How To Make Potions in Minecraft

INTRODUCTION – HOW TO MAKE POTIONS IN MINECRAFT

The world of Minecraft often features wonder and mystery during block explorations. Witches, magical biomes like the Deep Dark, and item enchantments are just some of the magic encountered in Minecraft. Another mysterious item of Minecraft that is quite useful, the potion, offers a whole new type of effect to the game. Literally!

Potions are an item that can be made in Minecraft with a few simple ingredients in a brewing stand and offer a plethora of benefits! Looking to get a quick bit of health, better movement speed, or a deadly potion to use in PvP? All of that and more is possible through Minecraft potions! Get your tools ready and prepare as you learn the requirements of brewing potions and how you can make potions on your own Minecraft game server!

REQUIREMENTS TO MAKE POTIONS

• (1) Brewing Stand
  
  • (1) Blaze Rod | Collected by killing blazes in the Nether.
  • (3) Cobblestone or Blackstone | Cobblestone is gathered using a pickaxe on stone blocks, while Blackstone is found in the Nether and grabbed using a pickaxe.
• (1) Water Bottle | Using a glass bottle made with (3) glass blocks on a crafting table, collect the water while holding this bottle to create a bottle filled with water. You can make glass by smelting sand in a Minecraft furnace.
  
  • PC – Right-clicking on the mouse
  • Xbox – LT button on an Xbox controller
  • Playstation – L2 button on a Playstation controller

POTION BASE INGREDIENTS TO GATHER

Before beginning with creating Minecraft potions, base ingredients are needed. Base ingredients are the starter for creating potions, proving the base for how that potion will turn out. The chart below includes a list of base ingredients used to create potions, what potions will be created, and the effects those will have so that you can easily begin making a potion.

ITEM NAME	ITEM	POTION CREATED	EFFECTS
Dragon’s Breath		Lingering Water Bottle	Usable to turn splash potions into lingering potions.
Fermented Spider Eye		Potion of Weakness	Results in the potion becoming corrupted, changing its effect.
Glowstone Dust		Thick Potion	Will enhance the levels of the potion.
Gunpowder		Splash Water Bottle	Turns a regular potion into a splash potion.
Nether Wart		Awkward Potion	A base potion used for creating more complex potions.
Redstone Dust		Mundane Potion	Is used to extend the duration of a potion.

CORRUPTION EFFECT

The corruption effect caused by a fermented spider eye will reverse the effects currently on the potion in most cases. For example, if a healing potion is corrupted, this can result in a Potion of Harming. Some potions, such as enhanced versions of the Leaping and Swiftness potions cannot become corrupted.

POTION EFFECT INGREDIENTS

Once you have an Awkward Potion in hand, you’re ready to design a potion. Awkward potions can be combined with many different ingredients to add unique effects and upgrades to your potions.

ITEM NAME	ITEM	POTION CREATED	EFFECTS
Blaze Powder		Strength	Weakness
Ghast Tear		Regeneration	None
Glistering Melon Slice		Instant Health	Instant Damage
Golden Carrot		Night Vision	Invisibility
Magma Cream		Fire Resistance	None
Phantom Membrane		Slow Falling	None
Pufferfish		Water Breathing	None
Rabbit’s Foot		Jump Boost	Slowness
Spider Eye		Poison	Instant Damage
Sugar		Speed	Slowness
Turtle Shell		Slowness, Resistance	None

HOW TO MAKE POTIONS IN MINECRAFT

BASE POTION RECIPES

Made by using base ingredients, base potions are used as a starter and to enhance or extend a potion’s effectiveness. These are the different base potions you can create:

POTION	HOW TO MAKE	EFFECTS
Awkward Potion		Needed to create effect potions.
Mundane Potion		Extends how long an effect potion will last.
Thick Potion		Improves the level of effect potions.

GOOD EFFECT POTIONS

• • Potion of Fire Resistance – Magma Cream | Immune to all fire damage for 3 – 8 minutes.

• • Potion of Healing – Glistering Melon Slice | Restores health by between 4 – 8 hearts.

• • Potion of Invisibility – Fermented Spider Eye + Potion of Night Vision | Makes the player invisible for 3 – 8 minutes.

