Status effect after eating rotten flesh.
Status effects are various conditions that affect an entity, which can be either helpful or harmful. Status effects can be inflicted in various ways throughout the game, most commonly from use of food, potions and beacons.
The /effect command allows players to inflict effects upon themselves and other players and entities.
Behavior
Any entities inflicted by a status effect will be affected in various ways for an amount of time. During the effect, swirly particles emanate from the position of the inflicted entity. Players can open their inventory to see any current status effects afflicted upon them, as well as its strength and duration. The level of the effect determines its power. The higher the levels, the stronger the effect is.
The maximum level an effect can have is level 255. Like any other normal potion effect, the effect completely wears off at the end of its duration. Unlike normal potion effects, potions with levels above 127 do not cause particle effects.
Any number of different status effects can be simultaneously active on a player, even in the case of opposing effects, such as Strength and Weakness. However, it is not possible to apply the same effect multiple times, even if the effects are of different levels (e.g. Strength and Strength II cannot both be active at the same time). In the event of applying an effect already active on the player, the new version of the effect overwrites the old effect, giving a new level and full duration, if the new effect is of equal or greater level.
Note that even with commands, effects cannot be made to last forever. If an effect is set to an excessively large amount of time, such as 182 hours [655200 seconds], it will display as "**:**", but will still continue ticking down and eventually expire.
All of these status effects can be removed by drinking milk or using /effect command with the time of the effect set to 0. For Singleplayer users with cheats enabled and operators in Multiplayer servers, command /effect <playername> clear can be applied to achieve the same goal.
List of effects
There are a total of 23 effects. For technical data, see data values.
| ID | Name | Effect | Strength | Non-potion/Command causes | Potion See brewing for information on creation |
Particle color | Notes | Method for similar effects |
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| 1 | Speed |
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Speed increases by 20% × level | File:Grid Potion of Swiftness.png Potion of Swiftness |
Sky blue |
At exceedingly high levels (~level +100), the player walks faster than chunks can load. If a “corrupt” potion is used, speed is decreased. | Sprinting
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| 2 | Slowness |
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Speed decreases by 15% × level | Spiders, Cave Spiders, Silverfish, and Endermites get the effect when attacked with a weapon enchanted with Bane of Arthropods | File:Grid Potion of Slowness.png Potion of Slowness |
Gray-blue |
At levels 7 - 127, the player will be unable to move unless they jump while moving or use an ender pearl. At levels 128 or higher, the player will move extremely fast. If a "corrupt" potion is used, speed is increased. | Walking on soul sand |
| 3 | Haste |
Blocks break faster by 20% (arm swings faster) | Digging speed increases by 20% × level | Beacon | Referenced by “Potion of Haste” by game, but potion not currently present unless using custom potion features | Yellow |
At levels 3 or higher, when the player mines something, the player's arm will not move. If a “corrupt” potion is used, blocks are mined slower and the player's arm moves more slowly. | |
| 4 | Mining Fatigue |
Blocks break slower: speed is 30% of normal, time needed is multiplied by 3 1⁄3. | Speed is 9%/0.27%/0.081% of normal at level II/III/IV (time needed is multiplied by 11 1⁄9 / 370 10⁄27 / 1234 46⁄81). No extra effect at levels 5-127. |
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Referenced by “Potion of Dullness” by game, but potion not currently present unless using custom potion features | Dark khaki |
The effect does not affect block breaking in Creative mode, or blocks that are broken instantly. It has no effect on attack speed even though the hands move slower. Levels 128 to 254 won't move the hand at all. | Sneaking
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| 5 | Strength |
Increases damage dealt with melee attacks by 130%. | Increases damage by (130 × level)% (Strength II is +260%, Strength III is +390%, etc.) |
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File:Grid Potion of Strength.png Potion of Strength |
Dark red |
Any passive mob (except villagers and horses) can be killed when Strength is on level 5. If a “corrupt” potion is used, melee attack damage dealt is decreased. If level is too high, player deals no damage. |
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| 6 | — Instant Health |
Heals 4 |
Healing is 2 |
None | File:Grid Potion of Healing.png Potion of Healing |
Red |
Undead mobs (including wither) are harmed instead. If the effect is forced to last longer than 1 tick, it will heal entities every tick. | |
| 7 | — Instant Damage |
Damages 6 |
Damage is 3 |
None | File:Grid Potion of Harming.png Potion of Harming |
Maroon |
Undead mobs (including Wither) are healed instead. Death is reported as “<player> was killed by magic”. If the effect is forced to last longer than 1 tick, it will damage entities every tick. | |
| 8 | Jump Boost |
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Increases jump height by about [level]/8+.46 per level. (Jump height is ([level]+4.2)^2/16, ignoring drag). Reduces fall damage by 1 |
Beacon | File:Grid Potion of Leaping.png Potion of Leaping |
Bright green |
If the level is 33, jumping will cause death upon landing. If the level is 128 - 250, the player will be unable to jump at all. If the level is 251-253, you will barely jump. If the level is 255, fall damage is disabled, though in 1.8.3 and up, the player will be shot up in the air when taking damage; fire is the best example. If a “corrupt” potion is used, jump height is decreased; at most levels, the player is unable to jump. |
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| 9 | Nausea |
Wobbles and warps the screen | No effect |
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Referenced by “Potion of Nausea” by game, but potion not currently present unless using custom potion features | Purple |
When the Nausea effect is canceled, the Nether portal animation would flash onto the screen.
