Fatal Poison is a Poison variant inflicts damage to entities over time, but unlike Poison it can kill both undead and non-undead mobs, similar to Wither. The effect is actually called "Poison", but its ID distinguishes it from the other Poison effect, which cannot kill. In Survival mode, the effect applies only to parrots (when feeding them a cookie) and is not obtainable by players.
Effect
The amount of damage inflicted on the affected entity is shown in the table below:[verify for Bedrock Edition]
| Level | Ticks per HP |
HP per second
|
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 0.4 |
| 2 | 12 | 0.8 |
| 3 | 6[note 1] | 1.66[note 1] |
| 4 | 3[note 1] | 3.33[note 1] |
| 5+ | 1[note 1] | 10[note 1] |
The player's hearts turn yellow-green (HP
).
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 as the remainder from division by 32, i.e. 33 is treated as 1.)
Causes
Immune mobs
- Withers, ender dragons, spiders, cave spiders, nautiluses and all undead mobs are immune to Fatal Poison.
- Witches are 95% resistant to damage from Fatal Poison.
Death message
If the player is killed by Fatal Poison, the death message "<player> was killed by magic" appears, as when killed by a potion of Harming.
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
 Poison | fatal_poison | 25 |
potion |
History
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 |  Added Fatal Poison. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.5 |  Changed effect icon texture. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Fatal Poison" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
