Minecraft Potions: Complete List and Brewing Guide
Jul. 19, 2022Minecraft is filled with all sorts of difficult challenges, such as strong mobs, dangerous structures and one entire terrifying dimension. The game provides various ways you can more easily overcome them and one of those is the potions. They are consumable items that offer different status effects. Potions are extremely important in Minecraft and this guide will help you understand them fully. That said, let’s not waste any more time and figure out what they are all about.
What Is a Potion in Minecraft
Potions arebottled liquids in Minecraft that apply a magic-like effect to the userfor a limited time. There are a variety of potions in the game, each with its own unique effects. Some are negative, some are neutral, and most other potions have positive effects.
In Minecraft, all the potions are made by adding different items to a water bottle using abrewing stand. It’s a utility block that uses blaze powder as fuel and can create up to three potion bottles at once using a single ingredient.
Alternatively, you can alsoget potions by bartering with piglinsin the Nether orby fishingin the Overworld. Also,killing witches and wandering tradersis another way to obtain potions, but you have to kill them while they are drinking the potion for them to drop it.
If nothing else proves to be fruitful, you can still get some potions in achest lootofAncient cities,end cities,igloobasements,andburied treasure.
Before we dive deeper into individual potions, here’s a complete list of potions that Minecraft has to offer. Check it out:
*variants of Potions
Base potions have no real effect when used. They are mostly used to brew other more advanced potions.
Theawkward potion in Minecraftis the most common base potion, which isused in most potion recipes. It doesn’t have any effects of its own. To make an awkward potion, you need to useNether wartsas the main ingredient with water bottles.
Just like other base potions, the mundane potion doesn’t have any effects either. Its sole purpose is to serve as themain ingredient tobrew the Potion of Weaknessin Bedrock edition. If you want to craft it, you can do so by brewing water bottles with magma cream, rabbit’s foot, sugar, glistering melon, spider eye, or ghast tear. Irrespective of the main ingredient, all mundane potions are ineffective.
As you might expect, even the thick potion has no effects. But to make things worse, itcan’t even be used to make advanced potionsin Minecraft. This potion doesn’t serve any purpose other than for probable decoration. You can make it by brewing water bottles with glowstone dust.
Positive potions have a positive effect on the mob or player. They can increase the movement speed, strength or provide immunity to fire damage, drowning and more.
ThePotion of Healinginstantly heals its user and can add up to4 hearts to your health bar. You can make it by brewing aglistering melon slicewith an awkward potion. You can also obtain this potion by killing a witch while it’s drinking this potion.
Instead of instant healing, the Potion of Regenerationrestores the player’s healthover a period of time. It is faster than the regular regeneration and isn’t affected by the hunger bar of the player. You can brew it by combining an awkward potion with a ghast tear.
One of the best ways toavoid fall damage in Minecraftis by using aPotion of Slow Falling. Itreduces the speed by which you fallfrom any in-game height, thus, eliminating the damage that comes with it. To brew this potion, you need to combine a phantom membrane with a bottle of awkward potion. You can get the membrane by killing phantoms that spawn if you don’t sleep for multiple days in the game.
If you plan tomake a Nether portalto explore the Nether dimension, it’s almost a necessity to brew aPotion of Fire Resistance. It makes youimmune to fire and lava-based damage. You can brew magma cream with bottles of awkward potion to make this potion in Minecraft. Alternatively, you can also barter with piglins to obtain the Potion of Fire Resistance in Minecraft.
Working like a boost, thePotion of Swiftnessallows you to jump higher andmove at a much faster pacethan usual. And since you only need to add sugar to awkward potions to make it, you can collect multiple copies of it easily. Make sure to follow our guide onhow to make a sugar cane farmto make infinite potions of swiftness.
Minecraft, most of the time, is a game based on close combat. Because of that, the Potion of Strength can easily topple fights toward one side. Itincreases the damage dealtwith each hit by the player. And unlike any other potion, it uses the fuel of brewing, blaze powder, as its main ingredient.
This potion allows you to jump higher than usual, just like a rabbit in the game. But you still can’t jump as high as theMinecraft 1.19 frogs. If you are fine with the compromise, brew a rabbit’s foot with an awkward potion to obtain a Potion of Leaping.
