If you’re playingMinecraftin Survival Mode, potions can come in handy. You can drink a brew that enhances your melee attacks, your speed, or allows you to breathe underwater. This guide shows you how to make potions inMinecraft— even those you can throw at enemies.
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What You Need
Crafting table (in-game)
Iron Ingot (in-game)
Cobblestone (in-game)
Blaze Rod (in-game)
Water (in-game)
Glass Blocks (in-game)
Nether Wart (in-game)
Recipe-specific ingredients (see below)
Gamers playing in Creative Mode don’t really need potions. Still, they’re fun to create, though the road to obtaining every ingredient manually can be quite long. Your journey includes taking a trip into the Nether, fishing, hunting rabbits, and more.
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Gather your materials
The list of materials you need is rather long, and five of them reside in the Nether. That means you need to build a portal, enter the underworld, defeat monsters, and find a Nether Fortress without getting lost.
Remember, each block traveled in the Nether equals eight blocks traveled in the Overworld. You may want to consider leaving markers, like torches, that lead you back to the portal. Switching to “Peaceful” mode probably wouldn’t be a bad idea either — at least until you return home.
Step 1:Build aportal to the Netherworld.
Step 2:Enter the Netherworld and find a Nether Fortress.
Step 3:Gather the Nether ingredients:
Step 4:Return to the Overworld to continue gathering ingredients:
Step 5:Gather Overworld potion modifiers:
Craft a Brewing Stand
You can’t make a potion without this required contraption.
Step 1:Open your Crafting Table.
Step 2:Place one (1) Cobblestone each in the three bottom squares in the crafting grid.
Step 3:Place one (1) Blaze Rod in the middle square.
Step 4:Drag the Brewing Stand down into your Hotbar.
Step 5:Select the Brewing Stand and perform the following:
Craft a Cauldron (optional)
You’ll need water — why not add a little pool next to your Brewing Stand?
Step 2:Add seven (7) Iron Ingots to the crafting grid in a “U” formation: Three in the left column, one in the middle column’s bottom square, and three in the right column.
Step 3:Drag the resulting Cauldron down into your Hotbar.
Step 4:Select the Cauldron and perform the following:
Craft and fill Glass Bottles
You need something to contain your brewed liquids.
Step 2:On the crafting grid’s middle row, place one (1) Glass Block each in the first and third squares.
Step 3:On the crafting grid’s bottom row, place one (1) Glass Block in the second square.
Step 4:Drag the resulting three (3) Glass Bottles down into your Hotbar.
Step 5:Equip a Glass Bottle and do the following next to a body of water:
Craft Blaze Powder
Your Brewing Stand needs fuel!
Step 2:Place a Blaze Rod into any crafting grid square.
Step 3:Drag the resulting Blaze Powder (two total) down into your inventory.
Brew an Awkward Potion
First, you need to brew a “foundation” called an Awkward Potion. It’s like the carbonated water in your favorite cola: Without it, you just have a glass of syrup.
Step 1:Open the Brewing Stand.
Step 2:Place one (1) filled Glass Bottle each into the lower three squares designated with a “bottle” icon.
Step 3:Place one (1) Nether Wart into the top square.
Step 4:Place one (1) Blaze Powder in the square in the top-left corner designated with a “fire” icon.
This process converts all three Water Bottles into Awkward Potions. Now you need to add other ingredients to make these Awkward Potions usable. After that, you can add modifiers to make the effects last longer and more powerful.
Potion types
With the Awkward Potions in hand, now comes the awkward puzzle of crafting usable potions.
The list is long, however, so we broke them down into three categories: Positive, Negative, and Mixed. Remember, all potions start with the Awkward Potion you just created. Next to each potion type, we list its main ingredients and overall effects. We also list the modifiers you need to enhance or extend its potency.
For example, you can create a Potion of Fire Resistance by combining an Awkward Potion with Magma Creme in the Brewing Stand. After that, you can place the Potion of Fire Resistance back into the Brewing Stand and add Redstone Dust, thereby extending its duration from three minutes to eight minutes.
