Potion brewing chart (most efficient recipes, excludes splash potions).
Brewing (or Alchemy) is the process of creating potions, splash potions and lingering potions by adding various ingredients to water bottles in a brewing stand.
Brewing potions
| Brewing recipe |
|---|
By placing one or more bottles in the lower three slots of the brewing interface, an ingredient in the upper slot, and blaze powder in the fuel slot, you can distill the ingredient into each bottle 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. Using blaze powder, the next step is to add a primary ingredient to create a base potion, which is usually Nether Wart, which creates an awkward potion and has no effects. 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. Gunpowder can be added to a potion at any stage to convert it to a splash potion, which can be thrown (or fired using a dispenser) to disperse its effect in a radius. Finally, dragon's breath can be added to a splash potion to convert it to a lingering potion, which can be used to disperse its effect in a bubble. Each brewing step takes 20 seconds.
Each blaze powder used as fuel provides 20 fuel points. It costs 1 fuel point to start brewing one ingredient; this fuel point is not recovered if the brewing is halted due to removing the ingredient or the potions being brewed into.
Video
- Note: The video is outdated; it does not mention the potions of Invisibility, Leaping, Night Vision or Water Breathing or their ingredients.
Brewing/video
Brewing Equipment
| Name | Icon | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Brewing Stand | Template:Grid | Used to add ingredients into water bottles. |
| Cauldron | Template:Grid | Each one can hold a bucket of water (after placement). Will fill 3 glass bottles. |
| Blaze Powder | Template:Grid | Needed to fuel the brewing stand. |
| Glass Bottle | Template:Grid | Container for all kinds of potions. |
| Water Bottle | Template:Grid | 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. Fermented Spider Eye allows making a Potion of Weakness. All other base ingredients do not allow making anything useful.
| Name | Icon | When added makes |
|---|---|---|
| Nether Wart | Template:Grid | Awkward Potion |
| Glowstone Dust | Template:Grid | Thick Potion |
| Redstone | Template:Grid | Mundane Potion (extended) |
| Fermented Spider Eye | Template:Grid | 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 the golden carrot, which can't be brewed into a water bottle to make a potion).
| Name | Icon | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Magma Cream | Template:Grid | Fire Resistance |
| Sugar | Template:Grid | Speed |
| Glistering Melon | Template:Grid | Instant Health |
| Spider Eye | Template:Grid | Poison |
| Ghast Tear | Template:Grid | Regeneration |
| Blaze Powder | Template:Grid | Strength |
| Golden Carrot | Template:Grid | Night Vision |
| Pufferfish | Template:Grid | Water Breathing |
| Rabbit's Foot | Template:Grid | Leaping |
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 | Template:Grid | Increases duration |
| Glowstone Dust | Template:Grid | Increases level |
| Gunpowder | Template:Grid | Turns into a splash |
| Dragon's Breath | Template:Grid | Turns into a lingering
|
| Fermented Spider Eye |
Template:Grid | 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. All potions can be combined with gunpowder to create splash potions.
| Potion | Base | Reagent | Effect | Precursor to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Grid Awkward Potion |
Template:Grid Water Bottle |
Template:Grid 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 Leaping |
| Template:Grid Mundane Potion |
Template:Grid Water Bottle |
|
None | |
| Template:Grid Thick Potion |
Template:Grid Water Bottle |
Template:Grid Glowstone Dust |
None | |
| Template:Grid Potion of Weakness |
Template:Grid Water Bottle |
Template:Grid Fermented Spider Eye |
Reduces all melee attacks by 4 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Grid Potion of Healing |
Template:Grid Awkward Potion |
Template:Grid Glistering Melon |
Restores |
Instant |
| Template:Grid Potion of Fire Resistance |
Template:Grid Awkward Potion |
Template:Grid Magma Cream |
Gives immunity to damage from fire, lava, and ranged Blaze attacks. | 3:00 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Regeneration |
Template:Grid Awkward Potion |
Template:Grid Ghast Tear |
Restores health over time by approximately |
0:45 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Strength |
Template:Grid Awkward Potion |
Template:Grid Blaze Powder |
Increases damage dealt with melee attacks by 3 |
3:00 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Swiftness |
Template:Grid Awkward Potion |
Template:Grid Sugar |
Increases player's movement speed, sprinting speed, and jumping length by approximately 20%. | 3:00 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Night Vision |
Template:Grid Awkward Potion |
Template:Grid Golden Carrot |
Makes everything appear to be at max light level, including underwater areas. | 3:00 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Water Breathing |
Template:Grid Awkward Potion |
Template:Grid Pufferfish |
Does not deplete the oxygen bar when underwater. | 3:00 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Leaping |
Template:Grid Awkward Potion |
Template:Grid Rabbit's Foot |
Allows the player to jump ½ block higher | 3:00 |
