Brewing

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Brewing is the process of creating potions, splash potions, and lingering potions by adding various ingredients to water bottles in a brewing stand.

Brewing equipment[]

Ingredients[]

Base ingredients and modifiers[]

Base ingredients are ingredients that can be added directly to a water bottle and are the starting point of all potions. Nether wart is the most fundamental of the base ingredients, as it is required to make the vast majority of potions.

Modifiers are ingredients used to alter the properties of a potion or to change a potion effect into a different one. The fermented spider eye is unique in that it is the only modifier that can convert a water bottle directly into an effective potion.

Enhancement: Generally, upgrading a potion involves a trade-off between duration and potency. A potion with an enhanced effect has shorter duration, and a potion with extended duration cannot have an enhanced effect. However:

• Upgrading the effect of a potion that has no time parameter (e.g. Instant Health) with glowstone involves no trade-off.
• Upgrading the time of a potion that has no level II effect (e.g. Fire Resistance) with redstone involves no trade-off.

Corrupting effect: A fermented spider eye changes a potion's base effect, often reversing it or producing a negative potion.

• A corrupted potion usually does the opposite of the original potion.
• Corrupting an enhanced or extended potion into an effect that supports the modifier results in a potion with the same modifier applied.
• Corrupting an enhanced potion of Poison/Healing results in a basic potion of Harming.‌^{[Java Edition only]} Enhanced potions of Leaping or Swiftness cannot be corrupted.
• A potion of Invisibility is considered a "corrupted" version of a potion of Night Vision.

Splash and lingering potions: Any potion can be turned into a splash potion, and subsequently, a lingering potion. Splash and lingering potions can be used best for affecting other entities.

• Splash potions and lingering potions can be modified in the same manner as their normal counterparts. For instance, a splash water bottle can be brewed with any of the base ingredients; the result remains a splash potion.
• Some extended/enhanced splash and lingering potions cannot be brewed from their extended/enhanced potion/splash potion counterparts, respectively (e.g. Regeneration + → Splash Potion of Regeneration +).‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
• Splash potions are made by brewing gunpowder into a potion and lingering potions are made with dragons breath.
• In Bedrock Edition, splash potions' effects have only three-fourths of the duration of the drinkable form. For example, a drinkable potion effect of 8:00 is reduced to 6:00 as a splash potion. In Java Edition, splash and drinkable forms have the same duration.
• Lingering potions have only one-fourth of the duration of the drinkable form. For instance, a drinkable potion effect of 8:00 is reduced to 2:00 as a lingering potion.

Effect ingredients[]

Effect ingredients imbue an awkward potion with a particular effect but do not alter potion duration or intensity. When added directly to a water bottle, most of these ingredients produce a mundane potion. The exceptions to this are golden carrot, pufferfish, turtle shell, and phantom membrane, which cannot be added directly to a water bottle.

Brewing recipes[]

Base potions[]

Base potions are potions without effects, brewed by adding a single base ingredient to a water bottle. Of these, only the awkward potion can be imbued with an effect ingredient to produce a potion effect.

Effect potions[]

Effect potions are primarily created by adding an effect ingredient to an awkward potion, which is created by adding nether wart to a water bottle. Certain effects require a potion to be corrupted by a fermented spider eye. The potion of Weakness can additionally be created by simply adding a fermented spider eye to a water bottle — and it is the only potion that can be brewed without nether wart.

Undead mobs react differently to effects than other mobs. They take damage from potions of Healing, gain health from potions of Harming, and are unaffected by potions of Poison and Regeneration.

