Complete Minecraft Potion Brewing Guide

Brewing Stand Basics

Every potion in Minecraft starts at the Brewing Stand. You craft one from three Cobblestone and one Blaze Rod. The stand has three bottle slots at the bottom, an ingredient slot at the top, and a fuel slot on the left that accepts Blaze Powder. Each piece of Blaze Powder fuels 20 brewing operations.

The general brewing workflow is: fill up to three Glass Bottles with water at any water source, place them in the stand, add Nether Wart to brew Awkward Potions, then add the effect ingredient. Most useful potions follow this Water Bottle to Awkward Potion to final potion chain. A few exceptions exist: the Potion of Weakness brews directly from a Water Bottle plus a Fermented Spider Eye, and Mundane and Thick potions are made with standalone ingredients but have no practical use on their own.

Base Potions

Potion	Ingredient	Use
Water Bottle	Glass Bottle + water source	Starting material for all potions
Awkward Potion	Nether Wart	Base for almost every effect potion
Mundane Potion	Various (Redstone Dust, Sugar, etc.)	No direct use
Thick Potion	Glowstone Dust	No direct use

Positive Effect Potions

These potions grant beneficial effects to the player or any mob they hit in splash form.

Potion	Ingredient	Effect	Duration	Extended	Enhanced
Night Vision	Golden Carrot	Full brightness vision	3:00	8:00	-
Invisibility	Fermented Spider Eye on Night Vision	Invisible to mobs (armor still shows)	3:00	8:00	-
Leaping	Rabbit's Foot	Jump Boost	3:00	8:00	Jump Boost II (1:30)
Fire Resistance	Magma Cream	Immune to fire and lava	3:00	8:00	-
Swiftness	Sugar	Speed	3:00	8:00	Speed II (1:30)
Water Breathing	Pufferfish	Breathe underwater	3:00	8:00	-
Healing	Glistering Melon Slice	Instant Health	Instant	-	Instant Health II
Regeneration	Ghast Tear	Regeneration	0:45	1:30	Regeneration II (0:22)
Strength	Blaze Powder	+3 melee damage	3:00	8:00	Strength II, +6 damage (1:30)
Slow Falling	Phantom Membrane	Fall slowly, no fall damage	1:30	4:00	-

Negative Effect Potions

Potion	Ingredient	Effect	Duration	Extended	Enhanced
Poison	Spider Eye	Poison (drains HP, can't kill)	0:45	1:30	Poison II (0:21)
Weakness	Fermented Spider Eye on Water Bottle	-4 melee damage	1:30	4:00	-
Slowness	Fermented Spider Eye on Swiftness/Leaping	Slowness	1:30	4:00	Slowness IV (0:20)
Harming	Fermented Spider Eye on Healing/Poison	Instant Damage	Instant	-	Instant Damage II

Mixed Effect Potions

Potion	Ingredient	Effect	Duration	Extended	Enhanced
Turtle Master	Turtle Shell	Slowness IV + Resistance III	0:20	0:40	Slowness VI + Resistance IV (0:20)

Modifiers

After brewing the base effect potion, you can modify it further:

• Redstone Dust -- extends the duration of most timed potions. Does not work on instant potions (Healing, Harming).
• Glowstone Dust -- increases the potency (e.g. Speed to Speed II) but usually halves the duration. Mutually exclusive with Redstone on the same potion.
• Gunpowder -- converts the potion into a throwable Splash Potion.
• Dragon's Breath -- converts a Splash Potion into a Lingering Potion with an area cloud effect.

How to Get Brewing Ingredients

Most brewing ingredients come from the Nether. Nether Wart grows in Nether Fortress stairwells and can be farmed on Soul Sand in any dimension. Blaze Rods drop from Blazes found in Nether Fortresses. Ghast Tears drop from Ghasts. Magma Cream drops from Magma Cubes or can be crafted from Blaze Powder and a Slimeball. Overworld ingredients include Sugar from Sugar Cane, Spider Eye from Spiders, Rabbit's Foot from Rabbits, Pufferfish from fishing, and Phantom Membrane from Phantoms that spawn when you skip sleep for three or more in-game days.

Fermented Spider Eye

The Fermented Spider Eye is crafted from a Spider Eye, Brown Mushroom, and Sugar. It is the key corruption ingredient that inverts or negates potion effects: Night Vision becomes Invisibility, Healing becomes Harming, Swiftness/Leaping becomes Slowness, Poison becomes Harming, and a Water Bottle becomes Weakness.

Splash and Lingering Potions

Splash and Lingering Variants

Add Gunpowder to any finished potion to create a Splash Potion you can throw. Splash potions affect all entities within a small radius on impact. Durations for splash variants are reduced to 75 % of the drinkable version. Add Dragon's Breath to a Splash Potion to create a Lingering Potion that leaves an area-of-effect cloud on the ground. Lingering potion durations are 25 % of the drinkable version.

You can also craft Tipped Arrows by surrounding a Lingering Potion with eight Arrows in a crafting table, producing eight tipped arrows per craft.

Brewing Tips

• Always brew in batches of three. The brewing stand processes all three bottle slots at once with one ingredient.
• Keep a chest of Nether Wart and Blaze Powder near your stand so you never run out mid-session.
• Label your potions with item frames or signs. Potion colours are easy to mix up.
• For PvP, prioritise Strength II, Speed II, and Instant Health II. For PvE exploration, Fire Resistance and Night Vision are the most universally useful.
• Lingering Potions are the only way to craft Tipped Arrows, so save your Dragon's Breath for arrows you actually need.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I brew potions in Bedrock Edition with the same recipes?

Yes. All potion recipes listed here work identically in Bedrock Edition. The only minor differences are in how the UI displays brewing progress and some tooltip text.

Do potions stack in my inventory?

No. Each potion occupies one inventory slot. Splash and Lingering variants also do not stack. Plan your inventory space before heading into a fight.

What is the fastest way to farm Blaze Powder?

Build a Blaze farm at a Nether Fortress spawner. A simple platform with a funnel to a killing chamber can produce hundreds of Blaze Rods per hour, giving you more than enough Blaze Powder for both fuelling the stand and crafting ingredients like Magma Cream and Strength potions.

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