• • Potion of Leaping – Rabbit’s Food | Increases the jump height of a player by ½ for 3 – 8 minutes or ¼ blocks for 1 minute and 30 seconds.

• • Potion of Night Vision – Golden Carrot | Increases the player’s view with improved light levels, including while underwater for 3 – 8 minutes.

• • Potion of Regeneration – Ghast Tear | Provides half a heart of health every 2.5 seconds for 45 seconds – 2 minutes or half a heart every 1.2 seconds for 22 seconds.

• • Potion of Slow Falling – Phantom Membrane | The player will fall slower, not taking damage when hitting the ground. This effect lasts for 1 minute and 30 seconds – 4 minutes.

• • Potion of Strength – Blaze Powder | Improves the player’s melee damage by three for 3 – 8 minutes or by six for 1 minute and 30 seconds.

• • Potion of Swiftness – Sugar | Provides a 20% increase to movement speed, sprinting speed, and jumping length for 3 – 8 minutes or a 40% increase for 1 minute and 30 seconds.

• Potion of Water Breathing – Pufferfish | Stops the oxygen bar from dropping while underwater for 3 – 8 minutes.

BAD EFFECT POTIONS

• • Potion of Harming – Spider Eye | Instantly inflicts 6 or 12 damage depending on the effect level.

• • Potion of Poison – Fermented Spider Eye | Drops a player’s health by 1 heart every 1.25 seconds for 45 seconds – 2 minutes or by 1 heart every 0.4 seconds for 22 seconds.

• • Potion of Slowness – Fermented Spider Eye + Potion of Healing + Potion of Poison | Slows down a player by 85% speed for 1 minute and 30 seconds – 4 minutes or 40% speed for 20 seconds.

• Potion of Weakness – Fermented Spider Eye + Potion of Swiftness + Potion of Leaping | Lowers a player’s melee attack damage by four for 1 minute and 30 seconds – 4 minutes.

MIXED EFFECT POTION

• Potion of the Turtle Master – Turtle Shell | Reduces all incoming damage by 60% while giving the player slowness IV for 20 – 40 seconds or reduces all damage by 80% while giving slowness VI for 20 seconds.

POTION – TIPS AND TRICKS

UNDEAD MOBS – OPPOSITE EFFECTS

Many potions can be turned into splash potions and used against mobs in battle. Fighting undead mobs brings a slight reversal effect to potions. Unlike normal mobs, healing potions will cause undead mobs to take damage while harming potions will heal them. Additionally, poison and regeneration potions do not affect undead mobs.

NON-BREWABLE POTIONS IN MINECRAFT

Minecraft features two potions that currently cannot be brewed. The potions that you cannot make include the Potion of Luck from Java Edition and the Potion of Decay from Bedrock Edition. While you can’t create these potions, when using commands or creative mode in Minecraft, you can obtain and use them to your advantage!

When running your own Minecraft server, you can add these unique potions through custom kits or item prizes. Adding these potions can be achieved by installing plugins or mods on your server. No matter what method you create for players to get these potions, they’ll add a lot of fun to the already amazing adventure on your server!

HISTORY OF POTIONS IN MINECRAFT

Minecraft potions has been an essential item in Minecraft since the start of version 1.0.0 released in November 2011. Before the use of the brewing stand to create mighty potions, the cauldron had been the initial block used to make potions. Due to the cauldron potion system being rather complicated, with the lack of GUI and issues with duplicate potions, Notch and Jeb at Mojang came up with a new brewing method. Through their hard work, this new system used the brewing stand, creating the current method of making potions in Minecraft!

ENHANCE YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH POTIONS

In a game that already has endless creativity, adding potions to the mix brings a new level of fun and engagement. The enjoyment of potions comes in many forms, whether players are taking potions into battle to give themselves positive effects and the opponents’ negative effects, or they’re simply looking to improve their speed to travel great distances.

Since potions can be complicated and require different items, the charts above will ensure you can create the perfect potions to use in the game. Now that you know how to make potions in Minecraft, get started by creating some custom potions on your Minecraft server!

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