Wind Charge

This article is about the throwable item. For the status effect, see Wind Charged. For the enchantment, see Wind Burst. For the item that can be used as a single use flint and steel or shot from dispensers, see Fire Charge.

Wind Charge

Entity

Item

Rarity tier	Common
Use cooldown	0.5 seconds (10 ticks)
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

A wind charge is a throwable item made from breeze rods. It bursts into wind on impact, which can knock entities into the air and interact with doors, buttons, levers, and similar blocks.

Breezes use special high-blast-radius wind charges as their ranged attack, which cannot be obtained by players.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Breeze Rod	4

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Wind Charge	Trial Chambers	Vault and reward chest	1–3	24% { "item": "Wind Charge", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.24006297600000004, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Vault and reward chest" }
		Ominous vault	8–12	47.4% { "item": "Wind Charge", "stacksize": "8–12", "chance": 0.4744480658436214, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Ominous vault" }
Bedrock Edition
Wind Charge	Trial Chambers	Vault and reward chest	1–3	29.6% { "item": "Wind Charge", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.296123904, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Vault and reward chest" }
		Ominous vault	8–12	47.4% { "item": "Wind Charge", "stacksize": "8–12", "chance": 0.4744480658436214, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Ominous vault" }

Usage

A wind charge can be thrown by using it. After it is thrown, the wind charge is consumed.

Wind charges have a cooldown of 10 ticks (0.5 seconds) before they can be used again. The cooldown is shown in the hotbar by a white overlay on the wind charge that shrinks and must disappear before the player can use it again. If there are other inventory or hotbar slots containing wind charges, they are covered with the white overlay as well.^[1] They can be used to activate buttons, fence gates, levers, and non-iron trapdoors and doors. They also ring bells, break chorus flowers, extinguish candles, and shatter decorated pots.

Behavior

Wind charges, when fired by players, dispensers, or breezes, fly in a straight line through the air. There is a random offset in a wind charge's trajectory over a cone-shaped region, spreading along the aimed trajectory, which can cause a wind charge to miss its target or hit something else.

When a wind charge directly hits an entity, the entity takes 1HP damage and is knocked back unless the entity is resistant to knockback (e.g., squid, wardens, ravagers, entities in netherite armor). A burst of wind also appears and knocks back nearby entities without dealing damage to them. Mobs may be knocked high enough into the air to take additional fall damage upon landing. A wind charge that passes through fire or lava sets fire to any entities that it hits.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

The wind burst also interacts with these blocks:

• Non-iron doors and trapdoors are flipped.
• Fence gates are flipped.
• Buttons are pressed.
• Levers are flipped.
• Bells are rung.
• Lit candles (both standalone and on cake) are extinguished.

Wind charges can be deflected if hit with another projectile or a melee attack, similar to ghast fireballs. Blast Protection reduces the knockback effect of wind charges.

Wind charges are distance attenuated by liquids such as water and lava. They fly in a straight line, similar to fireballs.

Wind charges are two separate entities depending on their source. Wind charges shot by breezes are breeze_wind_charges, while wind charges shot by players and dispensers are simply wind_charges. This distinction is in place as the two types of wind charges have some different properties. breeze_wind_charges cannot be obtained as items.

Wind charges lose all velocity when they collide with a moving piston head and are being slowed down by cobwebs or powdered snow.

When used by players and dispensers

Wind charges fired by players and dispensers deal 22% more knockback than those fired by breezes, but have a much smaller burst area. Player-fired wind charges affect entities within a 2.4-block sphere; breeze-fired wind charges affect entities within a 6-block sphere.

A player launched by wind charges shot by a player or a dispenser accumulates fall damage only when falling below the Y level where the wind burst hit. In Bedrock Edition, when throwing a wind charge, the projectile is slightly offset.

Unlike other forms of projectiles when fired on the move, wind charges slightly offset to whatever direction the shooter is moving, following close to the crosshair.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Item	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Wind Charge	wind_charge	Item	item.minecraft.wind_charge

Entity	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Wind Charge	wind_charge	impact_projectiles	entity.minecraft.wind_charge
Wind Charge	breeze_wind_charge	impact_projectiles	entity.minecraft.breeze_wind_charge

Bedrock Edition:

Item	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Wind Charge	wind_charge	377	Item	—	item.wind_charge.name

Entity	Identifier	Numeric ID	Family	Translation key
Wind Charge	wind_charge_projectile	143	wind_charge wind_charge_projectile	entity.wind_charge_projectile.name
Wind Charge	breeze_wind_charge_projectile	141	None	entity.breeze_wind_charge_projectile.name

Entity data

Wind charges have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Who Needs Rockets?	Use a Wind Charge to launch yourself upward 8 blocks	—	10	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Not Today, Thank You	Deflect a projectile with a Shield	Block any projectile with a shield.
	Who Needs Rockets?	Use a Wind Charge to launch yourself upward 8 blocks	Begin falling at least 7 blocks above the position where the player was affected by the explosion of a wind charge that was not fired by a breeze.
	Blowback	Kill a Breeze with a deflected Breeze-shot Wind Charge	Receive kill credit for a breeze killed by a breeze-shot wind charge.

