Splash Potion

Splash Potions are future craftable throwable potion based weapons introduced in 1.9 Pre-release 4. You can turn any brewable potion into a Splash Potion by mixing in Gunpowder. It appears in a different shaped flask. Instead of drinking it, you throw it like a snowball or egg. Splash potions can also be fired from a Dispenser, and affect both passive and hostile mobs (including instant health and regeneration potions.) They give a use for negative potions, allowing you to use them against enemies. They can also be used to help allies (wolves or other players in SMP) when used with a positive potion.

Brewing
For ingredients that go into Potions, Splash Potions, and known Potion recipes see Brewing. According to Jeb there are 161 possible potion combinations in Beta 1.9 Pre-release 3, and there may be 2,653 potions in the full Beta 1.9 release.

Mob Immunity
Certain Mobs are immune to damaging splash potions such as Poison and Instant Harm.


 * Blaze - No Immunities.
 * Creepers - No Immunities.
 * Endermen - No Immunities.
 * Ghast - Possible Weakness Immunity; No other Immunity.
 * Magma Cube - No Immunities.
 * Skeletons - Immune to Poison, Instant Harm
 * Slime - Immune to Poison [unconfirmed]
 * Snow Golem - No Immunities.
 * Spiders - Immune to Poison.
 * Zombie Pigmen - Immune to Poison, Instant Harm.
 * Zombies - Immune to Poison, Instant Harm.

Trivia

 * Effects from Splash Potions travel roughly five blocks in all directions from the source of impact.
 * A splash potion will affect the player who throws it if it impacts close enough. This can be dangerous if using harmful potions but can also be useful; a group of players clustered together could all receive the benefit from a positive potion, depending on distance, if the user throws it straight down at their own feet.
 * A Splash Potion's effect will decrease in time the further away the target is from the explosion centre.
 * An Instant Damage III Splash Potion is powerful enough to instantly kill its victim if it hits close enough.
 * As of its first appearance, Splash Potions do minor explosive push damage and have an in-game damage effect, but they do not seem to harm Creepers or Skeletons in Creative Mode.