POTION HARMFUL Added in 1.21

Potion of Wind Charging how to brew it in Minecraft

A Potion of Wind Charging does nothing while you are alive. Its effect, Wind Charged, triggers on death: the affected mob or player bursts in a gust of wind, like a Wind Charge, and knocks back everything around. It is a combat potion meant to be thrown at enemies.

Brew it step by step

Put Blaze Powder in the fuel slot and up to 3 bottles at the bottom, then add each ingredient at the top.

01 + → Awkward PotionNether Wart + Water Bottle
02 + → Potion of Wind ChargingBreeze Rod + Awkward Potion
+ + → OptionalSplash PotionGunpowder · Throwable
+ + → OptionalLingering PotionDragon's Breath · Leaves a cloud, base for Tipped Arrows

// Fuel: Blaze Powder

At a glance

Effect: Wind Charged
Duration: 3:00
With Redstone: —
Level II: Doesn’t exist
Key ingredient: Breeze Rod

All variants and durations

Variant	Normal	With Redstone	Level II
Potion	3:00	—	—
Splash Potion	3:00	—	—
Lingering Potion	0:45	—	—
Tipped Arrow	0:23	—	—

■ Normal · ■ With Redstone · Lingering = ¼ of the duration, Tipped Arrow = ⅛

What Wind Charged does

HarmfulWind Charged

When the affected entity dies, it releases a wind burst that knocks back everything around it.

Other ways to get Wind Charged

Applied byBreeze

Commands

Potion/give →

/give @s minecraft:potion[potion_contents={potion:"minecraft:wind_charged"}]

Splash Potion/give →

/give @s minecraft:splash_potion[potion_contents={potion:"minecraft:wind_charged"}]

Lingering Potion/give →

/give @s minecraft:lingering_potion[potion_contents={potion:"minecraft:wind_charged"}]

How it plays out

Splash a group of mobs with it, then start fighting. Every kill releases a wind burst that throws the surrounding mobs away. The burst breaks no blocks, but like a Wind Charge it can push open doors and trapdoors and flip levers in its range.

That knockback is a weapon in itself. Fighting near a cliff, a ravine or lava, each kill can send the rest of the group over the edge, where the fall does the work for you. On a narrow bridge, it clears the way.

Good uses

Crowd control. Thin out a group without being surrounded, since each kill pushes the next attackers away.
PvP. Drink it yourself before a duel: if you lose, your death blasts your opponent away, which can give a teammate a chance.
Combos with height. Pair it with a Potion of Slow Falling for yourself if you fight on high ground, so the bursts do not take you down with them.

Pitfalls

It scatters your loot and your targets. In a mob farm or a kill room, it pushes mobs out of reach. Keep it away from your own farms.
The burst hits you too. If you kill an affected mob at point-blank range, expect to be thrown back as well.
No long or level II version. Redstone and Glowstone have no effect on it.

Getting Breeze Rods

The ingredient is a Breeze Rod, dropped by the Breeze inside Trial Chambers. The same rods craft into Wind Charges, so decide how many you want to keep for the potion.

It belongs to the same group as the Potion of Weaving, the Potion of Oozing and the Potion of Infestation: all four are meant to be put on enemies, and they react when the target is hit or dies.

✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026