Experience


Behavior

Most experience comes in the form of experience orbs, small green and yellow spheres that move toward the player and will automatically be added to their total when collected. Experience orbs cannot be added to the player`s inventory.

Gathering experience points from experience orbs increases the player`s experience level by gradually filling a bar on the bottom of the screen until a new level is achieved when the bar is full. When the player dies, they drop experience orbs worth 7 * current level experience points, up to a maximum of 100 points (enough to reach level 5). All the other experience vanishes.

Experience can be gained from several different sources:

Trivia

  • In Beta 1.8 Pre-release 1, when the player died, they dropped all of their experience orbs individually. This created a problem with the retrieval of drops if the player had accumulated a large sum of experience due to the extremely large amount of orb items created at the specific point. On SMP servers, this could be enough to even crash a server.
  • In Beta 1.9 Pre-release, the player gained Experience from jumping. This was part of the code left in by Jeb for testing Experience.
  • Sometimes, in Multiplayer, the Experience Orbs will orbit the player.
  • At their death, Withers and the Ender Dragon will drop noticeably large orbs, along with dozens of regular ones as they are bosses. Withers will drop fewer experience points than the Ender Dragon does.
  • Single-player maps brought into Multiplayer will cause a bug where the Player will have their experience reset.
  • Experience points are abbreviated to XP.
  • The maximum level of Experience is 2,147,483,647 (2^31) levels.
  • The colors of the experience orbs are either green or yellow.
  • In Minecraft: Pocket Edition, the max level a player can reach is 24,791. However, achieving this level is impossible unless a player uses the /xp command.
  • Unlike some other games in multiplayer mode both players do not both benefit from the same XP orb.

Info

Experience
XP orb animation.gif
First appearances

See History

Internal ID

PC: 2
PE: 69

Network ID

PC: none

Entity ID

xp_orb

XP bar visible above hotbar.

Experience (EXP or XP for short) can be obtained by gathering experience orbs from mining, defeated mobs "Monster" redirects here. For the mob called "monster" in the code, see Human. Mobs are living, moving game entities. The term "mob" is short for "mobile". 1] Contents 1 Spawning 2 Behavior 3 List of minecraft and players, breeding Two villagers in "love mode", breeding “ If you hold food in your hand, they follow you around. If you feed them, they enter "love mode". Two animals in love mode = babies. „ —Notch minecraft , fishing Fishing is the process of obtaining fish using fishing rods. Contents 1 Catching fish 2 Junk and treasures 3 Fishing rod durability 4 History 5 Issues 6 Trivia Catching fish edit | edit source] A minecraft , and using furnaces Furnace Type Solid Block Requirements None Physics No Transparency Partial (when active) Luminance Yes, 13 (when active) Blast resistance 17.5 Hardness 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No First appearances See History Drops minecraft . As tradition, experience points accumulate into experience levels. Be that as it may, unlike many games, experience levels do not directly increase the character`s abilities. Instead, experience is used for enchanting "Flame" redirects here. For the non-solid damage-dealing block, see Fire. “ How does enchanting work in Minecraft? Well, you open a magical book and pick a random spell, not quite sure knowing what it will minecraft and anvils Anvil Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 6,000 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64), same damage state only Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 145 hex: 91 bin: 10010001 Name anvil See the item minecraft , to produce weapons, armor, and tools with various useful abilities.

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Trivia

  • Using enchantments does not decrease your score (which is shown on death).
  • If you gain too many experience points (such as a trillion through commands), the experience bar will disappear altogether as well as your level on your HUD. This appears to occur around level 32,767 (which is equal to (2^15)-1; the largest value representable as a 16-bit signed integer).
  • The maximum XP that you can earn from the /xp command is 2,147,483,647 levels (which is equal to (2^31)-1; the largest value representable as a 32-bit signed integer).
  • The maximum experience level is 24791 (With just /xp).
  • The maximum glitchless experience level is 32767 (With just /xp #L)(Where # is the level and the L increases the person`s level by that many levels)
  • The highest level you can gain with /xp without overflowing is 1241258, which results in 2,147,483,647 exp, which is the maximum value for the int data type, in Java, which is what is used to store the exp value.
  • Large XP orbs dropped from the ender dragon give the player more XP.

