Wind Charge

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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.

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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.

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 2.5 blocks unless the entity is resistant to knockback (e.g., squid, wardens, ravagers). 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 and swung.
• 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 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 blocks Euclidean sphere; breeze-fired wind charges affect entities within a 6 blocks Euclidean 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.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

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

• 👁 A breeze shooting a wind charge at Efe
  
  A breeze shooting a wind charge at Efe
• 👁 Efe shooting a wind charge.
  
  Efe shooting a wind charge.
• 👁 Efe using a wind charge to jump up to a breeze in the trial chambers.
  
  Efe using a wind charge to jump up to a breeze in the trial chambers.
• 👁 Efe using a wind charge to jump up terrain.
  
  Efe using a wind charge to jump up terrain.
• 👁 Sunny using a wind charge to jump across a badlands biome.
  
  Sunny using a wind charge to jump across a badlands biome.
• 👁 The particle created by wind charges upon impact
  
  The particle created by wind charges upon impact

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

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