The oceans of Minecraft are brutal. You have to struggle to breathe, fight hostile mobs and keep swimming. Fortunately, thePotion of Water Breathingcan make your life easier by allowing you tobreathe underwater. You can create it by brewing a pufferfish with an awkward potion.
Since the arrival ofWarden in Minecraft 1.19, the game has gotten a bit darker – both literally and figuratively. Fortunately, to counter that, all you need is thePotion of Night Vision. It allows you tosee clearly in dark areasand even somewhat counter the Warden’s darkness effect. You simply need to add a golden carrot to an awkward potion to obtain this potion.
As the name reveals, thePotion of Invisibilityallows you to turn invisible. Doing so will make almost all the mobs in the game ignore you. But this doesn’t work with the Warden, which is a blind mob that relies upon vibrations.
To make this potion, you need to corrupt a Potion of Night Vision by brewing a fermented spider eye in it. Alternatively, you can also kill a wandering trader while it’s drinking the Potion of Invisibility to obtain it.
Negative potions provide a negative effect to the player or mob. They can decrease strength, movement speed, slowly damage an entity over time and more.
APotion of Weaknessreduces the attack damageof the user who consumes it, making their each attack weaker than usual. It is a great potion to counter powerful enemies and also well-geared players. To brew this, you only need toadd a fermented spider eyeto a water bottle, so it’s a rather cheap potion.
You can use thePotion of Poisonto give a poison effect to your target. It causes the consumer’shealth to slowly degradeuntil it reaches one heart. But keep in mind that this potion can’t kill another player or mob. You can craft it by brewing a regular spider eye with awkward potion in Minecraft.
Many Minecraft fights – in PvP or against mobs – are based on the opponent’s speed. To counter that, the Potion of Slownessreduces the movement speedof its target by 15%. It slows down their attacks as well as general movement. So, to create it, you need to corrupt a Potion of Swiftness or a Potion of Leaping by adding a fermented spider eye in the brewing station.
Instead of slow decay like the poison effect, the Potion of Harminginstantly decreases 6 health pointson impact. You can obtain it by corrupting the Potion of Poison or Potion of Healing with a fermented spider eye. Not to forget, Potion of Harming is the only potion that can kill its target, thus, making it themost dangerous potion in Minecraft.
Special potions can have a bad and a good effect at once. They are different than all other potions and can allow you to farm resources.
Potion of oozing is a special Minecraft 1.21 potion that provides a mob effect. When a mob or player dies with the oozing effect,two medium slimes will spawnaround their position. This means the potion of oozing is only useful when an entity dies.
This potion in particular is extremely useful, as it allows you to farm slimes and slime balls rather quickly. To make an oozing potion, you’ll need to combine an awkward potion with a slime block inside a brewing stand. The mob affected can be any mob including easy-to-kill passive mobs like chickens.
So, if you use one slime block to make three potions of oozing, you could get stacks upon stacks of slime balls if you splash and kill lots of chickens.
Potion of infestation is the second mob effect potion. It grants a 10% chance of spawning 1-3 silverfish once a mob or player with this effect is hurt. This particular potion doesn’t have practical uses, as silverfish don’t drop anything useful and are mostly annoying to deal with. You could however prank your server mates with it. To make a potion of infestation, you’ll need to combine a stone block with an awkward potion in a brewing stand.
The weaving potion is a fairly useful potion that causes couple of cobwebs to generate around the spot where a mob or player affected with weaving dies. To make it you’ll need one cobweb and an awkward potion. So, with the cost of only one cobweb, you could potentially get a lot more if you splash and kill lots of easy targets.
Potion of wind charging is the last mob effect potion that summons a wind burst effect on the spot where a player or mob affected dies. This potion yields no materials, but can be useful when combined with an elytra or when making a silly prank. This effect also stacks, so if you kill lots of affected chickens at once, you’ll be able to launch yourself very high up very quickly. To make this potion, you’ll need to combine abreeze rodwith an awkward potion.Launch yourself with the latest technology, chicken sacrifice! (includes the wind charge potion)byu/TheTwistyMasterinMinecraft
Unlike any other potion, the Potion of the Turtle Master has both negative and positive effects. It makes youimmune to all types of damagein the game, but while doing so it also heavilyreduces your movement speed. Depending upon the situation, it can be a lifesaver as well as a reliable weapon. You can craft it by brewing a turtle shell with an awkward potion.
