Instant Health

Instant Health

Sources	See § Causes
Particle	#F82423 (red)‌[Java Edition only]
Type	Positive (negative for undead mobs)

Instant Health is a status effect that instantly increases health for players and living mobs and damages the undead.

Effect

Instantly heals 2HP × 2^level or 3HP × 2^level​^{[upcoming: JE Combat Tests]}. Undead mobs (including the wither) are damaged as if with Instant Damage instead (including the base value in the preceding formula being 3HP instead of 2HP). When applied using a lingering potion, the entity is healed every second.

When applied via potion, level 30 (amplifier 29) heals -2³¹, enabling the killing of all mobs including players in Creative. When applied via other means such as /effect, level 30 provides no healing. Regardless of means, levels 31–32 (amplifiers 30–31) also provide no healing. Levels outside the range 1–32 (corresponding to amplifiers 0–31) are used modulo 32, making level 33 the same as level 1, et cetera.

Instant Health has its duration set in game ticks (instead of seconds) with the /effect command.

Causes

Cause	Potency	Heals	Harms undead	Length	Notes
Potion of Healing	I	4HP		Instant	Witches drink this potion when damaged.
Potion of Healing II	II	8HP		Instant	Two of these potions can be found on a brewing stand in end ships.
Splash Potion of Healing	I	4HP	6HP	Instant	Witches throw one of these two during raids.
Splash Potion of Healing II	II	8HP	12HP × 6	Instant
Lingering Potion of Healing	I	2HP per second 10HP total	3HP per second 15HP × 7.5 total	0:05
Lingering Potion of Healing II	II	4HP per second 20HP × 10 total	6HP per second 30HP × 15 total	0:05
Arrow of Healing	I	4HP	6HP	Instant
Arrow of Healing II	II	8HP	12HP × 6	Instant

Immune mobs

• Ender dragons are immune to Instant Health.
• Mobs or players with full health are unaffected by Instant Health.

Data values

ID

This section is about the effect IDs. For the IDs on potions, see Potion § Item data. For the IDs on tipped arrows, see Arrow § Metadata.

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Instant Health	instant_health	effect.minecraft.instant_health

Bedrock Edition:

History

Java Edition

Java Edition Beta
1.8			Pre-release				Added Instant Health, which is unobtainable.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2				Potions have been added, but are unobtainable without inventory editing. All effects can appear on potions.
							Drinking milk now clears all status effects.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				All potions have been revamped and made obtainable.
1.4.2			12w38a				Added witches, which can drink potions of Instant Health when damaged.
1.6.1			13w23a				Nerfed Instant Health to heal 2×2level instead of 3×2level.
1.9			15w31a				Added tipped arrows.
			15w33a				Added lingering potions.
1.14			18w47a				Witches may now throw splash potions of Healing at illagers during raids.
1.15			19w41a				Added an effect icon texture for Instant Health.
1.20.2			23w32a				The game no longer uses numeric values when storing mob effects to world. Prior to the removal of numeric IDs, this effect's numeral ID was 6.

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

Java Edition Combat Tests

Issues

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