Before We Start
I am assuming that you know the basics of Minecraft like making a crafting table, getting the ingredients listed, like water bottles and etc. . .
Now We Can Start
Brewing is an easy job– and it pays well with those potions either used for dueling, fighting, pranking, or whatever you use it for. Potions are used for a variety of things.
Today I’m going to introduce you to potions. If you’re new, keep reading. If you already have an overview of just what potions are and just want to know how to make potions, scroll down to the bottom of this post and click the ‘Minecraft Brewing’ light-blue background button.
To make a brewing stand, make a crafting table / workbench and place one blaze rod in the top middle of the grid. Place three cobblestone making a row of cobblestone in the middle row.
Now you have a brewing stand!
And if you want to brew, you need a fuel source like a furnace, right? So, take a blaze rod, (unfortunately no other fuel source can be used) and put it on the icon that represents a blaze powder in the brewing stand.
Place three water bottles on the bottom parts of the grid to make three potions at once. If you don’t have many water bottles, it’s fine. This is just a tip to save some time and resources.
But it is highly recommended so you can save your resources for other potions and things!
Look on the left. That’s the brewing stand. (To use a brewing stand, right click it) Things in the image are labeled.
Okay. Let’s start off with the five primary potions. These potions are essential in making many potions because you’ll need them as a base for your potions. You can’t use water bottles every single time. The essential potions are. . .
- Awkward Potion: Arguably the most important base, but all are very important. Brewed by putting a nether wart on the top of the brewing area, (a blaze powder, of course) and 1, 2, or 3 water bottles in the bottom grid. It should slowly brew.
Look to the right. You probably won’t have 64 blaze powder, but any amount (1+) is fine. As you can see, we placed one water bottle at the bottom, one nether wart at the top, and blaze powder at the top left.
You can place more than one water bottle if you’d like, as mentioned in a tip above. After the arrow to the right finishes, your potion will appear like it didn’t change. But no worries! The texture of water bottles and awkward potions are the same.
- Mundane Potion: Mundane potions are used for weakness potions only. To make it, you can use either sugarcane, magma cream, spider eyes, ghast tears, or glistering melons to make it. Apply 1 Redstone as brewed normally to make the weakness potion and everything made from the weakness potion last longer. This is optional and I like to do it sometimes.
Glowstone amplifies the positive potion’s effects. Like Speed I > Speed II
Redstone amplifies the potion’s effect duration. For example, Strength 3:00 > Strength 8:00
WARNING: Use Redstone on the Mundane Potion if you want the time of negative potion to be longer.
Glowstone cannot be used once you turn the potion into a negative potion. Remember to use Glowstone on the Mundane Potion.
- Extended Mundane Potion: Use Redstone to extend the time of the Mundane Potion. This potion is the same as a Mundane Potion except with extended time.
- Thick Potion: Thick potions are special, because when you drink it (cannot be made into Splash / Lingering potions) but you can drink it up to 3 times! Unfortunately, its effects are 1/3 as strong and its duration is also 1/3 of a normal potion. Take a thick potion and brew it with a Nether Wart to turn it into a Thick Awkward Potion. From there, do whatever you like with the Thick Awkward Potion to turn it into a different potion.
- Weakness Potion: Used to make all sorts of negative effect potions.
You can right-click potions into a cauldron to save for later without crowding your storage chests because they’re not stackable. This is optional and you can do it if you’d like. Sometimes also used for decoration. Right click potions back into your water bottle from the cauldron.
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