STATUS EFFECT BENEFICIAL NO POTION Present since 1.14 or earlier

Conduit Power effect in Minecraft

Conduit Power lets you breathe underwater, see clearly and mine faster while you are in the water near an active Conduit. You build it once and it works for every player in range, with nothing to drink.

At a glance

Type: Beneficial
Sources: Conduit
Removed by: Milk, dying

How to get Conduit Power

Given byConduit

How to get rid of Conduit Power

Removed byMilk Bucket

Drink a Milk Bucket: it clears every effect. Dying also removes it.

Command

Give Conduit Power for 60 seconds/effect →

/effect give @s minecraft:conduit_power 60 0

Remove Conduit Power/effect →

/effect clear @s minecraft:conduit_power

How to activate a Conduit

Craft a Conduit from a Heart of the Sea, found in every Buried Treasure chest, and eight Nautilus Shells. Shells come from fishing, from Drowned that carry one and from Nautiluses. Place the Conduit in water with water all around it, then build a frame of Prismarine, prismarine_bricks, dark_prismarine or Sea Lanterns around it, in rings on the three axes.

16 frame blocks switch it on. Every 7 more blocks extend the range, from 32 blocks up to 96 with the full 42-block frame.

What Conduit Power gives you

Your air bar stays full, like Water Breathing.
The water around you becomes clear, so you can see much farther.
You mine faster underwater, a bit like Haste.

It only works while you are in water or in the rain, inside the range.

The full frame bonus

With all 42 blocks, the Conduit also attacks hostile mobs that come close to it in the water, such as Drowned and Guardians. That makes it the heart of an underwater base. A cleared Ocean Monument is an ideal spot: its walls supply all the prismarine you need.

✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026