If you play Minecraft in survival mode potions can come in handy. You can drink a potion that improves your melee attacks, your speed, or allows you to breathe underwater. This guide shows you how to make potions Minecraft — even ones you can throw at enemies.
Players playing in creative mode don’t really need potions. Still, they’re fun to create, even though the path to manually obtaining each ingredient can be quite long. Your trip includes a trip to the Nether, fishing, rabbit hunting and more.
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Gather your materials
The list of materials you need is quite long, and five of them are found in the Nether. This means you need to build a portal, enter the underworld, defeat monsters and find the Nether Fortress without getting lost.
Remember, each block traversed in the Nether is equal to eight blocks traversed in the Overworld. You might want to consider leaving markers, like torches, to guide you back to the portal. Switching to “Quiet” mode probably wouldn’t be a bad idea either – at least until you get home.
Step 1: Build a portal to the Underworld.
Step 2: Enter the Netherworld and find the Nether Fortress.
Step 3: Gather the Nether Ingredients:
- Blaze Rods — Drop Blazes into Nether Fortresses that are used to make Blaze Powder.
- Ghast Tear — Dropped by Ghasts hovering above the lava.
- Magma Cream — Dropped with Magma Cubes or crafted from one (1) Flame Powder and one (1) Slime Ball.
- Nether Wart — Found in the Nether Fortresses that grow in Soul Sand.
- Soul Sand — Used to breed more Nether Wart in the Overworld (optional).
Step 4: Return to the Overworld to continue collecting ingredients:
- Dragon’s Breath — Dropped by a dragon from Ender.
- Sparkling Melon — Crafted from one (1) melon and eight (8) gold nuggets.
- Golden Carrot — Crafted from one (1) carrot and eight (8) gold nuggets.
- Phantom Membranes — emitted by phantoms.
- Blowfish — use a bucket of water or a fishing rod to catch.
- Rabbit’s Paw — Dropped by killed rabbits.
- Spider’s Eye — Killed spiders and witches drop out.
- Sugar — made from one (1) sugar cane.
- Turtle Shell — Made of five (5) shields dropped by baby turtles.
Step 5: Collect Overworld Potion Modifiers:
- Fermented Spider’s Eye — Made from one (1) spider’s eye, one (1) brown mushroom, and one (1) sugar.
- Red-hot stone dust — mined from red-hot rocks.
- Gunpowder — dropped by Creepers, Ghasts, and Witches; it is also found in chests.
- Redstone — mined from Redstone ore.
Make a beer brewing stand
You cannot make a potion without this necessary device.
Step 1: Open the crafting table.
Step 2: Place one (1) cobblestone each in the bottom three squares of the crafting grid.
Step 3: Place one (1) Blaze Bar in the middle square.
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Step 4: Pull the cooking stand into the Hotbar.
Step 5: Select a cooking rack and do the following:
- PC — right-click the destination.
- Console — Aim at a destination and press the left trigger button.
- Mobile — Tap the destination.
Make a cauldron (optional)
You’ll need water — why not add a small pool next to your cooking rack?
Step 1: Open the crafting table.
Step 2: Add seven (7) iron bars to the grid to create a “U” formation: three in the left column, one in the bottom square of the middle column, and three in the right column.
Step 3: Drag the resulting boiler down into your Hotbar.
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Step 4: Select a boiler and do the following:
- PC — right-click the destination.
- Console — Aim at a destination and press the left trigger button.
- Mobile — Tap the destination.
Make and fill glass bottles
You need something to hold your cooking liquids.
Step 1: Open the crafting table.
Step 2: In the middle row of the crafting grid, place one (1) glass block each in the first and third squares.
Step 3: On the bottom row of the crafting grid, place one (1) glass block in the second square.
Step 4: Drag the resulting three (3) glass bottles down into your Hotbar.
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Step 5: Equip the glass bottle and do the following next to the water surface:
- PC — Right click on the water.
- Console — Aim for the water and press the left trigger button.
- Mobile — touch the water.
Craft Blaze powder
Your cooking rack needs fuel!
Step 1: Open the crafting table.
Step 2: Place the Blaze Rod in any crafting grid square.
Step 3: Drag the resulting Blaze Powder (two total) down into your inventory.
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Brew a nasty potion
First you have to brew a “foundation” called Awkward Potion. It’s like the soda in your favorite cola: without it, you’re just a glass of syrup.
Step 1: Open the cooking rack.
Step 2: Place one (1) filled glass bottle each in the bottom three squares marked with the “bottle” icon.
Step 3: Place one (1) Nether Wart in the top square.
Step 4: Place one (1) Flaming Powder in the square in the upper left corner marked with the “fire” icon.
This process turns all three bottles of water into strange potions. Now you need to add other ingredients to make these Tricky Potions usable. After that, you can add modifiers to make the effects last longer and more powerful.
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Types of drinks
With nasty potions in hand, now comes the tricky puzzle of crafting useful potions.
