Mining Fatigue

Mining Fatigue

Sources	See § Causes
Particle	#4A4217 (dark khaki)
Namespaced ID	mining_fatigue

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.

Effect

The effect decreases speed by 10% × level. Mining speed decreases more than movement speed.^{[more information needed]} The effect lasts for 5 minutes.

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

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, 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: Advancements

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.	nether/all_effects

History

Java Edition Beta
1.8		?			Added unobtainable Mining Fatigue.
Java Edition
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.

References

Status effects

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