Prepare cooking utensils. You will need a few items to create the potion, as well as a source of water. The necessary items must be created using a workbench.
- Stove for cooking (Brewing Stand). It is needed to brew the potion. You can craft it by placing three blocks of cobblestone in the bottom row of the workbench and one Blaze Rod in its center square.
- Boiler (Cauldron). A cauldron isn't actually required to brew a potion, but you can keep water in it. A bucket of water is placed in the cauldron, which is enough to fill three bottles. A cauldron can be made by placing seven iron ingots in the outer spaces of a workbench, leaving the top center and middle spaces empty.
- Glass bottles. In them you will store your potions. The bottles can be taken from the witches or fished out of the water, but you can also make them yourself by placing three glass blocks in the cells of the workbench: one block in the lower center cell, the second in the left middle cell, and the third block in the right middle cell. At one time you will make three bottles.
Gather Nether Wart. Infernal Growth is the main ingredient for almost all potions in Minecraft. The only potion that doesn't use it is the Potion of Weakness.
- Infernal Growth you will collect in the Nether. Look for it in abandoned fortresses, especially near stairs.
- Infernal Growth can be grown by planting it in Soul Sand. This way, you will not spend a lot of time collecting it, especially if you need to make a lot of potions.
Gather additional ingredients. The main ingredient will not be enough. The effect of each potion will depend on the additional ingredient.
- Spider Eye. You can take spider eyes from spiders or witches, and you can also find them in spider caves. They are used to make poison potions.
- Brilliant Melon (Blistering Melon). You can craft a Shiny Melon using the Workbench by placing eight Gold Ingots around the Melon. It is needed to make a healing potion.
- Golden Carrot. It can also be made at a workbench by placing eight gold bars around one carrot. Use this ingredient to make a Potion of Night Vision.
- Sparkling Powder (Blaze Powder). You can make it from a Fire Rod and it is used to brew a strength potion.
- Pickled Spider Eye (Fermented Spider Eye). It is made from spider eyes, mushrooms, and sugar. Used to make a Potion of Weakness.
- Spiny Bubble Fish (Pufferfish). You will need to fish it out and use it to brew a potion that will give you the ability to breathe underwater.
- Ointment from Magma (Magma Cream). You will need to take the magma from the Lava Mobs. Then make an ointment by combining it in a workbench with Glittering Powder and a wad of slime. Used to make fireproof potion.
- Sugar. Sugar can be made from sugar cane. It is used to make potions that increase speed.
- Tear of Gast (Ghast Tear). You will receive tears from gast mobs. Getting a tear is not so easy, since ghasts usually fly over lava. The ingredient is used for a potion that will restore health levels.
- Rabbit's foot (Rabbit's Foot). The paws will be provided by the rabbits. Use them to make a potion that will increase the strength of your jumps. But you can only use it in Minecraft 1.8.
Add more ingredients. You can improve your potion by adding some additional ingredient to it. It will generally increase the duration of your potion's effect. Or the potion will be easier to throw at enemies.
- Redstone. To get the Red Stone, you need to dig up the Red Ore (Redstone Ore). This ingredient increases the duration of the potion.
- Glowstone Dust. It can be obtained by breaking a Glowstone block. From one block of stone, you can get up to four blocks of dust. It enhances the effect of the potion, but also reduces its duration.
- Gunpowder. It can be taken from Creepers, Gasts, or Witches. With it, you will be able to throw your potion.
- Pickled spider eye. You can add this ingredient again to change your potion. But be aware that the eye can also ruin it.
Although the official release of minecraft containing alchemy has not yet been released, I think it will not be long in coming and decided to write an alchemy guide based on the prerelease. The ability to create potions using brewing racks was added in Prerelease 3, and in Prerelease 4 you can not only brew regular potions, but weapon potions as well. You throw a vial of acid at an unsuspecting pig, and that's it - collect loot. But that's later, and now let's talk about how all the same to brew your first potion.
