For the enchantment in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Soul Speed.
| Maximum level | III |
|---|---|
| Primary items | None |
| Secondary items | 
|
| Enchantment weight | 1 |
Soul Speed is an enchantment applied to boots that causes faster movement on soul sand and soul soil, but slowly drains durability in the process.
Obtaining
Soul Speed is a treasure enchantment. It cannot be obtained from enchanting in an enchanting table. Unlike most other treasure enchantments, it also cannot be obtained from most chest loot (except from chests in bastion remnants), fishing, or trading.
Mob loot
Piglins may spawn wearing golden boots enchanted with Soul Speed which have a chance to be dropped when they are killed.
Generated loot
Enchanted books and golden boots with a random level of Soul Speed may appear in bastion remnant "generic" chests.
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition and Bedrock Edition | ||||
 Enchanted Book[A]
|
 Bastion Remnant
|
Generic chest | 1 | 11.2%{ "item": "Enchanted Book", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1123595505617978, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Generic chest" }
|
- ↑ Enchanted with a random level of Soul Speed.
Bartering
Soul Speed can be acquired via bartering with piglins, who may offer enchanted books and iron boots with a random level of Soul Speed.
Usage
Speed
When walking on soul sand or soul soil, Soul Speed increases the player's speed. When wearing boots with Soul Speed, the player's speed is adjusted by the multiplier (Soul Speed Level * 0.105) + 1.3. The speed decrease of soul sand has no effect on Soul Speed, meaning that the player can walk on soul sand with the same speed as on soul soil.
While Soul Speed walkways are not as fast as some other means of transit (such as blue ice tracks), Soul Speed boots do not require vehicles such as minecarts or boats in order to apply their speed boost. This makes Soul Speed walkways useful for increasing movement speed across more uneven or varied terrain where vehicles might prove unwieldy.
Carpets or slabs[JE only] on top of soul sand or soul soil does not prevent the speed increase from Soul Speed.
| Enchantment level | Speed increase |
|---|---|
| Soul Speed I | 40.5% |
| Soul Speed II | 51.0% |
| Soul Speed III | 61.5% |
Durability
The durability of worn boots enchanted with Soul Speed has a 4% chance to go down for each compatible block stepped on.[1] This chance can be decreased with the Unbreaking enchantment.
| Unbreaking level | Breaking chance | Decrease |
|---|---|---|
| None | 4% | 0% |
| I | 3.2% | 20% |
| II | 2.93% | 26.6% |
| III | 2.8% | 30% |
| Boots | Durability | No Unbreaking (4%) | Unbreaking I (3.2%) | Unbreaking II (2.93%) | Unbreaking III (2.8%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Leather Boots
|
65 | 1,625 | 2,031 | 2,219 | 2,321 |
 Golden Boots
|
91 | 2,275 | 2,844 | 3,105 | 3,250 |
 Copper Boots
|
143 | 3,575 | 4,469 | 4,881 | 5,107 |
 Chainmail Boots
|
195 | 4,875 | 6,094 | 6,656 | 6,964 |
| Iron Boots
|
195 | 4,875 | 6,094 | 6,656 | 6,964 |
 Diamond Boots
|
429 | 10,725 | 13,406 | 14,644 | 15,321 |
 Netherite Boots
|
481 | 12,025 | 15,031 | 16,404 | 17,179 |
Particles
Soul particles appear when walking on one of the compatible blocks.
General
The soul_speed_blocks tag determines which blocks are compatible with Soul Speed.
Sounds
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Soul escapes | Players | When a player runs on soul sand or soul soil using soul speed boots | particle | subtitles | varies [sound 1] | 0.6–1.0 | 12 | |
- ↑ Has a 70% chance to be 0.15 and a 30% chance to be 0.0
| Sounds | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch |
| Soul escapes | Players | When a player runs on soul sand or soul soil using soul speed boots | particle | ? | 0.0–0.1 | 0.6–1.0 | |
| ? | Players | ? | particle | ? | 0.25–0.75 | 0.6–1.0 | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Soul Speed | soul_speed |
enchantment |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soul Speed | soul_speed | 36 |
enchantment |
Enchantment definition
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"anvil_cost": 8,
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},
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"per_level_above_first": 0.0105
},
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"operation": "add_value"
},
{
"type": "minecraft:attribute",
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}
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}
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},
{
"type": "minecraft:any_of",
"terms": [
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},
{
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}
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{
"type": "minecraft:any_of",
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]
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{
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{
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}
}
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
},
{
"effect": {
"type": "minecraft:change_item_damage",
"amount": 1.0
},
"requirements": {
"type": "minecraft:all_of",
"terms": [
{
"type": "minecraft:random_chance",
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}
},
{
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}
}
],
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"horizontal_position": {
"type": "in_bounding_box"
},
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},
"particle": {
"type": "minecraft:soul"
},
"speed": 1.0,
"vertical_position": {
"type": "entity_position",
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},
"vertical_velocity": {
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}
},
"requirements": {
"type": "minecraft:entity_properties",
"entity": "this",
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},
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}
},
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}
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{
"effect": {
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"max_exclusive": 1.0,
"min_inclusive": 0.6
},
"sound": "minecraft:particle.soul_escape",
"volume": 0.6
},
"requirements": {
"type": "minecraft:all_of",
"terms": [
{
"type": "minecraft:random_chance",
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},
{
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"entity": "this",
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},
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}
}
]
},
"max_cost": {
"base": 25,
"per_level_above_first": 10
},
"max_level": 3,
"min_cost": {
"base": 10,
"per_level_above_first": 10
},
"slots": [
"feet"
],
"supported_items": "#minecraft:enchantable/foot_armor",
"weight": 1
}
History
Java Edition
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.16 | 20w11a | Added Soul Speed. | |||||
| 20w13a | Items enchanted with Soul Speed are now slightly more common when bartering. | ||||||
| 20w16a | Soul Speed enchanted books can now be found in bastion remnant chests. | ||||||
| 1.16.2 | Pre-release 1 | The Soul Speed boost is now kept when jumping and when the soul block is covered by non-full blocks, such as slabs. | |||||
Bedrock Edition
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Added Soul Speed. | |||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.54 | Soul Speed books are no longer obtainable through raids, loot chests, or fishing. It can now be obtained only from chests in bastion remnants. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Soul Speed" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Trivia
- In Bedrock Edition the particles generated by the enchantment are bright in the darkness because they don't respect light levels.[2]
- Soul Speed works via stomping the souls out of the blocks, hence the particles.[3]
- In Bedrock Edition, in Spectator mode, if a player wearing boots with Soul Speed flies over soul sand or soul soil, the particle effect still plays.[4]
References
- ↑ MC-274447 – Soul speed can use durability when equipping boots while standing on soul blocks
- ↑ MCPE-100534 Resolved as Won't Fix
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcHiRdrsAfk&t=2510s
- ↑ MCPE-165655
