Effect

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 level, the stronger the effect is.

Internally, and in the /effect command and potion Amplifier NBT tags, the game stores an "amplifier" value rather than the level. The amplifier is one less than the level, for example Strength II has an amplifier of 1.

Due to the way this amplifier is stored in NBT, amplifiers of 128 to 255 (levels 129 to 256) in NBT tags (e.g. on potions) are treated as if they were −128 to −1 (levels −127 to 0) respectively. The /effect command initially applies such amplifiers in their positive-valued sense but this is later converted to the negative-valued interpretation, leading to inconsistent results.

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.

The Hunger status effect.
The Glowing effect, added to all entities by command.

Summary of effects

ID	Icon	Name	Effect
1		Speed	Increases walking speed
2		Slowness	Decreases walking speed
3		Haste	Increases mining and attack speed
4		Mining Fatigue	Decreases mining and attack speed
5		Strength	Increases melee damage
6	—	Instant Health	Heals entities, damages undead
7	—	Instant Damage	Damages entities, heals undead
8		Jump Boost	Increases jump height and reduces fall damage
9		Nausea	Wobbles and warps the screen
10		Regeneration	Regenerates health over time
11		Resistance	Reduces most damage
12		Fire Resistance	Immunity to fire, etc.
13		Water Breathing	Prevents drowning
14		Invisibility	Grants invisibility
15		Blindness	Impairs vision
16		Night Vision	Negates darkness
17		Hunger	Increases food exhaustion
18		Weakness	Decreases melee damage
19		Poison	Inflicts damage over time (but can't kill)
20		Wither	Inflicts damage over time (can kill)
21		Health Boost	Increases maximum health
22		Absorption	Adds damage absorption
23	—	Saturation	Restores hunger and saturation
24		Glowing	Outlines entities (can be seen through blocks)
25		Levitation	Floats entities upwards
26		Luck	Increases chances of high-quality loot
27		Bad Luck	Reduces chances of high-quality loot

List of effects

Sources: Blocks, items, and mobs which can produce the effect legitimately in Survival mode. The /effect command can produce all status effects so is not repeated below.

Particle: Color of status effect particle in RGB hexadecimal notation, with a common color name.

ID: Status effect identifying number, used in commands and third-party tools.

Name ID: Status effect identifying name, used in commands and third-party tools.

Absorption

Sources	Enchanted Golden Apple Golden Apple Totem of Undying‌^{[upcoming: Lua error in Module:Version_link at line 112: attempt to concatenate local 'text' (a nil value).]}
Particle	#2552A5 (azure)
ID	22
Name ID	minecraft:absorption

Absorbs damage.

Effect

Adds 4

× level "absorption health". Absorption health cannot be replenished by natural regeneration or other effects, and vanishes when the effect ends.

Negative levels do nothing initially, but give 4

× −level (that do not vanish) when the effect ends.

Notes

Absorption hearts of a mounted mob can be seen while riding it.

See also: Fire Resistance, Resistance.

Bad Luck

Sources	n/a
Particle	#C0A44D (khaki)
ID	27
Name ID	minecraft:unluck

Decreases chances of high-quality loot.

Effect

Subtracts 1 × level from attribute generic.luck, making 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 floor(base_weight + quality * generic.luck).

Negative levels increase luck.

See also: Luck.

Blindness

Sources	n/a
Particle	#1F1F23 (dark gray)
ID	15
Name ID	minecraft:blindness

Impairs vision.

Effect

Impairs vision as if a thick black fog were surrounding the player. Also prevents sprinting and critical hits.

Notes

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. The radius of the fog around the player is 4.5 blocks.

See also: Nausea, Night Vision.

Fire Resistance

Sources	Arrow of Fire Resistance Enchanted Golden Apple Potion of Fire Resistance
Particle	#E49A3A (amber)
ID	12
Name ID	minecraft:fire_resistance

Grants immunity to fire, lava, and the direct impact of blaze fireballs.

Effect

No futher effects.

Notes

Most Nether mobs (excluding chickens and skeletons) are naturally resistant to fire and lava without requiring the Fire Resistance status effect. However, Nether mobs can still be damaged by the direct impact from a blaze fireball, while Fire Resistance grants immunity to that.

See also: Absorption, Resistance.