Effect ends 2 seconds before it wears off. |
Standing in a Nether portal |
| 10 | Regeneration |
Regenerate 1 |
Regenerate 1 |
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File:Grid Potion of Regeneration.png Potion of Regeneration |
Pink |
Does not affect undead mobs. Level 6 and up increases the effect drastically. Levels 96 and up may give less health than level 6. | |
| 11 | Resistance |
Reduces all incoming damage by 20% | Reduces damage by 20% with each additional level |
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Referenced by “Potion of Resistance” by game, but potion not currently present unless using custom potion features | Mahogany |
Level 5+ gives the player full immunity to all damage, with the exception of the void and the /kill command. If a "corrupt" potion is used, damage taken is increased.
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| 12 | Fire Resistance |
Immunity to fire, lava and direct impact of blaze fireballs | No effect | Enchanted golden apple | File:Grid Potion of Fire Resistance.png Potion of Fire Resistance |
Amber |
Most Nether mobs (excludes chickens and skeletons) naturally are resistant to fire and lava without potion effects. However, nether mobs can still be damaged by the direct impact from a blaze fireball, while Fire Resistance makes the player and mobs immune to that. | |
| 13 | Water Breathing |
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No effect | None | Potion of Water Breathing |
Blue |
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| 14 | Invisibility |
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No effect | None | File:Grid Potion of Invisibility.png Potion of Invisibility |
Light gray |
Armor, held items, certain features of entities (sheep wool, spider eyes, etc.) and any particles emitted by mobs do not disappear with the entity. | Sneaking reduces the detection range to 80% of usual, and stacks with Invisibility. |
| 15 | Blindness |
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No effect | Referenced by “Potion of Blindness” by game, but potion not currently present unless using custom potion features | Dark gray |
The Sun and Moon can be seen as normal. Also, liquids do not fade into the fog perfectly. If combined with Night Vision, the screen will be covered by fog. | ||
| 16 | Night Vision |
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No effect | None | File:Grid Potion of Night Vision.png Potion of Night Vision |
Medium blue |
Screen flashes for 10 seconds before the effect wears off. If used in the end everything will appear pink. If combined with Blindness, the screen will be covered by fog. If used in the Void, you will see nothing other than black. | |
| 17 | Hunger |
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Food exhaustion is 0.025 × level per tick |
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Referenced by “Potion of Hunger” by game, but potion not currently present unless using custom potion features | Dull green |
If used with the /effect command on level 127 on any difficulty besides peaceful, It will completely drain your hunger bar in less than 5 seconds. If a “corrupt” potion is used, the Food Bar does not go down. | |
| 18 | Weakness |
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Decreases damage by 0.5 × level | None | File:Grid Potion of Weakness.png Potion of Weakness |
Gray |
If a "corrupt" potion is used, melee attack damage dealt is increased. | |
| 19 | Poison |
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Does 1 |
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File:Grid Potion of Poison.png Potion of Poison |
Green |
Does not affect undead mobs or spiders. Damage is suppressed while the player or mob is already at |
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| 20 | Wither |
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Does 1 |
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Referenced by "Potion of Decay" by game, but potion not currently present unless using custom potion features | Bistre |
Death is reported as “<player> withered away”. | |
| 21 | Health Boost |
Adds 4 |
Adds 4 |
Referenced by “Potion of Health Boost” by game, but potion not currently present unless using custom potion features | Orange |
Actual health may be above the base value after the effect ends and will not be capped, unless the entity is healed. Extra hearts of the mounted mob from the effect can be seen while riding a mounted mob. This effect can also be given with a strength of 0 to give 4 base health (<span class="pixel-image nowrap" title="Expression error: Unexpected / operator. hearts"> |
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| 22 | Absorption |
Adds 4 |
Adds 4 |
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Referenced by “Potion of Absorption” by game, but potion not currently present unless using custom potion features | Azure |
Extra hearts of the mounted mob from the effect can be seen while riding a mounted mob.
