Soul Speed

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Soul Speed is an enchantment applied to boots that causes movement speed on soul sand and soul soil to be increased.

Obtaining

Loot chest

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Enchanted Book[A]	Bastion Remnant	Generic chest	1	11.2% { "item": "Enchanted Book", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1123595505617978, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Generic chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Enchanted Book[A]	Bastion Remnant	Generic chest	1	11.2% { "item": "Enchanted Book", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1123595505617978, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Generic chest" }

Soul Speed can be acquired via bartering with piglins, who may offer enchanted books and iron boots with a random level of Soul Speed. Piglins may spawn wearing golden boots enchanted with Soul Speed which have a chance to be dropped when they are killed. Enchanted books and golden boots with a random level of Soul Speed may appear in bastion remnant "generic" chests.

Soul Speed is a treasure enchantment. It cannot be obtained from enchanting in an enchanting table. Unlike most other treasure enchantments, it also cannot be obtained from most chest loot (except from chests in bastion remnants), fishing, or trading.

Usage

Speed

When walking on soul sand or soul soil, Soul Speed increases the player's speed. When wearing boots with Soul Speed, the player's speed is adjusted by the multiplier (Soul Speed Level * 0.105) + 1.3. The speed decrease of soul sand has no effect on Soul Speed, meaning that the player can walk on soul sand with the same speed as on soul soil.

While Soul Speed walkways are not as fast as some other means of transit (such as blue ice tracks), Soul Speed boots do not require vehicles such as minecarts or boats in order to apply their speed boost. This makes Soul Speed walkways useful for increasing movement speed across more uneven or varied terrain where vehicles might prove unwieldy.

Carpets or slabs‌ on top of soul sand or soul soil does not prevent the speed increase from Soul Speed.

Durability

The durability of worn boots enchanted with Soul Speed has a 4% chance to go down for each compatible block stepped on.^[1] This chance can be decreased with the Unbreaking enchantment.

Expected compatible blocks stepped on before boots reach zero durability at each Unbreaking level.

Boots	Durability	No Unbreaking (4%)	Unbreaking I (3.2%)	Unbreaking II (2.93%)	Unbreaking III (2.8%)
Leather Boots	65	1,625	2,031	2,219	2,321
Golden Boots	91	2,275	2,844	3,105	3,250
Copper Boots ​	143	3,575	4,469	4,881	5,107
Chainmail Boots	195	4,875	6,094	6,656	6,964
Iron Boots	195	4,875	6,094	6,656	6,964
Diamond Boots	429	10,725	13,406	14,644	15,321
Netherite Boots	481	12,025	15,031	16,404	17,179

Particles

Soul particles appear when walking on one of the compatible blocks.

General

The soul_speed_blocks tag determines which blocks are compatible with Soul Speed.

Sounds

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

History

Issues

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

Trivia

• In Bedrock Edition the particles generated by the enchantment are bright in the darkness because they don't respect light levels.^[2]
• Soul Speed works via stomping the souls out of the blocks, hence the particles.^[3]
• In Bedrock Edition, in Spectator mode, if a player wearing boots with Soul Speed flies over soul sand or soul soil, the particle effect still plays.^[4]

References

Navigation

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