Minecraft Potion Brewing Guide
Pick any potion to see the exact brewing chain, ingredients, duration and level, including Splash and Lingering versions.
Quick answer:Most potions start with a Water Bottle plus Nether Wart (Awkward Potion), then one key ingredient. Add Redstone to make it last longer, Glowstone for level II, a Fermented Spider Eye to corrupt it, Gunpowder for a Splash Potion and Dragon's Breath for a Lingering Potion.
Potion of Strength
Strength I
Duration: 3:00
Brewing steps
- Fill a Glass Bottle with water to get a Water Bottle, and put up to three in the bottom slots of a Brewing Stand.
- 1Add Nether Wart to the top slot: Water Bottle becomes Awkward Potion.
- 2Add Blaze Powder to the top slot: Awkward Potion becomes Potion of Strength.
Fuel: each Blaze Powder in the fuel slot powers 20 brews.
What can I brew with this ingredient?
Pick an ingredient to see every brewing step that uses it.
Potion brewing chart
| Potion | Start from | Add | Duration | Extended | Level II |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awkward Potion | Golden Carrot | 3:00 | 8:00 | - | |
| Potion of Night Vision | Fermented Spider Eye | 3:00 | 8:00 | - | |
| Awkward Potion | Rabbit's Foot | 3:00 | 8:00 | 1:30 | |
| Awkward Potion | Magma Cream | 3:00 | 8:00 | - | |
| Awkward Potion | Sugar | 3:00 | 8:00 | 1:30 | |
| Potion of Leaping | Fermented Spider Eye | 1:30 | 4:00 | 0:20 | |
| Awkward Potion | Turtle Shell | 0:20 | 0:40 | 0:20 | |
| Awkward Potion | Pufferfish | 3:00 | 8:00 | - | |
| Awkward Potion | Glistering Melon Slice | Instant | - | Instant | |
| Potion of Healing | Fermented Spider Eye | Instant | - | Instant | |
| Awkward Potion | Spider Eye | 0:45 | 1:30 | 0:21 | |
| Awkward Potion | Ghast Tear | 0:45 | 1:30 | 0:22 | |
| Awkward Potion | Blaze Powder | 3:00 | 8:00 | 1:30 | |
| Water Bottle | Fermented Spider Eye | 1:30 | 4:00 | - | |
| Awkward Potion | Phantom Membrane | 1:30 | 4:00 | - | |
| Awkward Potion | Breeze Rod | 3:00 | - | - | |
| Awkward Potion | Cobweb | 3:00 | - | - | |
| Awkward Potion | Slime Block | 3:00 | - | - | |
| Awkward Potion | Stone | 3:00 | - | - |
What each modifier does
- Redstone Dust: Redstone Dust makes the effect last longer. It does not work on a level II potion, so a potion is either extended or level II.
- Glowstone Dust: Glowstone Dust raises the effect to level II with a shorter duration. On a plain Water Bottle it makes a Thick Potion.
- Fermented Spider Eye: Fermented Spider Eye corrupts a potion into its opposite, like Swiftness into Slowness or Night Vision into Invisibility. On a Water Bottle it makes Weakness.
- Gunpowder: Gunpowder turns any potion into a Splash Potion you throw, with the same duration.
- Dragon's Breath: Dragon's Breath turns a Splash Potion into a Lingering Potion that leaves an effect cloud.
- Tipped Arrow: In Java, 8 arrows around 1 Lingering Potion craft 8 Tipped Arrows, each carrying one eighth of the drinkable duration.
Recipes, durations and levels are read from the Java 26.3 game data.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Awkward Potion. Brew Nether Wart into a Water Bottle and you get an Awkward Potion, the starting point for almost every useful potion. Adding other ingredients straight to water gives a Mundane or Thick Potion, which has no effect.
Put Water Bottles in the bottom slots of a Brewing Stand, Blaze Powder in the fuel slot and Nether Wart in the top slot. Nether Wart grows on soul sand and is found in Nether fortresses and bastions.
Brew Nether Wart into a Water Bottle for an Awkward Potion, then add Blaze Powder. Strength lasts 3:00; add Redstone for 8:00 or Glowstone for Strength II, which lasts 1:30.
Make Night Vision first (Awkward Potion plus Golden Carrot), then add a Fermented Spider Eye. Invisibility lasts 3:00, or 8:00 if you start from extended Night Vision or add Redstone afterwards.
Add a Fermented Spider Eye to a plain Water Bottle, no Nether Wart needed. It lasts 1:30, or 4:00 with Redstone. Splash Weakness is used to cure zombie villagers, together with a Golden Apple.
Redstone extends the duration; Glowstone raises the level to II and shortens the duration. They do not stack: the Brewing Stand will not accept Glowstone on an extended potion or Redstone on a level II potion.
No. A potion is either the extended version or the level II version. Pick the one you need; the chart above shows both durations for every potion.
It corrupts a potion into a different, usually harmful one: Swiftness and Leaping become Slowness, Healing and Poison become Harming, Night Vision becomes Invisibility, and a Water Bottle becomes Weakness.
Add Gunpowder to any potion to make a Splash Potion with the same duration. Then add Dragon's Breath to the Splash Potion to make a Lingering Potion, whose cloud applies a quarter of the duration per touch. Dragon's Breath is collected in a Glass Bottle during the Ender Dragon fight.
In Java, only Weakness (Water Bottle plus Fermented Spider Eye). Potions made by corrupting another potion, like Slowness, Harming and Invisibility, still start from an Awkward Potion further up the chain.
Only a little. The recipes are the same, but Bedrock can also brew Weakness from Awkward, Mundane or Thick Potions and from Strength, and extended Regeneration and Poison last longer there. Switch the edition at the top to see the matching numbers.
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