Experience Orb
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Description (From Recipaedia)
Gives experience when collected by a player.
Obtaining
Experience orbs can be obtained in different ways.
- Killing animals: The amount of experience dropped depends by the animal killed.
- Mining ores: Any ore mined yields 1 experience orb, diamond ore yields 3 experience orbs but only if mined with proper tools (copper, iron or diamond). If you break diamond ore with your hand, wooden or stone tools, nothing will drop out of it. Clay, Dirt, Grass, Gravel, Ice and Sand yield 1 experience orb with a 0.5% chance. Basalt, Birch Wood, Granite, Limestone, Mimosa Wood, Oak Wood, Sandstone and Spruce Wood yield 1 experience orb with a 1% chance.
- Harvesting crops: There is a 50% chance to get one experience orb when harvesting full-grown Rye, Cotton and not dead Pumpkin.
- Graveyards: There is a chance to get 3 to 12 experience orbs under graves.
- Creative: In creative gamemode experience orbs appears in the creative inventory, on items category. They can be thrown or dropped and gathered afterwards.
Uses
If you gather enough experience orbs, your character will advance to the next level. Levelling up your character increases some of your statistics like melee power, accuracy, resilience, movement speed, food depletion etc and allows to the player to use diamond tools, weapons, and armor.