Mining Fatigue

Mining Fatigue

Sources	See § Causes
Particle	#4A4217 (dark khaki)
Type	Negative

This article is about the status effect that reduces mining speed. For the effect that makes the player walk slower, see Slowness.

	“	During the development of the ocean monument I had a problem. I wanted the pyramid to feel like a maze, so you have to figure it out to get the treasure, but the bad – and good! – thing about Minecraft is that you can just rebuild everything. So the solution would always be just to knock your way through. And I didn't want to make the pyramid indestructible because that's also not fun in Minecraft. So after a couple of ideas we decided to have a boss guardian that would have a spell effect that would slow everything down.	„
		— Jens Bergensten

Mining Fatigue reduces mining and attack speed, opposite to the Haste effect. However, the attack speed change is purely visual.

Effect

The effect decreases attack speed by 10% × level, equivalent to the attack speed attribute decreasing by 0.2 x level. Time taken to destroy blocks is multiplied by 3 ^ level.

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

Note that attack speed decreases are purely visual.

While afflicted, a player can still craft and ride entities as normal, but cannot remove most vehicles due to how slowly the vehicle can be broken.

The affliction is cured by drinking milk, although milk does not prevent a subsequent affliction by an elder guardian.

Causes

The only natural cause of Mining Fatigue is from affliction by an elder guardian, and the only natural effect level is III. Once per minute, elder guardians in the vicinity search for any player within 50 blocks to afflict with Mining Fatigue III. A player cannot defend from this attack. Concealment behind blocks, underground, or by a potion of Invisibility offers no defense.

Other levels can be achieved via commands.

Cause	Potency	Length	Notes
Elder Guardian	III	5:00	Only when the player is not affected.

Notes

• The effect does not affect block breaking in Creative mode, or blocks that are broken instantly.
• Other conditions which reduce mining speed include: being underwater; riding a horse, pig, being on a ladder, or in a boat or minecart.
• Mining Fatigue III is unaffected by the Haste effect (such as from Conduit Power), although lower levels of Mining Fatigue can be overcome by higher levels of Haste.

Advancements

Main article: Advancement

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	A Furious Cocktail	Have all of these 26 effects applied to the player at the same time. Other status effects, if any, may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it.	nether/all_effects

Data values

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Mining Fatigue	mining_fatigue	4	effect.minecraft.mining_fatigue

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Mining Fatigue	mining_fatigue	4	potion.mining_fatigue

History

Java Edition Beta
1.8		Pre-release			Added unobtainable Mining Fatigue.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2			Milk now cancels the Mining Fatique effect.
					Mining Fatique now has its own icon.
1.8		14w25a			Mining Fatigue mechanics have been adjusted; speed no longer reduces at 20% per level.
1.9		15w34b			Mining Fatigue now affects the new attackSpeed attribute.
1.14		18w43a			Changed effect icon texture.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.11.0		build 1			Added mining fatigue, which was unobtainable at the time.
0.16.0		build 1			Mining Fatigue III is made obtainable via elder guardians.
Legacy Console Edition
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3	1.0.1	Added Mining Fatigue, which is obtained from elder guardians.
		1.90			Changed effect icon texture.

References

Status effects

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