Minecraft All Potions List And Recipes

This minecraft all potions list and recipes guide covers every brewable potion in the game, what ingredient makes it, and how to upgrade or extend it. Use this as a quick reference whenever you are stocking up your brewing stand for an adventure, a boss fight, or a PvP session.

TL;DR

• Almost every potion starts as an awkward potion, made from nether wart and a water bottle.
• Each base potion uses one main ingredient to create its effect.
• Glowstone dust increases potency, redstone dust extends duration, and gunpowder makes it a splash potion.
• A few potions, like weakness and slowness, skip the awkward potion step entirely.
• Some potions cannot be brewed at all and only come from loot, fishing, or trading.

Base Potions

These are the starting points for most other potions.

• Awkward Potion: water bottle plus nether wart. Has no effect on its own but is required for most effect potions.
• Mundane Potion: water bottle plus most non-base ingredients without nether wart first. Has no use.
• Thick Potion: water bottle plus glowstone dust before adding nether wart. Has no use.

Effect Potions And Their Recipes

• Potion of Healing: awkward potion plus glistering melon slice. Instantly restores health.
• Potion of Harming: fermented spider eye added to a potion of healing or poison. Instantly damages the target.
• Potion of Regeneration: awkward potion plus ghast tear. Heals health gradually over time.
• Potion of Strength: awkward potion plus blaze powder. Increases melee damage. See our full potion of strength guide for upgrade steps.
• Potion of Weakness: fermented spider eye added directly to a water bottle, no nether wart needed. Reduces melee damage, used for curing zombie villagers.
• Potion of Swiftness: awkward potion plus sugar. Increases movement speed. See our potion of swiftness guide for upgrades.
• Potion of Slowness: fermented spider eye added to a potion of swiftness. Reduces movement speed.
• Potion of Fire Resistance: awkward potion plus magma cream. Blocks fire and lava damage. Full recipe in our fire resistance potion guide.
• Potion of Water Breathing: awkward potion plus pufferfish. Prevents drowning underwater. Full recipe in our water breathing potion guide.
• Potion of Night Vision: awkward potion plus golden carrot. Brightens vision in dark areas. Full recipe in our night vision potion guide.
• Potion of Invisibility: fermented spider eye added to a potion of night vision. Hides your body from most mobs. Full recipe in our invisibility potion guide.
• Potion of Leaping: awkward potion plus rabbit’s foot. Increases jump height and reduces fall damage.
• Potion of Poison: awkward potion plus spider eye. Deals damage over time.
• Potion of Slow Falling: awkward potion plus phantom membrane. Slows your fall speed and removes fall damage.
• Potion of the Turtle Master: awkward potion plus turtle shell. Grants resistance but also applies slowness.

Upgrading And Extending Potions

Most effect potions can be modified further using these ingredients:

• Glowstone dust: increases potency to a level II version, but shortens the duration. Works on healing, harming, strength, swiftness, leaping, and poison.
• Redstone dust: extends the duration without increasing potency. Works on most timed effect potions.
• Gunpowder: turns the potion into a splash potion, which can be thrown instead of drunk. See our full guide on how to make splash potions for the full process.
• Dragon’s breath: turns a splash potion into a lingering potion, which leaves a lasting cloud on the ground.

Note that instant potions like healing, harming, and instant effects do not support the redstone extension, since they apply immediately rather than over time.

Potions You Cannot Brew

A few potions exist in the game but cannot be made at a brewing stand through normal recipes:

• Potion of Luck: only obtainable through commands or the creative inventory in Java Edition.
• Ominous potions and effects like Bad Omen variants from trial chambers, applied through ominous bottles rather than brewing.

Quick Reference: What Each Base Ingredient Does

• Nether Wart: turns water bottle into awkward potion, the base for most effects
• Glistering Melon Slice: healing
• Ghast Tear: regeneration
• Blaze Powder: strength
• Sugar: swiftness
• Magma Cream: fire resistance
• Pufferfish: water breathing
• Golden Carrot: night vision
• Rabbit’s Foot: leaping
• Spider Eye: poison
• Phantom Membrane: slow falling
• Turtle Shell: turtle master
• Fermented Spider Eye: corrupts a potion into weakness, harming, slowness, or invisibility depending on the base potion used

Frequently Asked Questions