Negative
| Potion | Base | Reagent | Effect | Duration (minutes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Grid Potion of Poison |
Template:Grid Awkward Potion |
Template:Grid Spider Eye |
Poisons the player for the given time, reducing the health to |
0:45 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Weakness (extended) |
Template:Grid Potion of Weakness |
Template:Grid Redstone |
Reduces all melee attacks by 4 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Grid Potion of Fire Resistance (extended) |
Template:Grid Potion of Fire Resistance |
Template:Grid Redstone |
Gives immunity to damage from fire, lava, and ranged Blaze attacks. | 8:00 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Healing II |
Template:Grid Potion of Healing |
Template:Grid Glowstone Dust |
Restores |
Instant |
| Template:Grid Potion of Regeneration (extended) |
Template:Grid Potion of Regeneration |
Template:Grid Redstone |
Restores health over time by approximately |
1:30 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Regeneration II |
Template:Grid Potion of Regeneration |
Template:Grid Glowstone Dust |
Restores health over time by approximately |
0:21 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Strength (extended) |
Template:Grid Potion of Strength |
Template:Grid Redstone |
Increases damage dealt with melee attacks by 3 |
8:00 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Strength II |
Template:Grid Potion of Strength |
Template:Grid Glowstone Dust |
Increases damage dealt with melee attacks by 6 |
1:30 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Swiftness (extended) |
Template:Grid Potion of Swiftness |
Template:Grid Redstone |
Increases player's movement, sprinting speed, and jumping length by approximately 20%.[verify] | 8:00 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Swiftness II |
Template:Grid Potion of Swiftness |
Template:Grid Glowstone Dust |
Increases player's movement, sprinting speed, and jumping length by approximately 40%.[verify] | 1:30 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Night Vision (extended) |
Template:Grid Potion of Night Vision |
Template:Grid Redstone |
Makes everything appear to be at max light level, including underwater areas. | 8:00 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Invisibility |
Template:Grid Potion of Night Vision |
Template:Grid Fermented Spider Eye |
Renders the player invisible. Equipped/wielded items are still visible. | 3:00 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Invisibility (extended) |
Template:Grid Potion of Night Vision (extended) |
Template:Grid Fermented Spider Eye |
Renders the player invisible. Equipped/wielded items are still visible. | 8:00 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Invisibility (extended) |
Template:Grid Potion of Invisibility |
Template:Grid Redstone |
Renders the player invisible. Equipped/wielded items are still visible. | 8:00 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Water Breathing (extended) |
Template:Grid Potion of Water Breathing |
Template:Grid Redstone |
Does not deplete the oxygen bar when underwater. | 8:00 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Leaping II |
Template:Grid Potion of Leaping |
Template:Grid Glowstone Dust |
Allows the player to jump 1 ½ blocks higher | 1:30 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Leaping (extended) |
Template:Grid Potion of Leaping or Potion of Leaping II |
Template:Grid Redstone |
Allows the player to jump 1/2 block higher | 8:00 |
Negative
| Potion | Base | Reagent | Effect | Duration (minutes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Grid Potion of Harming |
Template:Grid Potion of Healing or Template:Grid Potion of Poison (base or extended) |
Template:Grid Fermented Spider Eye |
Inflicts |
Instant |
| Template:Grid Potion of Harming II |
Template:Grid Potion of Healing II or Template:Grid Potion of Poison II |
Template:Grid Fermented Spider Eye |
Inflicts |
Instant |
| Template:Grid Potion of Harming II |
Template:Grid Potion of Harming |
Template:Grid Glowstone Dust |
Inflicts |
Instant |
| Template:Grid Potion of Poison (extended) |
Template:Grid Potion of Poison |
Template:Grid Redstone |
Poisons the player for the given time, reducing the health to a minimum of |
1:30 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Poison II |
Template:Grid Potion of Poison |
Template:Grid Glowstone Dust |
Poisons the player for the given time, reducing the health to a minimum of |
0:21 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Slowness |
Template:Grid Potion of Swiftness or Template:Grid Potion of Leaping |
Template:Grid Fermented Spider Eye |
Player's movement is slowed to a crouch for the given time. | 1:30 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Slowness (extended) |
Template:Grid Potion of Slowness |
Template:Grid Redstone |
Player's movement is slowed to a crouch for the given time. | 3:00 |
| Template:Grid Potion of Slowness (extended) |
Template:Grid Potion of Swiftness (extended) or Template:Grid Potion of Leaping (extended) |
Template:Grid Fermented Spider Eye |
Player's movement is slowed to a crouch for the given time. | 3:00 |
Recipes
The following are the most efficient recipes to brew each potion. If two ingredients may be brewed in any order relative to each other, they are separated by a double arrow (↔).
