Potions in Minecraft: how to prepare and which are the most effective

Potions in Maincrafter – consumable items that allow you to temporarily strengthen a character or weaken an enemy. Special devices, a set of ingredients and special containers will help you create a supply of the necessary elixirs. It is necessary to know all the recipes for potions in Minecraft to simplify any age.

In this guide we will tell you in detail how to brew potions in Minecraft. Read on to find out the best recipes for making potions in Minecraft.

A separate article presents the complete guide to enchanting in Minecraft.

What is potion making in Minecraft

Magic potions in Minecraft reveal a special game mechanics for the production of useful consumables:

• Simple Potions – a standard mixture that a character can drink.
• Explosive Potions - powder enhances a normal potion and turns it into a projectile that breaks and instantly applies the effect in a small radius.
• Settling Potions - Dragon breath modifies the explosive potion, after which it creates a small area in which the special effect will be maintained.

Thus, potions in Minecraft can significantly simplify the gameplay by applying the desired effect to the hero or monsters. During the age, you come across many different resources, so the thrifty player will always have a lot of valuable ingredients.

What you need for potions

Before you start practicing alchemy and brewing potions, you will have to stock up on resources, as well as make several important devices:

• hob – the main building for making potions (recipe: ×1 Fire Rod; ×3 Cobblestone).
• Boiler – an auxiliary block that can be filled with water from a bucket or a mixture of ready-made potions (recipe: ×7 Iron Ingot).
• bubble (flask) – the main consumable for ready-made elixirs (recipe: ×3 Glass).
• Fire Powder – the only fuel that can power the brewing stand (recipe: ×1 Fire Rod).

Any potion recipes in Minecraft require special consumable resources - in the following paragraphs we will tell you what the ingredients are.

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Let's list the most important resources without which you won't be able to make potions in Minecraft:

1. Pickled Spider Eye [Cooked Spider Eye] – causes negative effects and inverts the effects of potions (recipe: ×1 Brown Mushroom; ×1 Spider Eye; ×1 Sugar).
2. Lightdust – enhances the effect of the mixture, but reduces its duration (drops if the Glowing Stone [Glowstone] is destroyed and from a killed witch).
3. Nezersky growth [Infernal Wart Seeds] are the main component for Rough Potion, which is the main component for most other mixtures (can be grown on soul sand or found in infernal fortresses).
4. Powder – reduces the duration of the potion’s effect and makes it explode (drops out when a creeper, ghast, witch dies, and is also sometimes found in chests).
5. Redstone Dust [Red Dust] – increases the duration of the mixture and weakens secondary potions (recipe: ×1 Redstone block [Redstone block]).
6. Dragon breath [Dragon's Breath] - turns exploding potions into a settling mixture (obtained using an empty flask from a poisonous cloud released by the Ender Dragon).

The main components are used to craft primary and tertiary potions, as well as change the strength and duration of their effects.

Additional Ingredients

Below is a list that contains all the additional ingredients for potion making in Minecraft and the effects associated with them:

1. Fire Powder – Strength (recipe: ×1 Fire Rod).
2. Phantom membrane – Smooth fall (drop when killing a phantom).
3. Ghast's tear – Regeneration (dropped by ghasts).
4. Sparkling watermelon [Glittering Watermelon Slice] – Healing (recipe: ×1 Watermelon [Watermelon Slice]; ×8 Gold Nugget [Gold Piece]).
5. Clot of magma [Lava Cream] – Fire Resistance (Recipe: ×1 Slime; ×1 Fire Powder).
6. Spider Eye – Poisoning (loot from spiders and witches).
7. Sugar – Speed ​​(recipe: ×1 Bottle of Honey [Bottle of Honey]; ×1 Sugar Cane).
8. golden carrot – Night vision (recipe: ×1 Carrot; ×8 Gold Nugget [Piece of Gold]).
9. Puffer fish [Pufferfish] – Water breathing (swims in the ocean).
10. Tortoise shell [Turtle Shell] – Slow and Resist (recipe: ×5 Shield).
11. Rabbit's foot – Jumping ability (drops from rabbits and foxes).

Additional resources are used when brewing primary and secondary mixtures, as well as to determine the effect of the finished potion.

Combined Ingredients

There are also paired ingredients in the game - the main components for tertiary level potions, which are used together with Pickled spider eye To obtain:

1. Spider Eye – Instant damage.
2. Sparkling watermelon – Instant damage.
3. Sugar – Slowness [Slowdown].
4. Clot of magma – Slowness [Slowdown].
5. golden carrot - Invisibility.

The combination of these elements means that the sequential addition of components to the final decoction will create a third-level elixir.

How to brew potions

The brewing stand has a simple interface:

1. Fuel cell - you need to put it here Fire Powder (the yellow indicator reflects the process of heating the flask).
2. Original Potion Slot - fits here water bubble or a ready-made elixir to which you need to add an ingredient to obtain a new mixture.
3. Ingredient slot – the final effect for the new mixture depends on which resource is used.
4. Ready indicator – displays the progress of potion making.
5. Additional cells – allows you to brew several elixirs at once.

Next, we will describe in more detail the process of how to make a potion in Minecraft.

Primary Potions

Level XNUMX Potions are a reagent preparation for more powerful mixtures:

Secondary potions

Level XNUMX Potions are created on the basis of primary elixirs, and such mixtures can already be used on a character or an enemy.

positive potions

Below is a list of elixirs in Minecraft that can save the hero’s life or make his movement easier:

Negative Potions

Let's describe potions that have negative properties:

Tertiary potions

Level XNUMX Potions are obtained through improving secondary elixirs - this is how the best mixtures in Minecraft are made, for example, an invisibility potion.

positive potions

A supply of these potions guarantees a comfortable game even in hardcore mode:

Negative Potions

Let's describe the most dangerous elixirs that take away health and impose debuffs:

What potions are the best?

Potions making in Minecraft provides recipes for any situation, but some mixtures are much more useful than others - we list top 10 potions:

• Enhanced Invisibility Potion.
• Strength Potion II.
• Healing Potion II.
• Regeneration Potion II.
• Enhanced Potion of Fire Resistance.
• Haste Potion II.
• Enhanced Night Vision Potion.
• Jumping Potion II.
• Enhanced Slow Fall Potion.
• Enhanced underwater breathing potion.

Correctly prioritize your potion brewing so that save valuable resources.

Сonclusion

Using potions in Minecraft is useful for completing the game, regardless of the chosen difficulty, but there are general tips:

• Bucket of milk removes all potion effects from the character (can be obtained from a traveling merchant, as well as through milking a cow or goat).
• Brew any potion and get the achievement "Local Potion Master"(you must definitely pick up the prepared elixir).
• Experience the effects of all possible potions at the same time to earn the achievement "Energy c**ktail"(water breathing, slowdown, resistance, weakness, invisibility, night vision, speed, strength, regeneration, jumping ability, fire resistance, smooth fall, poisoning).

Try to always keep a couple of chests near the brewing stand: one for stocking ingredients, and second - for ready-made potions.

We hope that this guide helped you learn everything about potion making in Minecraft. Additional questions can be left в comments. In a special section on our website, read other useful Minecraft guides.