Minecraft Brewing Guide: Every Potion Recipe (1.21 Update)

Potion brewing in Minecraft might be something that you will unlock a bit later in the game due to the complex mechanics and rare ingredients required. However, with this huge variety of potions available, each having unique effects, can quickly feel powerful during combat. In Minnecraft brewing is nothing but turning strange items like spider eyes or blaze powder into life-saving liquids. So, check this guide to find every potion along with their recipes explained clearly to help you brew all potions in Minecraft 1.21 with ease.

How to Get Started with Brewing

Although Minecraft Brewing might look quite intimidating at first, it is very simple and effective once you understand the core components. Here, everything revolves around using water bottles and a few basic ingredients that can be found by exploring the various biomes in Minecraft. That being said, check out the list of items you need to have before you can get started with brewing in Minecraft:

Required Equipment

To brew the potions in Minecraft survival mode, you need a small list of items as follows:

• Brewing Stand: The brewing stand is the central utility block used for Minecraft brewing and can be found in villages or made using a Blaze rod and three Cobblestone blocks.
• Blaze Powder: It acts as a fuel for the brewing stand, and one blaze powder provides 20 charges. You can collect this material by killing blazes in the Nether dimension.
• Water Bottles: Finally, all potions begin with water bottles. Make a glass bottle from three glass blocks and fill it from any water source.

The water bottle can be thought of as a base material for the many potions you’re going to brew later in this guide.

The Importance of Awkward Potions

Next comes the Awkward potions that are the foundation of every usable potion in the game. You can make an awkward potion using a nether wart. So, follow the steps below to make an Awkward potion in Minecraft:

• Place the blaze powder in the leftmost slot and three water bottles in the bottom three slots after opening the Brewing Stand.
• Now, place the Nether Wart in the last slot in the stand, and it will start the brewing process.
• A little while later, you will have three awkward potions that you can drag and store in your inventory.

Without these, you cannot brew regeneration, strength, speed, fire resistance, or most other effective potions in the game. The Awkward Potions act as a base reagent and thereby make the Nether Warts one of the most important ingredients in Minecraft survival mode.

Full Potion Recipe Chart

Understanding Minecraft brewing becomes so much easier when you are able to see a visual chart of how the potions evolve and how they relate to each other. Almost all the best Minecraft potions start as an awkward potion, and then it branches out as you keep adding new ingredients. Later, you also use the modifiers such as redstone dust, glowstone dust, gunpowder, and fermented spider eyes to alter their behavior.

The above potion chart shows what ingredients you can use to get positive potion effects, and which ones can give you corrupted potions as well. You can also check how the splash or lingering potion variants are created as well.

Complete List of Potion Recipes

Moving on, here is the complete list of every potion recipe available in Minecraft 1.21. The following potions are grouped by categories, and each subsection includes the exact ingredients, effects, and their use cases in Minecraft:

Positive Effect Potions

The positive potions provide buffs that directly improve survival skills and combat effectiveness in Minecraft. Here are all the positive effect potions in Minecraft:

Potion of Healing

• Recipe: Glistering melon slice, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effect: Instantly restores health

Try using the potion of healing in combat situations when you want quick hearts and no time to eat steaks and regenerate them. It can add up to 4 hearts to your health bar, and with the glowstone modifier, it can provide even 8 hearts as well.

Potion of Regeneration

• Recipe: A ghast tear, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effect: Gradual health regeneration over time

The basic potion of regeneration can be quite effective and restore 9 hearts of health in 45 seconds, while the glowstone upgraded version can do so in just 22.5 seconds. Hence, it is quite effective during the boss fights and long battles.

Potion of Fire Resistance

• Recipe: Magma cream, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effect: Immunity to lava and fire-based damage

The potion of fire resistance is best suited while exploring the Nether dimension, and it can save you from accidental falls in the lava. It stays for 3 minutes, and with a redstone powder, the effect stays active for 8 minutes as well.

Potion of Swiftness

• Recipe: Sugar, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effect: Increased movement speed and jump height

You can use this potion in Minecraft PvP servers as it can increase the speed and jump distance by 20%. With the glowstone modifier, you can further enhance those by 40%.

Potion of Strength

• Recipe: Awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effect: Increased attack damage

This can be massively useful in close-range fights due to the damage boost of 3 points. With the glowstone powder, you can further increase this damage boost by 3 full hearts or 6 points as well.

Potion of Leaping

• Recipe: Rabbit’s foot, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effect: Increased jump height

Try using this in the best Minecraft parkour servers to gain an additional jump height boost of 1.83 blocks. Moreover, you gain a reduced fall damage by 1 block as well.

Potion of Water Breathing

• Recipe: Pufferfish, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effect: Underwater breathing

This is the best Minecraft potion for you to explore the underwater ruins and ocean monuments, as it lets you breathe underwater for 3 minutes. However, with the latest Nautilus mobs in Minecraft, the potion lost its usefulness and significance in the game.

