This Minecraft tutorial explains the Health Boost effect with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

Background

The Health Boost effect is a status effect that adds additional hearts  to your base health.

 

 

These hearts add extra health to your health bar and can be replenished with food. When the Health Boost effect ends, these additional hearts will disappear.

There are levels of Health Boost such as Health Boost II, Health Boost III, Health Boost IV and so on. The higher the level of Health Boost, the more extra hearts you will get. In the lastest version of Minecraft, you will get 2 additional hearts per level. This means that you will get 2 extra hearts with Health Boost I, 4 extra hearts with Health Boost II, 6 extra hearts with Health Boost III and so on.

 

Status Effect Health Boost
Type Helpful Effect
Description Adds additional hearts  to your health bar. This is extra health that can not be replenished with food and disappear after the effect wears off
Effect Icon
Particles Orange particle effects appear floating around you
Game Command /effect command

Icon and Particle Effects

When you have the Health Boost effect, the following icon will appear in the top right corner of your screen (in older versions of Minecraft, the effect icons only appears when you are viewing the inventory menu):

You will also see particle effects floating around you. In the latest version of Minecraft, these particle effects will be orange.

When the Health Boost effect wears off, the icon, particle effects and extra health hearts will disappear. You will be back to your normal status.

Duration

Depending on how you get the effect, the duration of the Health Boost effect will be different. To see how much time is remaining for the effect, go to your inventory menu.

In this example, it says 2:30 under Health Boost so this means that there is 2 minutes and 30 seconds remaining of the Health Boost effect.

Effect ID and Name

Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac)

In Minecraft, Health Boost has the following effect ID and Name values:

Status Effect
(Minecraft ID Name)		 ID Version
Health Boost
(minecraft:health_boost)		 21
  • Icon is the image that will appear when you have this effect.
  • Status Effect is what the effect is called and (Minecraft ID Name) is the string value used in the /effect command.
  • ID is the Internal number for the effect.
  • Platform is the platform that applies.
  • Version is the Minecraft version number that the effect was introduced for the name and ID that is listed.

Effect Command for Health Boost

Effect Command in Minecraft Java Edition (Current)

Health Boost:

/effect give @p health_boost 99999

Health Boost IV:

/effect give @p health_boost 99999 3

Health Boost (highest level):

/effect give @p health_boost 99999 255

To remove all status effects including Health Boost, you can either drink milk or use the following /effect command:

/effect clear @p

Effect Command in Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 1.11 and 1.12

Health Boost:

/effect @p health_boost 99999

Health Boost IV:

/effect @p health_boost 99999 3

Health Boost (highest level):

/effect @p health_boost 99999 255

To remove all status effects:

/effect @p clear

Other Status Effects

Here are the other status effects in Minecraft such as:

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