However, the list is long, so we divided them into three categories: positive, negative and mixed. Remember, all potions start with the nasty potion you just created. With each type of drink, we list its main ingredients and overall effects. We also list the modifiers you need to enhance or extend its power.
For example, you can make a potion of fire resistance by combining a nasty potion with magma cream in a brew stand. Afterwards, you can return the fire resistance potion to the brewing rack and add redstone dust, extending its duration from three minutes to eight minutes.
Positive effects
Potion (effect and duration) — Ingredients
Fire Resistance (3:00) — Awkward Potion, Magma Cream Fire Resist+ (8:00) — Fire Resistance Potion, Redstone Dust Healing (four health points) — Awkward Potion, Sparkling Melon Invisibility (3:00) — Potion of Night Vision, Fermented Spider Eye Invisibility+ (8:00) — Potion of Invisibility, Redstone Dust Leaping (+0.50 for 3:00) — Awkward Potion, Rabbit’s Foot Leaping II (+0.50 for 8:00) — Leaping Potion, Glowstone Dust Leaping+ (+1.25 for 1:30) — Leaping Potion, Redstone Dust Night Vision (3:00) — Awkward Potion, Golden Carrot Night Vision+ (8:00) — Night Potion sight, Redstone Dust Regeneration (+1 health point every 2.5 seconds for 0:45 ) — Awkward Potion, Ghast Tear Regeneration II (+1 health point every 2.5 seconds for 1:30) — Regeneration Potion, Glowstone Dust Regeneration+ (+1 health per 1.2 seconds for 0:22) — Regeneration Potion, Redstone Dust Slow Falling (1:30) — Awkward Potion, Phantom Membrane Slow Falling+ (4:00) — Slow Falling Potion, Dust Power of redstone (+3 melee damage for 3:00) — Awkward Potion, Firedust Strength II (+3 melee damage for 8:00) — Strength Potion, Glowstone DustStrength+ (+6 melee damage for 1:30) — Potion of Strength, Redstone Dust
Speed (+20% Movement Speed for 3:00) — Clumsy Potion, SugarSwiftness II (40% Movement Speed for 1:30) — Potion of Speed, Glowstone Dust Speed+ (+20% Movement Speed for 8:00) — Potion of speed, Redstone DustWater Breathing (3:00) — Awkward Potion, PufferfishWater Breathing+ (8:00) — Water Breathing Potion, Redstone Dust
In general, these potions should be drunk, not used as throwaway potions. But there are times, like Splash Potion of Healing, where throwing comes in handy. It’s just a healing potion combined with a filled water spray bottle that you can ultimately throw at low health friends.
Later we provide instructions on how to make a throw.
Negative effects
Potion (effect and duration) — Ingredients
Damage (Six points of damage) — Potion of healing or poison, Fermented Spider’s Eye Damage II (12 points of damage) — Damage potion Glowstone Dust Poison (-1 health point for 2.5 seconds for 0:45) — Awkward potion, Poison for spider eye II (1 health per 1.2 seconds for 0:21 ) — Poison potion, Glowstone Dust Poison+ (-1 health point per 2.5 seconds for 1:30) — Poison potion, Redstone Dust Slowness (-15% speed for 1:30) — Jumping 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) — Potion of Weakness, Redstone Dust
Courtesy of the Awkward potion base, you can make these potions drinkable, but many are better suited for throwing. In the next section, we guide you through the production of potions of mixed effects.
Mixed effects
Potion (effect and duration) — Ingredients
Turtle Master (Slowness IV and Resist III for 0:20) — Awkward Potion, Turtle Shell Turtle Master II (Slowness IV and Resist III for 0:40) — Turtle Master Potion, Glowstone Dust Turtle Master+ (Slowness IV and Resist IV for 0 :20) — Master Turtle Potion, Red Stone Dust
Brew a splash potion
You obviously want to hurt your enemies, so any type of combat requires a damaging concoction ready to pounce on attacking attackers. We like to use slow or poison. Not all potions are bad, of course, and many of them have healing and invigorating powers. But you should keep those potions for yourself, not for your enemies.
Step 1: Open the cooking rack.
Step 2: Place one (1) common potion each in the bottom three squares. In this example we are using poison potions.
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Step 3: Place one (1) gunpowder in the top square.
Step 4: Place one (1) Flaming Powder in the square in the upper left corner marked with the “fire” icon.
Step 5: Pull the new spray potions into your inventory.
Brew a long-lasting spray potion
The effects of this recipe will haunt their victims long after you empty them, making this potion optimal for defeating the constant stream of enemies bombarding your space.
Step 1: Open the cooking rack.
Step 2: Place one (1) spray potion in one of the three bottom squares. In this example, we’re using Poison Spray Potion.
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Step 3: Place one (1) Dragon’s Breath in the top square.
Step 4: Place one (1) Flaming Powder in the square in the upper left corner marked with the “fire” icon.
Step 5: Pull a new long lasting spray potion into your inventory.
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