Enchantment glint

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The glint animation applied to an enchanted iron pickaxe.

The enchantment glint is a visual effect applied most often to enchanted items and equipment, as well as other important items such as the End crystal and Nether star.

Summary

Important items such as the enchanted golden apple (which is not actually an item with enchantments), Nether star, End crystal, bottle o' enchanting, lodestone compass, written book, and debug stick, as well as any item with an enchantment, will display a glint effect.

Equipped armor and carved pumpkins also display a glint when equipped.

While not enchantable in normal survival gameplay, horse armor, wolf armor, llama carpets, saddles and harnesses when equipped by their respective mob(s) will also display the glint effect.

Chests on donkeys, mules and llamas do not display the glint effect.[1] Held or framed maps also do not display it.[2]

Animation generation

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Unlike most animations in the game, which are defined through mcmeta files, the enchantment glint's generation is hardcoded and cannot be fully modified.

Interestingly, the enchantment glint's rendering is tied to the size of the atlas.[3] This causes interesting visual effects, for example, if all of the game's textures are unloaded:

Unenchanted Normal Default Minimal
JE1 ?
JE2 ?
JE3

History

October 3, 2011First look at the glint on equipped armor.
Java Edition
1.0.0Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2Added the glint effect.
It used this grayscale texture file.​
1.3.112w23aNow visible on enchanted tools and armor on multiplayer.
1.814w25bThrown bottles o' enchanting now show the enchantment glint applied to them.
pre2Thrown potions now show the enchantment glint applied to them.
1.13pre6
Enchanted shields now show the enchantment glint applied to them.
1.1418w50aThrown or fired enchanted eggs, ender pearls, eyes of ender, fire charges, firework rockets, and snowballs now show the enchantment glint applied to them.[4]
19w12aEnchanted totems of undying now show the enchantment glint applied to them in the animation when they are consumed.[5]
1.1519w39aDue to a rewrite of the rendering engine, the enchanting animation was changed.
The texture used has also changed.​
Enchanted tridents now show the enchantment glint applied to them.[6]
19w42aEnchanted items now glow in the dark.
19w45aThrown enchanted tridents now show the enchantment glint applied to them.[7]
Pre-release 1 The texture has been changed very subtly for unknown reasons.
1.19.423w04a The enchantment glint texture has been moderately darkened.
23w05a The glint texture has been considerably darkened.
There are now accessibility options for controlling the intensity and speed of the enchantment glint.
Pre-release 1There are now two enchantment glint textures:
  • one for items (which uses the texture used from 1.15-pre1 to 23w03a)
  • one for armor (which uses the texture from 23w05a onwards).
Potions no longer have an enchantment glint.
1.20.524w09aThe enchantment glint is now controlled by the enchantment_glint_override item component.
1.21.224w36aEnchanted horse armor now shows the enchantment glint on horses which are wearing them.
pre1Enchanted carpets and wolf armor now shows the enchantment glint on mobs which are wearing them.
1.21.525w03aEnchanted saddles now show the enchantment glint on mobs which are wearing them.
1.21.625w15aEnchanted harnesses now show the enchantment glint on happy ghasts which are wearing them.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1build 1Added the glint effect.
Bedrock Edition
1.19.80Preview 1.19.80.21Potions no longer have an enchantment glint.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
TU7CU11.001.001.00Patch 11.0.1Added the glint effect.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0Added the glint effect.

Issues

Issues relating to "Glint" or "Enchantment glint" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

References

  1. ↑ MC-279564
  2. ↑ MC-298757
  3. ↑ "[MC-276841] Enchantment glint rendering depends on the current size of the texture atlas - Jira" – Mojira, September 19, 2024. Resolved as "Unresolved".
  4. ↑ MC-138660
  5. ↑ MC-138659
  6. ↑ MC-125360
  7. ↑ MC-161976

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