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This article is about the throwable potions. For the throwable potions that leave a lingering area of effect, see Lingering Potion.

Splash potions are a variant of potions that can be thrown.

Obtaining

Brewing

Main article: Brewing
Ingredients Brewing recipe
Gunpowder +
Any Potion



Splash potions are brewed by adding gunpowder to a normal potion.

Natural generation

One splash potion of weakness can be found in a brewing stand inside an Igloo basement.

Filling bottles

Using a glass bottle on a cauldron that contains splash potion will turn it into a bottle of that splash potion.‌[Pocket Edition only] Using a glass bottle on a cauldron also removes 13 of that cauldron's contents.

Usage

Brewing

Ingredients Brewing recipe
Dragon's Breath +
Any Splash Potion



Lingering potions are brewed by adding dragon's breath to a splash potion.

Using

Splash potions are thrown by using them. On impact they explode, applying status effects to nearby entities. The bottle is lost, unlike drinkable potions. Entities within an 8.25×8.25×4.25 cuboid centered on the thrown potion at impact and within 4 blocks euclidean distance of the thrown potion[n 1] at impact are affected.

Splash potions have the same duration as the normal potion variants.‌[Computer Edition only][1]

The farther away the entity is from the center of the explosion, the lesser the imbued effect. For effects without duration such as Healing or Harming, the potency of the effect reduces linearly from 100% on a direct hit to 0% at 4 blocks' distance. For effects with duration, the effect has full potency but the duration decreases linearly on the same scale (rounded to the nearest 120 second), with no effect being applied if the duration would be 1 second or less. Throwing a potion at an entities head will maximize the duration, compared to the feet.

Splash water bottles

Splash water bottles have no effect on entities, but will put out fire in the block hit and the four blocks horizontally surrounding it. Splash water bottles are only in the computer edition and Pocket Edition.

A splash water bottle will deal 1♥ damage to an enderman or a blaze. An enderman will teleport away before being hit, but can still be caught in the effect radius if targeted indirectly.

Filling cauldrons

Using a splash potion on a cauldron will add one level of that potion to the cauldron.‌[Pocket Edition only] Attempting to add a splash potion to a cauldron with water, dyed water or a non-matching potion will empty the cauldron and create an explosion sound (but no actual explosion).

Data values

Splash potions when thrown have entity data which define various properties of the entity. Their entity ID is potion.

In Pocket Edition, this is a distinct entity from the thrown lingering potion. In the computer edition, this is the same entity, and the stored Potion tag determines whether it is a splash or a lingering potion.

  • Entity data
    • Tags common to all entities
    • Tags common to all projectiles
    •  Item: The item that was thrown. The entity renders as a lingering potion if the id is lingering_potion, otherwise it renders as a splash potion.
      • Tags common to all potion items

Video

Splash Potion/video

History

release
1.0.0Beta 1.9-pre4Added splash potions.
Oct 14, 2011Jeb had commented that while splash water bottles should logically harm endermen and blazes, its coding would be more difficult to implement than is worthwhile.
1.3.112w17aSplash potions are no longer depleted from your inventory when used in creative.
12w22aSplash potions were added to the new creative item selection from 12w21b.
1.4.212w32aAdded splash potions of night vision, not yet brewable.
12w34aAdded splash potions of invisibility.
Splash potions of night vision are now brewable.
12w38aWitches now utilize splash potions for attacking.
12w39bCustom potions can be created with a world editor.[2]
1.814w27aAdded splash potions of leaping.
1.8.11.8.1-pre1Splash potions of leaping can be extended.
1.915w31aAdded splash water bottle, and Mundane, Thick, and Awkward splash potions.
15w33aSplash potions are used to brew lingering potions
15w33cSplash potions can now be placed in brewing stands.
15w34aSplash water bottles now just extinguish fire, without placing flowing water.
15w43aA splash potion of weakness can be found in the brewing stand in an igloo basement.
1.1116w32aThe entity ID is changed from ThrownPotion to potion.
16w35aSplash water bottles now deal 1♥ damage to endermen and blazes.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.12.1build 1Added splash potions.
0.13.0build 1 Splash potions of leaping are now obtainable in survival.
0.16.0build 4As a version exclusive, added Splash Potions of Decay.
Legacy Console Edition
TU7CU1 1.0 Patch 1Added splash potions.
TU14 1.04 Added splash potions of night vision and splash potions of invisibility.

Issues

Issues relating to "Splash Potion" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

  • If endermen are targeted directly by a splash potion, they will teleport away before the potion can take effect. However, if they are caught in the splash radius of a potion not aimed at them, they will be affected.
  • If killed by a splash potion of harming, the death message would be: <player> was killed by magic
  • The ThrownPotion entity will render as its stored item, no matter the item.
    • For instance, if the stored item has an ID of minecraft:diamond_sword, the potion will appear as a diamond sword while being thrown.

Gallery

See also

Notes

  1. Specifically its lower-north-west corner; the potion entity like most thrown entities is 0.25×0.25×0.25 blocks.

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