Videos

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w45a				Added wind charges.
			pre2				Wind charges now break decorated pots, chorus flowers, and pointed dripstone blocks upon collision.
1.20.5 Experiment Update 1.21			23w51a				The texture of wind charges have been changed. However, the in-game appearance is not affected.
			24w03b				The model, texture, and animation of wind charges has been changed.
			24w06a				Wind charges are now obtainable as an item.
							Added the breeze_wind_charge entity, which is now shot by the breeze.
							The wind_charge entity is no longer shot by breezes and now has special properties that the breeze's wind charges do not.
			24w09a				Removed randomness from the radius of both breeze- and player-shot wind charges.
			24w11a				Wind charges are no longer dropped by breezes, and are instead crafted using breeze rods.
							Wind charges can now be obtained as loot from vaults in trial chambers.
			24w12a				Wind charge projectiles no longer pass through blocks with incomplete collision boxes, but will still pass through blocks with no collision box.
			24w13a				Wind charges can now be obtained as loot from ominous vaults.
							Wind charges no longer collide with end crystals.[2]
1.21			24w18a				Wind charges are now available without using the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
							Wind charges now use a new damage type wind_charge instead of mob_projectile.
			pre1				Crouching no longer affects wind charge knockback.
							Wind charges used by the player aimed straight down now knock the player upward ~6 blocks instead of ~2.5.
							Wind charges are no longer spawned 0.8 blocks away from the shooter.
							Changed the wind charge item's fall damage reduction mechanic: it now applies a 1 tick reduction timer to ensure that wind charge projectiles always negate the player's fall damage. Due to a bug, this mechanic did not function correctly.[3]
			pre4				Fixed a bug where the reduction mechanism failed to work correctly in pre1.[3]
1.21.2			24w34a				Wind charges no longer go through the world border if hit.
			24w35a				Wind charges now have the use_cooldown component by default.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.20.60 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.60.20				Added wind charges.
1.20.70 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.70.20				The model, texture, and animation of wind charges has been changed.
			Preview 1.20.70.24				Wind charges are now obtainable as an item.
							Added the breeze_wind_charge_projectile entity, which is now shot by the breeze.
							The wind_charge_projectile entity is no longer shot by breezes and now has special properties that the breeze's wind charges do not.
							Breezes now take damage from wind charges.
1.20.80 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.80.21				Reduced the damage dealt by wind charges shot by players and dispensers to 1HP.
							The location that shot wind charges are spawned in has been moved downward and further away from the shooter.
							Wind charges now deal additional knockback to crouching players.
			Preview 1.20.80.22				Wind charges are no longer dropped by breezes, and are instead crafted using breeze rods.
							Wind charges can now be obtained as loot from vaults in trial chambers.
1.21.0			Preview 1.21.0.20				Wind charges can now be obtained as loot from ominous vaults.
							Wind charges no longer collide with end crystals.[4]
			Preview 1.21.0.21				Wind charge projectiles can now have their trajectory altered by the player's melee attacks.[5]
			Preview 1.21.0.22				Wind charges have been officially added to the game.
1.21.20			Preview 1.21.10.22				Increased the velocity of wind charge projectiles fired by players by 50% to match Java Edition.
			Preview 1.21.20.21				Wind charge projectiles fired by players no longer have a chance to deal more than 1HP damage.
			Preview 1.21.10.23				Crouching no longer affects wind charge knockback.
							Wind charges used by the player aimed straight down now knock the player upward ~6 blocks instead of ~2.5.
							Wind charges are no longer spawned 0.8 blocks away from the shooter.
							Wind charges now work the same on all terrain.

Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education
1.21.03			Preview 1.21.01.0				Added wind charges.
1.21.91			Preview 1.21.40.1				Increased the velocity of wind charge projectiles fired by players by 50% to match Java Edition.
							Wind charge projectiles fired by players no longer have a chance to deal more than 1HP damage.
							Crouching no longer affects wind charge knockback.
							Wind charges used by the player aimed straight down now knock the player upward ~6 blocks instead of ~2.5.
							Wind charges are no longer spawned 0.8 blocks away from the shooter.
							Wind charges now work the same on all terrain.

Issues

Issues relating to "Wind Charge" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

• 
  A breeze shooting a wind charge at Efe
• 
  Efe shooting a wind charge
• 
  Efe using a wind charge to jump up to a breeze in the trial chambers
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  Efe using a wind charge to jump up terrain
• 
  Sunny using a wind charge to jump across a badlands biome

In other media

• 
  Pixel art of a wind charge used in Trial Chamber Legends

References

External links

• "Taking Inventory: Wind Charge" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, August 29, 2024.