Everything you need to know about Status Effects in Minecraft.
Minecraft’s Survival Mode consists of gathering resources, crafting items, and building defense and shelter in preparation for the mobs that roam the night and the ones you’ll encounter while exploring the vast world.
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Furthermore, its gameplay is ripe with RPG elements, including leveling, dungeons, and status effects. Status effects in Minecraft can be positive and negative and can have a variety of effects, ranging from healing and increasing melee damage to levitation and invisibility.
Moreover, you can both gain and inflict these status effects through various means, including potions, arrows, foods, etc.
This guide lists every active Status Effect in the game, what it does, and how you can get said Status Effects.
All Status Effects in Minecraft
| Status Effect | What it Does | Type | How to Get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed | Increases walking speed as well as your field of view. | Positive | Potions of Swiftness, Arrows of Swiftness. Can also be contracted by being in the radius of active beacons with the Speed status effect. |
| Slowness | Decreases walking speed as well as your field of view. | Negative | Potions of Slowness, Potions of the Turtle Master, Arrows of Slowness and Arrows of the Turtle Master. Can also be contracted when attacked by Strays. |
| Haste | Increases your mining and attack speed, | Positive | Being in the radius of active Beacons with the Haste Status Effect |
| Mining Fatigue | Decreases your mining and attack speed, | Negative | Being in the radius of an Elder Guardian |
| Strength | Increases melee damage, | Positive | Potion of Strength and Arrows of Strength. Can also be contracted by being in the radius of active beacons with the Strength status effect. |
| Instant Health | Potions of Slowness, Potions of the Turtle Master, Arrows of Slowness, and Arrows of the Turtle Master. Can also be contracted when attacked by Strays. | Positive | Potions of Healing, and Arrows of Healing. |
| Instant Damage | Heals living entities and damages undead, | Negative | Being hit by Potions of Harming, or Arrows of Harming. |
| Jump Boost | Increases jump height and reduces fall damage, | Positive | Potions of Leaping, Arrows of Leaping, and being near active beacons with the Jump Boost status effect. Can also be contracted by consuming Cornflower suspicious stew. |
| Nausea | Causes the screen to shake and warp. | Negative | Eating a Pufferfish |
| Regeneration | Regenerates health over time, | Positive | Potions of Regeneration, Arrows of Regeneration, being near active beacons with the Regeneration status. Can also be contracted by consuming Golden Apples, Enchanted Golden Apples or Oxeye Daisy Suspicious Stew. Furthermore, this status effect is also activated near Totems of Undying or by killing an enemy near an axolotl. |
| Resistance | Damages living entities and heals undead, | Positive | Potions of the Turtle Master, Arrows of the Turtle Master, being near active beacons with the Resistance status effect. Can also be contracted by consuming Enchanted Golden Apples. |
| Fire Resistance | Prevents fire damage. | Positive | Potions of Fire Resistance, Arrows of Fire Resistance. Enchanted Golden Apples, Allium Suspicious Stew. Totems of Undying. |
| Water Breathing | Prevents drowning and lets the affected entity breathe underwater. | Positive | Potion of Water Breathing, Arrows of Water Breathing. Being near an active Conduit underwater. Wearing a Turtle Shell helmet. |
| Invisibility | Makes the affected entity invisible and reduces the range from which other mobs can detect the affected entity. | Positive | Potions of Invisibility, Arrows of Invisibility. |
| Blindness | Impairs vision and prevents the affected entity from being able to sprint and do critical hits. | Negative | Azure Blue Suspicious Stew |
| Night Vision | Improves vision in the dark and underwater. | Positive | Potions of Night Vision, Arrows of Night Vision. Poppy Suspicious Stew. |
| Hunger | Increases food exhaustion, causing players to starve. | Negative | Consuming Rotten Flesh, Pufferfish, or Raw Chicken. Can also be contracted when attacked by a Husk. |
| Weakness | Decreases melee damage. | Negative | Potion of Weakness, Arrows of Weakness. Consuming Tulip Suspicious Stew. |
| Poison | Inflicts damage over time. However, affected entities cannot die from this damage. | Negative | Potions of Poison, Arrows of Poison. Eating a Poisonous Potato, Pufferfish, Spider Eye or Lily of the Valley Suspicious Stew. Being hit by a Bee, Pufferfish, or Cave Spider. |
| Wither | Inflicts damage over time, which can kill affected entities. | Negative | Potions of Decay, Arrows of Deca. Being hit by the Wither or a Wither Skeleton. Being near a Wither Rose. Consuming Wither Rose Suspicious Stew. |
| Absorption | Adds damage absorption in the form of additional yellow hearts. These hearts cannot be regenerated. | Positive | Eating Golden Apples, Enchanted Golden Apples. Being near Totems of Undying. |
| Saturation | Restores hunger and saturation. | Positive | Blue Orchid Suspicious Stew or Dandelion Suspicious Stew |
| Glowing (Java Edition Only) | Outlines the affected entity, As a result, they can be seen through blocks, | Neutral | Spectral Arrows. |
| Levitation | Causes the affected entity to float upwards. | Negative | Getting hit by a shulker projectile |
| Slow Falling | Decreases falling speed, completely preventing falling damage. | Positive | Potions of Slow Falling, Arrows of Slow Falling. |
| Conduit Power | Reduces damage received. | Positive | Standing in water near an active Conduit. |
| Dolphin’s Grace (Java Edition Only) | Increases swimming speed. | Positive | Standing in water near a Dolphin |
| Bad Omen | Increases visibility while underwater and mining speed. Also prevents drowning. | Neutral | Killing an Illager Captain. |
| Hero of the Village | Gives players discounts on villager trades and causes villagers to throw items at the player. | Positive | Successfully defending against a raid on a village. |
| Darkness | Causes an villager raid to start when the player enters a village. | Negative | Being near a Warden, or when a sculk shrieker activates. |
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