Lingering Potion

Lingering Potion

Type (deprec.)	Potions
Rarity	Common
Renewable	Luck, Decay: No All others: Yes
Stackable	No
Data value	dec: 441 hex: 1B9 bin: 110111001
Namespaced ID	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 splash potions that can be thrown to leave clouds 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 × 10 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	888888888888888888	Arrows of Decay are Bedrock Edition, Legacy Console Edition and New Nintendo 3DS Edition exclusive unless obtained via creative or commands. Arrows of luck are Java Edition exclusive. A custom potion obtained via commands cannot endow arrows with the potion's custom name, lore, or the CustomPotionColor.

Filling cauldrons

In Bedrock and Legacy Console editions, using a lingering potion on a cauldron will add one level of that potion to the cauldron. 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).

Uncraftable Lingering Potion

In Java Edition, the uncraftable potion is a splash potion with no effect that is unobtainable in regular gameplay. It is also available in potion and splash potion forms, as well as for tipped arrows.

It can be obtained using the following command: /give @s minecraft:lingering_potion{Potion:"minecraft:empty"}. It is also obtained any time a potion has invalid or missing potion effect tags, and thus serves as a placeholder.

Icon	Name
	Uncraftable Lingering Potion

Custom effects

In Java Edition, lingering potions can be obtained with any status effect using /give and the tag CustomPotionEffects, which is an array of effects for the potion. See Item format#Potion Effects for more information, and status effect for a list of effects and IDs.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Min. volume
MISSING	Bottle thrown	entity.lingering_potion.throw	subtitles.entity.potion.throw[verify]	?	?	?	?

Data values

Item data

•  tag: The item's tag tag.

• •  CustomPotionEffects: The custom potion effects (status effects) this potion or tipped arrow has.
    • One of these for each effect.
      •  Id: The numeric ID of the effect.
      •  Amplifier: The amplifier of the effect, with level I having value 0. Negative levels are discussed here. Optional, and defaults to level I.
      •  Duration: The duration of the effect in ticks. Values 0 or lower are treated as 1. Optional, and defaults to 1 tick.
      •  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 false. Due to a bug, it has no effect on splash potions.
      •  ShowParticles: 1 or 0 (true/false) - whether or not this effect produces particles. Optional, and defaults to true. Due to a bug, it has no effect on splash potions.
      •  ShowIcon: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if effect icon is shown. false if no icon is shown.
  •  Potion: The name of the default potion effect. This name differs from the status effect name. For example, the value for an "Instant Health II" potion is "minecraft:strong_healing". A potion or tipped arrow getting its effects from this tag is named with the proper effect. The default value is "minecraft:empty", which gives it the "Uncraftable" name.
  •  CustomPotionColor: The item uses this custom color, and area-of-effect clouds, arrows, and splash and lingering potions use it for their particle effects. This color does not extend, however, to the particles given off by entities who ultimately receive the effect. The numeric color code are calculated from the Red, Green and Blue components using this formula: Red<<16 + Green<<8 + Blue. For positive values larger than 0x00FFFFFF, the top byte is ignored. All negative values produce white.

Thrown potion

Thrown lingering potion

Internal ID	JE: 16 BE: 101
Network ID	JE: 73
Namespaced ID	See ID

ID

Java Edition:

Entity	Namespaced ID
Lingering Potion	potion

Bedrock Edition:

Entity	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Lingering Potion	lingering_potion	101

Entity Data

See also: Chunk format and Potion data values

Lingering potions when thrown have entity data which define various properties of the entity.

• 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 projectiles hit a block.
  •  owner: The uuid of the entity this projectile was thrown by.
    •  L: Thrower UUIDLeast. Used to generate UUID.
    •  M: Thrower UUIDMost. Used to generate UUID.
  •  Potion: The item that was thrown. The entity will render as a lingering potion if the id is lingering_potion, else it'll render as a splash potion.
    • Tags common to all potion items see Template:Nbt inherit/itempotion/template

Area effect cloud

Area effect cloud

Internal ID	JE: 3 BE: 95
Namespaced 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.
  •  DurationOnUse: The amount the duration of the field changes upon applying the effect.
  •  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.
  •  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. This is the exact same as used in the /particle command, including additional parameters.
  •  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.
      •  Id: The numeric ID of the effect.
      •  Amplifier: The amplifier of the effect, with level I having value 0. Negative levels are discussed here. Optional, and defaults to level I.
      •  Duration: The duration of the effect in ticks. Values 0 or lower are treated as 1. Optional, and defaults to 1 tick.
      •  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 false. Due to a bug, it has no effect on splash potions.
      •  ShowParticles: 1 or 0 (true/false) - whether or not this effect produces particles. Optional, and defaults to true. Due to a bug, it has no effect on splash potions.
      •  ShowIcon: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if effect icon is shown. false if no icon is shown.

History

Java Edition
1.9		15w33a			Added lingering potions.
					Added lingering water bottle, and Mundane, Awkward, and Thick lingering potions.
		15w33c			The bug where the player could not place splash potions in the brewing stand has now been fixed. This will now allow 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.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 441.
		18w07a			Added the lingering potion of the Turtle Master.
		18w14a			Added lingering potion of Slow Falling.
1.14		19w08a			Changed lingering potions texture.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Added lingering potions.
Bedrock Edition
1.5.0		beta 1.5.0.4			Added lingering potion of the Turtle Master.
1.6.0		beta 1.6.0.5			Added lingering potion of Slow Falling.
Legacy Console Edition
TU46	CU36	1.38	Patch 15		Added lingering potions.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.7.10					Added lingering potions.

Issues

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See also

• Glass Bottle
• Potion
• Splash Potion

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