Positive effects
Potion (effect and duration) — Ingredients
Fire Resistance(3:00) — Awkward Potion, Magma CreamFire Resistance+(8:00) — Fire Resistance Potion, Redstone DustHealing(Four health points) — Awkward Potion, Glistering MelonInvisibility(3:00) — Night Vision Potion, Fermented Spider EyeInvisibility+(8:00) — Invisibility Potion, Redstone DustLeaping(+0.50 for 3:00) — Awkward Potion, Rabbit’s FootLeaping II(+0.50 for 8:00) — Leaping Potion, Glowstone DustLeaping+(+1.25 for 1:30) — Leaping Potion, Redstone DustNight Vision(3:00) — Awkward Potion, Golden CarrotNight Vision+(8:00) — Night Vision Potion, Redstone DustRegeneration(+1 health point per 2.5 seconds for 0:45) — Awkward Potion, Ghast TearRegeneration II(+1 health point per 2.5 seconds for 1:30) — Regeneration Potion, Glowstone DustRegeneration+(+1 health point per 1.2 seconds for 0:22) — Regeneration Potion, Redstone DustSlow Falling(1:30) — Awkward Potion, Phantom MembraneSlow Falling+(4:00) — Slow Falling Potion, Redstone DustStrength(+3 melee damage for 3:00) — Awkward Potion, Blaze PowderStrength II(+3 melee damage for 8:00) — Strength Potion, Glowstone DustStrength+(+6 melee damage for 1:30) — Strength Potion, Redstone Dust
Swiftness(+20% movement speed for 3:00) — Awkward Potion, SugarSwiftness II(40% movement speed for 1:30) — Swiftness Potion, Glowstone DustSwiftness+(+20% movement speed for 8:00) — Swiftness Potion, Redstone DustWater Breathing(3:00) — Awkward Potion, PufferfishWater Breathing+(8:00) — Water Breathing Potion, Redstone Dust
Overall, these potions should be drinkable and not used as throwable potions. But there are cases, like the Splash Potion of Healing, where a throwable comes in handy. It’s merely the Potion of Healing combined with a filled Splash Water Bottle that, ultimately, you’re able to throw at friends with low health.
We provide instructions on how to create throwables later.
Negative effects
Harming(Damages six points) — Healing or Poison Potion, Fermented Spider EyeHarming II(Damages 12 point) — Harming Potion Glowstone DustPoison(-1 health point per 2.5 seconds for 0:45) — Awkward Potion, Spider EyePoison II(1 health point per 1.2 seconds for 0:21 ) — Poison Potion, Glowstone DustPoison+(-1 health point per 2.5 seconds for 1:30) — Poison Potion, Redstone DustSlowness(-15% speed for 1:30) — Leaping or Swiftness Potion, Fermented Spider EyeSlowness II(-15% speed for 4:00) — Slowness Potion, Glowstone DustSlowness+(-60% speed for 0:20) — Slowness Potion, Redstone DustWeakness(Reduced melee damage by four for 1:30) — Awkward Potion, Fermented Spider EyeWeakness+(Reduced melee damage by four for 4:00) — Weakness Potion, Redstone Dust
Courtesy of the Awkward potion base, you can make these potions drinkable, but many are more suited as throwables. In the following section, we guide you through the production of mixed effects potions.
Mixed effects
Turtle Master(Slowness IV and Resistance III for 0:20) — Awkward Potion, Turtle ShellTurtle Master II(Slowness IV and Resistance III for 0:40) — Turtle Master Potion, Glowstone DustTurtle Master+(Slowness IV and Resistance IV for 0:20) — Turtle Master Potion, Redstone Dust
Brew a splash potion
You’re obviously out to hurt your enemies, so any kind of combat requires a harmful concoction ready for launching at encroaching attackers. We like using slowness or poison. Not all potions are bad, of course, and many of them bestow curative and fortifying powers. But you should reserve those potions for yourself and not your enemies.
Step 2:Place one (1) regular potion each into the three bottom squares. In this example, we use potions of poison.
Step 3:Place one (1) Gunpowder into the top square.
Step 5:Drag the new splash potions down into your inventory.
Brew a lingering splash potion
The effects of this recipe will haunt its victims long after you dispatch the splash, making this potion optimal for defeating a constant flow of enemies bombarding your space.
Step 2:Place one (1) Splash Potion in one of the three bottom squares. In this example, we use the Splash Potion of Poison.
Step 3:Place one (1) Dragon’s Breath in the top square.
Step 5:Drag the new lingering splash potion down into your inventory.
