Harmful effects

Slowness

Slowness is recorded as a harmful status effect in the current Java and Bedrock Edition datasets.

Slowness — representative authorized Minecraft assetSlowness
Image source: Minecraft Wiki
Effect ID
minecraft:slowness
Edition
Java & Bedrock
Java numeric ID
1
Bedrock numeric ID
2
Type
bad
Category
Harmful effects

How the effect is applied

Slowness is classified as a bad effect. Duration, amplifier behavior, particles and sources depend on the command, potion, beacon, mob or game event that applies it.

Command

/effect give @p minecraft:slowness 60 0
/effect give
Applies a status effect to a target.
@p
The nearest player to where the command runs.
minecraft:slowness
The namespaced identifier for Slowness.
60
The duration in seconds.
0
The zero-based amplifier; 0 means effect level I.

This example applies level I for 60 seconds. Instant effects and non-command sources can behave differently.

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