Item

This article is about inventory items. For other uses, see Item (disambiguation).

"Resource" redirects here. For files that change the gameplay, see Resource pack.

An item is an object that can exist within inventories of players, mobs or armor stands; in various containers (like chests or droppers), as well as in item frames, glow item frames, and shelves.

Behavior

Items usually exist in the player's inventory, or any external inventories like chests. When hovered or selected in a GUI, items display their name and additional information in a tooltip. Players can move items through the functionality of the GUI — like smelting in a furnace or equipping in armor slots — or put them in the hotbar. During gameplay, the player can select a hotbar slot to hold the item in the hand, while it briefly displays its name on the HUD, in order to use it.

Some items when used, place a block or entity (minecart, spawn eggs, etc.) 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 cacti turn into a block when placed. There are also items which can be used for specific functionality (like consuming food), or items that have no use but are required for recipes (like smelting) to create other items.

Thrown items

Blocks and entities can drop items into the world when broken/killed or in specific circumstances. This is a dropped item entity represented by a sprite that floats above the ground. Players can also choose to drop held items or any item in a GUI. It remains for 5 minutes in a loaded chunk before despawning (except for the Nether star), unless the player walks over it to pick it up, it is picked up by a mob, hopper or minecart with hopper, or it is destroyed by fire, lava, cactus, explosion, void, or /kill.

Dropped netherite items cannot be destroyed by fire or lava, and dropped Nether stars cannot be destroyed by explosions.

A submerged object ascends toward the water's surface. If the water is flowing, the object is pushed along with it.

Hoppers draw in any items that are placed above them if they are not powered by redstone.

Stacking

Items, both in a GUI and dropped, can either stack up to 64 or 16, or not stack at all:

• Most items can stack to 64. This includes all full blocks, whose outlines take up an entire block when placed.
• Some items, such as snowballs, empty buckets, eggs, signs, and ender pearls, can stack up to a maximum of 16.
• Some other items do not stack at all, such as anything with a durability (weapons, armor, and tools), filled buckets, and potions.
• All items can technically be forced to stack up to 99‌^{[JE only]} or 127‌^{[BE only]} using commands.

Display

Several items have dedicated item textures that are one pixel thick when in the world, but some items corresponding to blocks use the block textures to render as 3D object. A solid white block is rendered in the inventory as follows:

• Top:
   #FFFFFF
• Left:
   #CECECE
• Right:
   #9E9E9E

In Bedrock Edition, blocks that emit light are not shaded, making them appear much brighter.

Many item textures are animated, dynamically colored, or have an enchantment glint effect. Items are displayed in the world by entities that have then equipped or are holding them: a dropped item, player hand, armor stand, and various mobs that can hold items (see Display of items by entities). Some blocks can also display items:

• Campfire
• Soul Campfire
• Item Frame‌^{[BE only][note 1]}
• Glow Item Frame‌^{[BE only][note 1]} — items are not shaded by environmental lighting, making the "glow in the dark".
• Shelf
• Suspicious Gravel
• Suspicious Sand
• Vault^{[note 2]}

Displayed items, either on these blocks, the hand (both third-person and first-person), or thrown, are rendered in-game with MERS texture sets with Vibrant Visuals, and can show shadows, reflections, or caustics. Various items have emissive lighting and glow in the dark.

Lists of items

It has been suggested that this section be split into its own page at List of items.

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Reason: Translation projects tend to choke on this section when translating the Items page, which is often a major target for translation in new projects. Also, this is a super long list, and hosting it on its own page and transcluding it, perhaps collapsed by default, would reduce overall page size and improve loading times.

In the game

Items that create blocks, fluids, entities

Items that create blocks with different names:^{[note 3]}

Items that directly correspond to blocks, with same name: