Minecraft:Potion

Potions are bottled consumable liquids that give effects for a certain amount of time when drunk. They are primarily obtained from Minecraft:brewing. Every potion is brewed starting from a water bottle, which is considered a type of potion that has no effects.

Variants

Base potions

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Effect potions

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Obtaining

Brewing

Almost all potions are obtained by Minecraft:brewing.

The Minecraft:potion of LuckTemplate:Only and the Minecraft:potion of DecayTemplate:Only cannot be brewed. They can be obtained via commands, and are also available in the Minecraft:Creative inventory in their respective editions.

Mob loot

A Minecraft:witch has an 8.5% chance to drop a potion of Healing, Fire Resistance, Swiftness, or Water Breathing if it dies while drinking one of them.

A wandering trader also has an 8.5% chance to drop a potion of Invisibility if killed while drinking it.

Generated loot

Two potions of Healing II can be found in the brewing stand on end ships in end cities.

One splash Minecraft:potion of Weakness can be found in the brewing stand inside every igloo basement.

Template:IN, the cauldron in a swamp hut contains 1 to 3 bottles of a random potion. There is a 25% chance for a potion of Healing or Poison, 15% for Swiftness, 10% for Slowness, Weakness, or Water Breathing, and 5% for Fire Resistance.

Bartering

When given a gold ingot, Minecraft:piglins have a Template:Frac (~2.13%) chance to barter a water bottle, a Template:Frac (~1.71%) chance to barter a potion of Fire Resistance, and a Template:Frac (~1.71%) to barter a splash potion of Fire Resistance.

Fishing

Water bottles can be fished up as junk items.

Trading

Wandering traders can sell 1 extended potion of Invisibility for 5 Minecraft:emeralds. Template:Trade sources

Cauldrons

Template:Main A glass bottle can be Template:Control on a filled Minecraft:cauldron to fill it with water, making a water bottle. This drops the water level in the cauldron by one. Template:IN, a cauldron can hold 1 to 3 bottles of any potion, which can be picked up by the same method to fill the bottle with the corresponding potion.

Water

A glass bottle can also be Template:Control on a Minecraft:water source block to fill it with water. This does not affect the water source block.

Usage

Potions are used by pressing and holding Template:Control with the potion bottle in hand, as with all consumable items. When consumed, they bestow the corresponding status effect upon the player and return a glass bottle.

Drinking a potion while already under the effects of the same potion does not add onto the effect's duration, but simply resets it. A potion effect does not "downgrade" if a lower level is activated. For example, if a player has Regeneration II, drinking a regular potion of Regeneration does not have any effect.

Modifiers

Potions can be modified in five ways.

1. Adding glowstone dust into certain potions enhances their level of effect.
2. Adding Minecraft:redstone extends the duration of the effect.
3. Adding Minecraft:gunpowder into a potion makes it a splash potion (area effect).
4. Adding dragon's breath to a splash potion makes it a lingering potion (area effect that lingers on the ground).
5. Adding a fermented spider eye into specific potions modifies their effect, usually inverting it; this is referred to as "corruption".

The modifications of enhancement and extension are mutually exclusive.

Enhancing most potions trades some of its duration for a bigger effect. For example, the base Regeneration lasts for 44 seconds whereas Regeneration II lasts for only 22 seconds but heals more per tick during that time.

Extending a potion generally makes it last Template:Frac times as long as its base potion, so a duration of 3 minutes becomes 8 minutes.

Corruption

The usual result of corruption is to invert the potion's effect (for example Swiftness becomes Slowness). However:

• Corrupting potion of Poison (a continuous damage effect) creates a potion of Harming (an instant damage effect) instead of Regeneration (a continuous healing effect).
• Corrupting a Minecraft:potion of Night Vision turns it into a potion of Invisibility instead of Blindness or Darkness.

Corrupting an extended or enhanced potion results in a corrupted potion with the same modifier, if it is supported by the corrupted effect. The only exception to this is the enhanced potion of Slowness, which cannot be brewed by corrupting an enhanced potion of Swiftness or Leaping. All of the corrupted potions except Harming can be extended, but only Harming and Slowness can be enhanced.

Base potions

Base potions are potions that have no effect when the player drinks them, but are necessary as the basis for other potions.

Icon	Name	Use
Template:Slot	Water bottle	The base for the awkward potion and potion of Weakness.
Template:Slot	Awkward potion	The base for all other effect potions.
Template:Slot	Mundane potion	Only usable as an alternative base for potion of Weakness Template:In.
Template:Slot	Thick potion	Only usable as an alternative base for potion of Weakness Template:In.
Template:Slot	Long mundane potion	Exists only Template:In and cannot be obtained in Survival mode. It can only be brewed into an extended potion of Weakness.

Effect potions

Potions with positive effects

Icon	Name	Duration	Effect	Description
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	0:45	Template:EffectLink	Restores Template:Hp health over time, Template:Hp every 50 Minecraft:ticks (2.5 seconds).
	Potion of Regeneration +	1:30Template:Only 2:00Template:Only		Restores Template:HpTemplate:Only or Template:HpTemplate:Only health over time, Template:Hp every 50 ticks (2.5 seconds).
	Potion of Regeneration II	0:22.5		Restores Template:Hp health over time, Template:Hp every 25 ticks (1.25 seconds).
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	3:00	Template:EffectLink	Increases speed and jump distance by 20% and increases FOV (6.73 meters per second sprinting).
	Potion of Swiftness +	8:00
	Potion of Swiftness II	1:30		Increases speed and jump distance by 40% and increases FOV (7.85 meters per second sprinting).
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	3:00	Template:EffectLink	Gives immunity to all heat-related damage.
	Potion of Fire Resistance +	8:00
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	Instant	Template:EffectLink	Restores Template:Hp health.
	Potion of Healing II	Instant		Restores Template:Hp health. (doubles with every additional level)
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	3:00	Template:EffectLink	Visually brightens everything to a light level of 15, brightens up water with a blue shine, brightens up lava with an orange shine (other players cannot see the enhanced lighting without this effect).
	Potion of Night Vision +	8:00
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	3:00	Template:EffectLink	JE: Increases melee damage by Template:Hp. BE: Increases melee damage by 30%, and then by Template:Hp.
	Potion of Strength +	8:00
	Potion of Strength II	1:30		JE: Increases melee damage by Template:Hp. BE: Increases melee damage by 69%, and then by Template:Hp.
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	3:00	Template:EffectLink	Increases the jump height to 1.83 blocks and reduces fall damage by one block.
	Potion of Leaping +	8:00
	Potion of Leaping II	1:30		Further increases jump height to 2.51 blocks and reduces fall damage by two blocks.
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	3:00	Template:EffectLink	Allows the entity to swim without drowning or needing to surface for air. The oxygen bar does not decrease when underwater.
	Potion of Water Breathing +	8:00
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	3:00	Template:EffectLink	Makes player disappear from view. Mobs can detect and track the player only at close range, although the range increases when the player wears armor. The splash version make mobs or other players invisible. Some items are unaffected and so remain visible. These include: armor, items held in hand, arrows stuck into the player, a Minecraft:pig's saddle, a llama's carpet pattern, a shulker's yellow head, and the glowing eyes of spiders, phantoms, and endermen.
	Potion of Invisibility +	8:00
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	1:30	Template:EffectLink	The mob/player falls at a much slower rate, and damage from hitting the ground is reduced to zero. A sprinting leap of almost 6 blocks becomes possible and farmland is not affected by the player falling onto it.
	Potion of Slow Falling +	4:00
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor Template:Only	5:00	Template:EffectLink	Increases the luck attribute by 1 point.

Potions with negative effects

Icon	Name	Duration	Effect	Description
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	0:45	Template:EffectLink	Causes up to Template:Hp damage over time at a rate of 1 every 50 ticks, but does not reduce health below Template:Hp.
	Potion of Poison +	1:30Template:Only 2:00Template:Only		Causes up to Template:HpTemplate:Only or Template:HpTemplate:Only damage over time, but does not reduce health below Template:Hp.
	Potion of Poison II	0:21.6Template:Only 0:22.5Template:Only		Causes up to Template:Hp damage over time, but does not reduce health below Template:Hp.
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	1:30	Template:EffectLink	Reduces melee damage by Template:Hp.Template:Only Reduces melee damage by 20% of the base damage and Template:Hp.Template:Only
	Potion of Weakness +	4:00
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	1:30	Template:EffectLink	Slows players and mobs by 15%, to about 4.75 blocks per second sprinting.
	Potion of Slowness +	4:00
	Potion of Slowness IV	0:20		Slows players and mobs by 60%, to about 2.25 blocks per second sprinting.
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	Instant	Template:EffectLink	Damages Template:Hp.
	Potion of Harming II	Instant		Damages Template:Hp. (doubles with every additional level)
Template:Slot	Potion of Decay Template:OnlyTemplate:Anchor	0:40	Template:EffectLink	Damages Template:Hp every second, making a total of Template:Hp damage
Template:Slot	Potion of InfestationTemplate:Anchor	3:00	Template:EffectLink	If a mob has the Infested effect, it has a 10% chance to spawn 1–3 silverfish when hurt. The quantity and chance of silverfish spawning are unaffected by the potency level of the potion.
Template:Slot	Potion of OozingTemplate:Anchor	3:00	Template:EffectLink	If a mob has the Oozing effect, it spawns two medium-sized slimes upon death. The quantity and size of slimes spawning are unaffected by the potency level of the potion.
Template:Slot	Potion of WeavingTemplate:Anchor	3:00	Template:EffectLink	If a mob has the Weaving effect, the effect of Minecraft:cobwebs on its speed is reduced, and it creates 2–3 Minecraft:cobwebs upon death. The quantity of cobwebs is unaffected by the potency level of the potion.
Template:Slot	Potion of Wind ChargingTemplate:Anchor	3:00	Template:EffectLink	If a mob has the Wind Charged effect, it generates a wind burst upon death, similar to that created by wind charges. Intensity of this burst is unaffected by the potency level of the potion.

Potions with mixed effects

Icon	Name	Duration	Effect	Description
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	0:20	Template:EffectLink Template:EffectLink	Slows players and mobs by 60%, to about 2.25 blocks per second sprinting, and reduces their damage taken by 60%.
	Potion of the Turtle Master +	0:40
	Potion of the Turtle Master II	0:20		Slows players and mobs by 90%, to about 0.5625 blocks per second sprinting, and reduces their damage taken by 80%.

Joke potions

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Icon	Name	Duration	Effect	Description
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	Instant	Template:EffectLink	Changes the mob AI to move toward the nearest mob as if it were to attack it.
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Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	1:30	Template:EffectLink	Drops items in a random amount of time, ranging from food to rare items like Minecraft:saddles or Minecraft:diamonds.
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Java Edition 23w13a_or_b

Icon	Name	Duration	Effect	Description
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	3:00	Template:EffectLink	Makes the entity bigger.
	Template:Text anchor	8:00
	Template:Text anchor	1:30
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	3:00	Template:EffectLink	Makes the entity smaller.
	Template:Text anchor	8:00
	Template:Text anchor	1:30

Java Edition 24w14potato

Icon	Name	Duration	Effect	Description
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	1:30	Template:EffectLink	Makes the mob able to scale blocks like a spider by simply walking into them.
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	Instant	Template:EffectLink	Affected items slide as if on ice blocks
Template:Slot	Template:Text anchor	Instant	Template:EffectLink
		0:10	Template:EffectLink	Causes up to Template:Hp damage over time at a rate of 1 every 50 ticks, but does not reduce health below Template:Hp.

Undead mobs

The effects given by potions of Healing and Harming are reversed on Minecraft:undead mobs. Potions of Healing deal damage, and Harming heals them. In addition, undead mobs are not affected by Poison or Regeneration.

Template:IN, hitting an undead mob with a Regeneration Potion always registers as Regeneration I, no matter the level of the used potion.

