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"Elixir", "Antidote", "Eye Drops", and "Tonic" redirects here. For the brewable items, see Potion.
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This page describes an education-related feature. 
This feature is available only in Minecraft Education or when enabling the "Education" option in Bedrock Edition.
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A medicine is a type of potion that cures the specified effect instead of applying it.

Obtaining

Brewing

Cures are brewed from Awkward Potions using different elements.‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] These drinks remove the specified effect when drank, and cannot be modified into splash, lingering, extended or enhanced versions.

Potion Reagent, base Effect Notes
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Antidote
Template:Grid/Brewing Stand Cures Poison Silver detects poison in folklore, and possesses anti-microbial properties.
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Elixir
Template:Grid/Brewing Stand Cures Weakness
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Eye Drops
Template:Grid/Brewing Stand Cures Blindness
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Tonic
Template:Grid/Brewing Stand Cures Nausea In real life, bismuth subsalicylate is used as a nausea treatment.

Usage

Each type of medicine has an associated effect that it can cure (see § Brewing for details). Players can drink a medicine only if they have the corresponding effect. Drinking the medicine eliminates the effect. Although medicine does not resemble potions, the player still gets the bottle back.

Data values

ID

NameIdentifierNumeric ID Translation key
Medicinemedicine447item.medicine.poison.name
item.medicine.weakness.name
item.medicine.blindness.name
item.medicine.nausea.name

History

Bedrock Edition
1.4.0beta 1.2.20.1Antidote BE1 Elixir BE1 Eye Drops BE1 Tonic BE1 Added medicines.
Education Edition
1.0.27Antidote BE1 Elixir BE1 Eye Drops BE1 Tonic BE1 Added medicines.

Issues

Issues relating to "Cures" or "Medicine" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

See also

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