Poison Status Effect – Wiki Guide
This Minecraft tutorial explains the Poison effect with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.
Background
The Poison effect is a status effect that does damage to your health every 1.25 seconds and turns the hearts in your health bar to a yellowish-green.
The Poison effect itself won’t kill you because it will pause when your health is at 1 health point (or half heart 
). However if you heal above 1 health point while you are poisoned, the damaging effect will resume.
There are levels of Poison such as Poison II, Poison III, Poison IV and so on. The higher the level of Poison, the faster the poison will damage you.
| Status Effect | Poison |
|---|---|
| Type | Harmful Effect |
| Description | Damages to your health every 1.25 seconds and turns the hearts in your health bar to a yellowish-green. The Poison effect itself won’t kill you because it will pause when your health is at 1 health point (or half heart ). However if you heal above 1 health point while you are poisoned, the damaging effect will resume. |
| Effect Icon |  |
| Particles | Green particle effects appear floating around you |
| Items that give Effect |  Spider Eye Poisonous Potato Pufferfish Suspicious Stew Arrow (0:05 Poison) Arrow (0:11 Poison) Arrow (0:02 Poison II) Potion (0:45 Poison) Potion (2:00 Poison) Potion (0:22 Poison II) Splash Potion (0:45/0:33 Poison) Splash Potion (1:30 Poison) Splash Potion (0:22/0:16 Poison II) Lingering Potion (0:11 Poison) Lingering Potion (0:22 Poison) Lingering Potion (0:05 Poison II) |
| Game Command | /effect command |
Icon and Particle Effects
When you have the Poison effect, the following icon will appear in the top right corner of your screen (in older versions of Minecraft, the effect icons only appears when you are viewing the inventory menu):
You will also see particle effects floating around you. In the latest version of Minecraft, these particle effects will be green.
When the Poison effect wears off, the icon and particle effects will disappear and the hearts in your health bar will return to their original red color. You will be back to your normal status.
Duration
Depending on how you get the effect, the duration of the Poison effect will be different. To see how much time is remaining for the effect, go to your inventory menu.
In this example, it says 3:15 under Poison so this means that there is 3 minutes and 15 seconds remaining of the Poison effect.
Items that give the Poison Effect
The following are items that give the Poison effect in Minecraft:
How to make a Spider Eye
Mobs that give the Poison Effect
The following are mobs that give the Poison effect when they attack:
Bee
Cave SpiderEffect ID and Name
Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac)
In Minecraft, Poison has the following effect ID and Name values:
| Icon | Status Effect (Minecraft ID Name) |
ID | Platform | Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Poison (minecraft:poison) |
19 |  Java Edition (PC/Mac) |
- Icon is the image that will appear when you have this effect.
- Status Effect is what the effect is called and (Minecraft ID Name) is the string value used in the /effect command.
- ID is the Internal number for the effect.
- Platform is the platform that applies.
- Version is the Minecraft version number that the effect was introduced for the name and ID that is listed.
Effect Command for Poison
Effect Command in Minecraft Java Edition (Current)
Poison:
/effect give @p poison 99999
Poison II:
/effect give @p poison 99999 1
Poison (highest level):
/effect give @p poison 99999 255
To remove all status effects including Poison, you can either drink milk or use the following /effect command:
/effect clear @p
Effect Command in Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 1.11 and 1.12
Poison:
/effect @p poison 99999
Poison II:
/effect @p poison 99999 1
Poison (highest level):
/effect @p poison 99999 255
To remove all status effects:
/effect @p clear
Other Status Effects
Here are the other status effects in Minecraft such as: