Poison

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Poison is an effect that inflicts damage over time. It is similar to Wither, but it drains health faster, can be removed by drinking a honey bottle and it cannot kill (it does, however, reduce the player's health all the way to 1HP👁 💔
).

The amount of damage inflicted to the affected entity is shown in the table below:

The player's hearts turn dark yellow (HP👁 ❤️
)(HP👁 ❤️
on hardcore mode).

The damage stops when the affected entity is at 1 (HP👁 💔
) health, but can resume if healing occurs and the affected entity is at more than 1 (HP👁 💔
) health before the effect expires.

Amplifiers outside the range 0–31 (corresponding to levels 1–32) are treated modulo 32 (as though reduced by 32 until they are within the range, or alternatively as the remainder from the division by 32, i.e. 33 or 65 is treated as 1).

The effect can be removed by drinking milk or honey. In Minecraft Education and Bedrock Edition when education options are enabled, drinking antidote also removes poison.

• Spiders, cave spiders, nautiluses, and ender dragons are immune to Poison.
• Witches are 95% resistant to Poison in Bedrock Edition, but only 85% resistant in Java Edition.
• Mobs and players that have 1HP👁 💔
  are unaffected by poison.
• Mobs in the ignores_poison_and_regen entity tag‌^{[Java Edition only]} or the undead family‌^{[Bedrock Edition only][note 1]} are immune to Poison.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Issues relating to "Poison" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• According to most medical and zoological terminology, "poison" specifically refers to a toxin that is delivered to an organism via contact or ingestion. As bees, cave spiders, and poison tipped arrows inject the player with toxins rather, they deliver venom, not poison.
• Pufferfish are both venomous and poisonous in-game, while real-life pufferfish are poisonous but not venomous, and their spines are used only for intimidation purposes.