How To Make Splash Potions In Minecraft

You can make splash potions in Minecraft by adding gunpowder to any finished potion in a brewing stand. Splash potions can be thrown, which lets you apply effects to yourself, allies, or enemies without drinking anything. This guide covers the full recipe, how to use them, and the best splash potions to keep stocked.

TL;DR

• Add gunpowder to any regular potion to turn it into a splash potion.
• Splash potions are thrown items, not drinks, and apply their effect on impact.
• Beneficial potions help you or allies if you throw them at your own feet.
• Harmful potions like Harming or Poison work as ranged attacks against enemies.
• Splash potions have the same duration as their drinkable version, while lingering potions last even shorter but spread the effect over an area.

What You Need

• A brewing stand, fueled with blaze powder
• A finished potion of your choice
• Gunpowder

Any drinkable potion can be converted into a splash potion. You need to brew the base potion first before adding gunpowder.

How To Get Gunpowder

Gunpowder is dropped by creepers and ghasts when killed, and occasionally by witches. It can also be found as loot in some structures like desert temples and woodland mansions. Creepers are usually the easiest source, since they spawn commonly at night in most biomes.

How To Make A Splash Potion Step By Step

• Brew your chosen potion first, such as strength, swiftness, or healing. See our guides on potion of strength, potion of swiftness, or water breathing potion if you need a recipe.
• Place the finished potions in the bottom slots of the brewing stand.
• Add gunpowder to the top ingredient slot.
• Wait for the brewing process to complete. You now have a splash version of that potion.

How To Use A Splash Potion

Splash potions work differently from regular potions, since you throw them instead of drinking them. To use one:

• Hold the splash potion in your hand.
• Right click, or use the throw action on your platform, to launch it forward.
• The potion shatters on impact and creates a small cloud that applies its effect to any entity caught in range.

For beneficial potions, throw it at your own feet or close to allies to apply the effect. For harmful potions, throw it directly at enemies to damage or debuff them.

Splash Potions vs Lingering Potions

Splash potions are not the only throwable type. Here is how they compare to lingering potions:

• Splash potions apply their effect instantly to anything in the immediate impact area, then disappear.
• Lingering potions, made by adding dragon’s breath to a splash potion, leave a lasting cloud on the ground that keeps applying the effect to anything that walks through it.

Splash potions are better for quick, one-time effects, while lingering potions are better for area control or repeated exposure.

Best Splash Potions To Keep Stocked

• Splash Potion of Healing: instantly restores health, great for emergencies in combat.
• Splash Potion of Harming: deals instant damage, useful against hostile mobs or PvP opponents.
• Splash Potion of Weakness: needed for curing zombie villagers, and reduces enemy melee damage.
• Splash Potion of Poison: deals damage over time, effective against tougher mobs that resist direct hits.
• Splash Potion of Slowness: useful for crowd control during raids or PvP encounters.

Tips For Using Splash Potions Effectively

• Keep a mix of beneficial and harmful splash potions ready before raids, the Wither fight, or PvP encounters.
• Throw beneficial potions at your feet during a fight to avoid pausing to drink manually.
• Stock up on gunpowder from creeper farms if you plan to make splash potions regularly.
• Remember that splash potions break on contact with blocks, so aim carefully in tight spaces.

Frequently Asked Questions