So, in order to brew a potion, we need a brewing stand. Let's craft it from the following items:
- 3 Blocks of Cobblestone
- 1 fire wand
We place all this as follows and get the hob.
It is in it that potions are now brewed. Previously, they were supposed to be boiled in cauldrons, but then, due to the inconvenience, it was decided that the cooking stand was better suited for the cooking process. However, cauldrons are still in the game, and you can craft a cauldron out of 7 iron ingots to store a bucket of water in. But it seems to me that this is not very convenient when you can make endless water in a simple and well-known way.
In addition to the hob, we need flasks. They are created from:
- 3 blocks of glass
Flasks need to be filled with water by clicking on it with the right mouse button, holding an empty flask in your hand. You can take water either from a cauldron, or ordinary water in the form in which it has always existed in minecraft. Water is the base for all potions existing at the time of writing this guide, so it will not be possible to comprehend the art of potion without it.
You now have water bottles and a brew stand in front of you. “And from what to brew potions?” - you ask. Not so simple. There are 2 types of ingredients in minecraft, and now we will figure out why each of them is needed.
Main Ingredients
Reagents of this type are needed to create primary and tertiary potions and affect the duration and strength of the effect when added to a finished potion. Gunpowder, unlike other reagents of this type, affects the way the potion is used.
| Fermented Spider Eye | Base ingredient in Potion of Weakness Causes negative effects |
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| Lightdust | Base ingredient in Thick Potion Enhances the effect Decreases duration of action |
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| hellish outgrowth | Base ingredient in Potion of Clumsiness | |
| red dust | Base ingredient in mundane potion Weakens the effect Increases duration of action |
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| Powder | The character will throw a potion if this ingredient is added to it |
Formative Ingredients
This type of reagent is added to primary potions to obtain secondary ones. They determine the effect of the potion when applied.
| Fire Powder | Attack Power | |
| Ghast's tear | Regeneration | |
| shiny melon | Instant Heal/Damage | |
| lava cream | fire resistance | |
| Spider Eye | Poisoning | |
| Sugar | Speed |
Primary Potions
| Potion | Base | Reagent | Required for |
|---|---|---|---|
Potion of Clumsiness |
Flask with water |
hellish outgrowth |
Healing Potion Fire Resistance Potion Potion of Regeneration Potion of Strength poison potion Potion of Speed |
mundane potion |
Flask with water |
red dust |
Potion of Weakness (extended) |
mundane potion |
Flask with water |
shiny melon |
Potion of Weakness (Extended) |
Thick Potion |
Flask with water |
Lightdust |
Potion of Weakness (Short) |
Potion of Weakness (Short) |
Flask with water |
Fermented Spider Eye |
Potion of Weakness (extended) |
Now, knowing what effects the ingredients give, let's try to brew a potion of speed. It will allow us to run faster and jump further, and this is important, because the minecraft world is huge. To do this, fill an empty flask with water, then put it in one of the lower slots of the brewing stand (you can put 3 flasks at once), and put an infernal growth in the top one.
When the cooking process is over, we get a potion of clumsiness at the exit. Let's add sugar to the top slot, since we want a potion of speed, and it is sugar that gives this effect.
If you did everything right, you should have a potion of speed. If you like, you can add Light Dust to it to increase the haste (but decrease the duration), Redstone to increase the duration (but reduce the acceleration), or Fermented Spider Eye to get a slow potion (you can add more gunpowder to it and throw it at someone ).
Now you know more about the art of alchemy in the minecraft world. Try potion brewing yourself, it will surely come in handy in the upcoming patch.
In the Minecraft game universe, a potion is an important element of the gameplay that allows us to get the benefits we need for how long. Such advantages in the form of strength, jumping ability, invisibility, speed and other qualities and bonuses significantly help us in battles and achieve our game goals. The potion brewing process isn't all that complicated. But it implies the possession of certain skills and abilities, without which the brewing of the necessary potions is impossible. Below we will analyze how to brew magic potions in the Minecraft game, and what we need for this.
Visit the Nether for resources for a potion
The first thing you need to do is visit the Void.
