Soul Speed

Soul Speed

Maximum level	III
Primary items	None
Secondary items
Enchantment weight	1
Identifier	soul_speed

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Soul Speed is an enchantment that can be applied on boots and allows the player to walk more quickly on soul sand and soul soil.

Obtaining

Loot chest

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	[hide]Chance
Java Edition
Enchanted Book	Bastion Remnant	Generic chest	1	11.2% { "item": "Enchanted Book", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1123595505617978, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Generic chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Enchanted Book	Bastion Remnant	Generic chest	1	11.2% { "item": "Enchanted Book", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1123595505617978, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Generic chest" }

Soul Speed can be acquired via bartering with piglins, who may offer enchanted books and iron boots with a random level of Soul Speed. Piglins may spawn wearing golden boots enchanted with Soul Speed which have a chance to be dropped when they are killed. Enchanted books and golden boots with a random level of Soul Speed may appear in bastion remnant "generic" chests.

Soul Speed is a treasure enchantment. It cannot be obtained from enchanting in an enchanting table. Unlike most other treasure enchantments, it also cannot be obtained from most chest loot (except from chests in bastion remnants), fishing, or trading.

Usage

Speed

When walking on soul sand or soul soil, Soul Speed increases the player's speed. When wearing boots with Soul Speed, the player's speed is adjusted by the multiplier (Soul Speed Level * 0.105) + 1.3. The speed decrease of soul sand has no effect on Soul Speed, meaning that the player can walk on soul sand with the same speed as on soul soil.

While Soul Speed walkways are not as fast as some other means of transit (such as blue ice tracks), Soul Speed boots do not require vehicles such as minecarts or boats in order to apply their speed boost. This makes Soul Speed walkways useful for increasing movement speed across more uneven or varied terrain where vehicles might prove unwieldy.

Carpets or slabs‌ on top of soul sand or soul soil does not prevent the speed increase from Soul Speed.

Player's speed on compatible blocks compared to player's speed on non-soul blocks:

Enchantment level	Speed increase
Soul Speed I	40.5%
Soul Speed II	51%
Soul Speed III	61.5%

Durability

The durability of worn boots enchanted with Soul Speed has a 4% chance to go down for each compatible block stepped on. This chance can be decreased by 20/27/30 percent by enchanting the boots with Unbreaking I/II/III, respectively.

Particles

Soul Particle

Soul particles appear when walking on one of the compatible blocks.

General

The soul_speed_blocks tag determines which blocks are compatible with Soul Speed.

Sounds

Java Edition

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Soul escapes	Players	When a player runs on soul sand or soul soil using soul speed boots	particle.soul_escape	subtitles.particle.soul_escape​	varies	0.6-1.0	12

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Players	When a player runs on soul sand or soul soil using soul speed boots	particle.soul_escape	0.0-0.1	0.6-1.0
	Players	?	particle.soul_escape	0.25-0.75	0.6-1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	[hide]Translation key
Soul Speed	soul_speed	enchantment.minecraft.soul_speed

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	[hide]Translation key
Soul Speed	soul_speed	36	enchantment.soul_speed

History

[hide]Java Edition
1.16			20w11a				Added Soul Speed.
			20w13a				Items enchanted with Soul Speed are now slightly more common when bartering.
			20w16a				Soul Speed enchanted books can now be found in bastion remnant chests.
1.16.2			Pre-release 1				The Soul Speed boost is now kept when jumping and when the soul block is covered by non-full blocks, such as slabs.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.57				Added Soul Speed.
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.54				Soul Speed books are no longer obtainable through raids, loot chests, or fishing. It can now be obtained only from chests in bastion remnants.

Issues

Issues relating to "Soul Speed" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• In Bedrock Edition the particles generated by the enchantment are bright in the darkness because they don't respect light levels.
• Soul Speed works via stomping the souls out of the blocks, hence the particles.
• In Bedrock Edition, in Spectator mode, if a player wearing boots with Soul Speed flies over soul sand or soul soil, the particle effect still plays.