Brewing Guide
By placing bottles in the lower three slots of the brewing interface and an ingredient in the upper slot, you can distill the ingredient into the bottles and brew potions which may be consumed to grant an effect to the player.
Every potion starts with a water bottle, made by filling a glass bottle at a water source or filled cauldron. The next step is to add a primary ingredient to create a base potion, which is usually Nether Wart, which itself has no effect on the potion. By brewing a second ingredient into a base potion in the same manner, you can create a potion with a working effect. A third ingredient may be added to make the effect more intense or last longer, or turn the effect harmful. Finally, gunpowder can be added to a potion at any stage to convert it to a splash potion, which can be thrown to disperse its effect in a radius. Each brewing step takes 20 seconds.
Brewing can create very useful and lifesaving items. A good number of them are useful in combat by aiding the player or weakening enemies while others can save the player’s life if used quickly, like Fire Resistance or Healing. Gathering the Blaze Rods and Nether Wart necessary for brewing can prove challenging, but once they are set up, most potion ingredients are fairly plentiful and brewing will be a rewarding task.
Tips
- Start by gathering Nether Wart. As seen in the chart above, Awkward Potions can be brewed into every possible potion, while all other base potions can only be used to make a Potion of Weakness. Thus you should always start with an Awkward Potion unless you intend to make a Potion of Weakness, in which case it’s more efficient to brew Fermented Spider Eye into a water bottle right off the bat and save yourself some Nether Wart.
- As a rule of thumb, there are four modifier ingredients: Redstone Dust makes it last longer, Glowstone Dust makes it stronger (but shorter-lasting), Fermented Spider Eye reverses or “corrupts” the effect, and gunpowder converts it to a splash potion.
- Brewing stands have three slots for three bottles and can brew three potions at once. A single ingredient is enough to brew into all three bottles, so an efficient potion-maker should always brew in batches of three. For even more efficiency, keep in mind this works even if the potions are of different types; you can brew an ingredient into three different types of potions, and each will result just as if you had brewed them individually.
- Always use a water source for refilling your bottles, as the cauldron only has 3 uses while a water source block is infinite. You won’t need to always refill the cauldron using buckets. Using a water source can save you 7 iron ingots (to make the cauldron) and even more iron if you decided to store water in buckets.
Brewing Equipment
| Name | Icon | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Brewing Stand |  | Used to add ingredients into water bottles. |
| Cauldron |  | Each one can hold a bucket of water (after placement). Will fill 3 glass bottles. |
| Glass Bottle |  | Container for all kinds of potions. |
| Water Bottle |  | The starting base for all potions. Made by filling a glass bottle from a cauldron or water source. |
Ingredients
Base Ingredients
Base ingredients are the starting point of all potions. Nether Wart is the primary ingredient added to water bottles at this stage, as it is required to make most of the potions. All other base ingredients will only allow the creation of variations of “Potion of Weakness”.
| Name | Icon | When added makes |
|---|---|---|
| Nether Wart |  | Awkward Potion |
| Glowstone Dust |  | Thick Potion |
| Redstone |  | Mundane Potion (extended) |
| Fermented Spider Eye |  | Potion of Weakness |
Secondary Ingredients
Secondary ingredients imbue an Awkward Potion with a particular effect but do not alter potion duration or intensity. When added directly to a water bottle, any of these ingredients will produce a Mundane Potion (with the exception of fermented spider eye, which results in a potion of weakness and the golden carrot, which can’t be brewed into a water bottle to make a potion).
| Name | Icon | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Magma Cream |  | Fire Resistance |
| Sugar |  | Speed |
| Glistering Melon |  | Instant Health |
| Spider Eye |  | Poison |
| Ghast Tear |  | Regeneration |
| Blaze Powder |  | Strength |
| Fermented Spider Eye | | Weakness |
| Golden Carrot |  | Night Vision |
| Pufferfish |  | Water Breathing |
Modifiers
Modifiers change the potion’s properties. The “longer duration” and “more potent” versions of a potion can be forever interchanged.
| Name | Icon | When added |
|---|---|---|
| Redstone | | Increases duration |
| Glowstone Dust | | Increases potency |
| Gunpowder |  | Turns into a splash |
| Fermented Spider Eye | | Corrupts effect (see below) |
Corrupting Effect: Fermented Spider Eyes will change a potion’s base effect, often reversing it or producing a negative potion.