Visit the VoidPrepare well for this campaign, take armor, weapons and spells that will help you collect resources and fight off enemies. Also, consider taking a clip of snowballs with you. They harm the Ifrits ( Blazes), they are easy, convenient and quick to shoot. To get snowballs, just dig the snow with a shovel.
Your best bet is to find a fortress inside the Nether. There you will find "" ( Nether Wart) for a potion that grows in the soul sand at the bottom of the entrance stairs. Mine both objects with a shovel.
In the Nether you will find infernal excrescence and soul sand In the fortress you can also find ifrit spawners (Blaze Spawner).
Ifrit Spawners in the Nether If you manage to find a spawner, kill Ifrit and take the fire rod ( Blaze Rod) that is left of it. Such a rod is useful for making a hob in Minecraft.
Make the necessary items for cooking in Minecraft
Before we start brewing magic potions in Mnecraft, we need to make a number of auxiliary items. Among them are the following:
- An important tool that allows you to make a potion. Craft a brewing stand with 3 blocks of cobblestone and a fire rod.
Create a brewing stand with cobblestones and a fire rod Boiler
Boilers are not necessary, especially in a situation where you have a water source nearby. But if you have spare iron, you can use it to create a cauldron that will help you in the future.
Create a cauldron out of iron An iron bucket filled with water will fill the cauldron. You can then right click on the empty glass bottle cauldron to fill the bottle with water. This will empty the cauldron by 1/3, after which you can repeat the process two more times with empty bottles to completely empty the cauldron.
If you already have bottles in your inventory, you can right-click on an empty cauldron while holding full potion bottles to transfer their contents to the cauldron.
Fill your boiler with water To completely fill the boiler, this trick must be repeated. three times provided that the potions poured into the cauldron are the same. Repeat the process in reverse to fill the empty bottles with any brew from the cauldron.
When there is a brew in the cauldron, you can right-click with an arrow in your hand to get an arrow with a specific tip. This works great with poison potions.
bottles
Three blocks of glass will turn into three empty bottles.
Create the bottles we need Inferno Growth Farm
Previously, when visiting the Nether, you picked up Infernal Growth and Soul Sand. It's time to set up a farm, as you'll need a constant supply of infernal growth to brew. Place the soul sand blocks on the ground where you like, and then plant the infernal growth in them. When it grows up, you can collect it and use it for your tasks.
Grow an infernal outgrowth for your tasks How to brew potions in the game
Right click on a water source while holding three empty bottles. This will fill them with water.
Fill your bottles with water Then right click on the brewing stand and place the three water bottles in the stand.
Place three water bottles on the stand Place the infernal growth in the top slot of the stand.
Put the infernal growth on the very top The potions will begin to brew - it takes about 20 seconds to cook. At the end you will get three rough brews ( Awkward potions). It is the basis for brewing other powerful potions. The coarse brew will need to be combined with other ingredients on the cooking table.
At the end of the brew, you will receive three coarse potions. By this time you have probably killed a few spiders. You can mix a spider's eye with a crude potion to create a poisonous one. Simply place the spider eye in the top slot of the cooking stand. And, if you have at least one coarse brew in the lower slots, you will get poison.
If you want to extend the duration of the effects, add redstone dust (redstone dust).
Add red dust to add effect If you want to add strength to potions, instead of red dust, add glowstone dust(Glowstone Dust). This will upgrade them to the second level.
Add glowstone dust if needed Add gunpowder to the mixture to turn the brew into splash potions that can be thrown at enemies in Minecraft.
Before you start throwing these potions, don't forget to add cooked spider eye to them to make them harmful to enemy mobs. After all these modifications, we finally have the Potion of Harming.
