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This scene of an ocean shows suspension particles generated by the water, as well as bubble particles from bubble columns.
Particles are special graphical effects in Minecraft that are created when certain events occur, such as explosions, rainfall, or smelting items in a furnace.
Behavior[]
Particles are rendered as front-facing 2D sprites, meaning they always face the player. They disappear after a short animation, in which they may change sizes and rotate, and cycle between a number of animation sprites. They collide with solid blocks and are slowed by cobwebs, but are unaffected by other entities.
The /particle command can be used to create particles.
If a player uses the "minimal" particles option in the video settings, some particles may not appear.
Types of particles[]
The types of particles and their ID names are displayed below. Particles are namespaced with the prefix minecraft:.
Particle names marked with an asterisk (*) are shown when using the "minimal" particles setting. Bedrock Edition particles currently do not show color if a specific particle has multiple colors (an example is the note particle). These particles are marked with "!"
ambient_entity_effect | mobspell_emitter (!) | Beacon effects. | |
angry_villager | villager_angry (or)bleach | Attacking a villager in a village; when villagers can't breed because there aren't enough beds nearby or when a panda is attacked by a player on the village.[JE only] | |
ash | — | Naturally generated in soul sand valley biome environment. | |
barrier | — | Barrier blocks. | |
block* | breaking_item_icon | Breaking blocks, sprinting, iron golems walking. | |
blockdust | Breaking armor stands, falling. | ||
block_marker | Replaces separate barrier and light particles in 1.19. | ||
bubble | — | Entities in water, guardian laser beams, fishing. | |
bubble_column_up* | bubble_column_up_particle | Upward bubble columns made by soul sand under water. | |
bubble_pop | — | Unused.[1] | |
campfire_cosy_smoke | campfire_smoke_particle | Smoke produced by campfires and soul campfires. | |
campfire_signal_smoke | campfire_tall_smoke_particle | Smoke produced by campfires and soul campfires when above a hay bale. | |
cloud | water_evaporation_bucket_emitter | After jumping into water while on fire in Bedrock Edition or an entity dies in Java Edition. | |
composter | crop_growth_emitter | Filling a composter. | |
crimson_spore | — | A crimson particle generated in crimson forest biome environment. | |
— | conduit_particle | Appears around activated conduits in Bedrock Edition. | |
crit | critical_hit_emitter | Critical hits, fully charged bow shots, crossbows, evoker fangs. | |
current_down* | bubble_column_down_particle | Bubble column whirlpools made by magma blocks underwater. | |
damage_indicator* | From mobs and players when hurt by a melee attack. | ||
dolphin | dolphin_move_particle | Trails behind swimming dolphins. |
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dragon_breath | dragon_breath_trail (or) dragon_breath_lingering | An ender dragon's breath and dragon fireballs. | |
dripping_dripstone_lava | — | Dripping lava from the pointed dripstone. | |
dripping_dripstone_water | — | Dripping water from the pointed dripstone. | |
dripping_honey | — | Dripping honey through blocks that haven't dripped down yet. | |
dripping_lava | lava_drip_particle | Dripping lava through blocks that haven't dripped down yet. | |
dripping_obsidian_tear | — | Dripping crying obsidian's particles through blocks that haven't dripped down yet. | |
dripping_water | water_drip_particle | Dripping water through blocks, wet sponges, leaves when raining that haven't dripped down yet. | |
dust | redstone_wire_dust_particle | Redstone ore, powered redstone dust, redstone torches, powered redstone repeaters. | |
dust_color_transition | sculk_sensor_redstone_particle | Sculk sensor gets triggered. | |
