Levitation

Overview

Levitation lifts you steadily upward with no control over the ascent and no way to stop it, and then it ends. The ending is the point: everything the effect gained in height converts straight into a fall, and shulkers use exactly that to kill players who have survived everything else in an End city. A shulker bullet lands, you drift up eight or ten blocks over the void or a stone floor, the timer runs out, and gravity settles the argument. That is why an End city raid kit contains something to answer it. Slow Falling is the clean answer, since drinking it mid-rise removes the fall entirely, and a block placed under your feet at the top of the drift is the free one. Water below you works too, as does landing on your own scaffold. There is no potion of Levitation in survival, so the shulker is essentially the whole story, though a shulker bullet is also the fastest way up the outer face of an End city if you are willing to ride it deliberately. Milk removes it instantly, which sounds useful and mostly means falling from wherever you had already reached.

Nothing you would choose, unless you ride a shulker bullet on purpose to reach the top of an End city tower — otherwise it is a fall-damage delivery system aimed at you.

Pushes you upward continuously. When it ends you fall — shulkers use it to kill you with fall damage.

The game files Levitation as a harmful status effect. There is no potion of it; its duration is exactly as long as its source keeps it up.

While it is active the icon sits in the top-right of the inventory screen with the time remaining under it, and particles in the effect's own colour trail off you, fainter when the source is ambient — a beacon or a conduit. No beacon offers it, so every application has a fixed duration.

How to get it

Take a shulker bullet: a hit applies Levitation for 10 seconds, lifting you roughly 9 blocks before it ends. There is no brewing recipe, and /effect give @s minecraft:levitation 10 0 reproduces it exactly.

Tips

• Carry Slow Falling into an End city; drinking it during the rise deletes the fall that follows.
• Placing a single block under your feet at the peak of the drift is the free answer when you have no potion.
• Milk cancels it immediately, which means falling from wherever you are — only useful low to the ground.
• Shulkers hit through gaps in armour equally, so Feather Falling IV boots matter more than a chestplate here.

What each level does

Levels are shown one-based in the inventory and zero-based in commands, so Levitation II is written amplifier 1. Per level:

Survival stops at I; commands do not, and will accept an amplifier up to 255.

Properties

There is no potion of Levitation; it arrives from Shulker and lasts exactly as long as that source keeps applying it. Drinking milk clears it, along with every other effect you are carrying.

Where it comes from

Levitation comes from Shulker.

• Shulker

Command

This gives you thirty seconds of Levitation I with cheats on. The trailing number is the amplifier, so 1 means level II.

Guides and tools that cover this

• GuidesHow to Brew Every Potion in Minecraft→
• ToolsPotion Brewing Planner→

Frequently asked questions

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