Glowing

Sources	Spectral Arrow
Particle	#94A061 (olive)
ID	24
Name ID	minecraft:glowing

Outlines entities.

Effect

Causes entities to glow with an outline that can be seen through opaque blocks.

The Glowing effect, added to all entities by command.

See also: Invisibility.

Haste

Sources	Beacon
Particle	#D9C043 (yellow)
ID	3
Name ID	minecraft:haste

Increases mining and attack speed.

Effect

Increases mining speed by 20% × level and attack speed by 10% × level.

Negative levels cause blocks to be mined slower and the player's arm to move more slowly, and decrease attack speed.

Notes

At levels 3 or higher, the player's arm will not move while mining.

Alternative methods of increasing mining speed include: the efficiency enchantment.

See also: Mining Fatigue.

Health Boost

Sources	n/a
Particle	#F87D23 (orange)
ID	21
Name ID	minecraft:health_boost

Increases maximum health.

Effect

Increases maximum health by 4

× level. Added hearts will initially appear as damaged until healed.

Negative levels reduce base health, however the entity's actual health is not decreased to the new maximum until damaged or healed.

Notes

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 a mounted mob can be seen while riding it.

See also: Instant Health, Regeneration.

Hunger

Sources	Husk Pufferfish Raw chicken (30% chance) Rotten Flesh (80% chance)
Particle	#587653 (dull green)
ID	17
Name ID	minecraft:hunger

Increases hunger.

Effect

Increases food exhaustion by 0.025 × level per game tick (removes

per 16/level seconds if target has no saturation).

Turns the hunger bar yellow-green (

).

Negative levels will decrease food exhaustion. This does not increase saturation or the hunger bar.

See also: Saturation.

Instant Damage

Sources	Arrow of Harming Potion of Harming
Particle	#430A09 (maroon)
ID	7
Name ID	minecraft:instant_damage

Damages entities, heals undead.

Effect

Instantly inflicts damage of 3

× 2^level.

Undead mobs (including the wither) are healed as if with Instant Health 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. Levels 30–32 provide no damage. Amplifiers outside the range 0–31 (corresponding to levels 1–32) are used modulo 32.

See also: Poison, Wither.

Instant Health

Sources	Arrow of Healing Potion of Healing
Particle	#F82423 (red)
ID	6
Name ID	minecraft:instant_health

Heals entities, damages undead.

Effect

Instantly heals 2

× 2^level.

Undead mobs (including the wither) are damaged as if with Instant Damage instead. If the effect is forced to last longer than one tick, it will heal entities every tick. Levels 30–32 provide no healing. Amplifiers outside the range 0–31 (corresponding to levels 1–32) are used modulo 32.

See also: Health Boost, Regeneration.

Invisibility

Sources	Arrow of Invisibility Potion of Invisibility
Particle	#7F8392 (light gray)
ID	14
Name ID	minecraft:invisibility

Grants invisibility.

Effect

Causes the entity to disappear.

InvisibleSpider — The eyes of an invisible spider.

Armor, held items, certain features of entities (for example, the eyes of endermen and spiders), and any particles emitted by mobs do not disappear with the entity.

Notes

Mobs will not attack/sense the player until the player is much closer than normal. 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.

Additional methods of reducing detection by mobs include:

Sneaking reduces the detection range to 80% of usual, and stacks with Invisibility.
Wearing the corresponding mob head reduces the detection range of skeletons, zombies, and creepers to half of usual, and stacks with Invisibility.

See also: Glowing.

Jump Boost

Sources	Arrow of Leaping Beacon Potion of Leaping
Particle	#786297 (bright green)
ID	8
Name ID	minecraft:jump_boost

Increases jump height and reduces fall damage.

Effect

Increases jump height by about level/8+.46 (jump height is (level+4.2)^2/16, ignoring drag). Reduces fall damage by 1

each level.

Negative levels decrease jump height and increase fall damage (which also causes the player to start taking damage from short falls that would normally do no damage); extreme negative levels will eliminate all jumping ability and will cause damage even when stepping off a slab.

Notes

At level 16, the increased height exceeds the damage reduction, causing fall damage on landing.

Levitation

Sources	Shulker
Particle	#CEFFFF (sky blue)
ID	25
Name ID	minecraft:levitation

Floats entities.

Effect

Causes the affected entity to float upwards at a rate of 0.9×level blocks per second.