Experience orbs

Experience orbs fade between a green and yellow color and will "float" or glide toward the player up to a distance of 6 blocks, speeding up as they get nearer to the player. Experience orbs pulled towards a player are slowed by spider webs. Experience orbs can also be pulled around or away from the player by running water currents.

When collected, experience orbs make a Christmas bell-like sound for a split second. Unlike resources, experience points are picked up gradually: no matter how many orbs are in range of the player, they will be added to the player`s experience one at a time. In extreme cases, this can result in the player being followed by a swarm of orbs for many seconds. If an experience orb isn`t collected within 5 minutes of its appearance, it will disappear.

Experience orbs vary in value, but naturally spawned orbs will always have an integer value of 1–11, 17, 37, 73, 149, 307, 617, 1237, or theoretically 2477 (although currently no orbs with this value will spawn). Fishing, breeding, and trading drop a single orb with a random value in the appropriate range. Breaking blocks, killing mobs and players, smelting items, and bottles o` enchanting calculate their total experience amount and then split it into values of 1, 3, 7, 17, 37, 73, 149, 307, 617, 1237, and 2477. Higher values are chosen first, so for example a total value of 1000 would be dropped as orbs with values 617, 307, 73, and three 1s. Note that while the first Ender Dragon in a world drops 12,000 experience, it is dropped in 10 waves of 1000 and one of 2000, so no orbs of value 2477 are dropped.

The general worth of an orb is reflected by its size, with eleven possible sizes corresponding to values 1–2, 3–6, 7–16, 17–36, 37–72, 73–148, 149–306, 307–616, 617–1236, 1237–2476, and 2477 and up.

Experience orbs can be destroyed by fire, lava, explosions and cacti, and can trigger pressure plates and tripwires. Although mob drops See the items that drop from entities and blocks. For drops as in falls, see Fall Damage. Typical drops from a skeleton: experience orbs, an arrow, and bones. Drops are items that minecraft spawn the instant the final blow is dealt to the mob, experience orbs do not until the mob entity disappears and the smoke appears. When a player picks up an experience orb from a bottle o` enchanting while riding on a minecart, the minecart will stop instantly.

Experience amounts by source

Source Experience
Animals

Chicken
,
Cow
,
Horse
(including Donkey, Mule, and Undead types),

Mooshroom
,
Llama
,
Ocelot (Cat)
,
Parrot
,
Pig
,
Polar Bear
,

Sheep
,
Squid
,
Rabbit
,
Wolf (Dog)
1–3

Bat
, all baby animals "Monster" redirects here. For the mob called "monster" in the code, see Human. Mobs are living, moving game entities. The term "mob" is short for "mobile". 1] Contents 1 Spawning 2 Behavior 3 List of minecraft
0
Golems

Iron Golem
,
Snow Golem
0
Monsters

Cave Spider
,
Creeper
,
Enderman
,
Ghast
,
Husk
,
Illusioner
,

Shulker
,
Silverfish
,
Skeleton
,
Spider
,
Stray
,
Vindicator
,
Witch
,

Wither Skeleton
,
Zombie
,
Zombie Pigman
5 + 1–3 (per equipment)

Endermite
,
Vex
3
Large
Slime
and
Magma Cube
4
Small
Slime
and
Magma Cube
2
Tiny
Slime
and
Magma Cube
1

Baby Zombie
,
Baby Zombie Pigman
12

Spider Jockey
5 (skeleton) + 1–3 (per equipment) + 5 (spider)

Chicken Jockey
12 (zombie) + 1–3 (per equipment) + 10 (chicken)

Blaze
,
Guardian
,
Elder Guardian
,
Evoker
10
PCs and NPCs

Player
7 per level, up to 100

Villager
0
Bosses

Ender Dragon
12,000 (500 if respawned with end crystals)