Potion of Night Vision

• Recipe: Golden carrot, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effect: Helps players see in the dark

The potion of night vision is perfect for the cave explorations and for raiding an ancient city. You can clearly see the dark areas as the potion will increase the surrounding light levels up to 15.

Potion of Invisibility

• Recipe: Fermented spider eye, Potion of Night Vision, and blaze powder
• Effect: Turns players invisible

This can allow players to escape or avoid mobs; however, you must not be wearing any armor or carrying any item in your hands to become completely invisible.

Potion of Slow Falling

• Recipe: Phantom membrane, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effect: Reduces the speed of falling

This potion is best for exploring the end cities in Minecraft, as you might get hit by the Sculk mobs. The duration of the regular potion is 1.5 minutes, while you can use the red stone powder to increase its duration to 4 minutes as well.

Potion of Turtle Master

• Recipe: Turtle shell, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effect: Invulnerability and reduced movement speed

This can help you make tanky builds in Minecraft, as it massively reduces all sorts of incoming damage, but at the same time will slow your movement speed as well.

Negative or Harmful Potions

The negative potions are designed to weaken or do damage to the targets directly. These can be highly useful in PvP combat or if you want to do ranged damage to the hostile mobs. That said here are the harmful potions in Minecraft:

Potion of Weakness

• Recipe: Fermented spider eye, water bottle, and blaze powder
• Effect: Reduced attack damage

The potion of weakness can help in reducing the damage done by the target that consumes it. So, to make it useful, you can either make a splash or a lingering potion of weakness and throw it at your opponent to reduce their melee damage by 4 points.

Potion of Poison

• Recipe: Spider eye, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effect: The health of the target slowly decreases over time

This potion can help in reducing the health of the targeted person gradually over time. So, the opponent will lose 18 hearts of damage over a time of 45 seconds.

Potion of Slowness

• Recipe: Fermented spider eye, Potion of Swiftness, and blaze powder
• Effect: Reduced movement speed

This potion can be a great counter to the annoying chicken jockey, as it helps reduce the target’s movement speed by 15%. But if you use the glowstone powder to enhance the potion, it can be reduced to even 60%.

Potion of Harming

• Recipe: Fermented spider eye, Potion of Poison/Potion of Healing, and blaze powder
• Effect: Deals Instant Damage

Instead of a slow decay as in potion of poison, the potion of harming does instant damage of 6 health points to the target. This can even go up to 12 health points as well.

Mob Effect Potions

The mob effect potions are triggered when a particular mob dies or gets hurt. So, here are all the mob effect potions in Minecraft:

Potion of Oozing

• Recipe: Slime block, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effect: Summons two slimes when a mob or player dies

This is a special Minecraft potion that spawns two medium slimes when a player or an entity with this effect dies. It can be highly useful for making slime farms in Minecraft.

Potion of Infestation

• Recipe: Stone block, awkward potion and blaze powder
• Effect: Grants 10% chance to summon 1-3 silverfish every time a mob or player gets hurt

This one is a cool Minecraft potion that can help you prank your friends. With this potion, the targeted player has 10% a chance to spawn 1-3 silverfish every time they are hurt.

Potion of Weaving

• Recipe: Cobweb, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effect: Generates several cobwebs on the spot where the mob or player dies

Again, here is another pranking potion in Minecraft that causes 2-3 cobwebs to generate near an entity or a player when they die.

Potion of Wind Charging

• Recipe: Breeze rod, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effect: Creates a wind burst effect where the mob or player dies

This helps in summoning a wind burst effect on the spot where the player or an entity affected with this potion dies.

How to Modify Minecraft Potions?

In addition to this wide variety of potions in Minecraft, there are also ways to customize them without changing their base effects. So, given below are some of the ways that can help you modify the potions in Minecraft:

Extend Duration of Minecraft Potions Using Redstone Dust

Adding redstone dust to any potion can help in increasing the duration of how long a potion lasts. This is ideal for potions with certain effects like fire resistance, night vision, invisibility, and water breathing

Increase Level or Strength of Minecraft Potions Using Glowstone Dust

The glowstone dust helps in increasing the strength or effect potency while brewing Minecraft potions. Potions of Strength 2, Speed 2, and Healing 2 are some of the best examples that has this effect.

Make Splash and Lingering Minecraft Potions

Finally, you can further modify your potions by adding gunpowder to them on a Brewing Stand. It can help transform the drinkable potions into throwable splash potions. However, it will only affect the target if the potion touches them.

In order to get more range on your throwable potions, you must make a lingering variant. To make a lingering potion, you need to add Dragon’s Breath to the existing splash potions on a brewing stand. The Lingering potions, when thrown at the target, make lingering clouds; all the mobs or entities coming inside this cloud will receive the effect of the potions. Moreover, you can also use the lingering potions to craft tipped arrows in Minecraft.

That ends the complete guide to brewing in Minecraft 1.21, showcasing all the potions available in the game. So, which ones are you going to take on your next adventure? Tell us in the comments below.