All the Minecraft potion recipes you need to survive
Here’s how to brew the best Minecraft potions.
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Fancy creating your very ownMinecraft potions? While we can’t vouch for how they taste, these useful concoctions can be made out of some of the more unusual ingredients in Minecraft, but will grant powerful effects that will help you survive and thrive while fending off all the deadliest mobs. Would you like to explore the seafloor by breathing underwater? Or maybe you’ve taken too many dunks into lava lakes, and need resistance to fire? And of course, there’s always some good old fashioned healing potions. Powerful and useful, Minecraft potions belong in every proper adventurer’s inventory while they’re exploring the world and gathering materials.
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But vast alchemical power doesn’t just grow on Minecraft trees, so to brew up these mixtures you’re going to need special brewing equipment and the proper knowledge. Thankfully, we’re here to give you the rundown on the full Minecraft potion list, and how to get started brewing them.
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Getting started with Minecraft Potions
If you’re wondering how to make Minecraft potions, the first step is to get yourself a Brewing Stand. Unlike many other basic crafting and refining stations—like the Furnace, Smoker, and Stonecutter—you’ll have to venture into the Nether to a Nether Fortress to find Blazes to kill for their Blaze Rods.The Brewing Stand can be made by combining one Blaze Rod with three bits of Cobblestone. You need to place the Blaze Rod in the center and the Cobblestone along the bottom row. Blaze Rods can be found by killing Blazes in Nether Fortresses, and it’s worth picking up as many as you can since Blaze Rods are broken down into Blaze Powder to fuel your Brewing Stand.
What else do you need for making Minecraft potions?
While the Brewing Stand is the core thing you need in your quest for Minecraft potions, there are other useful—and required—things to gather. Here’s the most important of the supporting cast for your brewing adventures:
How to make Minecraft potions
Now that you’ve got your basics, it’s time to cook up some Minecraft magic.
Along with the fuel to the Brewing Stand you need to get started, you’re also going to need some Water Bottles, and some Nether Wart.
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To make Water Bottles, first craft Glass Bottles by combining three blocks of Glass on a crafting table. These must be arranged in a V shape, though it doesn’t matter if the bottom piece is in the bottom row or the middle. Then, take your bottles to a water source and use them on the water.
Next is the Nether Wart, which you can get by finding it in The Nether. Once you’ve got some to start, you can create your own farm anywhere—including the Overworld—by laying down some Soul Sand and planting the Nether Wart in it to grow.
Now that’s settled, we can return to brewing. Lets walk through the process:
There are two basic ways to modify your awkward potions so they do something. It doesn’t matter what order you do these steps in, so feel free to do whichever you’d like first and second—but you can’t repeat a step on the same potion.
Adding the base ingredient
The first option is changing how the potion works at a base level, such as making it last longer, or making it more potent. Lets look at the list of base ingredients first:
Pick the base ingredient you want, and then you can move on to the next brewing step. Here’s how the process works:
Adding the effect ingredient
Effect is the other thing you change about Minecraft potions, and these are provided by combining potions with different ingredients. You just need to put the potion in the Brewing Stand, and add the relevant ingredient to it. Once you’ve added an effect ingredient, the potion will be useful, though it doesn’t have to be finished since you can still add a base ingredient if you haven’t already.To create potions with opposite (corrupted) effects, add a Fermented Spider Eye. Here, we’ll run through all the Minecraft potion recipes, with what ingredients you’ll need and what they do in our trusty Minecraft potions chart:
What is the best Minecraft potion?
A potion doesn’t have to be glamorous to be useful, and staying alive is pretty much essential to doing well. Whether you need a quick boost in a scrap, or if you’re just trying to recover after it’s over, lots of potions can help you come out on top.
Personally, I think thePotion of Regenerationis the most universally useful, since it heals you so much and keeps working while you fight—or run from—whatever damaged you. You can even make the splash version to help out your friends in a pinch.
If you’re gearing up for a big fight, thePotion of Strengthcan be a huge boon, really powering up every swing of your weapon and helping you take down tough enemies before they can kill you.
Of course, if you’re clumsy like I am, the honest truth is that thePotion of Fire Resistanceis the best. Every dip into the lava while traversing the Nether or mining deep underground gets a lot less frustrating when you can swim around, happy as a fiery clam.
But go forth, and decide for yourself! Every potion has an important use.
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