- A “corrupted” potion usually does the opposite of the original potion.
- Potions of Invisibility are considered a “corrupted” version of the Potions of Night Vision.
- Instead of seeing at maximum brightness, you turn invisible.
Potions
Primary
All primary potions are created by brewing a single ingredient with a water bottle. Mundane Potions and Potions of Weakness (along with their variants) can be combined with gunpowder to create their throwable (splash potion) counterparts.
| Potion | Base | Reagent | Effect | Precursor to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Awkward Potion | Water Bottle | Nether Wart | None | Potion of Healing Potion of Fire Resistance Potion of Poison Potion of Regeneration Potion of Strength Potion of Swiftness Potion of Night Vision Potion of Water Breathing Potion of Weakness |
 Mundane Potion (extended) | Water Bottle | Redstone | None | Potion of Weakness (extended) |
Mundane Potion | Water Bottle | Ghast Tear, Glistering Melon, Blaze Powder, Magma Cream, Sugar, or Spider Eye | None | Potion of Weakness |
 Thick Potion | Water Bottle | Glowstone Dust | None | Potion of Weakness |
 Potion of Weakness | Water Bottle | Fermented Spider Eye | Reduces all melee attacks by  damage. Note that this makes the player unable to do any damage without a weapon. | Potion of Weakness (extended) |
Secondary
Secondary potions are created by brewing an ingredient with a primary potion and can be combined with gunpowder to create their throwable splash potion counterparts.
Positive
| Potion | Base | Reagent | Effect | Duration (minutes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Potion of Healing | Awkward Potion | Glistering Melon | Restores per potion. | Instant |
 Potion of Fire Resistance | Awkward Potion | Magma Cream | Gives immunity to damage from fire, lava, and ranged Blaze attacks. | 3:00 |
 Potion of Regeneration | Awkward Potion | Ghast Tear | Restores health over time by approximately every 2.4 seconds.[note 1] | 0:45 |
 Potion of Strength | Awkward Potion | Blaze Powder | Adds 130% damage to all melee attacks, with or without weapons. | 3:00 |
 Potion of Swiftness | Awkward Potion | Sugar | Increases player’s movement speed, sprinting speed, and jumping length by approximately 20%. | 3:00 |
 Potion of Night Vision | Awkward Potion | Golden Carrot | Makes everything appear to be at max light level, including underwater areas. | 3:00 |
 Potion of Water Breathing | Awkward Potion | Pufferfish | Does not deplete the oxygen bar when underwater. | 3:00 |
Negative
| Potion | Base | Reagent | Effect | Duration (minutes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Potion of Poison | Awkward Potion | Spider Eye | Poisons the player for the given time, reducing the health to  at most, at a rate of approximately every 1.5 seconds. | 0:45 |
Potion of Weakness | Awkward Potion, Thick Potion, or Mundane Potion | Fermented Spider Eye | Reduces all melee attacks by damage. | 1:30 |
Potion of Weakness (extended) | Mundane Potion (extended) | Fermented Spider Eye | Reduces all melee attacks by damage. | 4:00 |
Tertiary
Tertiary potions are created by brewing an ingredient with a secondary potion or another tertiary potion and can be combined with gunpowder to create their throwable splash potion counterparts.
