Usually, you can get it when mining or killing mobs. But there are numerous other ways to gather XP. You can also build farms that help you collect XP and other resources. Let’s take a look at some of the best ways you can gather XP in Minecraft.
Best Ways to get XP in Minecraft
Mining Resources
You can dig underneath your shelter and look for items like coal, Redstone, and Diamond to mine. Mining ores give you a good deal of XP. Below is a list of things you can mine along with the XP they give.
Coal – 0-2 XPRedstone – 1-5 XPNether Quartz, Lapis Lazuli – 2-5 XPDiamond Ore, Emerald Ore – 3-7 XPMonster Spawner with monsters in it – 15-43 XP points
Killing Mobs
You can kill the creatures in the game to gain XP as well. However, the hostile mobs give you the most XP. But if you have a huge cow or a sheep farm, you can kill them in order to gain XP along with the items they drop. Similarly, the boss mobs give you a much higher XP. When you kill the Ender Dragon for the first time, it gives you an explosion of 12,000 experience points. Having said that, you only get 500 XP when you respawn the dragon later on. The Wither, another boss in the game, only gives you 50 XP when you kill it. The XP drop is quite low as compared to the Ender Dragon.
Smelting Items
An interesting feature in the game is that it generates XP whenever you smelt items or cook food in the furnace. Whether it’s cobblestone or iron ore that you smelt, it gives you some XP. Different things yield different amounts of experience points, such as:
All food items give 0.35 XP (Kelp is an exception and gives 0.1 XP).Raw Copper and Iron give 0.7 XP.Raw gold and Nether gold ore give you 2 XP.Ancient Debris gives you 2 XP.If you mine Diamond and emerald ore with silk touch, you get 1 XP when smelting them.Smelting all kinds of stone blocks gives you 0.1 XP. However, smelting clay balls and clay give you 0.3 and 0.35 XP, respectively.Smelting Cactus gives you 1 XP.Burning logs or wet sponges provide 0.15 XP.
Animal Farming
Animal farming gives you plenty of experience points. You can get XP by breeding the animals or by killing them. You can also hunt skeletons to help you farm XP. The bones that skeletons drop make the bone meal, which helps your crops grow faster. Crops, in turn, help you breed animals like cows, sheep, and pigs. You can try the following steps to make an animal farm:
Making an XP Farm
XP farms are easy to make and let you collect a ton of XP. One of the easiest and best XP farms you can make, even at the beginning of the game, is the classic mob XP farm. You can follow this easy step by step guide to building yourself an XP farm:
Trading with Villagers
Trading is another great way to earn XP in Minecraft. This way, you can skip the hassle of mining for resources or gathering animals. We believe that trading with a Fletcher is the easiest as you can use sticks to trade for various items. Additionally, sticks are fairly easy to get as you can always find trees to cut and craft them into sticks. You can also dig a hole beneath the traders and trap them so you can get back to it without losing track when you go to regather the resources to trade.
Bottle o’ Enchanting
Bottle o’ Enchanting is a great way to gain XP in a short amount of time. These bottles have experience points in them that you can gather after breaking the bottles. There are various ways you can find the Bottle o’ Enchanting in the chests located at the pillager outposts and shipwrecks. Furthermore, you can also trade with a Cleric in villages to get a Bottle o’ Enchanting. You can find the Clerics in the village Churches. Churches are usually taller buildings made out of cobblestone. If you cannot find a Church or a Cleric, craft a brewing stand and place it next to an unemployed villager. They will turn into a Cleric. Moreover, if you cannot find the Bottle o’ Enchanting in the list of items with the Cleric, keep trading with them to increase the level, and the item should be available. It is best to remember that if a Cleric does not have Bottle o’ Enchanting even after they are maximum level, you can choose another unemployed villager and make them a Cleric. You can then start trading with them until you find the item you need.
Disenchanting an Item
While enchanting items cost you precious experience points, disenchanting an item rewards you with some. You can use the Grindstone to disenchant your item and turn them into normal tools, and, in return, get some XP. So if you have some enchanted items you found in the chests, or if you have an enchanted item you do not need anymore, use the Grindstone and disenchant them to gather some extra XP.
Achieving Advancements
There are different challenges in the game that, when you complete, give you some experience points. It starts simple, such as the advancement, “Stone Age,” which you complete once you mine stone with a pickaxe. The more you progress, the challenges become equally harder. For instance, one achievement, called “How Did We Get Here?” requires you to have all the 26 status effects active at the same time.
How to Use XP in Minecraft?
The experience points are used to enchant items in the game. You can open the enchanting table and try to enchant an item. While enchanting, you can see the XP level needed to perform the task. If you do not have enough XP, you can go back, collect some more and come back to enchant your item. The enchantment cost (XP level) depends upon the item and the type of enchantment you are going to add to it. The same enchant may vary in price when adding it to different materials. So, we recommend stocking up on XP beforehand. Furthermore, using an anvil also needs XP levels. If you were repairing or adding enchantment on an item, the GUI shows the cost required to do so at the bottom.
title: “What Is The Best Way To Get Xp In Minecraft " ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-08” author: “Rebecca Stahl”
Usually, you can get it when mining or killing mobs. But there are numerous other ways to gather XP. You can also build farms that help you collect XP and other resources. Let’s take a look at some of the best ways you can gather XP in Minecraft.