effect | splash_spell_emitter (!) | Splash potions, lingering potions, bottles o' enchanting, evokers. | |
elder_guardian* | — | Elder guardians. | |
electric_spark | electric_spark_particle | Appears when a lightning bolt hits copper blocks. | |
enchant | enchanting_table_particle | From bookshelves near an enchanting table. | |
enchanted_hit | — | Attacking with a sword or axe enchanted with Sharpness, Smite, or Bane of Arthropods. | |
end_rod | endrod (or) balloon_gas_particle | End rods, shulker bullets. | |
entity_effect | evoker_spell | Status effects, lingering potions, tipped arrows, trading, withered armor (linger potion particles decrease when the "minimal" particle setting is used). | |
explosion* | large_explosion | Explosions, ghast fireballs, wither skulls, ender dragon death, shearing mooshrooms. | |
explosion_emitter* | huge_explosion_emitter | Explosions, ender dragon death. | |
falling_dripstone_lava | — | Falling lava particles from the pointed dripstone. | |
falling_dripstone_water | — | Falling water particles from the pointed dripstone. | |
falling_dust | falling_dust_red_sand_particle, falling_dust_sand_particle, falling_dust_gravel_particle, falling_dust_top_snow_particle, falling_dust_dragon_egg_particle, falling_dust_concrete_particle, falling_dust_scaffolding_particle | Floating sand, gravel, concrete powder, and anvils. | |
falling_honey | honey_drip_particle | Dripping honey through blocks that is dripping down in air. | |
falling_lava | lava_drip_particle | Dripping lava through blocks that is dripping down in air. | |
falling_nectar | nectar_drip_particle | Nectar on the pollen-loaded bees. | |
falling_obsidian_tear | obsidian_tear_particle | Dripping crying obsidian's particles through blocks that is dripping down in air and has fallen to the ground. | |
falling_spore_blossom | spore_blossom_shower_particle | Dripping green particle from the spore blossom. | |
falling_water | water_splash_particle | Dripping water through blocks that is dripping down in air and has fallen to the ground. | |
firework* | sparkler_emitter (!) | Firework rocket trail and explosion (trail is not shown when the "minimal" particle setting is used), when dolphins track shipwrecks and underwater ruins. | |
fishing | water_wake_particle | Fishing. | |
flame | basic_flame_particle | Torches, furnaces, magma cubes, spawners. | |
flash | flash | Flash light when firework rocket explodes. | |
glow | — | Glow squid. | |
glow_squid_ink | — | Glow squid getting hurt. | |
happy_villager | villager_happy | Applying bone meal to a crop, trading with villagers, feeding baby animals, walking or jumping on turtle eggs. | |
heart | heart_particle | Breeding and taming animals. | |
instant_effect | mobspell_emitter (!) | Instant health/damage splash and lingering potions, spectral arrows. | |
item | breaking_item_icon | Eating, thrown eggs, splash potions, eyes of ender, breaking tools. | |
item_slime | — | Jumping slimes. | |
item_snowball | — | Thrown snowballs, creating withers, creating iron golems. | |
landing_honey | — | Dripping honey through blocks that has fallen to the ground. | |
landing_lava | — | Dripping lava through blocks that has fallen to the ground. | |
landing_obsidian_tear | — | Dripping crying obsidian's particles through blocks that has fallen to the ground. | |
large_smoke | water_evaporation_actor_emitter | Fire, minecart with furnace, blazes, water flowing into lava, lava flowing into water. | |
lava | lava_particle | Lava bubble. | |
light | — | Light block displays it when the player holds the Light item of any level.[Java Edition only] | |
— | mobflame_emitter, mobflame_single | Burning entities, skeletons for example. |
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mycelium | mycelium_dust_particle | Mycelium blocks. | |
nautilus | conduit_particle | Activated conduits. | |
note | note_particle (!) | Emitted from note blocks and jukeboxes[Bedrock Edition only]. | |
poof* | explode | Explosions, death of mobs, mobs spawned from a spawner, silverfish infesting blocks. | |
