Minecraft:Effect

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Various effects displayed in the effect menu Template:In.

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Various active effects listed in the Creative inventory Template:In.

An effect (also known as a mob effect or status effect) is a condition that affects an Minecraft:entity, either negatively, positively, or neutrally. Effects can be inflicted in various ways throughout the game, including consuming Minecraft:potions and some Minecraft:food items, being in the range of active Minecraft:beacons and Minecraft:conduits, and being attacked by or close to certain Minecraft:mobs.

The Template:Command Minecraft:command allows Minecraft:players to inflict effects upon themselves and other Minecraft:entities with different levels of these effects.

Behavior

Minecraft:Entities inflicted by an effect experience various changes for a duration of time. For most effects, higher levels increase the strength of the effect. As long as the effect is active, effect-dependent Minecraft:particles emanate from the position of the inflicted entity. Effects provided by Minecraft:beacons and Minecraft:conduits emit semitransparent particles.

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An example of an effect displayed in the inventory.

Template:IN, a Minecraft:player can open their Minecraft:inventory to see any current effects afflicted upon them, as well as the levels and duration of each. Template:IN, effects are displayed in a separate screen, which can be opened by pressing Template:Key on a keyboard, pressing Template:Xbtn/Template:Psbtn/Template:Psbtn/Template:Nsbtn on a controller, or tapping the effect icon when using touch controls.

Any number of different effects (including opposing effects such as Minecraft:Strength and Minecraft:Weakness) can be simultaneously active on an entity. However, it is not possible to apply the same effect multiple times, even if they are of different levels. When applying an effect already active on the player, higher levels overwrite lower levels, and higher durations overwrite lower durations of the same level.

Template:IN, when a stronger version of an effect is applied to an entity (excluding the player) that already has a weaker version of the same effect, the weaker effect remains but is hidden. If the weaker effect has a longer duration, the weaker effect will return after the more potent one expires. Template:IN, when a stronger effect overrides a weaker effect, the weaker effect is deleted and does not return.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

A Minecraft:player can remove all of their effects by either drinking a Minecraft:milk bucket, Minecraft:dying, or being saved from death by a Minecraft:totem of undying. Additionally, Minecraft:Poison can also be removed by drinking a Minecraft:honey bottle.

Any Minecraft:damage dealt by effects is classified as Minecraft:magic damage and completely bypasses Minecraft:armor, making it effective at harming highly armored targets; however, the Minecraft:Protection enchantment still reduces the damage taken from effects.

List of effects

Template:IN, positive effects have blue text in potion information and are displayed on the upper row of effects in the HUD, while negative effects have red potion text and are displayed in the bottom row. Neutral effects have the blue potion text and are listed with the negative effects in the bottom row in the heads up display. If the effect is a beacon effect, then it also has a blue outline. Template:IN, negative effect names in potion and tipped arrow tooltips are shown in red; positive and neutral effect names in these contexts, and all effect names in the "Mob effects" screen, are shown in white.

