STATUS EFFECT HARMFUL NO POTION Present since 1.14 or earlier

Nausea effect in Minecraft

Nausea makes your screen wobble and warp. It does nothing to your health or your controls: it is purely visual. You get it from eating a Pufferfish or Suspicious Stew made with a Closed Eyeblossom.

At a glance

Type: Harmful
Sources: Pufferfish, Closed Eyeblossom
Removed by: Milk, dying

How to get Nausea

UsePufferfish

1 · 15 s

UseClosed Eyeblossom

Suspicious Stew · 7 s

How to get rid of Nausea

Removed byMilk Bucket

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

Command

Give Nausea for 60 seconds/effect →

/effect give @s minecraft:nausea 60 0

Remove Nausea/effect →

/effect clear @s minecraft:nausea

Where Nausea comes from

Pufferfish. Eating one gives Nausea together with Hunger and a strong Poison: the worst meal in the game. A live Pufferfish only poisons you when it puffs up; it does not give Nausea.
Suspicious Stew made with a Closed Eyeblossom. Eyeblossoms grow in the Pale Garden; they stay closed by day and open at night, and the open flower gives Blindness instead.

Is Nausea dangerous?

Not by itself. The warped view makes jumping, bridging and aiming harder, so stop moving near cliffs and lava until it passes. In a fight, back off rather than swing blindly.

How to remove or reduce it

A Milk Bucket clears it at once. If the wobble makes you feel unwell, lower the Distortion Effects slider in the Accessibility settings: it tones down the on-screen distortion of Nausea, and of Nether portals too.

The simplest cure is not to eat Pufferfish. Use them to tame a Nautilus or to brew a Potion of Water Breathing instead.

✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026