Does not affect swimming or flying. Negative levels cause the entity to float downwards, overriding the usual falling due to gravity. Fall damage is not affected.

Notes

Additional methods of moving upwards include: flying with elytra, and jumping on a slime block.

Luck

Sources	Arrow of Luck Potion of Luck
Particle	#339900 (avocado green)
ID	26
Name ID	minecraft:luck

Increases chances of high-quality loot.

Effect

Adds 1 × level to attribute generic.luck, making 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 floor(base_weight + quality * generic.luck).

Negative levels decrease luck.

Notes

Using a fishing rod enchanted with Luck of the Sea increases the chances of high-quality loot but doesn't actually grant the Luck status effect.

See also: Bad Luck.

Mining Fatigue

Sources	Elder Guardian
Particle	#4A4217 (dark khaki)
ID	4
Name ID	minecraft:mining_fatigue

Reduces mining and attack speed.

Effect

The effects on mining speed are shown in the table below:

Level	Speed	Breaking time ×
1	30%	3 ¹⁄₃
2	9%	11 ¹⁄₉
3	0.27%	370 ¹⁄₂₇
4+	0.081%	1234 ⁴⁶⁄₈₁

Attack speed decreases by 10% × level.

Negative levels increase attack speed, but still act as level 4 with respect to mining.

Notes

The effect does not affect block breaking in Creative mode, or blocks that are broken instantly.

Other conditions which reduce mining speed include: sneaking; being underwater; riding a horse, pig, or minecart.

See also: Haste.

Nausea

Sources	Pufferfish
Particle	#551D4A (purple)
ID	9
Name ID	minecraft:nausea

Wobbles and warps the view.

Effect

Besides the effect on vision, there are no other effects. The effect on vision builds up over the first two seconds of the effect, and then declines over the last two seconds.

Notes

After a zombie villager is cured, the villager gets Nausea for 10 seconds.

Standing in a nether portal affects vision similarly but doesn't actually grant the status effect.

See also: Blindness, Night Vision.

Night Vision

Sources	Arrow of Night Vision Potion of Night Vision
Particle	#1F1FA1 (medium blue)
ID	16
Name ID	minecraft:night_vision

Improves vision in darkness.

Effect

Allows player to see as if light levels were 15 everywhere. Also, increases ability to see underwater.

Notes

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, the player will see nothing other than black.

See also: Blindness, Nausea.

Poison

Sources	Arrow of Poison Cave Spider (on Normal and Hard difficulty) Poisonous Potato (60% chance) Potion of Poison Pufferfish Spider Eye
Particle	#4E9331 (green)
ID	19
Name ID	minecraft:poison

Inflicts damage over time (but cannot kill).

Effect

The amount of damage inflicted to the affected entity is shown in the table below:

Level	Ticks per	per second
1	25	0.4
2	12	0.8
3	6^*	1.66^*
4	3^*	3.33^*
5+	1^*	10^*

* Due to damage immunity, the effective rate is 12 ticks (

× 0.8 per second) at levels 3 and 4 and 10 ticks (

× 1 per second) at level 5.

The player's hearts turn yellow-green (

× 10).

Damage is suppressed while the player or mob is already at

health, but can resume if healing occurs before the effect expires. Amplifiers outside the range 0–31 (corresponding to levels 1–32) are used modulo 32.

Undead mobs and spiders are unaffected.

See also: Instant Damage, Wither.

Regeneration

Sources	Arrow of Regeneration Beacon Golden Apple Enchanted Golden Apple Potion of Regeneration Totem of Undying‌^{[upcoming: Lua error in Module:Version_link at line 112: attempt to concatenate local 'text' (a nil value).]}
Particle	#CD5CAB (pink)
ID	10
Name ID	minecraft:regeneration

Heals damage over time.

Effect

The amount of health healed over time is shown in the table below:

Level	Ticks per	per second
1	50	0.2
2	25	0.4
3	12	0.8
4	6	1.66
5	3	3.33
6+	1	10

Undead mobs are unaffected. Amplifiers outside the range 0–31 (corresponding to levels 1–32) are used modulo 32.

Notes

When a villager opens a new tier of trade, it gets Regeneration I for 10 seconds.

See also: Health Boost, Instant Health.