Best Ways to get XP in Minecraft
Mining Resources
You can dig underneath your shelter and look for items like coal, Redstone, and Diamond to mine. Mining ores give you a good deal of XP. Below is a list of things you can mine along with the XP they give.
Coal – 0-2 XPRedstone – 1-5 XPNether Quartz, Lapis Lazuli – 2-5 XPDiamond Ore, Emerald Ore – 3-7 XPMonster Spawner with monsters in it – 15-43 XP points
Killing Mobs
You can kill the creatures in the game to gain XP as well. However, the hostile mobs give you the most XP. But if you have a huge cow or a sheep farm, you can kill them in order to gain XP along with the items they drop. Similarly, the boss mobs give you a much higher XP. When you kill the Ender Dragon for the first time, it gives you an explosion of 12,000 experience points. Having said that, you only get 500 XP when you respawn the dragon later on. The Wither, another boss in the game, only gives you 50 XP when you kill it. The XP drop is quite low as compared to the Ender Dragon.
Smelting Items
An interesting feature in the game is that it generates XP whenever you smelt items or cook food in the furnace. Whether it’s cobblestone or iron ore that you smelt, it gives you some XP. Different things yield different amounts of experience points, such as:
All food items give 0.35 XP (Kelp is an exception and gives 0.1 XP).Raw Copper and Iron give 0.7 XP.Raw gold and Nether gold ore give you 2 XP.Ancient Debris gives you 2 XP.If you mine Diamond and emerald ore with silk touch, you get 1 XP when smelting them.Smelting all kinds of stone blocks gives you 0.1 XP. However, smelting clay balls and clay give you 0.3 and 0.35 XP, respectively.Smelting Cactus gives you 1 XP.Burning logs or wet sponges provide 0.15 XP.
Animal Farming
Animal farming gives you plenty of experience points. You can get XP by breeding the animals or by killing them. You can also hunt skeletons to help you farm XP. The bones that skeletons drop make the bone meal, which helps your crops grow faster. Crops, in turn, help you breed animals like cows, sheep, and pigs. You can try the following steps to make an animal farm:
Making an XP Farm
XP farms are easy to make and let you collect a ton of XP. One of the easiest and best XP farms you can make, even at the beginning of the game, is the classic mob XP farm. You can follow this easy step by step guide to building yourself an XP farm:
Trading with Villagers
Trading is another great way to earn XP in Minecraft. This way, you can skip the hassle of mining for resources or gathering animals. We believe that trading with a Fletcher is the easiest as you can use sticks to trade for various items. Additionally, sticks are fairly easy to get as you can always find trees to cut and craft them into sticks. You can also dig a hole beneath the traders and trap them so you can get back to it without losing track when you go to regather the resources to trade.
Bottle o’ Enchanting
Bottle o’ Enchanting is a great way to gain XP in a short amount of time. These bottles have experience points in them that you can gather after breaking the bottles. There are various ways you can find the Bottle o’ Enchanting in the chests located at the pillager outposts and shipwrecks. Furthermore, you can also trade with a Cleric in villages to get a Bottle o’ Enchanting. You can find the Clerics in the village Churches. Churches are usually taller buildings made out of cobblestone. If you cannot find a Church or a Cleric, craft a brewing stand and place it next to an unemployed villager. They will turn into a Cleric. Moreover, if you cannot find the Bottle o’ Enchanting in the list of items with the Cleric, keep trading with them to increase the level, and the item should be available. It is best to remember that if a Cleric does not have Bottle o’ Enchanting even after they are maximum level, you can choose another unemployed villager and make them a Cleric. You can then start trading with them until you find the item you need.
Disenchanting an Item
While enchanting items cost you precious experience points, disenchanting an item rewards you with some. You can use the Grindstone to disenchant your item and turn them into normal tools, and, in return, get some XP. So if you have some enchanted items you found in the chests, or if you have an enchanted item you do not need anymore, use the Grindstone and disenchant them to gather some extra XP.
Achieving Advancements
There are different challenges in the game that, when you complete, give you some experience points. It starts simple, such as the advancement, “Stone Age,” which you complete once you mine stone with a pickaxe. The more you progress, the challenges become equally harder. For instance, one achievement, called “How Did We Get Here?” requires you to have all the 26 status effects active at the same time.
How to Use XP in Minecraft?
The experience points are used to enchant items in the game. You can open the enchanting table and try to enchant an item. While enchanting, you can see the XP level needed to perform the task. If you do not have enough XP, you can go back, collect some more and come back to enchant your item. The enchantment cost (XP level) depends upon the item and the type of enchantment you are going to add to it. The same enchant may vary in price when adding it to different materials. So, we recommend stocking up on XP beforehand. Furthermore, using an anvil also needs XP levels. If you were repairing or adding enchantment on an item, the GUI shows the cost required to do so at the bottom.