If a "corrupt" potion is used, hearts are given when the potion's effect ends. |
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| 23 | — Saturation |
Causes food meter to be replenished by 1 ( |
Replenishes 1 ( |
Referenced by “Potion of Saturation” by game, but potion not currently present unless using custom potion features | Red |
At level 20 it fills the hunger bar in a tick. If a "corrupt" potion is used, hunger bar is decreased; at most levels, player will take starvation damage. |
- ↑ A player with no armor will be detected at 7% of the usual detection distance. Any one piece of armor increases this to 17.5% of the usual distance, and each additional piece increases this by another 17.5 percentage points. After detecting the player, a mob will continue to follow as it does when the player is not invisible.
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
| Stayin' Frosty | Swim in lava while having the Fire Resistance effect. | — | 20G | Bronze | ||
Video
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History
| Beta | |||||
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| 1.8 | Status effects were introduced.[1] No potions were added yet, so the only things that caused them were golden apples, raw chicken, rotten flesh and cave spiders. | ||||
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| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9-pre2 | Actual potions were added and some effects got an alchemical ingredient that correspond to them. Milk was also given the ability to cure and clear all status effects. | |||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | An enchanted golden apple made from blocks of gold was added, and induced, among others, the formerly unused resistance status effect. | |||
| 12w26a | Monster spawners could be customized using third-party world editors and set to spawn mobs with status effects. | ||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w32a | Night vision now functions, and a potion and splash potion of Night Vision was implemented and added to Creative mode. | |||
| Beacons were also added (to Creative only) and could be used to give status effects to players around it, and several potion effects without a potion could be induced. | |||||
| Villager zombies under the effects of a potion of weakness can be given a golden apple to cure it. | |||||
| 12w34a | Invisibility now functions, and turns mobs invisible. Players under its effect cannot be detected by other players. A potion and splash potion of invisibility was implemented and added to Creative mode. | ||||
| The wither effect was added, and it is inflicted by the wither's wither skulls. | |||||
| 12w39a | Using external programs, potions can be changed to give different or multiple effects for any length. | ||||
| 1.5 | 13w09b | Using /effect you can now apply potion effects to players, albeit with a level limit of 4 | |||
| 13w09c | /effect now has a level limit of 255. | ||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w23a | Regeneration and instant health were slightly nerfed, having regeneration heal twice as slow and instant health be 33% less potent. | |||
| 13w23b | Added health boost effect. It is activated after eating the 1st tier of the golden apple. The enchanted tier does not give the effect at all. | ||||
| Regeneration was increased from level 1 to 2 on the normal golden apple, and increased from level 4 to 5 on the enchanted golden apple. | |||||
| 13w24a | Spiders have a rare chance to spawn with status effects on hard difficulty. | ||||
| 13w24b | Added absorption effect. | ||||
| Health boost no longer is activated after eating a golden apple. The absorption effect is now triggered after eating either tier of the golden apple, and lasts for 2 minutes. | |||||
| 1.6.1-pre | Added saturation effect. | ||||
| 1.6.2 | Extra health from absorption effect no longer reappears every 30 seconds. | ||||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | Water breathing potions added. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w06a | Added the ability to disable effect particles. | |||
| 14w25a | Mining fatigue mechanics adjusted, no longer a 20 percentage point reduction per level. | ||||
| 14w27a | Potion of leaping was added. | ||||
| Jump boost now have bright green particles. | |||||
| 14w28a | Effects now accept named IDs as well as numerical IDs. | ||||
| pocketa | |||||
| 0.11.0 | build 1 | Added status effects. | |||
| Currently, since potions have not been implemented, the only effects available are poison from cave spiders, raw food, and nausea from pufferfish. | |||||
| build 4 | Drinking milk will now remove all status effects. | ||||
| build 12 | Armor no longer decreases damage from status effects. | ||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Effect" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- After drinking a bucket of milk while under the Nausea effect, the screen will flash purple for a tick as if you were standing in a Nether Portal. This is because the game uses the same effect for Nausea as it does for the nether portal.
- If you put Speed and Slowness together, you'll be able to sprint.
- If you put Blindness and Night Vision together, the screen will turn black and only the sun and moon will be visible.
- The maximum health the player can achieve using Health Boost and Absorption is 2068.
- If you get max health using the method above, and put regeneration level of 255, while healing to 2068 hearts, your view will jolt, even in creative mode, like getting hurt. You are not getting hurt though.
- If you have at least resistance 5, then you are practically invincible. (Apart from the /kill command and the void)
- Endermen inflicted with invisibility can still be seen due to the fact that the eyes still glow and a slight outline can be seen from a distance. Similarly, spider eyes will glow.
- Strength level 127 is strong enough to slay an Ender Dragon with one hit from a player's fist.
- The Wither effect is the only negative effect that can negatively affect both living and undead mobs.
- If you have regeneration 255, the void cannot kill you.
- The Jump Boost status effect does not make slimes, magma cubes or guardians jump higher.
- Speed allows Slimes to jump farther. High levels of speed can take slimes out of view with just one jump.
Gallery
- 2011-10-06 17.22.15.png
Weakness after drinking a Potion of Weakness.


