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Honey Bottle

A honey bottle clears Poison while preserving your other status effects, and it doubles as a honey block ingredient.

SurvivalJava & Bedrock

What is Honey Bottle?

A honey bottle restores six hunger points when drunk and removes Poison. Your other effects remain in place. That makes it particularly useful when you already spent time brewing a beneficial potion and expect to take a Poison hit from a cave spider or witch.

Why players overlook it

Bottling honey requires a working bee nest or hive and a glass bottle. In an ordinary trip you may already have food and a bucket of milk, so the extra preparation only makes sense when you want to keep your other effects.

How to get it

  • Use a glass bottle on a bee nest or beehive at full honey level. Smoke from a safely placed campfire can keep bees calm during hand harvesting.
  • Four empty bottles and a honey block can recover four honey bottles in crafting.

Crafting recipe

Shapeless crafting

  • 1×Honey Block
  • 4×Glass Bottle
4× Honey Bottle

To get your first bottles, collect honey from a full nest or hive.

What is it used for?

  • Drink a bottle after you are poisoned to remove the effect.
  • Craft four filled bottles into a honey block and keep the returned empty bottles for the next harvest.

When it comes in handy

Keep a couple of bottles by the entrance to a cave spider spawner farm if you make frequent maintenance visits. A dispenser with empty bottles is another way to harvest a hive; leave space for the resulting bottles to be collected.

Limitations

The drink specifically handles Poison. It will not clear other harmful effects, and a continuing source can poison you again. A bottle does not protect you from being hit in the first place.

Editorial recommendation

Is it worth using?

Keep it when you are preparing for a known Poison hazard or stocking a honey block project. For a routine food slot, choose a food you can replenish without a glass-and-hive setup.

Alternatives

Drink milk when you need to remove several effects at once and are willing to lose beneficial ones too.

Java and Bedrock

The item is available in both editions. The guide covers the uses checked for the listed releases.

Sources

Checked for Java 26.3 and Bedrock 26.60 series (including 26.63 where available).

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