Wither
50
Mining blocks

Coal Ore
0–2

Diamond Ore
,
Emerald Ore
3–7

Lapis Lazuli Ore
,
Nether Quartz Ore
2–5

Redstone Ore
1–5

Monster Spawner
15–43
Smelting/Cooking

Diamond Ore
,
Emerald Ore
,
Gold Ore
1

Iron Ore
,
Redstone Ore
0.7

Clay
,
Potato
,
Raw Beef
,
Raw Chicken
,
Raw Fish
,

Raw Mutton
,
Raw Porkchop
,
Raw Rabbit
,
Raw Salmon
0.35

Clay
0.3

Cactus
,
Lapis Lazuli Ore
,
Nether Quartz Ore
0.2

Wet Sponge
,
Wood
0.15

Coal Ore
,
Cobblestone
,
Netherrack
,
Sand
,
Stone Bricks
0.1
Completing Challenge advancements Javaedition only

Great View From Up Here,
Return to Sender,
Sniper Duel
50

A Balanced Diet,
A Furious Cocktail,
Monsters Hunted,

Serious Dedication,
Subspace Bubble,
Two By Two,
Uneasy Alliance
100

Adventuring Time
500

How Did We Get Here?
1,000
Other

Bottle o` Enchanting
3–11

Trading
3–6 (8–11 if the villagers
are willing to breed)
HeartParticle.png Breeding animals 1–7
Catching Fish 1–6
  1. Excludes baby animals.
  2. a b Experience is dropped when these mobs split or die. This means the larger ones may drop experience several times before being fully defeated.
  3. a b Jockeys consists of two mobs that move as one. Each part drops experience separately when it is defeated.

Leveling up

Level Exp Exp from last
1 7 7
2 16 9
3 27 11
4 40 13
5 55 15
6 72 17
7 91 19
8 112 21
9 135 23
10 160 25
Level Exp Exp from last
11 187 27
12 216 29
13 247 31
14 280 33
15 315 35
16 352 37
17 394 42
18 441 47
19 493 52
20 550 57
Level Exp Exp from last
21 612 62
22 679 67
23 751 72
24 828 77
25 910 82
26 997 87
27 1089 92
28 1186 97
29 1288 102
30 1395 107
Level Exp Exp from last
31 1507 112
32 1628 121
33 1758 130
34 1897 139
35 2045 148
36 2202 157
37 2368 166
38 2543 175
39 2727 184
40 2920 193

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The formulas for figuring out how many experience orbs you need to get to the next level are as follows:

Experience Required = 2Current Level + 7 (for Current Level 0-15)
5Current Level - 38 (for Current Level 16-30)
9Current Level - 158 (for Current Level 31+)

One can determine how much experience has been collected to reach a level using the equations:

Total Experience = Level2 + 6Level (at levels 0-16)
2.5Level2 - 40.5Level + 360 (at levels 17-31)
4.5Level2 - 162.5Level + 2220 (at level 32+)

Useful numbers

  • Killing one large slime and all the slimes that split from it will yield from 12 to 28 experience, with an average of 19.
  • The maximum level required for enchanting is level 30, while the anvil will accept jobs up to level 39 (in creative mode the anvil limit is removed).
  • Level 16 is a quarter of the way to level 30, while level 22 is about halfway there. Level 30 in turn, is halfway to level 39.
  • Killing the ender dragon the first time will give approximately 68 XP levels. The ender dragon actually drops 10 waves of orbs worth a total of 1,000 experience points per wave, and another worth a total of 2,000. Taken separately, the smaller waves could take a player from zero to level 26, while the big wave would take a player from zero to level 34. The largest orb dropped will have a value of 1237 experience points, and can take a player from zero to level 28 all by itself.
  • Maximum experience value can be gained by /xp command is 2147483648 (which is 2^31. This is likely due to experience being stored as a signed Java-standard 32-bit integer.)
  • Maximum value for one orb used by /summon is 1277951
  • Maximum level of XP you can get legitimately is 21863, but you can get up to 2147483647 using commands, in this case the experience bar may disappear and reappear.

