Experience in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains all about experience such as XP points and levels.

Levels

The experience bar shows your current level and how close you are to reaching the next level:

experience bar

In this example, we are at level 8 and still have over half of the experience bar to fill before leveling up to Level 9.

In Minecraft, each level takes a certain amount of experience points to level up to the next level (see the Experience by Level table below). You start out at Level 0 and as you get to higher levels in the game, it will take even more experience points to reach the next level. For example, it takes 7 experience points to go from Level 0 to Level 1, but it takes 9 experience points to go from Level 1 to Level 2.

Points

Experience points are represented by small orbs that appear after killing a mob, mining an item, or performing some of the more advanced tasks in the game. These orbs float towards you and count as experience points in your experience bar (1 orb may be worth more than 1 experience point).

Experience by Level

The following table shows the experience (XP) information for a particular level in Minecraft:

Level	Total XP	Points to Next Level	Points in Bar
0	0	7	0 - 6
1	7	9	0 - 8
2	16	11	0 - 10
3	27	13	0 - 12
4	40	15	0 - 14
5	55	17	0 - 16
6	72	19	0 - 18
7	91	21	0 - 20
8	112	23	0 - 22
9	135	25	0 - 24
10	160	27	0 - 26
11	187	29	0 - 28
12	216	31	0 - 30
13	247	33	0 - 32
14	280	35	0 - 34
15	315	37	0 - 36
16	352	42	0 - 41
17	394	47	0 - 46
18	441	52	0 - 51
19	493	57	0 - 56
20	550	62	0 - 61
21	612	67	0 - 66
22	679	72	0 - 71
23	751	77	0 - 76
24	828	82	0 - 81
25	910	87	0 - 86
26	997	92	0 - 91
27	1089	97	0 - 96
28	1186	102	0 - 101
29	1288	107	0 - 106
30	1395	112	0 - 111
31	1507	121	0 - 120
32	1628	130	0 - 129
33	1758	139	0 - 138
34	1897	148	0 - 147
35	2045	157	0 - 156
36	2202	166	0 - 165
37	2368	175	0 - 174
38	2543	184	0 - 183
39	2727	193	0 - 192
40	2920	202	0 - 201

Definitions

Level is the current level in the experience bar in Minecraft.
Total XP is the total number of XP points required to reach the level.
(Due to how Minecraft calculates fractional XP points, you may need to add 1 additional XP point to fully reach the desired level. For example, 2920 total XP points is not enough to fully reach Level 40 so 2921 points may be required instead.)
Points to Next Level is the number of the XP points required to reach the next level from the current level.
Points in Bar is the number of XP points represented in the experience bar for the current level. You can use the /xp set command to set the XP points to any value in this range. For example, if you are at Level 2, you can set the XP points to a value between 0 and 10 using the /xp set command. If you tried a value of 11 or higher, you would get the error "Cannot set experience points above the maximum points for the player's current level".

Congratulations, you just learned about experience points and levels in Minecraft.

Other Experience Information

Health, Food, and Experience

How to Use the Experience Command

How to Use the Xp Command

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