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Types of Potions

Potions come in two stages. You make the first stage by interacting with the Brewing Stand and adding a Water Bottle with some ingredients. After adding your ingredients, wait for the brewing to finish, and collect your finished Potion.

There are five basic Potions, as follows:

Base Potions

Potion Name	Ingredients	Effect
Awkward Potion	Water Bottle + Nether Wart	Builds into much more powerful Potions
Mundane Potion (Extended)	Water Bottle + Redstone	Used to make a Potion of Weakness (Extended)
Mundane Potion	Water Bottle + one of the following: Blaze Powder, Ghast Tear, Glistering Melon, Magma Cream, Spider Eye, Sugar	Used to make a Potion of Weakness
Potion of Weakness	Water Bottle + Fermented Spider Eye	Reduces melee attacks by 0.5 damage
Thick Potion	Water Bottle + Glowstone Dust	Used to make a Potion of Weakness

So far, it doesn’t look like brewing is very useful. You can make a Potion that reduces your own melee damage—yay? But trust us, this gets much better.

After you have a primary Potion, use the Brewing Stand again. This time, you add one of the primary Potions instead of a Water Bottle. Now you start having fun!

Secondary Potions

Potion Name	Ingredients	Effect
Potion of Fire Resistance	Awkward Potion + Magma Cream	Three minutes of fire immunity
Potion of Healing	Awkward Potion + Glistering Melon	Restores 4 damage
Potion of Leaping	Awkward Potion + Rabbit’s Foot	Boosts jumping height and reduces falling damage for three minutes
Potion of Night Vision	Awkward Potion + Golden Carrot	Lets you see as if the area is perfectly lit for three minutes
Potion of Poison	Awkward Potion + Spider Eye	Poisons a target for 1 damage every 1.5 seconds (for 45 seconds)
Potion of Regeneration	Awkward Potion + Ghast Tear	Restores 2 damage every 2.4 seconds (for 45 seconds)
Potion of Strength	Awkward Potion + Blaze Powder	Adds 130% to your melee damage for three minutes
Potion of Swiftness	Awkward Potion + Sugar	Increases speed and jumping distance by 20% for three minutes
Potion of Water Breathing	Awkward Potion + Pufferfish	You don’t need to breathe underwater for three minutes
Potion of Weakness (Extended)	Awkward Potion + Fermented Spider Eye	Reduces melee damage by 0.5 for four minutes

Now you start to see a lot of possibilities. Potions of Healing let you restore health instantly, unlike food. Fire Resistance is useful when you fight Blazes and Ghasts in the Nether. Regeneration is critical to your survival in boss fights, against Withers or the Ender Dragon.

Nether Wart and a few key ingredients allow you to make extremely useful Potions, and you can brew even more powerful versions if you’re willing to spend a bit more time and effort. Read on!

Tertiary Potions

Potion Name	Ingredients	Effect
Potion of Fire Resistance (Extended)	Potion of Fire Resistance + Redstone	Eight minutes of fire immunity
Potion of Harming	Potion of Healing or Poison + Fermented Spider Eye	Inflicts 6 damage
Potion of Harming II	Potion of Healing II or Poison II + Fermented Spider Eye or Glowstone Dust	Inflicts 12 damage
Potion of Healing II	Potion of Healing + Glowstone Dust	Restores 8 damage
Potion of Invisibility	Potion of Night Vision + Fermented Spider Eye	Turns you invisible (but not your weapon or armor) for three minutes
Potion of Invisibility (Extended)	Potion of Night Vision (Extended) + Fermented Spider Eye	Turns you invisible (but not your weapon or armor) for eight minutes
Potion of Leaping (Extended)	Potion of Leaping + Redstone	Lets you jump higher for eight minutes
Potion of Leaping II	Potion of Leaping + Glowstone Dust	You can jump even higher
Potion of Night Vision (Extended)	Potion of Night Vision + Redstone	Lets you see as if the area is perfectly lit for eight minutes
Potion of Poison (Extended)	Potion of Poison + Redstone	Poisons a target for 1 damage every two seconds (for two minutes)
Potion of Poison II	Potion of Poison + Glowstone Dust	Poisons a target for 1 damage every second (for 22 seconds)
Potion of Regeneration (Extended)	Potion of Regeneration + Redstone	Restores 2 damage every 2.4 seconds (for two minutes)
Potion of Regeneration II	Potion of Regeneration + Glowstone Dust	Restores 2 damage every 1.2 seconds (for 16 seconds)
Potion of Slowness	Potion of Fire Resistance or Swiftness + Fermented Spider Eye	Slows movement for 1.5 minutes
Potion of Slowness (Extended)	Potion of Fire Resistance (Extended) or Swiftness (Extended) + Redstone or Fermented Spider Eye	Slows movement for three minutes
Potion of Strength (Extended)	Potion of Strength + Redstone	Adds 130% to your melee damage for eight minutes
Potion of Strength II	Potion of Strength + Glowstone Dust	Adds 260% to your melee damage for 1.5 minutes
Potion of Swiftness (Extended)	Potion of Swiftness + Redstone	Increases speed and jumping distance by 20% for eight minutes
Potion of Swiftness II	Potion of Swiftness + Glowstone Dust	Increases speed and jumping distance by 40% for 1.5 minutes
Potion of Water Breathing (Extended)	Potion of Water Breathing + Redstone	You don’t need to breathe underwater for eight minutes

There are a few simple ways to remember how the Potion system works. Everything starts with Nether Wart. Your initial Potion should almost always be made by adding Nether Wart to a Water Bottle. Done.

For Tier 2 Potions, use your Awkward Potion from the first stage and add an ingredient to get whatever base effect you need. Look at our Secondary Potion table to figure out what you need/want.

To make Potions last longer, add Redstone to a Secondary Potion.

To make Potions stronger, add Glowstone Dust to a Secondary Potion.

To make Potions work when thrown, use Gunpowder.

Gunpowder turns normal Potions into Splash Potions. This makes Potions of Weakness and Potions of Poison useful against specific enemies. Potions of Poison II really add damage over time.

If you want a Potion to have effects that target an area and last longer, try to craft Lingering Potions. Start with a Splash Potion of the type you want, and then brew it with Dragon’s Breath to create a Lingering version of the effect. When thrown, this spreads out on the ground and delivers its effects over time against anything that stands in the affected spot.

People often brew Splash Potions of Healing so they can heal themselves as quickly as possible. Tossing the Potion into the ground at your feet gives you health much faster than just about any other option. It’s way faster than food and considerably faster than drinking a Potion of Healing in a normal way.