Splash Potion

Splash Potion

Type	Potions
Durability	N/A
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
First appearances	See History
Data value	dec: 438 hex: 1B6 bin: 110110110
Name	splash_potion

This article is about the throwable potions. For the throwable potions that leave a lingering area of effect, see Lingering Potion.

Splash potions are a variant of potions that can be thrown.

Obtaining

Brewing

Main article: Brewing

Ingredients	Brewing recipe
Gunpowder + Any Potion

Splash potions are brewed by adding gunpowder to a normal potion.

Natural generation

One splash potion of weakness can be found in a brewing stand inside an Igloo basement.

Filling bottles

Using a glass bottle on a cauldron that contains splash potion will turn it into a bottle of that splash potion.^{[Bedrock Edition only]} Using a glass bottle on a cauldron also removes ¹⁄₃ of that cauldron's contents.

Usage

Brewing

Ingredients	Brewing recipe
Dragon's Breath + Any Splash Potion

Lingering potions are brewed by adding dragon's breath to a splash potion.

Using

Splash potions are thrown by using them. On impact they explode, applying status effects to nearby entities. The bottle is lost, unlike drinkable potions. Entities within an 8.25×8.25×4.25 cuboid centered on the thrown potion at impact and within 4 blocks euclidean distance of the thrown potion at impact are affected.

The farther away the entity is from the center of the explosion, the lesser the imbued effect. For effects without duration such as Healing or Harming, the potency of the effect reduces linearly from 100% on a direct hit to 0% at 4 blocks' distance. For effects with duration, the effect has full potency but the duration decreases linearly on the same scale (rounded to the nearest ¹⁄₂₀ second), with no effect being applied if the duration would be 1 second or less. Throwing a potion at an entity's head will maximize the duration, compared to the feet.

Splash water bottles

Splash water bottles have no effect on entities, but will put out fire in the block hit and the four blocks horizontally surrounding it.

A splash water bottle will deal 1 () damage to an enderman or a blaze. An enderman will teleport away before being hit, but can still be caught in the effect radius if targeted indirectly.

Filling cauldrons

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

Internal ID	PC: 16 PE: 86
Network ID	PC: 73
Entity ID	PC: potion PE: thrownpotion

See also: Chunk format and Potion data values

Splash potions when thrown have entity data which define various properties of the entity. Their entity ID is potion.

In Pocket Edition, this is a distinct entity from the thrown lingering potion. In Java Edition, this is the same entity, and the stored Potion tag determines whether it is a splash or a lingering potion.

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  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.
  • 
     ownerName: 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.

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
<span class="sprite" style="background-image: ;background-position:-658px -188px;background-size:1128px auto;height:47px;width:47px">	Zombie Doctor	Cure a zombie villager.	Throw a splash potion of weakness at a zombie villager and give it a golden apple (by facing the zombie and pressing the use key with a golden apple in your hand)	Xbox One	Yes	Yes	Yes	40G	Gold
				Xbox 360		Alt		20G
<span class="sprite" style="background-image: ;background-position:-611px -141px;background-size:1128px auto;height:47px;width:47px">	Taste of Your Own Medicine	Poison a witch with a splash potion.	Throw a splash potion of poison at a witch (by facing the witch and pressing the use key).	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	20G	Silver

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Internal ID
	Zombie Doctor	Weaken and then cure a zombie villager	We Need to Go Deeper	Throw a splash potion of weakness at a zombie villager and give it a golden apple (by facing the zombie and pressing the use key with a golden apple in your hand).	minecraft:story/cure_zombie_villager

History

Official release
1.0.0			Beta 1.9-pre4		Added splash potions.
Oct 14, 2011					Jeb had commented that while splash water bottles should logically harm endermen and blazes, its coding would be more difficult to implement than is worthwhile.
1.3.1			12w17a		Splash potions are no longer depleted from your inventory when used in creative.
			12w22a		Splash potions were added to the new creative item selection from 12w21b.
1.4.2			12w32a		Added splash potions of night vision, not yet brewable.
			12w34a		Added splash potions of invisibility.
					Splash potions of night vision are now brewable.
			12w38a		Witches now utilize splash potions for attacking.
			12w39b		Custom potions can be created with a world editor.
1.8			14w27a		Added splash potions of leaping.
1.8.1			1.8.1-pre1		Splash potions of leaping can be extended.
1.9			15w31a		Added splash water bottle, and Mundane, Thick, and Awkward splash potions.
			15w33a		Splash potions are used to brew lingering potions
			15w33c		Splash potions can now be placed in brewing stands.
			15w34a		Splash water bottles now just extinguish fire, without placing flowing water.
			15w43a		A splash potion of weakness can be found in the brewing stand in an igloo basement.
1.11			16w32a		The entity ID is changed from ThrownPotion to potion.
			16w35a		Splash water bottles now deal 1 () damage to endermen and blazes.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.12.1			build 1		Added splash potions.
0.13.0			build 1		Splash potions of leaping are now obtainable in survival.
0.16.0			build 4		As a version exclusive, added Splash Potions of Decay.
Console Edition
TU7	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added splash potions.
TU14		1.04			Added splash potions of night vision and splash potions of invisibility.
TU46	CU36	1.38	Patch 15		Added splash water bottle.

Issues

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Trivia

• If endermen are targeted directly by a splash potion, they will teleport away before the potion can take effect. However, if they are caught in the splash radius of a potion not aimed at them, they will be affected.
• If killed by a splash potion of harming, the death message would be: <player> was killed by magic

Gallery

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  A splash potion hovered over in a brewing stand.

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  Splash potions’ area of effect

See also

• Glass Bottle
• Lingering Potion
• Bottle o' Enchanting

External links

• Minecraft Forum: All About Potions And Brewing - 1.9 Reference Guide
• Minecraft Potions - A Visual Guide

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