Add a Cooked Spider Eye to Create a Potion of Harm Magic Potions Recipes in Minecraft
There is enough brew for cooking. To brew the potion, use the recipes below.
| Potions: | Recipe: |
|---|---|
| Potion of Fire Resistance(fire resistance) | Rough potion plus lava cream. |
| Inflict damage (deals instant damage) | Heal or Poison plus Cooked Spider Eye. |
| Healing (restores two health hearts) | A crude potion plus a sparkling slice of watermelon. |
| Night vision (allows you to see in the dark) | Rough brew plus golden carrots. |
| Invisibility (makes invisible) | Night vision plus cooked spider eye. |
| Jumping (jumping higher) | Rough potion plus rabbit leg. |
| I | Rough brew plus spider eye. |
| Strength (Additional melee damage to an enemy) | Rough potion plus fire powder. |
| Weakness (reduces melee damage) | Water bottle plus cooked spider eye. |
Create a Potion of Weakness Conclusion
Above, we looked at how to brew a magic potion in the Minecraft game, and what is the sequence of steps. Use the methods we have listed that will be useful in the game gameplay and achieve the desired game objectives.
To gain a specific influence on mobs and players in the Minecraft game, you need to do potions and make potions in Minecraft, which appeared in update 1.0.0. To create them, you will need a cooking stand, water, sausage and other ingredients:
gunpowder gives the potion an explosive effect that spreads to several mobs and players;
infernal outgrowth is needed to make a Rough Potion;
on the one hand, light dust increases the effects of potions, on the other, it reduces their duration;
cooked spider eye makes the effects of potions negative, reversing them;
red dust reduces effects but increases their duration.
To give potions special effects, the following basic ingredients are needed:
- fiery powder will give strength;
- a sparkling slice of watermelon will allow you to instantly heal;
- gast tear will help regeneration;
- sugar will give speed;
- golden carrot ability to see at night;
- spider eye causes poisoning;
- golden carrot together with a cooked spider eye (only in this sequence - carrot, then eye) - invisibility;
- lava cream will give fire resistance;
- pufferfish - the ability to breathe underwater.
Ingredients
The ingredients are potions that are used in the preparation of other potions, they are not used for other purposes.
Health
Potions for various operations with one's own health. If a regular cardio appears in the Duration row, this means that health will be restored during this time. If the heart in the row is pale, health will decrease. The effect of the potion will be instant if the "Duration" row is "0:00"
Minecraft introduced the ability to create elixirs that increase performance or restore health for a certain time. The composition of the potions includes trophies obtained from most monsters (previously these items were present in the world, but they were not needed for potions).
For example, in version 1.9, a spider eye appeared. With it, you can make an elixir that gives you the ability to breathe underwater. In addition to items that drop from monsters, potions will require sugar, water and, of course, a glass vessel. Most of the ingredients can be found in the Nether, where fire wands fall from efreets (they make two portions of the much-needed fire powder), and tears from ghasts.
Potions vary in both type and quality. What effect lies in a particular potion can be guessed by its name. In the game, in general, there are about 400 types of potions. The completed version 1.9 will include a cauldron and a tripod, with which you can create various elixirs.
Elixirs of Positive Action Recipes
Level 1 health elixir can be obtained from ghast tears. With it, you can restore several lives of the character. To get a second level potion, you need to mix a ball of mucus, an infernal wart and sugar. Level 3 Health Elixir is obtained by mixing all of the above components, while replacing the slime ball with fire powder.
After creating a fire resistance potion, it will be possible to safely swim in lava, as in ordinary water. It will be impossible to set the player on fire for 3 minutes. The duration of this potion may vary depending on the ingredients used. To get the effect of fire resistance, you need magma slime. She can appear from magma cubes (in the Nether, they are analogues of slugs).
Recipes for different potions can be crossed. By experimenting, you can achieve a high quality elixir, which will give several gains at once. For example, if you mix a gast tear and magma slime, you get an elixir that simultaneously restores health and gives you the ability to resist fire. If, for example, you cross a speed-increasing sugar with a gast tear, then as a result of such a tandem, you get a healing potion of speed.
The combination of water, magma slime and a spider's eye will allow you to stay in hot lava with impunity for three minutes. At this time, the character will have the ability to breathe freely under water and not burn in fire.