Descriptions

Descriptions of each effect
Icon	Name	Identifier	Effect	Type	Template:BE Num. ID
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Absorption	Template:Cd	Adds temporary health that absorbs incoming Minecraft:damage and can't be regenerated	Template:Tc	22
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Bad Luck​Template:Only	Template:Cd	Reduces chances of better loot from fishing	Template:Tc	–
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Bad Omen	Template:Cd	Causes an ominous event upon entering a Minecraft:village or a Minecraft:trial chamber	Negative	28
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Blindness	Template:Cd	Impairs vision by adding close black Minecraft:fog and disables the ability to Minecraft:sprint and Minecraft:critical hit	Template:Tc	15
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Breath of the Nautilus	Template:Cd	Freezes an entity's Minecraft:oxygen bar	Template:Tc	37
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Conduit Power	Template:Cd	Increases underwater visibility and mining speed, prevents Minecraft:drowning	Template:Tc	27
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Darkness	Template:Cd	Adds a pulsating darkening affect to the player's screen and pulsating black Minecraft:fog	Template:Tc	30
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Dolphin's Grace​Template:Only	Template:Cd	Increases Minecraft:swimming speed	Template:Tc	–
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Fatal Poison​Template:Only	Template:Cd	Inflicts Minecraft:damage over time and can potentially kill the entity	Template:Tc	25
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Fire Resistance	Template:Cd	Prevents the affected Minecraft:entity from taking damage due to Minecraft:fire, lava and other sources of fire damage	Template:Tc	12
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Glowing​Template:Only	Template:Cd	Gives the affected Minecraft:entity an outline that can be seen through Minecraft:blocks	Template:Tc	–
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Haste	Template:Cd	Increases mining and attack speed	Template:Tc	3
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Health Boost	Template:Cd	Increases maximum Minecraft:health	Template:Tc	21
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Hero of the Village	Template:Cd​Template:Only Template:Cd​Template:Only	Gives discounts on Minecraft:trades with Minecraft:villagers, and makes villagers throw items at the player depending on their professionTemplate:Only	Template:Tc	29
Template:EffectSprite	Hunger	Template:Cd	Increases food exhaustion	Template:Tc	17
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Infested	Template:Cd	Gives the entity a 10% chance to spawn between 1 and 3 Minecraft:silverfish when hurt	Template:Tc	36
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Instant Damage	Template:Cd	Damages living Minecraft:entities, heals Minecraft:undead	Template:Tc	7
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Instant Health	Template:Cd	Heals living Minecraft:entities, damages Minecraft:undead	Template:Tc	6
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Invisibility	Template:Cd	Makes the affected entity invisible (but not the item they hold or the armor they wear), and reduces other mobs' detection range for the affected entity	Template:Tc	14
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Jump Boost	Template:Cd	Increases jump height and reduces fall damage	Template:Tc	8
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Mining Fatigue	Template:Cd	Decreases mining and attack speed	Template:Tc	4
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Levitation	Template:Cd	Floats the affected Minecraft:entity upward	Template:Tc	24
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Luck​Template:Only	Template:Cd	Increases chances of better loot from fishing	Template:Tc	–
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Nausea	Template:Cd	Wobbles and warps the player's screen	Template:Tc	9
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Night Vision	Template:Cd	Lets the player see well in darkness and underwater	Template:Tc	16
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Oozing	Template:Cd	Makes the entity spawn 2 Minecraft:slimes upon death	Template:Tc	35
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Poison	Template:Cd	Inflicts Minecraft:damage over time unless the entity's health is at Template:Health	Template:Tc	19
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Raid Omen	Template:Cd	Starts a Minecraft:raid at the location the player gained the Raid Omen, once the effect expires	Template:Tc	32
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Regeneration	Template:Cd	Restores Minecraft:health over time	Template:Tc	10
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Resistance	Template:Cd	Reduces damage taken	Template:Tc	11
Template:EffectSprite	Saturation	Template:Cd	Restores Minecraft:hunger and Minecraft:saturation	Template:Tc	23
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Slowness	Template:Cd	Decreases walking speed	Template:Tc	2
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Slow Falling	Template:Cd	Decreases falling speed and negates fall Minecraft:damage	Template:Tc	26
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Speed	Template:Cd	Increases movement speed on land	Template:Tc	1
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Strength	Template:Cd	Increases melee Minecraft:damage dealt	Template:Tc	5
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Trial Omen	Template:Cd	Transforms nearby Minecraft:trial spawners into Minecraft:ominous trial spawners	Template:Tc	31
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Water Breathing	Template:Cd	Prevents Minecraft:drowning and lets the affected entity breathe underwater	Template:Tc	13
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Weakness	Template:Cd	Decreases melee Minecraft:damage dealt	Template:Tc	18
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Weaving	Template:Cd	Lessens the movement speed decrease from being in a Minecraft:cobweb by 25%, and causes cobwebs to be spread upon death	Template:Tc	34
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Wind Charged	Template:Cd	Affected entities emit a burst of wind upon death	Template:Tc	33
Template:EffectSprite	Wither	Template:Cd	Inflicts Minecraft:damage over time	Template:Tc	20

Effect colors

Template:Main Each effect has an associated color, used to represent it in particles, Minecraft:potions, and Minecraft:tipped arrows. If a potion or tipped arrow stores multiple effects (such as potion/arrow of the Turtle Master, or a custom potion created via Minecraft:commands Template:In), the colors of each effect are blended together. Entities affected by multiple effects, however, emit particles for each active effect separately, without blending the colors.

Effect potency

A status effect's potency is how strong or effective it is. Some effects do not get stronger as its potency increases, but most do.

It is not possible to apply the same effect multiple times, even if they are of different levels. When applying an effect already active on the player, higher levels overwrite lower levels, and higher durations overwrite lower durations of the same level.

Template:IN, when a stronger version of an effect is applied to an entity that already has a weaker version of the same effect, the weaker effect remains, but is hidden. The weaker effect returns after the stronger effect expires, if the weaker effect has a longer duration. Template:IN, when a stronger effect overrides a weaker effect, the weaker effect is deleted and does not return.

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Immunity

Effects can only be applied to living entities. Minecraft:Witches have natural resistance against damage from effects, taking 85% less damage from effects Template:In and 95% less Template:In. Additionally, certain entities are completely immune to some or all effects:

• The Minecraft:ender dragon, the Minecraft:wither, Minecraft:NPCs and the Minecraft:agent are immune to all effects.
• Minecraft:Undead mobs are immune to Regeneration and Poison.
  • Minecraft:Wither skeletons are immune to Wither in addition to Regeneration and Poison.
• Minecraft:Spiders and Minecraft:cave spiders are immune to Poison.
• Minecraft:Trial chambers mobs are immune to Trial Omen.
• Minecraft:Illagers are immune to Raid Omen.
• Minecraft:Slimes are immune to Oozing.
• Minecraft:Silverfish are immune to Infested.
• Minecraft:Breezes are immune to Wind Charged.