Positive
| Potion | Base | Reagent | Effect | Duration (minutes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Potion of Fire Resistance (extended) | Potion of Fire Resistance (base or reverted) | Redstone | Gives immunity to damage from fire, lava, and ranged Blaze attacks. | 8:00 |
Potion of Healing II | Potion of Healing (base or reverted) | Glowstone Dust | Restores per potion. | Instant |
Potion of Regeneration (extended) | Potion of Regeneration tier I or II | Redstone | Restores health over time by approximately every 2.4 seconds.[note 1] | 2:00 |
Potion of Regeneration II | Potion of Regeneration (base or extended) | Glowstone Dust | Restores health over time by approximately every 1.2 seconds.[note 1] | 0:16 |
Potion of Strength (extended) | Potion of Strength tier I or II | Redstone | Adds 130% damage to all melee attacks, with or without weapons. | 8:00 |
Potion of Strength II | Potion of Strength (base or extended) | Glowstone Dust | Adds 260% damage to all melee attacks, with or without weapons. | 1:30 |
Potion of Swiftness (extended) | Potion of Swiftness tier I or II | Redstone | Increases player’s movement, sprinting speed, and jumping length by approximately 20%. | 8:00 |
Potion of Swiftness II | Potion of Swiftness (base or extended) | Glowstone Dust | Increases player’s movement, sprinting speed, and jumping length by approximately 40%. | 1:30 |
Potion of Night Vision (extended) | Potion of Night Vision | Redstone | Makes everything appear to be at max light level, including underwater areas. | 8:00 |
 Potion of Invisibility | Potion of Night Vision | Fermented Spider Eye | Renders the player invisible. Equipped/wielded items are still visible. | 3:00 |
Potion of Invisibility (extended) | Potion of Night Vision (extended) | Fermented Spider Eye | Renders the player invisible. Equipped/wielded items are still visible. | 8:00 |
Potion of Invisibility (extended) | Potion of Invisibility | Redstone | Renders the player invisible. Equipped/wielded items are still visible. | 8:00 |
Potion of Water Breathing (extended) | Potion of Water Breathing (base or reverted) | Redstone | Does not deplete the oxygen bar when underwater. | 8:00 |
Negative
| Potion | Base | Reagent | Effect | Duration (minutes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Potion of Harming | Potion of Healing or Potion of Poison | Fermented Spider Eye | Inflicts of damage. | Instant |
Potion of Harming II | Potion of Healing II or Potion of Poison II | Fermented Spider Eye | Inflicts of damage. | Instant |
Potion of Harming II | Potion of Harming (base or reverted) | Glowstone Dust | Inflicts of damage. | Instant |
Potion of Poison (extended) | Potion of Poison tier I or II | Redstone | Poisons the player for the given time, reducing the health to a minimum of , at a rate of approximately per two seconds. | 2:00 |
Potion of Poison II | Potion of Poison (base or extended) | Glowstone Dust | Poisons the player for the given time, reducing the health to a minimum of , at a rate of approximately per second. | 0:22 |
 Potion of Slowness | Potion of Fire Resistance or Potion of Swiftness | Fermented Spider Eye | Player’s movement is slowed to a crouch for the given time. | 1:30 |
Potion of Slowness (extended) | Potion of Slowness (base or reverted) | Redstone | Player’s movement is slowed to a crouch for the given time. | 3:00 |
Potion of Slowness (extended) | Potion of Fire Resistance (extended) or Potion of Swiftness (extended) | Fermented Spider Eye | Player’s movement is slowed to a crouch for the given time. | 3:00 |
Potion of Weakness | Potion of Strength or Potion of Regeneration | Fermented Spider Eye | Reduces all melee attacks by damage. | 1:30 |
Potion of Weakness (extended) | Potion of Strength (extended) or Potion of Regeneration (extended) | Fermented Spider Eye | Reduces all melee attacks by damage. | 4:00 |
Potion of Weakness (extended) | Potion of Weakness (base or reverted) | Redstone | Reduces all melee attacks by damage. | 4:00 |
Reverted
There are two general methods to create reverted potions, one of which involve the addition of fermented spider eyes. Reversion, in general, references changing a longer, upgraded potion into a its original weaker potion (for example, changing from a potion of poison (extended) into a potion of harming (reverted) by adding fermented spider eye).