Elixirs of Impact
Along with positive effects, elixirs can cause unpleasant consequences. For example, combining Sugar, Water, Fermented Spider's Eye and Infernal Wart increases speed, improves fire resistance, and adds health. But this drug also has a side effect - hunger, which will last about a minute and a half.
Elixirs of influence can also inflict instant damage to the player, slowing him down for a while or even poisoning him.
Having the opportunity to create potions, players can start building their own laboratories, where they will conduct experiments, combining the necessary ingredients in different proportions, thereby improving the effect of the elixir.
The effect of the potion will disappear if you drink milk (this is in case you try to be under the influence of the potion).
Before we tell you how to make a potion, let's figure out what it is and why it is needed in Minecraft at all. We will also tell you how to find the necessary ingredients for their preparation and how to mix ready-made potions with powders to enhance the effect.
What are potions?
In the game, they are self-cooking objects that have various temporary effects on the player they are applied to. By mixing different ingredients with water, many types of potions can be created that can harm, heal, or buff the player or opponents.
A potion can only have one effect at a time: for example, it cannot heal the player and increase their running speed at the same time. To get both, you need to alternately drink two different potions: healing and swiftness.
Since the change in Minecraft 1.9 Beta Prerelease 2, there are a number of potions that are not used, they cannot be cooked. But they can be obtained using the "/give" command, they are not found in the game in other ways. Many of them are simple potions no longer used, such as cleansing or strength. Therefore, we will not talk about them in this article.
To create potions, you need to place the required ingredients on the brewing stand. We will talk about how to craft a rack below.
How to make a potion in Minecraft
They are obtained by boiling with water and various ingredients, offering a variety of effects. There is one basic and twelve basic. You can improve their duration, effectiveness and area of effect.
1. Create a hob
The brewing stand is needed to create all types of potions in Minecraft. To create it, follow these steps:
- Right click on the workbench;
- Fill the bottom row with cobblestones;
- Place one fire rod in the middle.
To craft a brewing stand, all you need is one fire rod and three cobblestones.
Cobblestones can be easily found when mining underground. Fire Rods can only be found in the Nether when killing Ifrit, a hostile mob attacking with fireballs.
This is Ifrit, his breathing can be heard from afar. Ifrits usually dwell in the fortresses of the Nether.
To enter the Nether, you need an appropriate portal.
To create it, you need to create a frame of obsidian blocks (4×5) and set it on fire with a steel.
Here is a good video on creating a portal to Hell, and in general it contains a lot of useful information about going to the Nether:
It is worth saying that for boiling you can use a cauldron, which is crafted from seven iron ingots. But due to the inconvenience of use, he gave way to the hob.
The cauldron did not take root in the game due to inconvenience. The developers promise to come up with a different application for it in the future.
Right-clicking a rack opens four slots:
The bottom three slots are for vials or potions, and the top one is for an ingredient.
This single ingredient is poured into the three vials at the bottom, allowing you to create three bottles of the potion from the same ingredient. To use the brewing stand, the vials must always be filled with water or a potion; if they are empty, nothing will happen. The water bottle is blue, as in the picture above, the empty bottle is transparent, as in the picture below:
To craft a bubble, you need three glass blocks. They will make three bubbles.
3. Brew an awkward potion
Awkward is the base ingredient for most other Minecraft potions. It can be made on a brewing stand using a vial of water and infernal growth seeds.
These seeds are found in the Nether, where they grow in blocks of soul sand.
Infernal outgrowth is generated in the fortresses of the Nether in places specially designated for them (reminiscent of beds), as well as in chests.
If the player takes the block of soul sand and the seeds of the infernal growth through the Nether portal to the top, they can begin to grow the growth themselves to produce potions. The growth grows in any biome, as long as the soil is soul sand.
The awkward potion is prepared as follows:
- Right-click on the brewing stand;
- Place the Nether Growth Seeds in the top slot;
- Place the WATER VIAL on the bottom row.
By placing one Hell Growth Seed and three Water Vials, you will get three Awkward.
