How to Make Potion of Water Breathing in Minecraft

Are you trying to explore the multitude of Minecraft biomes located underwater? Does each attempt keep sending you back to the surface to breathe? Well, I know it not only gets tiresome but is also risky, as some underwater mobs attack you. Fortunately, the upcoming Mounts of Mayhem update is bringing a Nautilus mob riding, which gives you infinite water breathing.

However, to get this mob, you still need to explore the ocean, and here, the Potion of Water Breathing will be your best friend. The process to make this potion remains the same on both Minecraft Java and Bedrock editions. So, let’s learn how to make a Potion of Water Breathing in Minecraft.

What is a Potion of Water Breathing

The Potion of Water Breathing in Minecraft is one of the most underrated potions in-game. As the name suggests, this potion allows you to breathe underwater for a limited period of time. Generally, the potion’s effect lasts only three minutes. However, you can extend its duration by adding Redstone dust to the potion. Similarly, you can turn it into a splash potion using specific items that we will cover later in the tutorial.

This potion is a great resource to explore the terrain generation of the underwater world in Minecraft. And the ingredients required to make it are easy to obtain.

Items Required to Make Potion of Water Breathing

Here are the items you require to brew Potion of Water Breathing in Minecraft:

• Brewing Stand
• Blaze Powder
• Glass Bottles
• Awkward Potion
• Puffer Fish

To keep things easy, we have already published a guide on how to make a Brewing Stand in Minecraft. Additionally, for this, you will also need to prepare an Awkward Potion before moving on to collect the rest of the items.

The Blaze powder can be obtained from Blaze Rods by killing Blazes in the Nether dimension. And, Pufferfish can be caught from lakes and ponds using a fishing rod in Minecraft

How to Make Potion of Water Breathing

After acquiring all the required ingredients, you need to combine them to brew the potion. Follow the steps below to make a Potion of Water Breathing in Minecraft:

• To begin, open your Brewing stand and place blaze powder in the fuel cell on the left. The powder will burn automatically and start powering the stand.

• Then, place the Awkward Potion bottles in the bottle cells at the bottom of the stand.
• You can make three bottles of the Potion of Water Breathing using a single Puffer Fish. Make sure to use the ingredients and the stand to their full potential.

• Finally, put the Puffer Fish in the middle cell of the Brewing Stand next to the arrow. It will start brewing the Awkward Potion into a Potion of Water Breathing automatically.

How to Make Splash Potion of Water Breathing

Splash potions are the throwable versions of regular potions. They are useful to spread a potion’s effect to multiple entities by throwing it. Players generally use the Splash Potion of Water Breathing for their in-game pets and during multiplayer mode.

To make a splash version of this potion, all you need to do is find a creeper and kill it. If it dies before exploding, it drops gunpowder, and you can use it to make a splash potion.

To create a splash potion, you need to brew our regular potion of Water Breathing with gunpowder in the brewing stand’s main cell. You can convert up to 3 potion bottles by putting them in the bottommost cells. Then, your throwable Splash Potion of Water Breathing in Minecraft will be ready in no time.

How to Make an 8 Minute Water Breathing Potion in Minecraft

Increasing the duration of other potions in Minecraft is an optional step. But it feels like a necessity when it comes to the Potion of Water Breathing. Normally, the potion’s effects only last for a total of 3 minutes, which is not enough to properly explore underwater biomes and find the Nautilus. You also require additional time to fight mobs and come back to the surface if you travel too deep.

That is why it’s important for you to extend the duration of this potion. To do so, you simply need to add Redstone dust to it. You can obtain it by breaking Redstone ore blocks. Then, to brew it, put the Redstone dust in the main cell of the Brewing Stand with the potion bottles at the bottom. This will extend the duration of your Potion of Water Breathing to 8 minutes.

Now you are ready to explore the depths of oceans with the Potion of Water Breathing in Minecraft. When combined with the Potion of Night Vision, it can turn out to be one of the best options to explore the aquatic biomes in the game. With that out of the gate, don’t forget to share if you discover more interesting potions in the comments section.