portal | mob_portal | Nether portals, endermen, endermites, ender pearls, eyes of ender, ender chests, dragon eggs, teleporting from eating chorus fruits, end gateway portals. | |
rain | rainsplash | Rain splashes on the ground. | |
scrape | — | Scraping oxidation off a copper block with an axe. | |
sculk_charge | sculk_charge_particle | Shown as sculk spreads through other blocks. | |
sculk_charge_pop | sculk_charge_pop_particle | Sculk charge ends by popping. | |
sculk_soul | sculk_soul_particle | When a mob dies near a Sculk Catalyst these particles are shown. | |
shriek | shriek_particle | Shown when a Sculk Shrieker triggers. | |
smoke | basic_smoke_particle | Torches, primed TNT, droppers, dispensers, end portals, brewing stands, spawners, furnaces, ghast fireballs, wither skulls, taming, withers, lava (when raining), placing an eye of ender in an end portal frame, redstone torches burning out, food items on campfire. | |
sneeze | — | Baby pandas sneezing. | |
snowflake | snowflake_particle | Appears when sinking in powder snow. | |
sonic_boom | sonic_explosion | Wardens casting sonic boom. | |
soul | soul_particle | Appears when walking on Soul Sand or Soul Soil with the Soul Speed Enchantment, when a Mob dies near a Sculk Catalyst. | |
soul_fire_flame | blue_flame_particle | Appears on top of soul torches as a flame. | |
spit* | — | Llamas spitting at a player or mob. | |
spore_blossom_air | spore_blossom_ambient_particle | Emits around a spore blossom. | |
splash | watersplash | Entities in water, wolves shaking off after swimming, boats. | |
squid_ink* | ink | Produced by squid when attacked. | |
sweep_attack* | — | A sword's sweep attack. | |
— | terrain | ? | |
totem_of_undying | totem_particle | Activated totem of undying. | |
— | trackingemitter | ? | |
underwater | — | Seen while underwater. | |
vibration | vibration_signal | Sculk sensor gets triggered. | |
warped_spore | — | A warped particle generated in warped forest biome environment. | |
wax_off | — | Appears when removing wax from a copper block. | |
wax_on | — | Appears when waxing a copper block with honeycomb. | |
white_ash | — | Naturally generated in basalt deltas biome environment. | |
witch | witchspell | Witches. |
Particle textures[]
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N/A | angry_villager | |||||||||||||||
N/A | campfire_cosy_smoke, campfire_signal_smoke | |||||||||||||||
N/A | bubble, bubble_column_up, current_down | |||||||||||||||
N/A | bubble_pop | |||||||||||||||
orange[more information needed] | crit | |||||||||||||||
N/A | damage_indicator | |||||||||||||||
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falling_honey, falling_lava, falling_nectar, falling_water, falling_obsidian_tear, falling_spore_blossom, spore_blossom_air | |||||||||||||||
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dripping_honey, dripping_lava, dripping_water, dripping_obsidian_tear | |||||||||||||||
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landing_honey, landing_lava, landing_obsidian_tear | |||||||||||||||
Merges when with multiple effects | ambient_entity_effect, effect | |||||||||||||||
N/A | enchant | |||||||||||||||
#449A94 |
enchanted_hit | |||||||||||||||
N/A | explosion_emitter, explosion | |||||||||||||||
N/A | flame | |||||||||||||||
N/A[verify] | flash | |||||||||||||||
N/A | composter, happy_villager | |||||||||||||||
[more information needed] | totem_of_undying, Shulker bullet, End rods | |||||||||||||||
N/A | heart | |||||||||||||||
N/A | lava | |||||||||||||||
N/A | nautilus | |||||||||||||||
many colors, pitch dependent[more information needed] | note | |||||||||||||||
[more information needed] | cloud, dragon_breath, dust, falling_dust, large_smoke, poof, portal, smoke, sneeze, spit, squid_ink | |||||||||||||||
N/A | soul | |||||||||||||||
N/A | soul_fire_flame | |||||||||||||||
[more information needed] | firework(only twinkle effect), Underwater Torch | |||||||||||||||
