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Splash Potions are a special sort of potion that, rather than being consumed, is thrown. They have a small radius of effect around the point of impact.

Brewing a Splash Potion[]

To create a splash potion:

  1. Brew the desired effect into a standard potion.
  2. Add gunpowder.

Using a Splash Potion[]

Splash Potions are thrown rather than consumed. Therefore, when a player right-clicks while holding a Splash Potion, they will throw it, causing it to hit and affect all nearby mobs and/or players, or put out nearby fires if it's an untampered splash potion. Splash Potions can also be loaded into a dispenser for redstone-controlled attacks.

Note also that when a Splash Potion is used, the bottle is destroyed, as opposed to simply being emptied when a player drinks from it. And, as with all potions, they do not stack. Therefore, a player must keep a large reserve of bottles if they wish to use many potions.

Area of Effect[]

The further away from the center of the explosion, using taxicab geometry with a range of 5 blocks. This was tested with a 60-second splash potion of weakness and the tables below list the effect in both seconds and percent. There is variance within each block, so this is a gradient scale. Damage potions are assumed to follow a similar decrease in potency.

Seconds

10 15 15 15 10
10 20 30 30 30 20 10
15 30 45 50 45 30 15
15 30 50 60 50 30 15
15 30 45 50 45 30 15
10 20 30 30 30 20 10
10 15 15 15 10

Percentage (00 = 100%)

17 25 25 25 17
17 33 50 50 50 33 17
25 50 75 83 75 50 25
25 50 83 00 83 50 25
25 50 75 83 75 50 25
17 33 50 50 50 33 17
17 25 25 25 17

Trivia[]

  • They are more effective when thrown at the head of something rather than the feet.
  • They reduce the length of the effect by 25% of the original effect.
  • Splash potions of harming will heal undead mobs, such as zombies, skeletons, and zombie pigmen, and splash potions of healing will harm them like their negative counterparts.
  • Splash potions of regeneration and poison have no effect on undead mobs.
  • Splash potions will make the fists or any item that deals less than 4 hearts of damage (2 full hearts) will deal no damage at all to the mob including players. The same goes for mobs with the effect too.
  • Witches will attack the player with harmful splash potions, and during raids will assist raiders by throwing splash potions of regeneration.
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