There are tons of useful and fun RPG-inspired mechanics in Minecraft. Aside from enchanting, you can also create your own potions. By gathering the right ingredients and crafting yourself a brewing stand, you can brew powerful potions that give you incredible boosts. There's something for just about any occasion, from water breathing to night vision to even poison.
However, Minecraft doesn't exactly tell you how to brew these potions. You can either learn the recipes by trial and error, or you can rely on this handy guide. Every potion will be listed down below, along with their recipes. And at the end, you can also find what different modifiers you can add to make your brews even more powerful.
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Updated on July 12th, 2021 by Anastasia Maillot: While there are no new potions in Minecraft, brewing and potion-making is still something a lot of new players might feel like is a daunting task. There are quite a few ingredients and potions in the game as well, all of which can help the player significantly in combat or simply to survive in extreme environments, like underwater.
In order to make potion-making even easier, each potion's ingredients have been listed, with a short guide on how to get your hands on them as well. Some ingredients are incredibly niche, making them difficult to find commonly in survival mode.
A brewing stand is a mid-game item. Typically, players will have to craft it on their own by first heading into the Nether, finding a Nether Fortress and gathering Blaze Rods. However, villages, igloos with basements and woodland mansions will occasionally have brewing stands. To craft a brewing stand, combine a Blaze Rod with three pieces of any type of stone.
The brewing stand needs to be fueled. To do this, place Blaze Powder in the top left square to fill up the progress bar on the left. This represents the fuel available. Brewing stands need to be refueled regularly. To start brewing, gather a bunch of glass bottles and fill them with water. Make sure to also have Nether Wart on hand, since this red mushroom-like plant is the base ingredient for the grand majority of potions. For a more in-depth guide on brewing, check this potion brewing strategy guide.
Ingredients:
- Nether Wart
- Magma Cream
To become completely immune to fire damage, combine a bottle of water with Nether Wart. Then, add Magma Cream. In order to craft Magma Cream, combine a Slime Ball from a Slime with Blaze Powder from a Blaze. You can also get Magma Cream from Magma Cubes found in the Nether.
Ingredients:
- Nether Wart
- Spider Eye
- Fermented Spider Eye
- Optional: Gunpowder
In order to deal tons of damage, craft yourself a Potion of Harming. Combine a bottle of water with Nether Wart. Then, add in a spider eye from a Spider. Finally, add a Fermented Spider Eye. You can craft one by combining sugar, a brown mushroom and a spider.
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Since the potion is best used on enemies, add in some gunpowder, which turns it into a splash potion. This allows the potion to be thrown at a target. Gunpowder can be found in desert temple chests and are sometimes dropped by Creepers when slain.
Ingredients:
- Nether Wart
- Glistening Melon
Ideal for healing you when in a pinch, the Potion of Healing can be brewed with Nether Wart combined with a bottle of water.
Add in a Glistening Melon, which can be made by by combining a slice of melon with eight nuggets of gold surrounding it in the crafting grid. Melon seeds are found in mineshaft chests, and melons typically grow in jungle biomes.
Ingredients:
- Nether Wart
- Golden Carrot
- Fermented Spider Eye
For a quick escape from monsters at night time, the potion of invisibility is great. Combine a bottle of water with Nether Wart. Then, add in a Golden Carrot and finally a Fermented Spider Eye.
The Golden Carrot is made by surrounding a carrot with eight gold nuggets in the crafting grid. To find carrots, there's a chance a village or a shipwreck chest might have them. The Fermented Spider Eye is made by combining a brown mushroom, sugar and a spider eye.
Ingredients:
- Nether Wart
- Rabbit's Foot
To become as agile as a rabbit and gain a jump boost, craft this potion. Combine Nether Wart with a bottle of water.
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Add in a Rabbit's Foot, which can be gained from killing a rabbit if you have a good sword with Looting enchantment on it. Otherwise, this item is hard to come by. Rabbits usually spawn in abundance in desert biomes.
Ingredients:
- Nether Wart
- Golden Carrot
To better see at night or underwater, this potion will make your life much easier. Combine a bottle of water and Nether Wart.