Score

Example of Score in Hardcore

Score is the number of experience the player has collected since their last death. This number is the total experience the player has collected, rather than the amount of experience they had upon death. When the player dies, the score is displayed on the death screen.

Trivia
  • Before Beta 1.9-pre2, the score read &e0.
    • This was caused by a error in which, the game renders color text. ⸢⸇e0 would render the text as 0, but shaded bright yellow. From Indev 0.31 (the version in which the precursor to experience, a score system, was removed after Survival Test) to this version, a bug arose where it would display &e0 instead, a common error when formatting color text in Minecraft (except on custom servers with the plugin to override this).

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Experience orbs have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the entity. Their entity ID is xp_orb.


  • Entity data
    • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template

    • Age: The number of ticks the XP orb has been "untouched". After 6000 ticks (5 minutes) the orb is destroyed. If set to -32768, the Age will not increase, thus the XP orb will not automatically despawn.

    • Health: The health of XP orbs. XP orbs take damage from fire, lava, falling anvils, and explosions. The orb is destroyed when its health reaches 0. Be that as it may, this value is stored as a byte in saved data, and read as a short but clipped to the range of a byte. As a result, its range is 0-255, always positive, and values exceeding 255 will overflow.

    • Value: The amount of experience the orb gives when picked up.

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History

In an image of the new lighting system, a small yellow (the orb was yellow due to a warm light from a torch) spherical shape can be seen on the left side of the screen, but a day after the photo was published Notch claimed it had an error and posted a new one, this time, without a yellow sphere. In a later tweet, Notch showed a picture of a Beta 1.7 change-list (back then the adventure update was supposed to be in beta 1.7). Although it was completely blurred out and was, at first, thought of as a joke, but then Notch stated that one of the pictures with the new lighting system and the change list had a secret in them, and people all around the web started speculating.

One place that people discussed it was on the Minecraft forums, where it was discovered that the tabs at the top of the change list that were partly covered, could be decoded based on the 2 pixel tall pattern available in the image.

After a user named “tmcaffeine” successfully decoded it, the tabs read: ExperienceOrb.java, changelist.txt, Level.java, Tile.java, HugeMushroomTile.java, HugeMushroomFeature.java, RandomLevelSource(cut)

Classic
? A precursor to the experience system was the score in Classic Survival Test.
Beta
1.8 1.8-pre1 Experience was originally revealed by Jeb during an interview. Jeb released a picture of the 1.8 GUI list, which shows the experience bar, among other things.
Experience was added, but there was no measurable benefit to gaining Experience Orbs and levels.
Official release
1.0.0 Beta 1.9-pre1 For this version only, as a test, experience was gained when jumping. Be that as it may, experience still did nothing.
Beta 1.9-pre2 Change mentioned in 1.9pre1 removed.
Beta 1.9-pre4 The ability to spend experience levels for Enchanting items was added.
The level number was shown, and each level was harder to get to than the previous one.
Beta Sound Update Orbs now make a twinkling sound when collected.
? Amount of experience orbs dropped by a player on death now limited.
Score will now appear correctly on “Game over!” screen. Each experience orb is worth one Score Point.
1.2.1 12w04a The Bottle o` Enchanting was added, but the next snapshot made it only useful for adventure maps.
12w05a Removed the need for experience when enchanting in creative mode. Experience requirements were also changed in this update.
1.3.1 12w22a Players can get XP from mining, breaking mob spawners, and smelting in a furnace. A very large amount of experience can be collected while mining, sometimes into the hundreds of levels. Coal, lapis lazuli, redstone, diamond and emerald ore give you experience points. Iron and gold ore instead give experience when smelted.
The cost to gain each level was made constant, at 17 points per level.
Only level 30 is required to get the maximum level of enchanting.
12w23a XP levels now cost 17 XP Orbs each until level 16, after which the cost per level grows linearly, and the total XP grows quadratically (incorrectly stated "exponentially" by Mojang). Be that as it may, it is easier to get to 30 levels than it was before 12w22a.
1.4.2 12w38a Leveling up now makes a twinkly bell sound, similar to but longer than the XP orb sound.
12w39a Levels could be used in commands by typing, for instance, @alm=4,l=7, choosing everyone between 4 and 7 levels inclusive. This is normally used in a command block.
12w41a Anvils were added, repairing and combining items at the cost of experience levels.
The level-up sound now only plays every 5 levels, and is shortened.
1.6.1 13w21a Experience levels no longer appear in Creative mode. Previously, experience would be hidden but experience levels would show.
1.8 14w02a Changes to the enchanting system mean that levelling up requires more experience.
1.9 15w46a Experience is now collected at the feet, meaning that if a large amount of experience is collected, it no longer blocks the player`s view.
1.11 16w32a Changed entity ID from XPOrb to xp_orb
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.12.1 build 1 Added experience.
build 8 Experience orbs will now burn in fire or lava.
Pocket Edition
1.1 build 1 The entity ID is changed from xporb to xp_orb.
Console Edition
TU7 CU1 1.0 Patch 1 Added experience. Experience is collectable from smelting and/or mining ores, breeding and killing mobs.
An example of the excessive amount of experience orbs dropped upon death in Beta 1.8, causing extreme performance drops.

