Lingering Potion

Lingering Potion

Type	Potions
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
First appearances	See History
Data value	dec: 441 hex: 1B9 bin: 110111001
Name	lingering_potion

This article is about throwable potions that leave a lingering area of effect. For the throwable potions without a lingering effect, see Splash Potion. For the drinkable potions, see Potion.

Lingering potions are variants of potions that can be thrown to leave areas with status effects which linger on the ground.

Obtaining

Brewing

Main article: Brewing

Ingredients	Brewing recipe
Dragon's Breath + Any Splash Potion

Usage

Creating potion clouds

Lingering potions are thrown, like splash potions, by using them. On impact they explode, creating a cloud. The cloud is made of the potion particles corresponding to the potion that was thrown.

The cloud starts with a radius of 3 blocks, decreasing to 0 over the course of 30 seconds. During the cloud's existence, any player or mob that walks into it after the first second will get the corresponding status effect; this decreases the radius by a ¹⁄₂ block immediately, causing the cloud to disappear more quickly.

For effects with duration, the duration applied by the cloud is ¹⁄₄ that of the corresponding potion. For effects without duration such as Healing or Harming, the potency of the effect is ¹⁄₂ that of the corresponding potion.

The effect may be applied consecutively if the player or mob remains in the cloud. For example, a player throwing a Lingering Potion of Healing II straight down will consume the cloud within a few seconds while being healed 5 times for a total of 20 () health. As far as healing is concerned, this makes the lingering potion much more powerful than the regular or splash potion, provided that the player is away from other mobs or players.

Lingering Potions can also be thrown out of dispensers just like splash potions.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Tipped Arrow	Arrow + Matching Lingering Potion	8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 88	Arrows of decay are Bedrock Edition and New Nintendo 3DS Edition exclusive.

Filling cauldrons

Using a lingering potion on a cauldron will add one level of that potion to the cauldron.^{[Bedrock Edition only]} Attempting to add a lingering 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

Thrown potion

Thrown lingering potion

Internal ID	JE: 16 BE: 101
Network ID	JE: 73
Entity ID	JE: potion BE: lingeringpotion

See also: Chunk format and Potion data values

Lingering potions when thrown have entity data which define various properties of the entity. Their entity ID is potion. What makes it a lingering potion as opposed to a splash potion is that their Potion tag stores a minecraft:lingering_potion item.^{[Java Edition only]} In Bedrock Edition, this is a distinct entity from the thrown splash potion.

• 
  Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all projectiles see Template:Nbt inherit/projectile/template
  • 
     shake: The "shake" when arrows hit a block.
  • 
     owner: The name of the player this projectile was thrown by.
  • 
     Potion: The item that was thrown. The ThrownPotion entity will render as this stored item, no matter the item.
    • Tags common to all potion items see Template:Nbt inherit/itempotion/template
  • 
     potionValue (deprecated): If the Potion tag does not exist, this value is used as the damage value of the thrown potion.

Area effect cloud

Area effect cloud

Internal ID	JE: 3 BE: 95
Entity ID	area_effect_cloud

See also: Chunk format

The cloud that is created when lingering potions are thrown – and when creepers with potion effects explode – is an entity, which has entity data that defines the properties of the entity.

• 
  Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • 
     Age: Age of the field. Increases by 1 every tick. When this is bigger than Duration + WaitTime the area effect cloud will dissipate.
  • 
     Color: The color of the displayed particle. Uses the same format as the color tag from Display Properties.
  • 
     Duration: The maximum age of the field after WaitTime.
  • 
     ReapplicationDelay: The number of ticks before reapplying the effect.
  • 
     WaitTime: The time before deploying the field. The Radius is ignored, meaning that any specified effects will not be applied and specified particles will only show at the center of the field, until Age hits this number.
  • 
     OwnerUUIDLeast: Least significant bits of the Universally Unique IDentifier of the cloud's owner, to be joined with OwnerUUIDMost to form a unique ID.
  • 
     OwnerUUIDMost: Most significant bits of the Universally Unique IDentifier of the cloud's owner, to be joined with OwnerUUIDLeast to form a unique ID.
  • 
     DurationOnUse: The amount the duration of the field changes upon applying the effect.
  • 
     Radius: The field's radius.
  • 
     RadiusOnUse: The amount the radius changes upon applying the effect. Normally negative.
  • 
     RadiusPerTick: The amount the radius changes per tick. Normally negative.
  • 
     Particle: The particle displayed by the field.
  • 
     ParticleParam1: For blockdust, blockcrack and fallingdust particles, specifies a numeric block id and a data value, using a single number: id+(data×4096). For iconcrack, specifies a numeric block ID or item ID.
  • 
     ParticleParam2: For iconcrack, specifies a data value.
  • 
     Potion: The name of the default potion effect. See potion data values for valid IDs.
  • 
     Effects: A list of the applied effects.
    • 
      An individual effect.
      • 
         Ambient: 1 or 0 (true/false) - whether or not this is an effect provided by a beacon and therefore should be less intrusive on the screen. Optional, and defaults to 0.
      • 
         Amplifier: The amplifier of the effect, with level I having value 0. Negative levels are discussed here. Optional, and defaults to level I.
      • 
         Id: The numeric ID of the effect.
      • 
         ShowParticles: 1 or 0 (true/false) - whether or not this effect produces particles. Optional, and defaults to 1.
      • 
         Duration: The duration of the effect in ticks. Values 0 or lower are treated as 1. Optional, and defaults to 1 tick.

History

Official release
1.9			15w33a		Added lingering potions, including lingering water bottle, and Mundane, Awkward, and Thick lingering potions
			15w33c		Fixed the bug where you could not place splash potions in the brewing stand, this allows for easier creation of lingering potions
			16w06a		Lingering potions can now be used to craft tipped arrows
1.11			16w32a		Changed entity ID from AreaEffectCloud to area_effect_cloud.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.13			18w07a		Added the lingering potion of the Turtle Master.
Pocket Edition
1.0			build 1		Added lingering potions.
Legacy Console Edition
TU46	CU36	1.38	Patch 15		Added lingering potions.

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