Mud conversion

Using a water bottle, splash water bottle, or lingering water bottle on Minecraft:dirt, coarse dirt, or rooted dirt converts it into Minecraft:mud, returning a glass bottle with it. This process can be automated with a Minecraft:dispenser.

Filling cauldrons with potions

Template:IN, using a potion bottle on a Minecraft:cauldron empties the potion into it and fills the cauldron by Template:Frac of its capacity. Using a glass bottle on a cauldron filled with a potion drains it by Template:Frac and fills the bottle. A single cauldron can store up to three potions of the same type. Different potions cannot be combined in a cauldron, nor can they be mixed with any other substance. Minecraft:Arrows can be also tipped when used on a cauldron containing potion. A single portion of potion can tip 16 arrows at once, while a full cauldron can tip a stack of arrows at once.

Uncraftable potion

Template:IN, the uncraftable potion is a potion with no effect that is unobtainable in Survival. It is also available in splash potion and lingering potion forms, as well as for tipped arrows.

Uncraftable potions have the same texture as water bottles.

It can be obtained using the following command: Template:Command. It is also obtained when a potion has invalid or missing potion effect tags, and thus serves as a placeholder.

Custom effects

Template:Main Template:IN, potions can also be obtained with any status effect using Template:Cmd and the potion_contents data component.

Sounds

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Data values

ID

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Metadata

Template:IN, potions use the following item data values to indicate the kind of potion: <section begin="metadata"/>

Potion	Regular	Extended	Enhanced (Level II)
Template:ItemSprite Water Bottle	0	N/A	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Mundane Potion	1	2	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Thick Potion	3	N/A	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Awkward Potion	4	N/A	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Night Vision	5	6	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Invisibility	7	8	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Leaping	9	10	11
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Fire Resistance	12	13	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Swiftness	14	15	16
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Slowness	17	18	42
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Water Breathing	19	20	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Healing	21	N/A	22
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Harming	23	N/A	24
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Poison	25	26	27
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Regeneration	28	29	30
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Strength	31	32	33
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Weakness	34	35	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Decay	36	N/A	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Potion of the Turtle Master	37	38	39
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Slow Falling	40	41	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Wind Charging	43	N/A	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Weaving	44	N/A	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Oozing	45	N/A	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Potion of Infestation	46	N/A	N/A

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Item data

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Data component format/potion contents

Normal potions use a "potion" tag inside "potion_contents" component to indicate the potion type. The values of the tag (to be prefixed with minecraft:) are:

Potion	Regular	Level II	Extended +
Uncraftable potion	anything except the below	–	–
Water bottle	Template:Code	–	–
Mundane potion	Template:Code	–	–
Thick potion	Template:Code	–	–
Awkward potion	Template:Code	–	–
Night Vision	Template:Code	–	Template:Code
Invisibility	Template:Code	–	Template:Code
Leaping	Template:Code	Template:Code	Template:Code
Fire Resistance	Template:Code	–	Template:Code
Swiftness	Template:Code	Template:Code	Template:Code
Slowness	Template:Code	Template:Code	Template:Code
Water Breathing	Template:Code	–	Template:Code
Instant Health	Template:Code	Template:Code	–
Harming	Template:Code	Template:Code	–
Poison	Template:Code	Template:Code	Template:Code
Regeneration	Template:Code	Template:Code	Template:Code
Strength	Template:Code	Template:Code	Template:Code
Weakness	Template:Code	–	Template:Code
Luck	Template:Code	–	–
The Turtle Master	Template:Code	Template:Code	Template:Code
Slow Falling	Template:Code	–	Template:Code
Infestation	Template:Code	–	–
Oozing	Template:Code	–	–
Weaving	Template:Code	–	–
Wind Charging	Template:Code	–	–

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History

Trivia

• When a player drinks two potions by quickly switching to another potion immediately after drinking one, the second drinking animation is not shown.Template:Verify
• A potion of Poison II lasts for 22.5 seconds, but it is displayed as 22 seconds because the Minecraft:item hover display shows rounded-down integer values.
• The "Local Brewery" advancement uses the uncraftable potion texture for its icon.

