MINECRAFT | All Potions and How to Make Them – Brewing Guide

Minecraft is a survival game in which crafting is a fundamental part of the experience. Throughout your adventure, you'll need to make all kinds of items, and one of the mechanics available to you is brewing potions. Each potion has a different effect, and in this section of our complete guide, we'll show you how to craft potions and where to find all the ingredients you need.

This basic infographic, shared by members of the Minecraft community, can serve as a handy cheat sheet when looking up potions. You'll find much more detailed information further down in our brewing guide.

All Minecraft potions and their recipes

Below you'll find the complete list of potions and brewing recipes in Minecraft, including the ingredients required to make them and the effects they provide. Potions can be split into three main categories:

• Base potions: these are brewed first and then used as a base for other potions. They don't have any effects of their own (these include the Water Bottle, Awkward Potion, Thick Potion, and Mundane Potion).
• Potions with positive effects: these provide an immediate benefit or an advantage that lasts for a set amount of time.
• Potions with negative effects: these apply harmful effects, making them useful for throwing at enemies (they can be made using Spider Eyes).

Here are all the potions you can brew in Minecraft:

Note: this list doesn't include the Potion of Luck (exclusive to the Computer and Legacy Console Editions) or the Potion of Decay (exclusive to Pocket Edition).

Remember that any potion can also be turned into a Splash Potion. Simply return to the Brewing Stand and add the potion you want to convert, together with Gunpowder and Blaze Powder. Bear in mind that the effects of Splash Potions don't last as long.

How to brew potions

To brew or craft potions in Minecraft, you'll first need a Brewing Stand. To make one, place three pieces of Cobblestone along the bottom row and a Blaze Rod in the center slot, as shown in the following image:

Cobblestone is, of course, a resource you can find almost anywhere. Blaze Rods, on the other hand, are randomly dropped when you defeat a Blaze. These enemies can be found in the Nether.

Now that you've crafted a Brewing Stand, interact with it. This will bring up the brewing interface, where you'll need to place several different items to make potions:

Here's what you need to know to understand how the potion-brewing interface works:

• Top-left slot: this is where you place the fuel required to power the Brewing Stand. In this case, you'll need Blaze Powder, which can be made by placing a Blaze Rod on a Crafting Table.
• Top-center slot: this is where you place the ingredient that determines which potion you'll make. Generally speaking, you'll use Nether Wart to brew Awkward Potions, although the ingredient will change depending on the potion you want to create.
• Three bottom slots: this is where you place Water Bottles or bottles containing potions. You can use between one and three, but placing three is always recommended to get the most out of each brewing cycle.

As a general rule, starting the brewing process with Nether Wart will produce Awkward Potions. If you want to create potions with special effects, you'll then need to repeat the process, this time placing Awkward Potions in the bottom slots where the Water Bottles would normally go and changing the ingredient in the top-center slot. You can check the different available recipes below.

How to upgrade potions

The effects of brewed potions in Minecraft can be upgraded by following a few specific steps.

• Increase a potion's duration: this only works with potions whose effects last for a set amount of time. Place the potion in the Brewing Stand and use Redstone Dust as the ingredient.
• Increase a potion's potency: place the potion in the Brewing Stand and use Glowstone Dust as the ingredient. This will make the potion's effect more powerful, although it won't last as long.

Bear in mind that only one of these two upgrades can be applied to a potion. In other words, you can either increase its duration or strengthen its effect, but you can't do both at the same time.

How to make Lingering Potions

Finally, Splash Potions can also be upgraded into Lingering Potions. When thrown, these potions create an area-of-effect cloud that lasts for a while and applies the potion's effects to anything that passes through it.

To make Lingering Potions, you'll need to place the following items in a Brewing Stand:

• Dragon's Breath, which can be collected in a Glass Bottle from the clouds left behind by the Ender Dragon's breath attack.
• Any type of Splash Potion.
• Blaze Powder.

The duration and potency of Lingering Potions cannot be upgraded.