Minecraft – Which potion of poison deals more damage

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There are two improvements that can be performed on potion of poison (and generally on most potions):

Redstone dust improvement – makes potion last longer but does not affect strength.
Glowstone dust improvement – makes the potion effect stronger while decreasing the effect duration.

Since the Potion of Poison deals damage over time, will more overall damage be dealt with increased duration (using the Redstone dust) or with lower duration but higher DPS (using the Glowstone dust)?

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As per the Minecraft Wiki page on Potions, the extended-duration Poison potion deals 48 hearts of damage over two minutes. The increased-strength Poison II potion deals only 19 hearts' worth of damage, but deals it over the course of 22.5 seconds, which is less than a fifth of the time.

For higher total damage, go with the extended-duration version.

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You can't execute two commands from within one command block. The only halfways acceptable solution is to spawn in another command block with a preloaded command, such as this:

/setblock ~ ~2 ~ minecraft:command_block 0 destroy {Command:/say Hi}

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Where you'd need to replace /say Hi with your command.

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