Brewing

Ultimate easy and fast Minecraft Brewing guide

Potions in Minecraft are some of the best and most useful items in the game. However, the potion brewing process can be a bit complicated. But no worries, because this is the ultimate Minecraft 1.20 potion brewing guide. Let’s check it out!

Brewing Essentials

To brew a potion in Minecraft, you need the following:

  • Brewing Stand: Made with three cobblestones and one blaze rod.
  • Blaze Rods: Obtained from Nether fortresses.
  • Blaze Powder: Crafted from blaze rods and used to fuel the brewing stand.
  • Glass Bottles: Filled with water by right-clicking on water or using a cauldron.
  • Nether Wart: Found in nether fortresses and grown on soul sand.

Basic Brewing Process

  1. Place the brewing stand and fuel it with blaze powder.
  2. Fill glass bottles with water and place them in the brewing stand.
  3. Add Nether wart to make an awkward potion.
  4. Add a secondary ingredient to create a useful potion.

Secondary Ingredients

These ingredients determine the type of potion you create:

  • Sugar: Speed potion.
  • Rabbit’s Foot: Leaping potion.
  • Glistering Melon: Healing potion.
  • Magma Cream: Fire resistance potion.
  • Puffer Fish: Water breathing potion.
  • Spider Eye: Poison potion.
  • Golden Carrot: Night vision potion.
  • Blaze Powder: Strength potion.
  • Ghast Tear: Regeneration potion.
  • Turtle Shell: Turtle master potion.
  • Phantom Membrane: Slow falling potion.
  • Fermented Spider Eye: Weakness potion and corruption of other potions.

Modifying Ingredients

These ingredients modify the effects of potions:

  • Redstone: Extends the duration of the potion (e.g., from 3 to 8 minutes).
  • Glowstone Dust: Increases the strength of the potion (e.g., speed 1 to speed 2).
  • Gunpowder: Turns the potion into a splash potion.
  • Dragon’s Breath: Turns a splash potion into a lingering potion.

How to Obtain Ingredients

  • Blaze Powder and Blaze Rods: Kill blazes in nether fortresses.
  • Nether Wart: Found in nether fortresses and grown on soul sand.
  • Fermented Spider Eye: Crafted from a spider eye, sugar, and a brown mushroom.
  • Sugar: Obtained from sugar cane.
  • Rabbit’s Foot: Dropped by rabbits.
  • Glistering Melon: Crafted by surrounding a melon slice with gold nuggets.
  • Spider Eye: Dropped by spiders.
  • Puffer Fish: Caught by fishing or killing puffer fish in warm oceans.
  • Magma Cream: Dropped by magma cubes or crafted from slime balls and blaze powder.
  • Golden Carrot: Crafted by surrounding a carrot with gold nuggets or bought from villagers.
  • Ghast Tear: Dropped by ghasts.
  • Turtle Shell: Crafted from scoots dropped by baby turtles when they grow up.
  • Phantom Membrane: Dropped by phantoms that spawn if you haven’t slept for three days.
  • Redstone: Mined from redstone ore.
  • Glowstone Dust: Dropped by breaking glowstone in the nether.
  • Gunpowder: Dropped by creepers, ghasts, or witches.
  • Dragon’s Breath: Collected from the ender dragon’s breath attack by right-clicking with a bottle.

Potion Recipes

  • Swiftness: Awkward potion + sugar.
  • Slowness: Swiftness potion + fermented spider eye.
  • Leaping: Awkward potion + rabbit’s foot.
  • Strength: Awkward potion + blaze powder.
  • Healing: Awkward potion + glistering melon.
  • Harming: Healing potion + fermented spider eye.
  • Poison: Awkward potion + spider eye.
  • Regeneration: Awkward potion + ghast tear.
  • Fire Resistance: Awkward potion + magma cream.
  • Water Breathing: Awkward potion + puffer fish.
  • Night Vision: Awkward potion + golden carrot.
  • Invisibility: Night vision potion + fermented spider eye.
  • Turtle Master: Awkward potion + turtle shell.
  • Slow Falling: Awkward potion + phantom membrane.
  • Weakness: Water bottle + fermented spider eye.

Advanced Tips

When brewing potions, always carry milk buckets to remove all status effects if needed. Automating potion brewing can save time and effort. You can use hoppers to automate ingredient placement, fuel refilling, and potion collection. You can also make tipped arrows with potions, applying the potion effect when the arrow hits.

Fun Facts

Healing potions harm undead mobs, while harming potions heal them. You can also do certain brewing steps out of order, like using the fermented spider eye on a potion that’s already had an increased duration or effect.

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