Red Potion

The Red Potion is a debuff potion which inflicts the following debuffs for 1 hour / /  on the player who consumed it:

In the, drinking a Red Potion in a For The Worthy world seed will instead grant up to three of the following beneficial potion effects (a random one is chosen for each checking, so one effect may be chosen multiple times, which results in less effects), lasting 30 minutes each.

Tips

 * Drinking Red Potions next to the Nurse can be an easy way to get the Frequent Flyer achievement, as the large number of debuffs is rather costly to remove.
 * As of, the rapidly increasing costs of the Nurse's services make this unnecessary.

Trivia

 * The Red Potion is a testing item which was changed before the release of the 1.2.2 update to test giving ordinary players debuffs instead of buffs.
 * Tipsy is an example of a current obtainable debuff that can be inflicted by consuming potions, which most likely exists thanks to this test.
 * It replaced the Soul Scythe in the game's code when it was introduced.
 * Apart from the Flask of Gold, the Red Potion is the only potion with a golden lid.
 * It is the only potion that inflicts more than two debuffs.
 * The Red Potion directly references Redigit, Terraria's lead developer.
 * Red's set inflicted a similar set of debuffs prior to 1.3.0.1.
 * Red's set doesn't give immunity to debuffs from this potion or other effects.
 * The 'R' on the potion's lid is a reference to its name.

History
Potion rouge