Nausea is an effect that temporarily warps and wobbles the player's vision similarly to a Nether portal. In Java Edition, the "Distortion Effects" setting can reduce the intensity of the wobbling (or stop it completely), substituting it with green-tinted vision.
Effect
Nausea causes the player's vision to warp and wobble, with the distortion ramping up and down at the start and end of the effect. Although Nausea can be given in the normal range of levels, the level has no impact; it does not affect the distortion.
Nausea is affected by the "Distortion Effects"/"Screen distortion" option under the video settings/accessibility settings. As the distortion effects values is lowered, the nausea effect is increasingly replaced by a green screen effect around the edges of the screen. At lower values the warp and wobble effect is lesser and the green overlay effect is greater, and vice versa. At 100%, the green overlay is entirely disabled, and at "Off" (0%), the distortion is entirely disabled.
The effect can be removed by drinking milk. In Minecraft Education and Bedrock Edition (when education options are enabled), drinking tonic also removes Nausea.
Causes
| Action | Recipient | Potency | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Zombie Villager |
Gets cured |  Villager
|
I | 0:10 |
 Piglin |
Gets zombified |  Zombified Piglin
| ||
 Piglin Brute
| ||||
 Hoglin |
 Zoglin
| |||
 Player or  Fox |
Eats a  Pufferfish |
Player or Fox respectively
|
0:15 | |
 Suspicious Stew
|
Crafted with  Closed Eyeblossom
|
Player
|
0:07 | |
Noxious gas caused by  Potent Sulfur
|
The entity is standing in water on top of which noxious gas is emitted. Replenishes as long as the entity is inside this water. | Player or any mob
|
0:04 |
Immune mobs
- Withers and ender dragons are immune to Nausea.
- All mobs are unaffected by Nausea.
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
 Nausea | nausea |
effect |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nausea | nausea | 9 |
potion |
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
|---|---|---|---|
  | How Did We Get Here? | Have every effect applied at the same time | Have all of these 34[until: Fourth Drop 2026]/35[upcoming] status effects applied to the player at the same time:
The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. |
History
Java Edition
| Java Edition Beta | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | Pre-release | Nausea is added along with 18 other status effects but is currently unobtainable in regular gameplay. | |||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 |  The effect sprite for Nausea has been added to inventory.png. | |||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w32a | Added zombie villagers, which, when cured into villagers, receive the nausea effect.[verify for Java Edition] | |||||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | Added the pufferfish, which inflicts nausea when eaten. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  The effect icon texture of nausea has been changed. | |||||
| 19w08a |  The texture has been further changed. | ||||||
| 1.16 | 20w07a | Added piglins, which, when zombified into zombified piglins, receive the nausea effect. | |||||
| 20w14a | Added zoglins, which, when zombified from hoglins, receive the nausea effect. | ||||||
| 1.16.2 | Pre-release 1 | Nausea's distortion effect can now be reduced. | |||||
| At lower values, the nausea effect is replaced with a green overlay as an alternative visualization. | |||||||
| Pre-release 2 | The level of Nausea given by the pufferfish has been now reduced from II to I.[1] | ||||||
| 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 9. | |||||
| 1.21.4 | 24w44a | Nausea can now be obtained by eating suspicious stew. | |||||
| 26.2 | snap1 | Nausea can now be inflicted by standing in water affected by potent sulfur. | |||||
Bedrock Edition
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.11.0 | build 1 | Added nausea. | |||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Villagers now get nausea after being transformed from a zombie villager. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Tonics now remove the nausea effect when consumed. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.5 | The effect icon texture of nausea has been changed. | |||||
| 1.21.20 | Preview 1.21.20.21 | The level of Nausea given by the pufferfish has been now reduced from II to I, matching Java Edition. | |||||
| 1.21.50 | Preview 1.21.50.25 | Nausea can now be obtained by eating suspicious stew crafted with the closed eyeblossom. | |||||
| 26.20 Experiment | Preview 26.20.23 | Nausea can now be obtained by inhaling noxious gas created by potent sulfur under water. | |||||
| 26.30 | Preview 26.30.20 | Implemented all features from the "Drop 2 of 2026" experiment in vanilla gameplay. | |||||
| 26.40 | Preview 26.40.22 | Added a "Screen distortion" slider which can reduce the screen effect from Nausea, although it does not have the green overlay from Java Edition. | |||||
| 26.50 | Preview 26.50.20 | Disabling screen distortion now shows a green overlay. | |||||
Legacy Console Edition
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU5 | CU1 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Nausea is added along with 18 other status effects but is currently unobtainable in regular gameplay. |
| TU7 | The effect sprite for Nausea has been added. | ||||||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Added the pufferfish, which inflicts nausea when eaten. | |
| 1.91 | The effect icon texture of nausea has been changed. | ||||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Nausea" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