- Weakness
- Fermented Spider Eye
- Weakness Ext
- Fermented Spider Eye → Redstone
- Strength
- Nether Wart → Blaze Powder
- Strength Ext
- Nether Wart → Blaze Powder → Redstone
- Strength II
- Nether Wart → Blaze Powder → Glowstone Dust
- Regeneration
- Nether Wart → Ghast Tear
- Regeneration Ext
- Nether Wart → Ghast Tear → Redstone
- Regeneration II
- Nether Wart → Ghast Tear → Glowstone Dust
- Swiftness
- Nether Wart → Sugar
- Swiftness Ext
- Nether Wart → Sugar → Redstone
- Swiftness II
- Nether Wart → Sugar → Glowstone Dust
- Slowness
- Nether Wart → Sugar → Fermented Spider Eye
- Nether Wart → Rabbit's Foot → Fermented Spider Eye
- Slowness Ext
- Nether Wart → Sugar → Fermented Spider Eye ↔ Redstone
- Nether Wart → Rabbit's Foot → Fermented Spider Eye ↔ Redstone
- Healing
- Nether Wart → Glistering Melon
- Healing II
- Nether Wart → Glistering Melon → Glowstone Dust
- Harming
- Nether Wart → Glistering Melon → Fermented Spider Eye
- Nether Wart → Spider Eye → Fermented Spider Eye
- Harming II
- Nether Wart → Glistering Melon → Fermented Spider Eye ↔ Glowstone Dust
- Nether Wart → Spider Eye → Fermented Spider Eye ↔ Glowstone Dust
- Poison
- Nether Wart → Spider Eye
- Poison Ext
- Nether Wart → Spider Eye → Redstone
- Poison II
- Nether Wart → Spider Eye → Glowstone Dust
- Fire Resistance
- Nether Wart → Magma Cream
- Fire Resistance Ext
- Nether Wart → Magma Cream → Redstone
- Night Vision
- Nether Wart → Golden Carrot
- Night Vision ext
- Nether Wart → Golden Carrot → Redstone
- Invisibility
- Nether Wart → Golden Carrot → Fermented Spider Eye
- Invisibility ext
- Nether Wart → Golden Carrot → Fermented Spider Eye ↔ Redstone
- Water Breathing
- Nether Wart → Pufferfish
- Water Breathing ext
- Nether Wart → Pufferfish → Redstone
- Leaping
- Nether Wart → Rabbit's Foot
- Leaping II
- Nether Wart → Rabbit's Foot → Glowstone Dust
- Leaping ext
- Nether Wart → Rabbit's Foot → Redstone
History
Potions brewing in cauldrons (1.9 pre2).
| release | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9-pre2 | Initially, the cauldron was where potions were brewed, though cauldrons were not assigned a block ID, rendering potions unobtainable except through modding the cauldron so that it would be obtainable. When the cauldron was obtained, potions could be brewed by adding water to the cauldron followed by certain ingredients. Correctly combined ingredients would confer purely beneficial potion effects, and incorrect combinations added negative effects. The system was complicated, lacked a GUI, and formed many duplicate potions (i.e. two potions that were exactly the same could be made in several different ways), so Notch and Jeb came up with a new brewing method using a brewing stand.[1] | |||
| Beta 1.9-pre3 | A brewing GUI was added and most duplicate potions were removed (the total possible potions went down from 150 combinations to only 25 different potions in 31 combinations). Some status effects available in earlier 1.9 pre-releases as potions became inaccessible (e.g. Nausea, Blindness and Invisibility). | ||||
| Beta 1.9-pre4 | Throwable splash potions introduced – brewed by placing gunpowder and any potion together in a brewing stand. | ||||
| Glistering melon was added to be the ingredient for the Potion of Healing, until this point conferred by the ghast tear, which was itself changed to create the Potion of Regeneration instead. | |||||
| Converted certain ingredients into base-secondary ingredients (the spider eye, glistering melon and blaze powder made Mundane Potion when brewed into a water bottle in addition to their previous functions), bringing the potion total to 28 different potions in 35 combinations. | |||||
| 1.1 | 12w01a | The time to brew potions was decreased to 20 seconds. | |||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Brewing recipes for Potions of Night Vision and Invisibility added: Potion of Night Vision is brewed by adding a golden carrot to an Awkward Potion. Potion of Invisibility is brewed by adding a fermented spider eye to a Potion of Night Vision. | |||
| 1.5 | 13w01a | Hoppers added, which can place and take items in and out from brewing stands. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | Potions of Water Breathing added; they can be brewed by adding a pufferfish to an Awkward Potion. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w27a | Added Potion of Leaping; it is brewed by adding a rabbit's foot to an Awkward Potion. | |||
| 1.8.1 | 1.8.1-pre1 | The potion of leaping can now be extended using redstone. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w31a | Glowstone and redstone can no longer be added to extended potions, and redstone can no longer be added to tier-II potions. | |||
