Potions in Minecraft are bottled substances that, once consumed or used on, grants the entity a specific effect. It can be found in an igloo basement, dropped by killing witches and brewed by using a brewing stand. Here is a list of things that you need to start brewing.
Brewing Equipment
- brewing stand = a block to brew potions
- water = obtained from any water source nearby like rivers, sea, cauldron- to fill glass bottles, making water bottles
- blaze powder = used as fuel for the brewing stand
- glass bottle = to store water and potions
Base Ingredients and Modifiers
Base ingredients are items that are added into water bottles, creating the starting point of all potions (nether wart, fermented spider eye). Nether wart is the most crucial ingredient, as it makes the base potion to almost all potions.
Modifiers, on the other hand, are items used to change a potion’s properties or its form (redstone dust, glowstone dust, gunpowder, dragon’s breath). Redstone dust will extend a potion while glowstone dust will enhance one. You can't add both to the same potion. Also, enhancing can involve a trade off, where the potion is upgraded but has shorter duration.
- nether wart = used to make a base potion, that makes most potions
- fermented spider eye = infused in potions to make corrupted potions
- redstone dust = infused in potions to extend the duration of the potion’s effect
- glowstone dust = infused in potions to increase the level of the potion’s effect
- gunpowder = infused in potions to make splash potions
- dragon’s breath = infused in splash potions to make lingering potions
Effect Ingredients
Effect ingredients are used to change the effect that a potion has.
- sugar, rabbit’s foot, glistering melon slice, spider eye, pufferfish, magma cream, golden carrot, blaze powder, ghast tear, turtle shell, phantom membrane, cobweb, slime block, stone, breeze rod
How To Use a Brewing Stand
The brewing stand interface has 5 empty slots. The three bottom slots are meant for input /output like water bottles and potions. The top slot is where the base ingredients, effect ingredients and modifiers should be placed, to produce different potions. The left slot is specifically for the blaze powder which powers the stand, like fuel is for furnaces. When put in any of the three bottom slots, the input changes in its slot to become the output, the desired potion.
List Of All Minecraft Potions (2025)
Base Potions
Base potions are made by adding an ingredient into a water bottle. They do not have any effects. Only one base potion (awkward potion) is usable to make most effect potions in the game.
Base potion | Base ingredient | Potion's uses |
Awkward Potion | Nether wart | Can be infused with an effect ingredient to make most effect potions |
Mundane Potion | Any effect ingredient excluding pufferfish, golden carrot, turtle shell and phantom membrane | No uses |
Thick Potion | Glowstone dust | No uses |
Effect Potions
Effect potions are made by adding an effect ingredient to an awkward potion- excluding the Potion of Weakness and corrupted potions. There are three different types of effects that all potions can have. Positive effects, negative effects and mixed effects. Once drunk/used, potion particles will appear around the entity for the potion’s duration. Each potion’s particles’ colour corresponds with the potion’s colour itself.
*A corrupted potion is a product of certain potions infused with fermented spider eye. This results in a potion that is an ‘opposite’ of the pre-corrupted poison. Potion of Invisibility, Weakness, Harming and Slowness are corrupted potions.
Positive Effects
Potions with positive effects give a generally positive effect, even if it’s not in your favour. For example, witches are known to consume positive-effect potions like potion of Swiftness while attacking you with negative-effect splash potions.
Effect potion | Effect ingredient | Base potion | Potion's duration | Effects | + redstone dust | + glowstone dust |
Potion of Healing | Glistering melon slice | Awkward potion | - | Instant Health: restores 4 health (2 hearts) | - | Instant Health II: restores 8 health (4 hearts) |
Potion of Fire Resistance | Magma cream | Awkward potion | 3:00 | Fire Resistance: gives immunity to damage from any fire | extends potion’s duration to 8:00 | - |
Potion of Regeneration | Ghast tear | Awkward potion | 0:45 | Regeneration: restores health by ½ heart every 2.5 seconds | extends potion’s duration to 1:30 | Regeneration II: restores health by ½ heart every 1.25 seconds, for 0:22 |
Potion of Strength | Blaze powder | Awkward potion | 3:00 | Strength: Increases player's melee attack damage by 3 (1 ½ hearts) | extends potion’s duration to 8:00 | Strength II: increases player's melee attack damage by 6 (3 hearts), for 1:30 |
Potion of Swiftness | Sugar | Awkward potion | 3:00 | Speed: increases movement speed, sprinting speed, and jumping length by 20% | extends potion’s duration to 8:00 | Speed II: increases movement speed, sprinting speed, and jumping length by 40%, for 1:30 |
Effect potion | Effect ingredient | Base potion | Potion's duration | Effects | + redstone dust | + glowstone dust |
Potion of Night Vision | Golden carrot | Awkward potion | 3:00 | Night Vision: makes everything appear to be at the maximum light level | extends potion’s duration to 8:00 | - |
Potion of Invisibility | Fermented spider eye | Potion of Night Vision | 3:00 | Invisibility: renders the player invisible, except for equipped and wielded items | extends potion’s duration to 8:00 | - |
Potion of Water Breathing | Pufferfish | Awkward potion | 3:00 | Water Breathing: prevents the oxygen bar from depleting when underwater | extends potion’s duration to 8:00 | - |
Potion of Leaping | Rabbit's foot | Awkward potion | 3:00 | Jump Boost: increases jump height by 1⁄2 block | extends potion’s duration to 8:00 | Jump Boost II: increases jump height by 1 1⁄4 blocks for 1:30 |
Potion of Slow Falling | Phantom membrane | Awkward potion | 1:30 | Slow Falling: causes the player to fall at a slower rate and not take any damage when hitting the ground | extends potion’s duration to 4:00 | - |
Negative Effects
A negative-effect potion will grant the user a negative effect, which sometimes can be used for your own benefit. For instance, you can hit mobs in your XP farm with the potion of Oozing before killing them, gaining a lot more XP orbs and hard-to-come-by slimeballs.