Add in a Golden Carrot, which is made with eight nuggets of gold around one carrot in the crafting grid. Carrots are somewhat easy to find in village farms or shipwreck chests.
Ingredients:
- Nether Wart
- Spider Eye
- Optional: Gunpowder
This is an average damage potion that will leave the target with a poisoned effect.
Combine a bottle of water with Nether Wart. Then, simply add in a spider's eye which is easy enough to get from killing a spider. Since this poison needs to be hit on enemies, adding gunpowder is useful to turn it into a splash potion that can be thrown. Gunpowder can be found in desert temple chests and when killing a Creeper.
Ingredients:
- Nether Wart
- Ghast Tear
In order to keep your hearts replenished quickly in a tight spot, craft this potion before a lengthy adventure. Combine a bottle of water with some Nether Wart.
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Then, add in a Ghast Tear, which is pretty easy to get after killing a Ghast. Make sure they don't die over a lake of lava, or it will get incinerated. Ghasts don't drop this item every single time, so it might take a few tries before finding one.
Ingredients:
- Nether Wart
- Phantom Membrane
If dying from fall damage is a major concern, consider crafting this potion to help you out.
Combine a bottle of water with some Nether Wart. Add in Phantom Membrane, which can be looted from a Phantom after it's killed. Phantoms only appear if you haven't slept for three nights straight in-game.
Ingredients:
- Nether Wart
- Sugar
- Fermented Spider Eye
- Optional: Gunpowder
To apply a devastating slowness effect on a target, brew this potion. Combine a bottle of water with some Nether Wart.
Add in some Sugar and finally add in a Fermented Spider Eye. Sugar can be gained from Sugar Cane plant and the Fermented Spider Eye is made from combining a brown mushroom, sugar, and a spider eye. Gunpowder is a nice addition to make it easy to toss this on an enemy. To get some, slay a Creeper first.
Ingredients:
- Nether Wart
- Blaze Powder
In order to quickly become the strongest one around, this potion is a must. Start off by adding Nether Wart into a bottle of water.
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Then, just add in some Blaze Powder, which is crafted from Blaze Rods. To get them, head to the Nether and find a Nether Fortress where Blaze spawners are located, and slay as many Blazes as you can.
Ingredients:
- Nether Wart
- Sugar
Should you have the need for speed, a Potion of Swiftness is ideal with its simple ingredients.
In a bottle of water, add in some Nether Wart. Then, add in sugar, which is made from Sugar Cane plant.
Ingredients:
- Nether Wart
- Turtle Shell
To become slow yet resistant to damage like a turtle, craft this potion with both negative and positive effects. Combine a bottle of water with Nether Wart.
Turtle Shells are made from scutes, which are dropped by baby turtles when they grow into adult turtles. Find a beach with several turtles, and using seagrass start breeding them to gather a bunch of scutes. Make sure to protect the turtle eggs from mobs.
Ingredients:
- Nether Wart
- Pufferfish
For anyone looking to dive for treasure or enter an Ocean Temple, this potion is a requirement. Start by adding Nether Wart into a bottle of water.
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Then, add in a Pufferfish. This type of fish is fairly common to find in any waters when you go fishing. You can even capture it straight into a bucket.
Ingredients:
- Fermented Spider Eye
- Optional: Gunpowder
To turn a strong enemy into a weakling, this potion can be crafted and is incredibly easy to make even without Nether Wart.
Combine a Fermented Spider Eye with a bottle of water. To make a Fermented Spider Eye, combine a brown mushroom, sugar and a spider eye. To easily use it on enemies, add in some gunpowder to make it into a throwable splash potion. Gunpowder can be looted from Creepers and desert temples.
Potion Modifiers:
- Redstone Dust: The effect of the potion lasts longer.
- Glowstone Dust: The effect of the potion is amplified.
- Gunpowder: The potion can be thrown and splashed into a surface or target, affecting anyone in its range.
- Dragon's Breath: The potion can be splashed on a surface to create an area of effect cloud.
While any of the above mentioned potions can be consumed as they are, it's recommended to use modifiers to make them even more potent. Once you've crafted a potion, add in one of these four modifiers in the brewing stand to give it an extra effect.