[more information needed] | instant_effect, firework | |||||||||||||||
N/A | rain, splash | |||||||||||||||
N/A | sweep_attack |
Particle IDs[]
Java Edition:
ambient_entity_effect |
angry_villager |
ash |
barrier |
block |
bubble |
bubble_pop |
bubble_column_up |
campfire_cosy_smoke |
campfire_signal_smoke |
cloud |
composter |
crimson_spore |
crit |
current_down |
damage_indicator |
dolphin |
dragon_breath |
dripping_dripstone_lava |
dripping_dripstone_water |
dripping_lava |
dripping_obsidian_tear |
dripping_water |
dust |
dust_color_transition |
effect |
elder_guardian |
electric_spark |
enchant |
enchanted_hit |
end_rod |
entity_effect |
explosion_emitter |
explosion |
falling_dripstone_lava |
falling_dripstone_water |
falling_dust |
falling_lava |
falling_obsidian_tear |
falling_spore_blossom |
falling_water |
firework |
fishing |
flame |
flash |
glow |
glow_squid_ink |
happy_villager |
heart |
instant_effect |
item |
item_slime |
item_snowball |
landing_lava |
landing_obsidian_tear |
large_smoke |
lava |
light |
mycelium |
nautilus |
note |
poof |
portal |
rain |
scrape |
smoke |
sneeze |
snowflake |
soul |
soul_fire_flame |
spit |
splash |
spore_blossom_air |
squid_ink |
sweep_attack |
totem_of_undying |
underwater |
vibration |
warped_spore |
wax_off |
wax_on |
white_ash |
witch |
Bedrock Edition:
minecraft:arrow_spell_emitter |
minecraft:balloon_gas_particle |
minecraft:basic_bubble_particle |
minecraft:basic_bubble_particle_manual |
minecraft:basic_crit_particle |
minecraft:basic_flame_particle |
minecraft:basic_portal_particle |
minecraft:basic_smoke_particle |
minecraft:bleach |
minecraft:block_destruct |
minecraft:block_slide |
minecraft:breaking_item_icon |
minecraft:breaking_item_terrain |
minecraft:bubble_column_bubble |
minecraft:bubble_column_down_particle |
minecraft:bubble_column_up_particle |
minecraft:camera_shoot_explosion |
minecraft:campfire_smoke_particle |
minecraft:campfire_tall_smoke_particle |
minecraft:cauldron_bubble_particle |
minecraft:cauldron_explosion_emitter |
minecraft:cauldron_spell_emitter |
minecraft:cauldron_splash_particle |
minecraft:colored_flame_particle |
minecraft:conduit_absorb_particle |
minecraft:conduit_attack_emitter |
minecraft:conduit_particle |
minecraft:critical_hit_emitter |
minecraft:death_explosion_emitter |
minecraft:dolphin_move_particle |
minecraft:dragon_breath_fire |
minecraft:dragon_breath_lingering |
minecraft:dragon_breath_trail |
minecraft:dragon_death_explosion_emitter |
minecraft:dragon_destroy_block |
minecraft:dragon_dying_explosion |
minecraft:egg_destroy_emitter |
minecraft:electric_spark_particle |
minecraft:elephant_tooth_paste_vapor_particle |
minecraft:enchanting_table_particle |
minecraft:end_chest |
minecraft:endrod |
minecraft:evocation_fang_particle |
minecraft:evoker_spell |
minecraft:explosion_manual |
minecraft:explosion_particle |
minecraft:eye_of_ender_bubble_particle |
minecraft:eyeofender_death_explode_particle |
minecraft:falling_border_dust_particle |
minecraft:falling_dust |
minecraft:falling_dust_concrete_powder_particle |
minecraft:falling_dust_dragon_egg_particle |
minecraft:falling_dust_gravel_particle |
minecraft:falling_dust_red_sand_particle |
minecraft:falling_dust_sand_particle |
minecraft:falling_dust_scaffolding_particle |
minecraft:falling_dust_top_snow_particle |
minecraft:fish_hook_particle |
minecraft:fish_pos_particle |
minecraft:guardian_attack_particle |
minecraft:guardian_water_move_particle |
minecraft:heart_particle |
minecraft:honey_drip_particle |
minecraft:huge_explosion_emitter |
minecraft:huge_explosion_lab_misc_emitter |
minecraft:ice_evaporation_emitter |
minecraft:ink_emitter |
minecraft:knockback_roar_particle |
minecraft:lab_table_heatblock_dust_particle |
minecraft:lab_table_misc_mystical_particle |
minecraft:large_explosion |
minecraft:lava_drip_particle |
minecraft:lava_particle |
minecraft:llama_spit_smoke |
minecraft:magnesium_salts_emitter |
minecraft:misc_fire_vapor_particle |
minecraft:mob_block_spawn_emitter |
minecraft:mob_portal |
