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This page is part of IGN's Minecraft Wiki guide and details everything you need to know about potion recipes, primary and secondary potion levels, splash potions, detailed charts that explain the potion brewing system, and even more.
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- Minecraft Potions Recipes and Levels
- How to Make All Primary Potion Recipes
- How to Make All Secondary Potion Recipes
- All Positive Potion Recipes in Minecraft
- All Negative Potion Recipes in Minecraft
- All Mixed Potion Recipes in Minecraft
- Minecraft Potion Chart
- How to Make Splash Potions
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Minecraft Potions Recipes and Levels
Potions can have three levels to them. For simplicity, we will call them primary potions, secondary potions, and third type potions. Again, for simplicity's sake, we will divide the secondary and third type potions into positive and negative potions.
How to Make All Primary Potion Recipes
There are five types of primary potions: the Awkward Potion, the Mundane Potion, the extended Mundane Potion, the Thick Potion, and the Potion of Weakness. Only the Potion of weakness has an actual effect this far into the brewing. An Awkward potion is brewed by mixing water bottles with a Nether wart. The Awkward potion is the one that's absolutely necessary to all positive secondary potions and only one negative.
Mundane potions are used to brew Potions of weakness and are brewed using water bottles and any of the following items: Glistering Melon, Spider eyes, Magma cream, Sugar, Blaze Powder, Ghast Tears, or Redstone Dust.
Note: Redstone dust will created an extended Mundane Potion which is used to create the extended Potion of Weakness
Thick Potions are brewed using a water bottle and glowstone dust.
How to Make All Secondary Potion Recipes
Secondary potions are brewed using primary potions and other items.
Positive All positive potions are brewed using the primary awkward potion. Here is a list of all positive secondary potion recipes in Minecraft:
All Positive Potion Recipes in Minecraft
- Awkward Potion + Glistering Melon =Potion of Healing (Instantly restores 3 hearts)
- Awkward Potion + Magma Cream = Potion of Fire Resistance (Grants the player immunity to fire and lava damage for three minutes)
- Awkward Potion + Ghast Tears =Potion of Regeneration (Restores health over 45 second)
- Awkward Potion + Blaze Powder =Potion of Strength (Increases damage by a heart and a half for three minutes)
- Awkward Potion + Sugar = Potion of Swiftness (Increases movement speed and jump height for three minutes)
- Awkward Potion + Rabbit's Foot =Potion of Leaping (Increase jump height by half a block for three minutes)
- Awkward Potion + Phantom Membrane =Potion of Slow Falling(Causes the player to fall at a slower rate for a minute and thirty seconds)
Negative All negative potions are brewed using either the Awkward Potions, the Mundane Potion,the Thick Potion, the primary Potion of Weakness or the Extended Mundane Potion. Here is a list of all negative secondary potion recipes in Minecraft:
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All Negative Potion Recipes in Minecraft
- Awkward Potion + Spider Eye = Potion of Poison (Poisong the player for forty five seconds, reducing his health to a maximum of 1/2 heart)
- Thick Potion + Fermented Spider Eyes = Potion of Weakness (Damage dealt is halved for a minute and a half)
- Mundane Potion + Fermented Spider Eyes = Potion of Weakness (Damage dealt is halved for a minute and a half)
- Extended Mundane Potion + Fermented Spider Eyes = Extended Potion of Weakness (Damage dealt is halved for four minutes)
- Potion of Weakness + Redstone Dust = Extended Potion of Weakness (Damage dealt is halved for four minutes)
- Potion of Swiftness + Potion of Leaping + Fermented Spider Eye = Potion of Slowness (Players speed will slow down by 85% for a minute and thirty seconds)
- Potion of Poison + Potion of Healing + Fermented Spider Eye = Potion of Harming (Instantly does six hearts of damage)
Mixed potions have both positive and negative effects when thrown. There’s currently only one mixed potion that can be brewed. To brew a mixed potion you’re going to need Awkward Potions and a Turtle Shell.
Here is a list of all mixed secondary potion recipes in Minecraft:
All Mixed Potion Recipes in Minecraft
- Awkward Potion + Turtle Shell = Potion of the Turtle Master (Slows players down by 60% and reduces damage by 60% for twenty seconds)
Minecraft Potion Chart
Seen in the potion chart below, adding either redstone dust or glowstone dust to a potion will allow you to further enhance it.
Brewing redstone with a potion will cause that potion's duration to be extended; whereas brewing glowstone with one will cause it to become stronger (a healing potion will heal more, for example).
For a more graphic description, here is a potions algorithm below
Photo Courtesy of: minecraft.fandom.com under the “Brewing” section.
How to Make Splash Potions
By brewing gunpowder with any potion, you can create a splash potion - one that can be thrown, and spread its effect for a few blocks around where it lands. These can be used to heal friends, quickly give yourself a boost without having to drink the potion, and harm mobs.
From the splash potion of night vision to the splash potion of invisibility, here is a complete list of all splash potions in Minecraft.
- Splash Water Bottle
- Awkward Splash Potion
- Thick Splash Potion
- Mundane Splash Potion
- Uncraftable Splash Potion
- Splash Potion of Regeneration
- Splash Potion of Swiftness
- Splash Potion of Fire Resistance
- Splash Potion of Poison
- Splash Potion of Healing
- Splash Potion of Night Vision
- Splash Potion of Weakness
- Splash Potion of Strength
- Splash Potion of Slowness
- Splash Potion of Leaping
- Splash Potion of Water Breathing
- Splash Potion of Invisibility
- Splash Potion of Luck
- Splash Potion of Decay
- Splash Potion of the Turtle Master
- Splash Potion of Slow Falling
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