle until the total of 128 is reached.
- The 1st ring has 3 strongholds within 1408–2688 of the origin.
- The 2nd ring has 6 strongholds within 4480–5760 of the origin.
- The 3rd ring has 10 strongholds within 7552–8832 of the origin.
- The 4th ring has 15 strongholds within 10624–11904 of the origin.
- The 5th ring has 21 strongholds within 13696–14976 of the origin.
- The 6th ring has 28 strongholds within 16768–18048 of the origin.
- The 7th ring has 36 strongholds within 19840–21120 of the origin.
- The 8th ring has 9 strongholds within 22912–24192 of the origin

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.

World boundary

By default, a customizable world border appears to prevent players passing through.

Commands

/advancement

Gives, removes, or checks player advancements.

/ban

Adds player to banlist.

/ban-ip

Adds IP address to banlist.

/banlist

Displays banlist.

/data

Modifies the data tag of a block or entity.

/debug

Starts or stops a debugging session.

/defaultgamemode

Sets the default game mode.

/experience

The maximum experience that the player can earn from the /experience command is 2,147,483,647 levels.

/pardon

Removes entries from the banlist.

/publish

Gives or takes player recipes.

/seed

Displays the world seed.

/setidletimeout

Sets the time before idle players are kicked.

/stop

Stops a server.

/trigger

Sets a trigger to be activated.

/whitelist

Manages server whitelist.

/worldborder

Manages the world border.

Command format

Data Tag

Data tags are used in commands to specify complex data for players, entities, and some blocks.

Resource location

Resource locations are namespaced and all have the minecraft: prefix, except when they're modded, in which case they have a mod_id: prefix.

Target selector

Most selector arguments were renamed and remade, and some behave differently. Others, like distance and level, support a range (1 is exactly one, 1.. is one or more, ..1 is one or less, and 1..10 is between one and ten, inclusive).