The brewing stand will take approximately 19 seconds to create a potion after placing the ingredient and vials in it.
Accordingly, one hellish growth seed is needed to create three basic potions. Awkward itself has no properties and is only used to make other potions.
4. Combine base potion with ingredients
After creating a few bubbles of awkward, you can start creating basic potions that will have various effects, such as increasing strength, health, underwater vision, or even invisibility. They will require a variety of ingredients besides hell growth seeds, such as fire powder, lava cream, and ghast tears.
It will take a lot of travel to collect the right ingredients. The table below describes the main potions and their ingredients.
| Main | Base potion | Ingredients | Action Description |
| fire resistance | awkward | lava cream | Fire 3 minutes does no harm |
| Harm | poisoning/treatment | Cooked spider eye | Deals 3 damage |
| Treatments | awkward | shiny melon | Heals 2 health |
| invisibility | night vision | Cooked spider eye | Invisibility for 3 minutes |
| night vision | awkward | golden carrot | Night vision for 3 minutes |
| poisoning | awkward | Spider Eye | Deals damage over 45 seconds. |
| Regeneration | awkward | Ghast's tear | Restores 9 health points over 45 seconds. |
| slowness | Elan | Cooked spider eye | Slows down speed for 4 minutes |
| Forces | awkward | fire rod | Increases damage dealt for 3 minutes |
| Elan | awkward | Sugar | Increases speed for 3 minutes |
| Breathing underwater | awkward | puffer fish | Gives breath underwater for 3 minutes |
| Weaknesses | awkward | Cooked spider eye | Reduces damage taken for 1.5 minutes |
As you can see, awkward is the base of most basic potions.
They can increase the damage dealt to enemies. Certain potions are suitable for certain situations, for example, fire resistance helps in fighting mobs like Ifrits in the Nether. In a multiplayer game, invisibility is a great way to sneak past enemies. The ability to create potions is a very useful skill in Minecraft.
Combining potions with powders
Many potions can be enhanced by making them more effective and increasing their duration. Combining with powders allows you to, for example, increase the duration of the regeneration effect or turn the slowness potion into an explosive one, increasing the number of targets hit.
Powders are the mashed residues of solid materials. To enhance primary potions, you need red dust, light dust and gunpowder.
Strengthening and Ingredients
Preparing basic potions with these three powders increases their effect.
Like many ingredients, Light Dust is found in the Nether. You'll have to find a Glowing Stone that looks like a block with yellow flecks.
Very often, these blocks are located on the ceiling of deep caves, which complicates their extraction. They turn into light dust already at the workbench.
Red dust is mined underground from red ore.
Red ore can be smelted, but laying it on the ground and using an iron pick will yield up to five redstone.
Gunpowder cannot be mined: it can be obtained by killing creepers (the chance of gunpowder falling out of them is 66%), witches (16% in total) and ghasts (also 66%), and also found in dungeon chests (the chance of gunpowder falling out is completely random, but this is the most safe way). It is best to hunt ghasts, as they still drop "ghast tears" used in potion brewing.
Ghast hunting is the most efficient way to get gunpowder, but also the most dangerous. And the sounds made by the gast cannot be expressed in words at all ...
Potions Recipes
The recipes for making potions in different versions of Minecraft are slightly different. Above, we described the main points of their creation and what is needed for this. To list all existing recipes within the framework of this article is simply unrealistic. Moreover, with the release of new versions of the game, recipes may change and be supplemented with new ingredients. Therefore, here we will leave a link to a very good resource, which always contains up-to-date information on potions, information about all ingredients and reagents.
Potions help in difficult moments of the game in Minecraft, especially in boss battles and on multiplayer maps. The secret lava hideout can only be accessed with fire resistance, or you can install an atomizer that will throw a poison potion at anyone who steps on the pressure plate. As you can see, the thing is very useful, but it requires a trip to the Lower World.
And remember, you don't have to wait for the potion to wear off. Potion effects can be removed by drinking a bucket of milk.