Positive effects[]

Potion	Reagent, base	Extended	Enhanced	Effects
Potion of Healing		—	Potion of Healing	Instant Health: Restores health by 4. Enhanced: Instant Health II: Restores health by 8.
Potion of Fire Resistance ( 3:00)		Potion of Fire Resistance ( 8:00)	—	Fire Resistance: Gives immunity to damage from fire, lava, magma blocks, campfires, and blazes' ranged attacks.
Potion of Regeneration ( 0:45)		Potion of Regeneration ( 2:00)	Potion of Regeneration ( 0:22)	Regeneration: Restores health by every 2.5 seconds. Enhanced: Regeneration II: Restores health by every 1.2 seconds.
Potion of Strength ( 3:00)		Potion of Strength ( 8:00)	Potion of Strength ( 1:30)	Strength: Increases player's melee attack damage by 3. Enhanced: Strength II: Increases player's melee attack damage by 6.
Potion of Swiftness ( 3:00)		Potion of Swiftness ( 8:00)	Potion of Swiftness ( 1:30)	Speed: Increases movement speed, sprinting speed, and jumping length by 20%. Enhanced: Speed II: Increases movement speed, sprinting speed, and jumping length by 40%.
Potion of Night Vision ( 3:00)		Potion of Night Vision ( 8:00)	—	Night Vision: Makes everything appear to be at the maximum light level, including underwater areas.
Potion of Invisibility ( 3:00)		Potion of Invisibility ( 8:00)	—	Invisibility: Renders the player invisible. Equipped and wielded items are still visible.
Potion of Water Breathing ( 3:00)		Potion of Water Breathing ( 8:00)	—	Water Breathing: Prevents the oxygen bar from depleting when underwater.
Potion of Leaping ( 3:00)		Potion of Leaping ( 8:00)	Potion of Leaping ( 1:30)	Jump Boost: Increases jump height by 1⁄2 block. Enhanced: Jump Boost II: Increases jump height by 1 1⁄4 blocks.
Potion of Slow Falling ( 1:30)		Potion of Slow Falling ( 4:00)	—	Slow Falling: Causes the player to fall at a slower rate and not take any damage when hitting the ground.

Negative effects[]

Potion	Reagent, base(s)	Extended	Enhanced	Effects
Potion of Poison ( 0:45)		Potion of Poison ( 1:30)	Potion of Poison ( 0:22)	Poison: Depletes health by 1 every 1.25 seconds. Enhanced: Poison II: Depletes health by 1 every 0.4 seconds.
Potion of Weakness ( 1:30)		Potion of Weakness ( 4:00)	—	Weakness: Reduces player's melee attack damage by 4.
Potion of Harming		—	Potion of Harming	Instant Damage: Inflicts 6 damage. Enhanced: Instant Damage II: Inflicts 12 × 6 damage.
Potion of Slowness ( 1:30)		Potion of Slowness ( 4:00)	Potion of Slowness ( 0:20)	Slowness: Slows the player to 85% speed. Enhanced: Slowness IV: Slows the player to 40% speed.

Mixed effects[]

Cures[]

This section describes an education-related feature. 

This feature is available only in Minecraft Education or when enabling the "Education" option in Bedrock Edition.

Cures are brewed from awkward potions using different elements.‌^{[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]} Drinking these removes the specified bad effect. They cannot be modified into splash, lingering, extended, or enhanced versions.

Unbrewable potions[]

The potion of Luck and Unbrewable Potion‌^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only]} and the potion of Decay‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} cannot be brewed, and can be obtained only through commands or the Creative inventory.

History[]

Trivia[]

• Although Jeb said that in Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 there would be 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.
• 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.
• Unlike crafting, smelting and stonecutting, there is no in-game recipe book for brewing.
• Destroying a brewing stand while still having a full 8 amounts of blaze powder drops the powder with it.

Gallery[]

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  Texture file for the 1.9 brewing user interface

See also[]

• Crafting
• Enchanting
• Medicine‌^{[Minecraft Education only]}
• Smelting

References[]

External links[]

• Minecraft Forum: All About Potions And Brewing - 1.9 Reference Guide
• Minecraft Potions - A Visual Guide
• Minecraft Commands - A Searchable Minecraft Database