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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.[1]
Mob Immunity
Certain Mobs are immune to damaging splash potions such as Poison and Instant Harm.
| No Immunities | Blaze, Creepers, Endermen, Magma Cube, Snow Golem |
| Immune to Weakness | Ghast* |
| Immune to Poison | Slime, Spiders |
| Immune to Poison & Instant Harm | Skeletons, Zombie Pigmen, Zombies |
Immunities needing further confirmation are in italics.
* It would be logical that since Ghasts (and Skeletons) used ranged attacks, that they would not be hindered by Weakness since it only affects a mob's melee attack.
Gallery
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Splash Potion of Harming, Instant Damage II
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Radius of a Splash Potion's Effect Falloff
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.
- 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.