Resistance

Sources	Beacon Enchanted Golden Apple
Particle	#99453A (mahogany)
ID	11
Name ID	minecraft:resistance

Reduces most damage.

Effect

Reduces all incoming damage, except void damage and /kill, by 20% × level.

Negative levels increase damage taken.

Notes

Level 5+ gives the player full immunity to all damage, with the exception of the void and the /kill command.

See also: Absorption, Fire Resistance.

Saturation

Sources	n/a
Particle	#F82423 (red)
ID	23
Name ID	minecraft:saturation

Reduces hunger.

Effect

Instantly replenishes 1 (

) × level and 2 × level points of saturation. If the effect is forced to last longer than one tick, it will increase hunger and saturation each tick.

Negative levels decrease hunger and saturation.

Notes

All foods replenish food saturation, but they don't actually add the Saturation status effect.

See also: Hunger.

Slowness

Sources	Arrow of Slowness Potion of Slowness Stray
Particle	#5A6C81 (gray-blue)
ID	2
Name ID	minecraft:slowness

Decreases walking speed.

Effect

Decreases walking speed by 15% × level. Contracts FOV accordingly.

Negative levels increase speed.

Notes

Spiders, cave spiders, silverfish, and endermites get the effect when attacked with a weapon enchanted with Bane of Arthropods.

At levels 7–127, the player will be unable to move unless they jump while moving or throw an ender pearl.

Alternative methods of reducing travel speed include: walking on soul sand or slime blocks, or through cobwebs; swimming; riding a boat on land; sneaking; eating; drinking milk or a potion (travel speed is reduced while drinking any potion, regardless of the effects of the potion after drinking is finished); aiming a bow; blocking with a shield

See also: Speed.

Speed

Sources	Arrow of Swiftness Beacon Potion of Swiftness
Particle	#7CAFC6 (electric blue)
ID	1
Name ID	minecraft:speed

Increases walking speed.

Effect

Increases walking speed by 20% × level. Expands field of view (FOV) accordingly.

Negative levels decrease speed.

Notes

At high levels, the player may walk faster than chunks can load.

Alternative methods of increasing travel speed include: sprinting; throwing ender pearls; riding a horse, pig, or minecart; walking on ice or packed ice; and riding a boat on ice or packed ice.

See also: Slowness.

Strength

Sources	Arrow of Strength Beacon Potion of Strength
Particle	#932423 (dark red)
ID	5
Name ID	minecraft:strength

Increases melee damage.

Effect

Increases melee damage by 3

× level.

Negative levels decrease melee damage, with attacks being ignored entirely if damage would be 0 or lower.

Notes

While a zombie villager is being cured, it will have the Strength I effect in Normal difficulty or Strength II in Hard difficulty.

Alternative methods of increasing melee damage include: critical hits.

See also: Weakness.

Water Breathing

Sources	Arrow of Water Breathing Potion of Water Breathing
Particle	#2E5299 (blue)
ID	13
Name ID	minecraft:water_breathing

Prevents drowning.

Effect

Prevents the oxygen bar from decreasing completely. Also slightly increases visibility while underwater.

Notes

Alternative methods of slowing or preventing drowning include: the Respiration enchantment.

Weakness

Sources	Arrow of Weakness Potion of Weakness
Particle	#484D48 (gray)
ID	18
Name ID	minecraft:weakness

Reduces melee damage.

Effect

Melee damage inflicted by the affected entity is reduced by 4

× level.

Negative levels increase melee damage dealt.

Notes

Zombie villagers can be cured of zombification using a golden apple if they have the weakness status effect on them.

See also: Strength.

Wither

Sources	Wither (on Normal and Hard difficulty) Wither Skeleton Arrow of Decay‌^{[upcoming: Edition Alpha 0.16.0]} Potion of Decay‌^{[upcoming: Edition Alpha 0.16.0]}
Particle	#352A27 (bistre)
ID	20
Name ID	minecraft:wither

Inflicts damage over time (and can kill).

Effect

The amount of damage inflicted to the affected entity is shown in the table below:

Level	Ticks per	per second
1	40	0.25
2	20	0.5
3	10	1
4	5^*	2^*
5	2^*	4^*
6+	1^*	10^*

* Due to damage immunity, the effective rate is 10 ticks (

× 1 per second) at levels 4 and up.

The player's hearts turn black (