How to Make Potion of Weakness in Minecraft

Minecraft’s collection of potions comes with both negative and positive effects. Some of them can give you super strength, while others can harm you. Today, we will focus on a potion with a negative effect and learn how to make a Potion of Weakness in Minecraft. It is one of the easiest potions in Minecraft to make in both Minecraft Java and Bedrock. You can even brew this potion in the latest Minecraft 1.20 update without hiccups, as the recipe remains unchanged. Players usually use it as a splash potion that they can throw on enemies in the game. We will also cover how to make a splash Potion of Weakness in the latter part of this guide. So, let’s not waste time and learn how to make the Potion of Weakness in Minecraft.

Like every other Minecraft potion, this potion only gives temporary effects to the players and mobs. If you accidentally drink it, drinking a bucket of milk will get you back to normal. With that out of the way, let’s figure out how to brew a Potion of Weakness.

What is a Potion of Weakness in Minecraft?

As the name suggests, the Potion of Weakness makes the character or the mob using it weak. By weakness, it refers to the attack damage, which gets reduced by 0.5 of its original value. It’s the only potion that you can brew without using nether warts, a key ingredient in every other potion of Minecraft.

Do keep in mind that Potion of Weakness only affects the melee attacks, and weapons still do their regular damage. As for the duration, the potion usually lasts for 1 minute and 30 seconds. Though, you can extend its duration by adding Redstone Dust to it.

Items Required to Make Potion of Weakness

Potion of Weakness is one of the easiest potions to brew in this sandbox game. It only requires these easy-to-obtain ingredients:

• Fermented Spider Eye
• Blaze Powder
• Water Bottle
• Brewing Stand

Each of these items might feel new to some players, but these are base-level brewing items. They are common in a variety of potion recipes. So make sure to carefully understand how we can obtain each of the items.

We are going to explain how you can obtain each item necessary to make our potion. If you are already familiar with the items, feel free to skip this part and move to the step-by-step process to make the Potion of Weakness.

Brewing Stand

You need a brewing stand to make, upgrade, and extend any potion in the game. It works similarly to a crafting table in Minecraft, where you combine items to get a specific result. We have a dedicated guide on how to make a Brewing Stand in Minecraft to help you get started with this essential item.

The key crafting ingredients here are 3 cobblestone blocks and a blaze rod. Moreover, you will occasionally find this block in villages, as it’s one of the villager jobs’ workstations. We will also need it while making the splash version of our Potion of Weakness.

Blaze Powder

At the heart of our potion, blaze powder is the fuel we need to power our brewing stand. To obtain it, you will have to place blaze rods on the crafting table. It will automatically turn into blaze powder. To get the blaze rods, you should know how to make a Nether Portal in Minecraft to travel to the Nether dimension. Here, you will have to find, fight, and kill blazes to get blaze rods. Check out our guide on how to find a Nether fortress, home to these fiery mobs.

Water Bottle

To make a water bottle, you will need a glass bottle first. Similar to a bucket, you can right-click on the water to fill your glass bottle with it. But to make a glass bottle, you will require 3 glass blocks that can be obtained by heating sand in a furnace in Minecraft. Once you have glass blocks, you will need to use the following recipe to craft a glass bottle.

You need to place 2 glass blocks on either side of the middle row on a Crafting table. Then, place the 3rd glass block in the middle cell of the bottom-most row of the crafting area. Try making as many glass bottles as possible since they are essential for every single potion.

Fermented Spider Eye

Our final and key item to make a Potion of Weakness is the fermented spider eye. It can be crafted on a Crafting table but requires you to have 3 unique ingredients. The main one, as the name tells, is the spider eye. You can kill spiders to get a spider eye. Then, you will need a brown mushroom. You can find it growing in the Nether, swamps, taiga, and a variety of other biomes.

Finally, you require sugar to complete the recipe. You can obtain it simply by putting sugarcane on the Crafting table. Sugar cane is rather useful for crafting paper in Minecraft, as well, so make sure to follow our guide on how to make a sugar cane farm so you have plenty of it. Once you have the ingredients, you need to put them together on the crafting table to obtain a fermented spider eye. The crafting recipe for Potion of Weakness is shapeless, so you can put ingredients in any cell of the crafting area.

How to Make the Potion of Weakness in Minecraft

With all the ingredients at our disposal, we can now brew our potion in peace. Let’s see the steps you need to follow for that.

1. Right-click or use the secondary action key on your brewing stand to open it. Then, place the blaze powder on the leftmost cell of the stand. It will automatically burn itself and turn into the power source of the stand.

2. Then, place the glass bottle in one of the 3 cells at the bottom. You can create up to 3 bottles of potion with a single ingredient. So, make sure to maximize the output and use more bottles. Also, ensure that each bottle is filled with water.

3. Finally, place the Fermented Spider Eye in the empty cell at the top of the brewing stand. It will automatically start diluting, and your potion will be ready within a few seconds.

How to Use the Potion of Weakness in Minecraft

The easiest way to use any potion is to drink it. You can right-click or use the secondary action key while holding the potion bottle. Doing so will make your character drink it, and the potion’s effect will take effect immediately. However, as the Potion of Weakness is a negative potion, drinking it isn’t the best option. So, what you can do instead is turn it into a throwable splash potion.

How to Make a Splash Potion of Weakness

To make a splash or throwable potion, you will have to brew it again. But this time, you will have to add some gunpowder to it. Here’s how.

1. First, find and kill a creeper before it explodes. These mobs in Minecraft, similarly to other hostile mobs, spawn more during the night but can also be found during the daytime in dark places like caves. They drop gunpowder when killed without self-explosion.

2. After collecting the gunpowder, place it in your brewing stand in the top key ingredient cell. If your brewing stand is out of fuel, put more blaze powder on the left cell of the stand.

3. Finally, put all your bottles of Potion of Weakness in the bottom cells of the brewing stand. Within a few seconds, your potion bottles will look bent at the top and turn into splash potions.

Similar to any throwable item like eggs, you can use these splash bottles on other mods. Since it’s a liquid-based attack, you can hit multiple mobs within a small area. All of them will get the weakness effect when hit by it.

Even though they might seem overwhelming the first time, Minecraft potions are here to improve your gameplay. The Potion of Weakness is one of the many Minecraft potions that can help you in-game. They are especially useful when you don’t have the tools of HP to fight. You can simply throw a potion and make your way away from any dangerous mob. Furthermore, the splash potion of weakness is essential in curing zombie villagers. If you find the Potion of Weakness early in the game, you can use it to easily kill an Iron Golem. Golem’s every hit will do less damage than usual as long as the potion’s effect lasts.

If you want to test it out right away, these best Minecraft village seeds might be a good place to start. Or you can even take on custom mobs in the best Modpacks for Minecraft. The possibilities are endless, but potion-making is a long process. So, don’t waste a moment more and start brewing your own Potion of Weakness. If you face any difficulties, comment your queries down below, and we will help you out.