Brewing is a fun way to make Potions. Potions help you endure tough fights, survive in dangerous areas, and damage some of your enemies. You can’t brew early in the game because you need a number of tricky ingredients to get anywhere with this art. We’ll tell you what to do!
Collect Ingredients to Make a Brewing Stand
The first step is to gather the primary ingredients you need. Nether Wart and Blaze Rods are two of the toughest (and most important) items on the list, so let’s focus on these. Both materials are found in the Nether. Make a Nether Portal and bring ample supplies through to the other side. Seek out a Nether Fortress, then scour the place for chests and stairways with Soul Sand nearby. These are the only two places in the game where Nether Wart is available. Not all chests contain Nether Wart, and not all Nether Fortresses feature the stair gardens. Finding these items is luck of the draw. Blazes, on the other hand, are found frequently in Nether Fortresses. Fight them with ranged attacks, or retreat to draw them forward. Kill as many as you can to get Blaze Rods.
Once you have a few of these goodies, make a Nether Wart garden. You don’t want to search Nether Fortresses every time you need more Nether Wart, so don’t do any brewing just yet. Wait until you have an adequate Nether Wart garden. Sadly, you can’t use Bone Meal to speed up your garden; getting a large garden going is a fairly time-intensive process, but it’s well worth your investment. Break all of your initial Nether Wart into seeds, and plant all of them. Do the same thing with the yields from your initial planting, and continue to increase the garden from there, taking only one or two Nether Wart at first to play with, and then more as your garden reaches a substantial size.
Now craft a Brewing Stand, a Cauldron, and some Glass Bottles. Fill your Cauldron with Water. This is useful for filling Water Bottles, and they look cool in your brewing area anyway. Having an infinite Water source (four holes with two Water sources in two blocks diagonal from each other) nearby isn’t a bad thing, either. Place all of your crafted items in one room with a chest or two, and grab your Nether Wart. With these and a number of other odds and ends, you’re ready to start brewing. Blaze Powder acts as a fuel source for your brewing work. Every piece of this powder lets you brew 20 ingredients’ worth of Potions, so it lasts fairly well!