The experience level costs were heavily revised in snapshot 12w22a and 12w23a. Before these, reaching level 50 (the maximum usable on a single enchantment) required 4625 experience, corresponding to defeating 925 hostile mobs (assuming the "common" ones.) Afterwards, considerably less experience is needed to get into higher levels (The amount which would formerly get the player to level 30 now gets them to level 39). Higher levels cost more experience than lower ones, but the levels are still easier to get than in 1.2.5. Now level 30 is the maximum for enchantments, and that cost is equivalent of 165 "common" mobs, less than 1/5 the old price.

Values of Beta 1.8 - Before 1.3.1 (12w23a)

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Values of 1.3.1 - Before 1.8 (14w02a)

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Issues

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Contents

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    Experience Point Source Chart

    Source⃂₠

    Experience

    Animals Chicken, Cow, Mushroom Cow, Ocelot (cat), Pig, Sheep, Squid, Wolf (dog), 1–3 Bats and All Baby Animals 0 Golems Iron Golem, Snow Golem 0 Monsters

    Cave Spider, Creeper, Enderman, Ghast, Silverfish, Skeleton, Spider


    Wither Skeleton, Zombie, Zombie Pigman

    5 Slime (Large), Magma Cubes (Large) 4 Slime (Small), Magma Cubes (Small) 2 Slime (Tiny), Magma Cubes (Tiny) 1

    Spider Jockey

    5 for spider, 5 for Skeleton

    Blaze

    10 NPCs Villagers 0 Witch 5 Bosses Ender Dragon 12,000 Wither 50 Mining blocks Coal Ore 0–2 Diamond Ore, Emerald Ore 3–7 Nether Quartz Ore, Lapis Lazuli Ore 2–5 Redstone Ore 1–5 Monster Spawner 15–43 Smelting/Cooking Gold Ore, Emerald Ore, Diamond Ore 1.0 Iron Ore, Redstone Ore 0.7 Potato, Raw Beef, Raw Chicken, Raw Fish, Raw Porkchop 0.35 Clay 0.3 Cactus 0.2 Wood 0.15

    Sand, Coal, Netherrack, Cobblestone

    0.1 Other Bottle `O Enchanting 3–11 Breeding animals 1–4 Catching Raw Fish

    1–3

    History

    Experience Points were added to Minecraft during the first part of the Adventure Update. They were originally revealed by Jeb during an interview. Experience can be obtained by gathering Experience Orbs from defeated mobs and players.

    Benefits

    During Beta 1.8, there was no measurable benefit to gaining Experience Orbs and levels. They were probably just for display.

    As of Beta 1.9 Pre-release 3, experience levels are indicated by a number above the experience bar which will increase by one every time the bar is filled.

    The ability to spend experience levels for the enchantment of items with an Enchantment Table was added in the Beta 1.9 Pre-release 3, but it had no actual effect until Beta 1.9 Pre-release 4.

    Sounds

    • This sound is played for every five levels attained.
    • This sound is played when an experience orb is collected.