The first method involves adding glowstone (typically) to an already upgraded tertiary potion (seen in Section 5.3.1 or 5.3.2 above). Since these tertiary potions have already been modified with redstone (typically), they can change to their original (revert) unmodified states depending on which modifier was added previously. Not all potions will revert (or react, for that matter) when glowstone powder or redstone dust is added to an upgraded tertiary potion (for example, adding redstone to an already redstone-extended potion will not yield a new potion).
The second method involves the addition of fermented spider eyes, followed by glowstone (usually). Method two works by adding fermented spider eye to an extended positive potion (i.e. an extended tertiary potion). In almost all cases, this will corrupt the potion (corruption is described in Section 4.3 above) and produce a negative potion of equal strength (in this case, extended). Then, glowstone (depending on the recipe) is added to the extended negative potion. Since these negative tertiary potions (regardless of origin) have already been modified with redstone, the addition of glowstone will revert the potion to a potion of lesser duration.
A good example of this process at work is the reversion of the potion of weakness. A potion of weakness can be made two ways. The first method is by adding fermented spider eye to a mundane potion (water bottle + ghast tear/glistering melon/blaze powder/magma cream/sugar/spider eye), then adding redstone to produce potion of weakness (extended). The second method is by adding (again) fermented spider eye to either a potion of strength or a potion of regeneration. Potions of strength and regen, in their base or extended forms, will produce potions of weakness with equal magnitude (for the sake of this example, fermented spider eye is added to potion of strength (extended) to produce potion of weakness (extended)).
Now, there should be two Potions of Weakness (4:00). Glowstone dust is added to the Potion of Weakness (Ext) which reverts the potion into a normal duration (1:30) Potion of Weakness. The act of reducing the duration from 4:00 to 1:30 is reversion. In the inventory, reverted potions will look identical to their base potion, much like mundane and mundane (extended). Their usage is also identical to their base potions, with the exception of turning into reverted potions rather than base potions.
Glowstone
| Potion | Base | Reagent | Effect | Duration (minutes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Potion of Fire Resistance (reverted) | Potion of Fire Resistance (extended) | Glowstone Dust | Gives immunity to damage from fire, lava, and ranged Blaze attacks. | 3:00 |
Potion of Slowness (reverted) | Potion of Slowness (extended) | Glowstone Dust | Player’s movement is slowed to a crouch for the given time. | 1:30 |
Potion of Weakness (reverted) | Potion of Weakness (extended) | Glowstone Dust | Reduces all melee attacks by damage. | 1:30 |
Potion of Water Breathing (reverted) | Potion of Water Breathing (extended) | Glowstone Dust | Does not deplete the oxygen bar when underwater. | 3:00 |
Redstone
| Potion | Base | Reagent | Effect | Duration (minutes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Potion of Healing (reverted) | Potion of Healing II | Redstone | Restores per potion. | Instant |
Potion of Harming (reverted) | Potion of Harming II | Redstone | Inflicts of damage. | Instant |
Fermented Spider Eye
| Potion | Base | Reagent | Effect | Duration (minutes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Potion of Harming (reverted) | Potion of Healing (reverted) or Potion of Poison (extended) | Fermented Spider Eye | Inflicts of damage. | Instant |
Potion of Slowness (reverted) | Potion of Fire Resistance (reverted) or Potion of Swiftness II | Fermented Spider Eye | Player’s movement is slowed to a crouch for the given time. | 1:30 |
Potion of Weakness (reverted) | Potion of Strength II or Potion of Regeneration II | Fermented Spider Eye | Reduces all melee attacks by damage. | 1:30 |