The last two potions are not obtainable in survival game, but we still included them for you.
The Potion of Luck is a Minecraft Java-exclusive potion thatisnot obtainablein the survival mode without commands. It increases the quantity of general loot as well as the chances for the players to obtain rarer loot. You can get this potion from the creative inventory.
The Potion of Decay is a Bedrock exclusive potion that applies theWither effecton its target. When it’s active, the target will continuously take damage until the effect ends. But, just like Minecraft Java’s Potion of Luck, you can’t brew this in survival mode. Instead, you have to use the following command to obtain it:
/give @p potion 1 36
Potions are a powerful resource even in their basic form. But by brewing them with the right ingredient, you can push them a step further. Here are all the ways you can modify your potions:
By default, the only way to use a potion in Minecraft is by consuming it. But that becomes a fatal flow when negative potions come into the picture. So, to make them more useful, you first have to convert them intothrowablesplash potions.
To do so,add gunpowder to a regular potionusing a brewing stand. When the brewing finishes, your potion bottle will have its head bent, giving you a visual indicator of its throwable nature.
If thrown at the right time and angle, a splash potion can affect all entities with a maximumrange of 8 blocks. Though, the effect of the potion weakens with the increase in the mob’s distance from the center of impact.
Moreover, if you want the splash potion to last its full duration, throw it in the air right above you. When it hits the ground it’ll give you the full lasting effect, whereas if you throw it directly towards the ground, it’ll loose some precious time of providing you with the certain effect.
The splash potions are a great weapon, but only if you have good aim or if your target isn’t moving around too much. Fortunately, if youadd dragon’s breathto the splash potion, it will become a lingering potion.
You can get dragon’s breath by right clicking on the Ender Dragon’s purple clouds with an empty glass bottle selected. It is also a throwable potion but instead of having a direct impact, it leaves a smoke cloud at the area of impact.
Then whenever an entity comes in contact with the cloud, it gets affected by the potion’s effect. This cloud starts with aradius of 3 blocksbut slowly becomes smaller and vanishes after30 seconds. Though, the size of the cloud doesn’t affect the strength of the potion effect. If you use instant lingering potions, you can easily harm or heal the target more effectively than direct consumption.
More than half of Minecraft’s potions listed above are time-bound. Their effects wear off after a few seconds or minutes. But if youadd Redstone dust to your potion, you can make the potion last for a longer duration. However, it doesn’t affect the potions that have instant effects like the potion of healing.
One of the best ways to improve your potions is by leveling them up. You can do so byadding glowstone dust to the potion. This will cause the potion’s strength to increase, making its effects more powerful. However, to avoid making them overpowered, the game reduces the duration of the time-bound potions. Not to forget, glowstone dust doesn’t impact several different potions.
With that, you know everything about all the potions in Minecraft. Whether you want to make your adventures safer or your weapons more diverse, these potions are perfect for you. But there is no need to stop here.
You can also use thebest Minecraft commandsto make yourself even stronger than Minecraft’s bosses. However, if you’re overwhelmed by the huge variety of potions, you should refer to our list of thebest Minecraft potionsto brew and use the most important ones. With that said, which is your favorite Minecraft potion? Tell us in the comments below!
Minecraft has three types of potions –regular potionsthat the players can consume,splash potionsthat are throwable, andlingering potionsthat leave a cloud of effects when thrown.
A splashPotion of Harmingis the most powerful potion in Minecraft. It instantly depletes the health of the target, and it is the only potion that can kill another mob.
To remove the effects of any potion or status effect, you just have to drink a bucket of milk in Minecraft. You can get it by using an empty bucket on a cow or agoat in Minecraft.
Exclusive to the Java edition, the Uncraftable Potion is a base potion that causes no effects on its consumer. You can’t obtain it in the survival game mode without any cheats.
Minecraft has more in-game effects than the actual number of potions. Because of that, the game allows you to create custom potions for all the in-game effects usingMinecraft commands. You can find data values to obtain your own custom potions fromMinecraft Wiki.
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