History

April Fools effects

Java Edition 15w14a

These effects exist only in Minecraft:15w14a:

Icon	Name	Identifier	Effect	Type	Num. ID
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Caring	Template:Cd	Changes the mob AI to move toward the nearest mob as if it were to attack it	Template:Tc	2
Template:EffectSprite		Template:Cd		Template:Tc	19
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Sharing	Template:Cd	Makes mobs drop items in a random amount of time, ranging from food to rare items like saddles or diamonds	Template:Tc	18

Java Edition 23w13a_or_b

These effects exist only in Minecraft:23w13a_or_b:

Icon	Name	Identifier	Effect	Type	Num. ID
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Big	Template:Cd	Makes the entity bigger	Template:Tc	34
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Small	Template:Cd	Makes the entity smaller	Template:Tc	35

Java Edition 24w14potato

These effects exist only in Minecraft:24w14potato:

Icon	Name	Identifier	Effect	Type
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:Sticky	Template:Cd	Entity is able to scale blocks like a spider by walking into them	Template:Tc
Template:EffectSprite	Minecraft:It's very slippery	Template:Cd	Does nothing	Template:Tc

Java Edition 25w14craftmine

These effects exist only in Minecraft:25w14craftmine:

Icon	Name	Identifier	Effect	Type
Template:EffectSprite	Shazboots!	Template:Cd	Makes all blocks behave like Minecraft:ice to the entity with the effect and increases walking speed	Template:Tc

Trivia

• When having multiple effects, the effects' timers are reduced by 1 second each simultaneously, regardless of when the Minecraft:player took each potion. This is because they use the same "seconds counter" that "ticks" every 20 game ticks to save memory. For example, if the Minecraft:player drinks one Minecraft:potion and another different potion that doesn't reset the timer 5.5 (or any non-integer amounts) seconds later, both effects' timers subtract 1 second from both of them simultaneously.
• When a Minecraft:creeper has an effect and explodes Template:In, it leaves an Minecraft:area effect cloud for each effect that it had before it exploded.
• Drinking a potion of Minecraft:Leaping II, a potion of Minecraft:Slow Falling, and a potion of Minecraft:Swiftness II, the player can jump a 9 Minecraft:block gap.
• Effects shown on the Minecraft:HUD disappear when the player is in a Minecraft:GUI.

Gallery

Screenshots

• Regeneration after eating a Minecraft:golden apple in Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2.
  Regeneration after eating a Minecraft:golden apple in Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2.
• Health Boost and Regeneration II after eating a golden apple in 13w23b.
  Health Boost and Regeneration II after eating a golden apple in 13w23b.
• Weakness in the effect bar after drinking a Minecraft:potion of Weakness in Minecraft:Java Edition.
  Weakness in the effect bar after drinking a Minecraft:potion of Weakness in Minecraft:Java Edition.
• The maximum amount of Minecraft:health using Health Boost and Absorption.
  The maximum amount of Minecraft:health using Health Boost and Absorption.
• Minecraft:The End as seen when a Minecraft:player has Night Vision.
  Minecraft:The End as seen when a Minecraft:player has Night Vision.
• What things look like when a player has eaten a pufferfish and receives nausea.
  What things look like when a player has eaten a pufferfish and receives nausea.
• The Hunger effect.
  The Hunger effect.
• The Glowing effect, added to all Minecraft:entities by Minecraft:command.
  The Glowing effect, added to all Minecraft:entities by Minecraft:command.
• A Minecraft:phantom with Invisibility.
  A Minecraft:phantom with Invisibility.
• Image showing when the player receives all effects.
  Image showing when the player receives all effects.
• An effect visible in a compact form in the Minecraft:inventory.
  An effect visible in a compact form in the Minecraft:inventory.

Mojang screenshots

• Several effects applied to a Minecraft:player.
  Several effects applied to a Minecraft:player.
• Poison in Pocket Edition alpha.
  Poison in Pocket Edition alpha.
• Jump Boost in Pocket Edition alpha.
  Jump Boost in Pocket Edition alpha.
• Classic effects option.
  Classic effects option.
• Compact effects option.
  Compact effects option.

See also

• Template:BlockLink - gives a damaging condition similar to an effect
• Template:BlockLink - gives a damaging and speed-decreasing condition similar to an effect

External links

• Minecraft Forum: All About Potions And Brewing - 1.9 Reference Guide
• Minecraft Potions - A Visual Guide