| Potions of Weakness can no longer be made using a thick potion, mundane potion, awkward potion, potion of Regeneration, or potion of Strength. | |||||
| Potions of Slowness can no longer be made using a potion of Fire Resistance. | |||||
| Potions of Harming can no longer be made using a potion of Water Breathing. | |||||
| Removed reverted potions, see removed features for more information on them. | |||||
| Splash potions can now be created from all potions, including water bottles. | |||||
| 15w33a | Added lingering potions. | ||||
| 15w42a | Blaze powder is now required as fuel for brewing. | ||||
| 15w43a | Blaze powder as fuel reduced from 30 points to 20. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | Added potions and brewing. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU7 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added potions and brewing. | |
| TU14 | 1.04 | Added Night Vision and Invisibility Potions. | |||
Potion type history
Based on information found in minecraft.jar/lang/en_US.lang, the current potion types are listed below:
- Potion of Swiftness
- Potion of Slowness
- Potion of Strength
- Potion of Weakness
- Potion of Healing
- Potion of Harming
- Potion of Regeneration
- Potion of Fire Resistance
- Potion of Water Breathing
- Potion of Poison
- Potion of Night Vision
- Potion of Invisibility
- Potion of Leaping
Due to changes in the brewing system, the following potions are currently not accessible:
- Potion of Haste
- Potion of Dullness
- Potion of Nausea
- Potion of Blindness
- Potion of Hunger
- Potion of Decay
- Potion of Resistance
Some potions also do not have a real name in minecraft (i.e. Potion of potion.healthBoost.postFix) and are currently not accessible
- Potion of potion.healthBoost.postFix
- Potion of potion.absorption.postFix
- Potion of potion.saturation.postFix
Trivia
Splash potion brewed using gunpowder.
- As long as at least one of the three bottom spaces is filled, the brewing will continue, and additional bottles of water or potion can be added. However, if the ingredient is removed, or the bottom 3 slots are emptied at any time during the process, the process will stop and nothing will have been brewed.
- The three potions do not necessarily have to be the same.
- Upgrading effect of potion that has no time parameter (i.e. Instant Health, Harming) with glowstone dust has no downsides.
- Upgrading one of the above's level II effect using glowstone will seemingly revert it to the original (metadata-wise, this is not the case).
- Upgrading a potion that has no level II effect (i.e. Fire Resistance, Slowness, Weakness) with redstone has no downsides.
- Upgrading one of the above's extended potion using redstone will seemingly revert it to the original (metadata-wise, this is not the case).
- Although Jeb said that in the 1.9 pre-release 3 there were 161 possible different potion combinations with 2,653 in the future, in the actual third pre-release only 22 different potions could be made without the use of external programs. Of those, 19 potions had one of 8 different effects.
- The Mundane Potion made from redstone has a different metadata (64) than the mundane potion made from any other ingredient (8192). Unlike Mundane 64, Mundane 8192 can be made into a Splash Mundane Potion by adding gunpowder that is, like its base potion, without any effect.
- There are many Potions that were left behind from 1.9 pre-releases that fill up different metadatas that otherwise cannot be brewed or obtained without a SMP server command or inventory editor. These potions include but are not limited to: Bungling Potion, Buttering Potion, Debonair Potion, Refined Potion.
- More water can be taken to the Nether in one trip by filling water buckets, carrying a stack of glass bottles, and using a cauldron. This is because stackable glass bottles do not stack once they have been filled with water.
- Undead mobs (zombies, skeletons, zombie pigmen, and Withers) are unaffected by splash potions of poison and regeneration, take damage from instant health splash potions, and gain health from instant damage.
- Mixing Fermented Spider Eye with any base potion (including the ones that were left behind) will either result in a Potion of Weakness, a Potion of Invisibility, or a Potion of Slowness. The Potions of Slowness and Invisibility can only be brewed from the base potions that were left behind.
- By modifying the item NBT using an editor or commands, it is possible to get a potion that cannot be upgraded into a splash potion.
- Combining Night Vision and Water Breathing will give you the best visibility underwater.
