Status effect after eating rotten flesh.
The spectral effect[upcoming], added to all entities by command.
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. Singleplayer users with cheats enabled and operators in Multiplayer servers can use command /effect with the time of the effect set to 0 or /effect <playername> clear to achieve the same goal.
List of effects
There are a total of 23 effects (27 as of snapshot 15w31a[upcoming]). 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 | Potion of Swiftness |
Electric blue |
At exceedingly high levels (~level +100), the player walks faster than chunks can load. If a “corrupt”[note 1] 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 | 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"[note 1] potion is used, speed is increased. | Walking on soul sand |
| 3 | Haste |
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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”[note 1] potion is used, blocks are mined slower and the player's arm moves more slowly. | |
| 4 | Mining Fatigue |
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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 (pre-1.9) even though the hands move slower. Levels 128 to 254 won't move the hand at all. | Sneaking
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| 5 | Strength |
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Potion of Strength |
Dark red |
Any passive mob (except villagers and horses) can be killed when Strength is on level 5. If a “corrupt”[note 1] potion is used, melee attack damage dealt is decreased. If level is too high, player deals no damage. |
Critical hits on mobs |
| 6 | — Instant Health |
Heals 4 |
Healing is 2 |
None | 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 | 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 | 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”[note 1] 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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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% except void damage | 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"[note 1] 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 | 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 | 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. |
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| 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 | 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”[note 1] potion is used, the Food Bar does not go down. | |
| 18 | Weakness |
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Decreases damage by 0.5 × level. In 1.9,[upcoming] decreases damage dealt with melee attacks by 4 × level. | None | Potion of Weakness |
Gray |
If a "corrupt"[note 1] potion is used, melee attack damage dealt is increased. | |
| 19 | Poison |
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Does 1 |
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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"[note 1] 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"[note 1] potion is used, hunger bar is decreased; at most levels, player will take starvation damage. | ||
| 24 | Glowing [upcoming] |
Causes entities to glow with an outline that can be seen through opaque blocks. | No effect | Being hit with a Spectral Arrow. | Referenced by “Potion of Glowing” by game, but potion not currently present unless using custom potion features | Olive |
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| 25 | Levitation [upcoming] |
Causes the player to involuntarily rise upwards until the effect runs out. | The player floats up at a steady rate of approximately (level + 1) blocks per second. | Being hit with a Shulker's projectile. | Referenced by “Potion of Levitation” by game, but potion not currently present unless using custom potion features | Sky blue |
Does not affect swimming or flying.
If a "corrupt"[note 1] potion is used, the player floats downwards instead. At level 255, the player cannot jump, fall down or climb stairs; otherwise, the rate of descent is about (255 − level) blocks per second (jumping a full block becomes impossible at level 250 without a Jump Boost effect). Fall damage in itself is not affected; however, taking fall damage causes the entity to bounce up in the air, taking fall damage each time. |
Flying upwards |
| 26 | Luck [upcoming] |
Increases chance of getting high-quality loot | Adds 1 × level to attribute generic.luck.
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None | Potion of Luck |
Avocado Green |
Makes loot table entries with a high quality score more likely, and entries with negative quality less likely. Currently, only fishing uses quality.
The new weight of each entry is |
Using a fishing rod enchanted with Luck of the Sea |
| 27 | Bad Luck [upcoming] |
Reduces chance of getting high-quality loot | Subtracts 1 × level from attribute generic.luck.
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None | Not referenced in-game, but available as a custom potion effect. | Khaki |
Makes loot table entries with a high quality score less likely, and entries with negative quality more likely. Currently, only fishing uses quality.
The new weight of each entry is |
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l A “corrupt” effect has an amplifier above 127, causing it to be negative in game.
- ↑ 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) | |
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| PS4 | Other | |||||
| Stayin' Frosty | Swim in lava while having the Fire Resistance effect. | — | 20G | Bronze | ||
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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. | ||||
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| 1.9 | 15w31a | Added levitation status effect, received when the player is hit by a shulker projectile. | |||
| Added glowing status effect, received when players or mobs are hit by spectral arrows. | |||||
| Status effects are now displayed on the HUD, instead of just in the inventory. | |||||
| 15w33a | Strength and weakness effects altered. | ||||
| 15w34b | Haste and mining fatigue affect the new attackSpeed attribute. | ||||
| 15w44b | New status effects, Luck and Bad Luck. | ||||
| Tipped Arrows will now display the effect's time, same as potions. | |||||
| Tipped Arrows are now able to be obtained in survival. | |||||
| pocketa | |||||
| 0.11.0 | December 2, 2014 | Jeb tweets an image of status effects in progress. | |||
| When the player is affected with a status effect, there are tabs on the right side of the screen that shows what effects are currently afflicted. | |||||
| Jeb states that the only effects obtainable are poison and nausea, due to potions not being implemented yet. | |||||
| December 4, 2014 | Jeb tweets an image of the status effect GUI, which appears to be shown when one of the "tabs" are selected. | ||||
| build 1 | Added status effects. | ||||
| Currently, since potions have not been implemented, the only effects available are: - Poison from cave spiders, rotten flesh and pufferfish - Hunger from raw chicken - Nausea from pufferfish. | |||||
| build 4 | Drinking milk will now remove all status effects. | ||||
| build 12 | Armor no longer decreases damage from status effects. | ||||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | Status effects now can be applied with potions. | |||
| Rotten foods now cause Hunger rather than Poison due to the addition of hunger. | |||||
| The hunger status effect functions correctly now due to the addition of hunger. | |||||
| ? | Fixed bug where the touch radius was offset for the status effect tab. | ||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU5 | Status effects were introduced. No potions were added yet, so the only things that caused them were golden apples, raw chicken, rotten flesh and cave spiders. | ||||
| TU7 | 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. | ||||
| TU14 | 1.04 | An enchanted golden apple made from blocks of gold was added, and induced, among others, the formerly unused resistance status effect. | |||
| TU19 | CU7 | 1.12 | Night Vision now functions, and a potion and splash potion of Night Vision was implemented and added to Creative mode. | ||
| Beacons were also added 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. | |||||
| 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. | |||||
| Added absorption effect, triggered for 2 minutes when consuming either tier of the golden apple. | |||||
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 (1034 hearts).
- If you get max health using the method above, and put regeneration level of 255, while healing to 1034 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.
- 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.
- The levitation status effect will normally rise you into the air. However, if you go into water, you will just flow along with the water, while not floating.
- When having multiple status effects, their timer's seconds will always decrement by 1 each simultaneously reguardless when the player takes another potion. This is because they use the same "seconds counter" that "ticks" every 20 game ticks to save memory. For example, if the player takes one potion and another potion (different so that they don't reset the timer) 5.5 (or any non-interger amounts) seconds later, their timer's second will subtract by 1 on both of them simultaneously.
- You can walk/run while having the levitation effect especially on level 254.
Gallery
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Weakness after drinking a Potion of Weakness.


