Potion

Potions are items that either give the player buffs when drunk, or can be thrown at enemies to damage and debuff them.

## Tiers

In all three maps, potions come in three different tiers which are available in different missions throughout the maps. These tiers are known as 'early', 'mid', and 'late'. Every potion available in the early tier has a stronger variant available in the mid tier, and an even stronger variant in the late tier.

* In Assassin of Steve 1, the early tier of potions are available from Missions 2-4, mid-tier is from Missions 5-7, and late tier is from Missions 8-10.
* In Assassin of Steve 2, the early tier of potions are available from Missions 2-5, mid-tier is from Missions 6-9, and late tier is from Missions 10-12.
* In Assassin of Steve 3, the early tier of potions are available from Missions 2-5, mid-tier is from Missions 6-10, and late tier is from Missions 11-15.

## List of Potions

### Splash Healing

Splash Healing potions are throwable potions that heal non-undead enemies (such as the player) and damage undead enemies (such as zombies and skeletons). Lesser Splash Healings heal for up to 16 health and deal up to 24 damage. Moderate Splash Healings heal for up to 32 and deal up to 48 damage. Greater Splash Healings heal up to 64 and deal up to 96 damage. They are best used in heated combat against numerous undead mobs - you can throw one down to quickly get some health back and also damage nearby undead enemies. They cost 3 XP levels from the shop.

### Healing Potion

Healing potions are only available in Assassin of Steve 3, and are drunk instead of thrown in order to quickly restore your health by a flat amount. Lesser Healing Potions heal by 16 health, Moderate Healing Potions heal by 32 health, and Greater Healing Potions heal by 64 health. They cost 3 XP levels from the shop.

### Regeneration Potion

Regeneration Potions will cause you to slowly heal over time, instead of instantly recovering health. They overall provide more health but take longer to grant this health.

In Assassin of Steve 1 and 2, Lesser Regeneration Potions regenerate 20 health over a period of 10 seconds. Moderate Regeneration Potions regenerate 40 health over a period of 10 seconds. Greater Regeneration Potions regenerate 80 health over 10 seconds and also provide 40 absorption health.

In Assassin of Steve 3 Regeneration Potions were buffed, doubling the effect duration and hence doubling the health given overall to 40, 80 and 160 respectively. The absorption health given from Greater Regeneration Potions was also increased to 80.

Regeneration Potions are useful if you are in a prolonged fight where you continue to sustain damage, or if you want to regenerate your health while under wither or poison effects that last a long time, as these would prevent your Natural Regeneration. Greater Regeneration Potions should be drunk as you are approaching low health, as not only will you gain lots of extra absorption health, you will also be able to regenerate all your normal health with the absorption health as protection.

Regeneration Potions cost 4 XP levels from the shop.

### Absorption Potion

In Assassin of Steve 1 and 2, Absorption Potions grant 20 absorption health and are only available in early-tier. No potions that grant absorption are available in mid-tier, but in late-tier Greater Regeneration Potions grants 40 absorption health.

In Assassin of Steve 3, Lesser Absorption Potions grant 20 absorption health while Moderate Absorption Potions, available in the mid-tier, grant 40. They can be used as a substitute for Healing Potions, as they both give a burst of health, except Absorption Potions are slightly better because not only does it give slightly more, but it also leaves your normal health within able to regenerate. In addition, taking damage while having Absorption health doesn't cause the no-hit timer for Natural Regeneration to reset, meaning these can be used to help trigger Natural Regeneration in the midst of battle. However, absorption potions are slightly more expensive than Healing Potions, at 4 XP levels.

### Splash Decay

Splash Decays are throwable potions that should be thrown from a safe distance at a group of enemies, as their main use is inflicting the wither effect.

Splash Decay deals up to 30 magic damage overall. Its mid-tier form, the Splash Wither, deals up to 60 magic damage overall and also inflicts a debuff of -15% movement speed and -4 attack damage for one minute. The Lingering Wither is a lingering potion, meaning it instead leaves behind a lingering cloud that will inflict its effects to up to 5 enemies. It inflicts 120 magic damage overall and the same debuffs as the Splash Wither, except they last for two minutes instead.

These potions cost 3 XP levels from the shop.

### Resistance Potion

Resistance Potions provide damage reduction from all attacks.

In Assassin of Steve 1 and 2, Resistance Potions aren't available until mid-tier and provide 40% resistance to all damage for two minutes. Tank Potions, in late-tier, provide 60% damage resistance for two and a half minutes.

In Assassin of Steve 3, Resistance Potions are available in early-tier, providing 20% resistance for two minutes. Tank Potions are mid-tier instead, providing 40% resistance for two and a half minutes. In late-tier, Obsidian Potions provide 60% resistance for three minutes.

You should drink these right after respawning or when entering the heat of battle, at full health, and not when you're so low you're about to die, so you can fully take advantage of the effect. They cost 4 XP levels from the shop.

### Speed Potion

Speed Potions are only available in Assassin of Steve 3, and the only variant available are Lesser Speed Potions in early-tier, because in mid and late tiers the speed component is packaged with strength and haste into one potion in the Battle and Warmonger potions. The Lesser Speed Potion will give you +20% Movement Speed for three minutes.

It costs 3 XP levels from the shop.

### Strength Potion

Strength potions give the strength effect for two minutes, increasing your attack damage by 3. Battle potions also give +20% movement and attack speed, and last for two and a half minutes. Warmonger potions give +6 attack damage and +20% movement and +30% attack speed for three minutes.

Similar to Resistance Potions, you should drink these right after respawning or when entering the heat of battle, at full health, and not when you're so low you're about to die, so you can fully take advantage of the effect.

They are the most expensive potions, costing 5 XP levels from the shop.

### Luck Potion

Luck Potions are not available in early tier, but are in mid and late tier, and are simply called "Luck Potion" in both. They give you one extra point of luck for four or six minutes respectively.

They cost 5 XP levels from the shop.

## Trivia

* There are some unused early-tier potions in Assassin of Steve 3's loot table files, which are for Haste Potions, Splash Weakness, and Splash Slowness. These were likely added since these effects are seen in later-tier potions, but were ultimately not included due to their relative uselessness and to make sure the shop wasn't clogged up too much.
	+ The fact that these potions weren't included is also reinforced by an empty text document with the title "Slowness weakness haste are not in it", likely left there as a note by Cavinator1.
* The original 1.7 and 1.8 versions of Assassin of Steve 1 and 2 did not have upgrading potion tiers in the shop, instead the only potions available were Splash Healing, Regeneration Potions, Strength Potions, Absorption Potions, and Splash Damage in Assassin of Steve 1 and Splash Decay in Assassin of Steve 2.
	+ Splash Damage potions worked the opposite of Splash Healing, damaging the player and non-undead mobs while healing undead mobs. They were likely cut from later versions due to their uselessness based on the lack of non-undead hostile mobs in the maps.
* Some of the mid and late-tier potion names and/or effects in current versions of Assassin of Steve maps were inspired by the Power Elixirs from the original 1.8 version of Assassin of Steve 2.