Unused potions

Minecraft:Bedrock Edition has unused potion textures for several effects, along with their splash variants. These effects are: Absorption, Blindness, Haste, Health Boost, Hunger, Mining Fatigue, Nausea, Resistance, Saturation, and Levitation, as well as the Luck potion textures also present in Minecraft:Java Edition. These unused textures were added along with the other potion textures in Minecraft:Pocket Edition v0.12.1 alpha, except for the potion of Levitation, which was added in Minecraft:Pocket Edition 1.0.0. The textures were changed along with the other potion textures during the texture update in Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.10.0. Strangely, the potion of levitation texture is a duplicate of the splash potion of levitation texture.

• Potion of Absorption
  Potion of Absorption
• Potion of Blindness
  Potion of Blindness
• Potion of Haste
  Potion of Haste
• Potion of Health Boost
  Potion of Health Boost
• Potion of Hunger
  Potion of Hunger
• Potion of Mining Fatigue
  Potion of Mining Fatigue
• Potion of Nausea
  Potion of Nausea
• Potion of Resistance
  Potion of Resistance
• Potion of Saturation
  Potion of Saturation
• Potion of Levitation
  Potion of Levitation

Gallery

Icons

• Water Bottle
  Water Bottle
• Potion of Night Vision
  Potion of Night Vision
• Potion of Invisibility
  Potion of Invisibility
• Potion of Leaping
  Potion of Leaping
• Potion of Fire Resistance
  Potion of Fire Resistance
• Potion of Swiftness
  Potion of Swiftness
• Potion of Slowness
  Potion of Slowness
• Potion of the Turtle Master
  Potion of the Turtle Master
• Potion of Water Breathing
  Potion of Water Breathing
• Potion of Healing
  Potion of Healing
• Potion of Harming
  Potion of Harming
• Potion of Poison
  Potion of Poison
• Potion of Regeneration
  Potion of Regeneration
• Potion of Strength
  Potion of Strength
• Potion of Weakness
  Potion of Weakness
• Potion of Slow Falling
  Potion of Slow Falling
• Potion of Wind Charging
  Potion of Wind Charging
• Potion of Weaving
  Potion of Weaving
• Potion of Oozing
  Potion of Oozing
• Potion of Infestation
  Potion of Infestation
• Potion of Luck
  Potion of Luck
• Potion of Decay
  Potion of Decay
• Old texture file for the uncraftable potion on Java Edition.
  Old texture file for the uncraftable potion on Java Edition.

Screenshots

• Thick Potion with status effects of Mining Fatigue (duration 4:00) and Instant Health II (duration 4:00).
  Thick Potion with status effects of Mining Fatigue (duration 4:00) and Instant Health II (duration 4:00).
• The bubbles emitted when a player (Noor) drinks a potion (of Swiftness)
  The bubbles emitted when a player (Noor) drinks a potion (of Swiftness)
• The effect of Night Vision (left image is with Night Vision, right image is without)
  The effect of Night Vision (left image is with Night Vision, right image is without)
• The view when a player uses Night Vision in the Nether
  The view when a player uses Night Vision in the Nether
• A brewing stand with a potion of Healing on it
  A brewing stand with a potion of Healing on it

Mojang screenshots

• A savanna cleric villager standing next to a brewing stand.
  A savanna cleric villager standing next to a brewing stand.
• Then-new potion colors.
  Then-new potion colors.
• New-screenshot-of-potions-from-Jeb
  Potion effects showing up in the Minecraft:inventory.

In other media

• An officially licensed bottle LED desk lamp
  An officially licensed bottle LED desk lamp
• A water bottle depicting many potions
  A water bottle depicting many potions
• A guide to brewing before 1.6
  A guide to brewing before 1.6
• Brewing guide
  Brewing guide
• Light up potion
  Light up potion
• Light up potion
  Light up potion
• A potion as it appears in Template:Woodsword Chronicle
  A potion as it appears in Template:Woodsword Chronicle

See also

• Template:ItemSprite Minecraft:Brewing
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External links

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