Effect potion | Effect ingredient | Base potion | Potion's duration | Effects | + redstone dust | + glowstone dust |
Potion of Poison | Spider eye | Awkward potion | 0:45 | Poison: depletes health by 1(½ heart) every 1.25 seconds | extends potion’s duration to 1:30 | Poison II: depletes health by 1(½ heart) every 0.4 seconds, for 0:21 |
Potion of Weakness | Fermented spider eye | Water bottle | 1:30 | Weakness: reduces player's melee attack damage by 4 (2 hearts) | extends potion’s duration to 4:00 | - |
Potion of Harming | Fermented spider eye | Potion of Healing/Potion of Poison | - | Instant Damage: inflicts 6 (3 hearts) damage | - | Instant Damage II: inflicts 12(6 hearts) damage |
Potion of Slowness | Fermented spider eye | Potion of Swiftness/Potion of Leaping | 1:30 | Slowness: slows the player to 85% speed | extends potion’s duration to 4:00 | Slowness IV: slows the player to 40% speed for 0:20 |
Effect poison | Effect ingredient | Base potion | Potion's duration | Effects | + redstone dust | + glowstone dust |
Potion of Oozing | Slime block | Awkward potion | 3:00 | Oozing: spawns two size 2 slimes nearby when killed | - | - |
Potion of Weaving | Cobweb | Awkward potion | 3:00 | Weaving: spawns 2-3 cobwebs nearby when killed & doubles walking speed whilst in cobwebs (from 25% to 50%) | - | - |
Potion of Infestation | Stone | Awkward potion | 3:00 | Infested: has a 10% chance to spawn 1-2 silverfish nearby when hit | - | - |
Potion of Wind Charging | Breeze rod | Awkward potion | 3:00 | Wind Charged: emits a wind burst when killed | - | - |
Mixed Effects
There is only one potion with mixed effects so far and it is the Potion of the Turtle Master. It gives the user both a positive and negative effect at the same time.
Potion of The Turtle Master
- Effect ingredient: Turtle shell
- Effects: Slowness IV: reduces movement speed by 60% and Resistance III: reduces incoming damage by 60%
- Base potion: Awkward potion
- Potion's duration: 0:20
- +redstone: extends potion’s duration to 0:40
- +glowstone: Slowness VI: reduces movement speed by 90% and Resistance IV: reduces incoming damage by 80% for 0:20
Splash Potions
Splash potions are potions that can be thrown onto a block/entity and explodes within impact, affecting nearby player/mobs. Any potion can be made into a splash potion. To make splash potions, gunpowder is added to an effect potion.
Splash potions have a range of 8 blocks, if thrown at the best angle. When the potion directly hits an entity, the entity gets full duration and potency of the potion’s effect. A splash potion lasts the same as its drinkable form.
Lingering Potions
Lingering potions are a variant of splash potions that can be thrown onto the ground/block, creating a lingering area that has the effect of the potion- affecting any entity that passes through it. All splash potions can be brewed into lingering potions. To make them, dragon’s breath is added to a splash potion.
After it is thrown, a cloud made out of the potion’s potion particles forms on the affected area, with a radius of 3 blocks. This lasts for 25-30 seconds and the cloud decreases to nothing in that time. For potion effects with a duration, the cloud will give the effect of one-fourth of the drinkable form's duration. On the other hand, for potion effects with no duration, the cloud will give the effect of half of the drinkable form's potency.
Joke Potions
Joke potions are potions that were part of Minecraft’s April Fools’ Day updates. There were two updates that included potions in its joke- the Love and Hugs update and the Poisonous Potato update.
Love and Hugs
In an update where swords were replaced with hearts and Survival was called ‘Existence’, some potions were simply renamed or removed while others’ effects had been changed.
- Potion of Caring (Slowness) = changes the mob’s AI to move toward the nearest mob as if it were to attack it.
- Potion of Sharing = causes mobs to drop random items randomly
- Potion of Strength =give upgrades to ‘Love Power’
- Potion of Love (Harming)
- Potion of Fun (Invisibility)
- Potion of Happiness (Leaping)
- Potion of Weakness and Poison (removed)
Poisonous Potato
Known for its lack of purpose, the poisonous potato item was the focus of this update. It included a Poisonous Potato dimension, potato-related blocks and potato-themed structures.
- Potato oil = gives the it’s very slippery effect
- Poisonous potato oil = gives the Poison effect for ten seconds and the it’s very slippery effect
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