Glass Bottle

A glass bottle is an item that can hold water, milk, potions, honey, slimes, fairies, ephemeral flame, essence of wight, shadow smoke, eyedrops, fairy's tears or dragon's breath.

## Obtaining

Glass bottles can be obtained by crafting, drinking from bottles, fishing, or from witch drops.

### Crafting

Putting 3 Glass Blocks inn a Crafting Table will create 3 Glass Bottles.

### Drinking

Drinking a bottle's contents returns the empty glass bottle. Throwing a splash potion or a lingering potion does not return a glass bottle, but brewing a lingering potion gives back a glass bottle.

### Mob loot

Witches have a chance of dropping 0–6 glass bottles upon death. This is increased by 3 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0–15 glass bottles.

### Mud

Using a water bottle, splash water bottle or lingering water bottle on dirt, coarse dirt or rooted dirt will transforming it into a mud block, at the same time leaving the player with an empty glass bottle.

### Cauldrons

Using a water bottle on a cauldron that is not yet full adds that liquid to the cauldron, leaving the player with an empty glass bottle.

## Usage

Glass bottles can be filled to make water bottles, which can then be used to brew items with a brewing stand. Glass bottles are also used to hold the resulting potion.

### Collecting liquids

#### Water

A bottle may be filled with water by holding it in the hand and using it on a water source block or a cauldron that has water in it. It can also be filled using a waterlogged block.

Also, a bottle may be filled by powering a dispenser containing a bottle and pointed at a water source block. This does not work with cauldrons.

If filled via a water source, the water is unaffected. If filled via a cauldron, 1⁄3 of the water in the cauldron is removed. Therefore, using a cauldron to fill water bottles is inefficient, except in the Nether where it is normally the only way to fill bottles.

#### Potion

A bottle may be filled with potion by using it on a cauldron containing potion. When the bottle is filled, 1⁄3 of the cauldron's potion is removed.

#### Honey

If a bee nest or beehive is full, the player can use a glass bottle on the block, or may power a dispenser that contains a bottle and is pointed at the block, which empties the block and creates a honey bottle. Honey bottles can also be empty by using them in crafting recipes (such as sugar or honey block). However, a lingering potion use on tipped arrow recipe does not give the bottle back.

#### Slimes

Main Article: Bottled Slimes

When a member of the Slime family dies, there is a brief window where you can right-click with a Glass Bottle during its death animation, bottling its remains. The effect gained from drinking the slime will differ depending on the species.

#### Fairies

Main Article: Fairy in a Bottle

Carefully approaching a trusting Fairy, you have the opportunity to capture it in a Glass Bottle and sell it for a high price.

#### Ephemeral Flame

Main Article: Ephemeral Flame

When a Will-o-Wisp dies, a purple flame will appear over the block it died on. You can capture this flame in a Glass Bottle, and use it to melt Permafrost.

#### Essence of Wight

Main Article: Essence of Wight

When a Wight dies, there is a brief window during its death animation where you can bottle its remains. This is used to brew Potions of Intangibility.

#### Shadow Smoke

Main Article: Shadow Smoke

When a Shadow dies, a plume of black smoke will appear for a few seconds before dissipating. Right-clicking this smoke with a Glass Bottle will bottle it, and it can be used to brew a Potion of Blindness, and Eyedrops.

#### Dragon's breath

Using a glass bottle in clouds emitted when the ender dragon breathes or shoots a dragon fireball fills the bottle with dragon's breath.

When put 2 or more dragon's breath in the brewing stand, after the brewing process, a glass bottle will drop as an entity. However, if put only 1 dragon's breath in the brewing stand, after the brewing process, the glass bottle is consumed and cannot be retrieved.

### Trading

Expert-level cleric villagers have a 50% chance to buy 9 glass bottles for one emerald as part of their trade.‌[*Bedrock Edition only*]

Expert-level cleric villagers have a 2⁄3 chance to buy 9 glass bottles for one emerald.

### Crafting ingredients

* Putting 4 Glass Bottles and 1 Block of Honey in a Crafting Table will create 4 Bottles of honey.
* Putting 1 Milk Bucket and 3 Glass Bottles in a Crafting Table will create 3 Bottles of Milk.

## See Also

* Items
* Potions