Lingering potions in Minecraft are so unique, even Minecraft veterans might not know about this useful type of potion.
Lingering potions are an example of a type of item that has been in the game for a while, but even many Minecraft experts either do not know how to obtain them, or have never even heard about them.
This rare type of potion can prove to be incredibly useful as it mimics one of the most powerful attacks from one of the most powerful mobs in the game.
Here’s how to obtain and use lingering potions in Minecraft 1.17.
Everything Minecraft players should know about lingering potions
The basics
splash potions, lingering potions are a class of potion rather than a single one with a unique effect. Like splash potions, lingering potions need to be thrown from the Minecraft player’s inventory for its effects to work.
When thrown, however, lingering potions do not simply break and give any player close enough a potion effect like splash ones do. Instead, they mimic the ender dragon’s dragon breath attack.
Throwing a lingering potion causes a cloud to appear, and any mobs that walk through this cloud are given the effects of the potion.
This cloud starts with a radius of about three blocks, slowly decreasing over the course of thirty seconds until the potion’s effect has been used up. Additionally, any mobs that wander through the cloud will use up a portion of the effect, meaning that the more mobs that are affected by the cloud, the faster the cloud will disappear.
Like splash potions, turning a potion into a lingering potion will decrease its duration. For splash potions, the duration is halved, but for lingering potions, it is fourthed. This also applies to potions without durations, which will decrease in potency by half when turned into a lingering potion.
Finally, lingering potions have a special effect which make them far more powerful than any other type of potion in the game. When a player or mob stands in the cloud, the effect of the potion is continuously applied, stacking on top of itself.
This makes lingering potions the most effective types of potions in Minecraft. For example, they can heal the player with many more hearts than a drinkable potion would.
Obtaining
brewing stand and any type of potion the player chooses. The potion must first be turned into a splash potion by using gunpowder, and then placed back into the brewing stand.
Then, the player will put a bottle of dragon’s breath in the stand, and once used up, it will transform the splash potion into a lingering potion of the same type.
To obtain dragon’s breath, the player must bring glass bottles to the ender dragon fight. Once the dragon uses her dragon’s breath attack, the player should click the affected area with a bottle in order to fill it with the magic needed to make lingering potions.
It is advised to get a lot of dragon’s breath from the first ender dragon fight, or else Minecraft players may need to respawn the dragon in order to make the lingering potions they need.
Usage
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