minecraft:mobflame_emitter |
minecraft:mobflame_single |
minecraft:mobspell_emitter |
minecraft:mycelium_dust_particle |
minecraft:nectar_drip_particle |
minecraft:note_particle |
minecraft:obsidian_glow_dust_particle |
minecraft:phantom_trail_particle |
minecraft:portal_directional |
minecraft:portal_east_west |
minecraft:portal_north_south |
minecraft:rain_splash_particle |
minecraft:redstone_ore_dust_particle |
minecraft:redstone_repeater_dust_particle |
minecraft:redstone_torch_dust_particle |
minecraft:redstone_wire_dust_particle |
minecraft:rising_border_dust_particle |
minecraft:sculk_sensor_redstone_particle |
minecraft:shulker_bullet |
minecraft:silverfish_grief_emitter |
minecraft:snowflake_particle |
minecraft:sparkler_emitter |
minecraft:splash_spell_emitter |
minecraft:sponge_absorb_water_particle |
minecraft:spore_blossom_ambient_particle |
minecraft:spore_blossom_shower_particle |
minecraft:squid_flee_particle |
minecraft:squid_ink_bubble |
minecraft:squid_move_particle |
minecraft:stunned_emitter |
minecraft:terrain |
minecraft:totem_manual |
minecraft:totem_particle |
minecraft:trackingemitter |
minecraft:underwater_torch_particle |
minecraft:vibration_signal |
minecraft:villager_angry |
minecraft:villager_happy |
minecraft:water_drip_particle |
minecraft:water_evaporation_actor_emitter |
minecraft:water_evaporation_bucket_emitter |
minecraft:water_evaporation_manual |
minecraft:water_splash_particle |
minecraft:water_splash_particle_manual |
minecraft:water_wake_particle |
wax_particle |
minecraft:witchspell |
minecraft:wither_boss_invulnerable |
History[]
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Instructions: Java & Bedrock particles in 1.16/1.17
Historical particles associated with cauldrons in Bedrock Edition)
Added blockcrack. |
Re-added particles to multiplayer. |
Added some form of smoke and rain particles. |
Added flame. |
Added bubble and splash. |
Patrticles are now generated at the edges of water blocks. |
Added reddust, snowballpoof, largeexplode, and portal. |
Updated splash. |
Added note. |
Added footstep. |
Added crit, hugeexplosion, townaura, and depthsuspend. |
Added magicCrit, spell, instantSpell, and mobSpell. |
Added "Particles" setting in the video settings. |
Added dripWater and dripLava. |
Particles no longer turn farmland into dirt. |
Added angryVillager and happyVillager. |
Added witchMagic. |
Added mobSpellAmbient. |
Added fireworksSpark. |
Added wake. |
Added falling particles. |
Added /particle command. |
Added barrier. |
Added droplet, take, and mobappearance. |
Falling particles now move in a random direction. |
Thrown eggs now use the iconcrack particle, instead of the snowballpoof one. |
The void no longer produces depthSuspend particles. |
Added dragonbreath and endRod. |
Particles are no longer handled as entities. |
Particle range increased from 16 blocks to 32 blocks. |
Particle count, limit of increased from 4,000 to 16,384. |
Added damageIndicator. |
Added sweepAttack. |
Added fallingdust. |
fallingdust now collides with blocks. |
Added spit and talisman. |
Renamed talisman to totem |
Due to the flattening, particles now use resource locations, and 32 particles are renamed. |
Removed footstep and depthsuspend. However, the texture for footsteps still exists in the jar. |
Removed name for take. |
Merged blockcrack and blockdust into block, and explode and snowshovel into poof. |
Added bubble_column_up, bubble_pop, current_down, and squid_ink. |
Optimized particle rendering slightly. |
Added nautilus. |
Added dolphin. |
dripping_water particles are now generated by waterlogged blocks where appropriate. |
dripping_water particles now snap to the hitbox of the block they appear on. |
dripping_water particles are no longer generated by impermeable blocks. |
Added sneeze. |
Added campfire_cosy_smoke and campfire_signal_smoke. |
Added composter. |
Particles are now broken up into individual textures files per frame rather than being in particles.png, explosion.png and sweep.png. |
Added dripping_honey, landing_honey, falling_honey and falling_nectar. |
Added ash, crimson_spore, soul_fire_flame and warped_spore. |
Added dripping_obsidian_tear, falling_obsidian_tear, landing_obsidian_tear. |
Added soul. |
Added white_ash. |
Particles now appear if a block is broken by a piston. |
Added snowflake. |
Added dripping_dripstone_lava, dripping_dripstone_water, falling_dripstone_lava, and falling_dripstone_water. |
Added vibration and dust_color_transition. |
Added glow and glow_squid_ink. |
Added falling_spore_blossom and spore_blossom_air. |
Added electric_spark, scrape, wax_off and wax_on. |
The unused texture of footprint[2] has been removed. |
Added light. |
Added block_marker, to replace light and barrier. |
Added shriek, sculk_soul, sculk_charge_pop, sculk_charge. |
Added sonic_boom. |
Added blockcrack,[verify] flame, smoke, bubble, and watersplash. |
flame particles now appear near furnaces. |
Added crit and snowballpoof. |
Added reddust. |
Added dripwater, townaura, heart, and portal. |
Added fallingdust. |
Added ink. |
Added spell, mobspellinstantaneous, mobspell, and waterwake. |
crit particles now appear when performing a critical hit. |
portal particles now appear near nether portals. |
Added villagerangry, largeexplode, hugeexplode, blockdust, slime, enchantingtable, rainsplash, and snowshovel. |
Changed largeexplode and hugeexplosion particle sprites. |
Particles are now visible through water. |
Particles no longer appear darkened when inside a block. |
Particles are no longer handled as entities. |
reddust particles now appear near powered redstone. |
Added villagerhappy. |
Added note. |
Added mobappearance.[verify] |
Added endRod[verify] and dragonbreath. |
villagerhappy particles now appear when trading. |
Particles can now be spawned with /particle. |
Removed the /particle command. |
Added spit and totem. |
Added fireworksSpark. |
Added dolphin. |
Added nautilus. |
Added bubble_column_up, bubble_popand current_down. |
Added barrier. |
Re-added the /particle command, which now temporarily summons particle emitters, instead of particle areas with volumes. The following can be summoned:
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Added sneeze. |
Particles can now be edited using standard JSON formatting. |
Added campfire_cosy_smoke and campfire_signal_smoke. |
Added dripping_honey, landing_honey, falling_honey and falling_nectar. |
Added snowflake_particle. |
Added vibration_signal and sculk_sensor_redstone_signal. |
Added glow_particle. |
Removed glow_particle. |
Added stalactite_lava_drip_particle, stalactite_water_drip_particle, and ink_emitter. |
Re-added glow_particle. |
Added electric_spark_particle, spore_blossom_ambient_particle, spore_blossom_shower_particle and wax_particle |
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Particles" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[]
- In Java Edition, most particle textures can be changed using resource packs, however, the color of smoke particles used in redstone, portals, and endermen cannot be changed without mods.
- The dust particle has unique syntax used for color, represented with three RGB values as decimal percentages.
- Status effect particles appear where the player face is pointing.
- The elder_guardian particle always follows the player regardless of what its location has been set to.
- Redstone repeaters emit particles, but redstone comparators do not.
- In Bedrock Edition, burning entities emit rounded particles with a fire animation.
- There is a particle that is internally used to implement the item pickup animation, but it cannot be summoned with the /particle command. Before the name was removed in 1.13, it was called take.
Gallery[]
The render radius of particles. It seems to be round, but not entirely circular, as seen at the back.
A burning zombie in Bedrock Edition, emitting particles with fire's animation.
References[]
- ↑ MC-132067
- ↑ /assets/minecraft/textures/particle/foorprint.png