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How to Craft Wind Charge in Minecraft

Wind Charge in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Launching players and entities with wind burst. The recipe first appears in the game's files in Minecraft 1.21.

The recipe wants 1 Breeze Rod, and a Crafting Table to run it on. That comes out as 4 Wind Charges.

Wind Charge Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Wind Charge is minecraft:wind_charge. In commands the namespace may be left off, so wind_charge works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p wind_charge
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p wind_charge 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve wind_charge 1

Cheats have to be on for Wind Charge to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Wind Charges create a burst of wind on impact, launching nearby entities. They can activate buttons and levers from a distance. Wind Charge uses a shapeless recipe, so the ingredients can go in any cells of the grid as long as all of them are present.

This recipe first appears in the game's own data files in Minecraft 1.21, and not in the release before it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with breeze rod (dropped by breezes in trial chambers).

Per Stack

Work a stack down, 64 breeze rods, and you land on 256 wind charges. Craft 64 clears the box of breeze rod.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Breeze RodBreeze RodBreeze Rod1xDropped by breezes in trial chambers

To make Wind Charge you will gather Breeze Rod (dropped by breezes in trial chambers), and craft them at a Crafting Table.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Breeze RodBreeze RodBreeze Rod

  2. 2

    4x Wind Charge

Minecraft crafting recipe for Wind Charge: 1 x Breeze Rod in a crafting table, making 4 Wind Charge.

Tips & Notes

  • Because this one is shapeless, Breeze Rod can go in any cells you like. The grid only checks that they are all present.
  • Line up 1x Breeze Rod before you open the Crafting Table. Breeze Rod: dropped by breezes in trial chambers.
  • The recipe returns 4 Wind Charge at a time.

Uses for Wind Charge

  • Launching players and entities with wind burst
  • Activating buttons and levers from distance

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Wind Charge on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Wind Charge in Minecraft?
To craft a Wind Charge you need 1 Breeze Rod at a Crafting Table. The cells do not matter here, so drop it in anywhere, and one craft produces 4 Wind Charges.
Where do you find the materials for a Wind Charge?
Each ingredient in a Wind Charge has its own source. Breeze Rod: dropped by breezes in trial chambers.
How many Wind Charges do you get from one craft?
The Wind Charge recipe makes 4 Wind Charges in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Wind Charge in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Wind Charge goes by minecraft:wind_charge; wind_charge without the namespace does the same job in a command.
Can you farm everything you need for a Wind Charge?
Wind Charge needs nothing you have to go find: breeze rod from breezes. Set those up once and you can keep making wind charge.
What is the give command for Wind Charge?
/give @p wind_charge gives you a Wind Charge. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 64 on the end for a whole stack.
Is the Wind Charge recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Java and Bedrock agree on a Wind Charge: both want 1 Breeze Rod at a Crafting Table in the layout above, and both give 4 at a time.
Does it matter where you put the ingredients for a Wind Charge?
No, a Wind Charge is a shapeless recipe, so 1 Breeze Rod can go in any slots you like. Only the set of ingredients is checked, not their arrangement.
What version of Minecraft added the Wind Charge?
The recipe for wind charge ships in Minecraft 1.21 and in none of the releases before it. What you see in the grid above is how it works in the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Breeze Rod in, 4 Wind Charges out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Java 1.21 is the first release that knows this recipe at all. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
That the ingredients come back
What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 4 Wind Charges per craft against the stack size.

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