Lingering potions when thrown have entity data which define various properties of the entity. Their entity ID isThrownPotion. What makes it a lingering potion as opposed to a splash potion is that theirPotiontag stores aminecraft:lingering_potionitem.
Entity data
Tags common to all entities
Tags common to all projectiles
Id: The ID of the effect.
Amplifier: The amplifier of the effect, with 0 being level 1.
Duration: The duration of the effect inticks.
Ambient: 1 or 0 (true/false) - whether or not this is an effect provided by a beacon and therefore should be less intrusive on the screen. This tag is optional and defaults to 0. Due to a bug, it has no effect on splash potions.
ShowParticles: 1 or 0 (true/false) - whether or not this effect produces particles. This tag is optional and defaults to 1. Due to a bug, it has no effect on splash potions.
One of these for each effect.
CustomPotionEffects: The customPotion effectsthis potion has.
Potion: The name of the default potion effect. This name differs from the potion effect name. For example, the value for an "Instant Health II" potion is "minecraft:strong_healing".
tag: Thetagtag.
Tags common to all potions
Count: Number ofitemsstacked in this inventory slot. Any item can be stacked, including tools, armor, and vehicles. Range is -128 to 127. Values of 1 are not displayed in-game. Values below 1 are displayed in red.
Damage: The data value for this item. The name "Damage" comes from when only tools used this value, now many other items use this value for other purposes. For blocks, it is the 4-bit "block data" tag that determines a variant of the block. Defaults to 0.
id:Item/Block ID. If not specified, Minecraft changes the item tostone(setting ID to 1 and Damage to 0, and ignoring any existing Damage value) when loading the chunk or summoning the item.
tag: Additional information about the item, discussed in the below sections. This tag is optional for most items.
Tags common to all items
shake: The "shake" when arrows hit a block.
ownerName: The name of the player this projectile was thrown by.
Potion: The item that was thrown. In 1.9, the ThrownPotion entity will render as this stored item, no matter the item.
potionValue(deprecated): If the Potion tag does not exist, this value is used as the damage value of the thrown potion.
Area effect cloud
See also:Chunk format
The cloud that is created when lingering potions are thrown is the entityAreaEffectCloud. It has entity data that defines the properties of the entity.
Entity data
Ambient: Reduced particle display
Amplifier: potion level.
Id: Potion id
ShowParticles: particle display
Duration: effect duration. 0 if instant.
An individual effect.
CommandStats: Information identifying scoreboard parameters to modify relative to the last command run
SuccessCountObjective: Objective's name about the number of successes of the last command (will be an int)
SuccessCountName: Fake player name about the number of successes of the last command
AffectedBlocksObjective: Objective's name about how many blocks were modified in the last command (will be an int)
AffectedBlocksName: Fake player name about how many blocks were modified in the last command
AffectedEntitiesObjective: Objective's name about how many entities were altered in the last command (will be an int)
AffectedEntitiesName: Fake player name about how many entities were altered in the last command
AffectedItemsObjective: Objective's name about how many items were altered in the last command (will be an int)
AffectedItemsName: Fake player name about how many items were altered in the last command
QueryResultObjective: Objective's name about the query result of the last command
QueryResultName: Fake player name about the query result of the last command
See this format (recursive).
See this format (recursive).
The entity's rotation clockwise around the Y axis (called yaw). Due west is 0. Does not exceed 360 degrees.
The entity's declination from the horizon (called pitch). Horizontal is 0. Positive values look downward. Does not exceed positive or negative 90 degrees.
id: Entity ID. This tag does not exist for the Player entity.
Pos: 3 TAG_Doubles describing the current X,Y,Z position of the entity.
Motion: 3 TAG_Doubles describing the current dX,dY,dZ velocity of the entity in meters per tick.
Rotation: Two TAG_Floats representing rotation in degrees.
FallDistance: Distance the entity has fallen. Larger values cause more damage when the entity lands.
Fire: Number of ticks until the fire is put out. Negative values reflect how long the entity can stand in fire before burning. Default -20 when not on fire.
Air: How much air the entity has, in ticks. Fills to a maximum of 300 in air, giving 15 seconds submerged before the entity starts to drown, and a total of up to 35 seconds before the entity dies (if it has 20 health). Decreases while underwater. If 0 while underwater, the entity loses 1 health per second.
OnGround: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the entity is touching the ground.
Dimension: Unknown usage; entities are only saved in the region files for the dimension they are in. -1 forThe Nether, 0 forThe Overworld, and 1 forThe End.
Invulnerable: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the entity should not take damage. This applies to living and nonliving entities alike: mobs will not take damage from any source (including potion effects), and cannot be moved by fishing rods, attacks, explosions, or projectiles, and objects such as vehicles and item frames cannot be destroyed unless their supports are removed. Note that these entities can be damaged by players in Creative mode.
PortalCooldown: The number of ticks before which the entity may be teleported back through a portal of any kind. Initially starts at 900 ticks (45 seconds) after teleportation and counts down to 0.
UUIDMost: The most significant bits of this entity's .This is joined with UUIDLeast to form this entity's unique ID.
UUIDLeast: The least significant bits of this entity's .
UUID(removed in1.9): The .of this entity. Converts a hexadecimal UUID (for example:069a79f4-44e9-4726-a5be-fca90e38aaf5) into the UUIDLeast and UUIDMost tags. Will not apply new UUIDLeast and UUIDMost tags if both of these tags are already present. The "UUID" tag is removed once the entity is loaded.
CustomName: The custom name of this entity. Appears in player death messages and villager trading interfaces, as well as above the entity when your cursor is over it. May not exist, or may exist and be empty.
CustomNameVisible: 1 or 0 (true/false) - if true, and this entity has a custom name, it will always appear above them, whether or not the cursor is pointing at it. If the entity hasn't a custom name, a default name will be shown. May not exist.
Silent: 1 or 0 (true/false) - if true, this entity will not make sound. May not exist.
Riding:(deprecated since15w41a)The data of the entity being ridden. Note that if an entity is being ridden, thetopmostentity in the stack has the Pos tag, and the coordinates specify the location of thebottommostentity. Also note that the bottommost entity controls movement, while the topmost entity determines spawning conditions when created by a mob spawner.
Passengers: The data of the entity riding. Note that both entities control movement and the topmost entity controls spawning conditions when created by a mob spawner.
Glowing: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the entity is glowing.
Tags: List of custom string data.
tags common to all entities
Age: Age of the field.
Color: The color of the displayed particle. Uses the same format as thecolortag fromDisplay Properties.
Duration: Maximum age of the field. Field dissipates at this age, regardless of radius.
ReapplicationDelay: The number of ticks before reapplying the effect.
WaitTime: The time before deploying the field. Doesn't apply Potion Effect until it hits the Age number.
OwnerUUIDMost: UUIDMost of the owner.
OwnerUUIDLeast: UUIDLeast of the owner.
DurationOnUse: Unknown. Does not appear to effect age or duration.
Radius: The area's radius
RadiusOnUse: The amount the radius grows upon applying the effect. Normally negative
RadiusPerTick: The amount the radius grows per tick. Normally negative
Particle: The particle displayed by the area effect.
Potion: The name of the default potion effect. Seepotion data valuesfor valid IDs.
