All Minecraft Potions and How to Make Them

Minecraft has a collection of strength boosting, health regeneration, and other damage potions to face all sorts of difficult challenges in the game. Whether you are facing powerful mobs, dangerous structures, or an entire terrifying dimension, you’ll need these potions to make these ventures a bit easier. So, the Minecraft potions are consumable items that offer different status effects. Now, let’s not waste any more time and give you a detailed overview of all Minecraft potion recipes.

Last updated on August 6, 2025, to include new Minecraft potions and improve readability

All Minecraft Potion Recipes

Potion Name	Effect	Recipe
Awkward Potion	No Effect	Nether Warts + Water Bottle
Mundane Potion	No effect	Common Potion Ingredient + Water Bottle
Thick Potion	No effect	Glowstone Dust + Water Bottle
Uncraftable Potion	No effect	NA
Potion of Healing	Instantly heals the user	Glistering Melon Slice + Awkward Potion
Potion of Regeneration	Regenerate health of the user over time	Ghast Tear + Awkward Potion
Potion of Slow Falling	Decreases the speed by which the mob is falling	Phantom Membrane + Awkward Potion
Potion of Fire Resistance	Cancels out all damage from fire and lava	Magma Cream + Awkward Potion
Potion of Swiftness	Increases movement speed	Sugar + Awkward Potion
Potion of Strength	Makes the damage dealt by direct combat higher	Blaze Powder + Awkward Potion
Potion of Leaping	Raises the jump height and decreases the fall damage	Rabbit’s Foot + Awkward Potion
Potion of Water Breathing	Allows you to breathe underwater	Pufferfish + Awkward Potion
Potion of Night Vision	Allows players to see clearly in dark areas	Golden Carrot + Awkward Potion
Potion of Invisibility	Turns the user invisible	Fermented Spider Eye + Potion of Invisibility
Potion of Weakness	Decreases the damage dealt by direct combat	Fermented Spider Eye + Water Bottle
Potion of Poison	Reduces health to upto 1 heart but doesn’t kill	Fermented Spider Eye + Awkward Potion
Potion of Slowness	Decreases movement speed	Fermented Spider Eye + Potion of Swiftness
Potion of Harming	Causes instant damage and can even kill the target	Fermented Spider Eye + Potion of Poison
Potion of Oozing	Summons two slimes when a mob or player dies	Slime block + Awkward potion + Blaze powder
Potion of Infestation	Summons 1-3 silverfish every time a mob or player gets hurt	Stone block + Awkward potion + Blaze powder
Potion of Weaving	Generates several cobwebs on the spot mob or player dies	Cobweb + Awkward potion + Blaze powder
Potion of Wind Charging	Creates a wind burst effect where mob or player dies	Breeze rod + Awkward potion + Blaze powder
Potion of Luck	Improves quality and chances of getting rare loot	NA
Potion of Decay	Imposes Wither effect on the target	NA
Splash Potions	Throwable potions that leaves instant impact	Gunpowder + Regular Potion
Lingering Potions	Throwable potions that forms a cloud whose particles can activate potion effects	Dragon’s Breath + Regular Potion
Extended Potions	Regular potions whose effects lasts for a longer time	Redstone Dust + Regular Potion
Levelled-up Potions	Potions whose effects are more powerful than usual	Glowstone Dust + Regular Potion

1. Awkward Potion

• Items Required: Nether wart, water bottles, and blaze powder
• Effects: No effects

The awkward potion in Minecraft is the most common base potion. It is used in most potion recipes and placed at the three potion chambers so that the required potion can be made. It doesn’t have any effects of its own. To make an awkward potion, you need to use Nether warts as the main ingredient with water bottles and the blaze powder to power the brewing stand.

2. Mundane Potion

• Items Required: Magma cream/ rabbit’s foot/ sugar/ glistering melon/ spider eye/ ghast tear, water bottles, and blaze powder
• Effects: No effects

Just like other base potions, the mundane potion doesn’t have any effects either. Its sole purpose is to serve as the main ingredient to brew the Potion of Weakness in Bedrock edition. If you want to craft it, you can do so by brewing water bottles with magma cream, rabbit’s foot, sugar, glistering melon, spider eye, or ghast tear. Irrespective of the main ingredient, all mundane potions are ineffective.

3. Thick Potion

• Items Required: Glowstone dust, water bottles, and blaze powder
• Effects: No effects

As you might expect, even the thick potion has no effects. But to make things worse, it can’t even be used to make advanced potions in Minecraft. This potion doesn’t serve any purpose other than for probable decoration. You can make it by brewing water bottles with glowstone dust.

4. Potion of Healing

• Items Required: Glistering melon slice, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effects: Instant health

The Potion of Healing instantly heals its user and can add up to 4 hearts to your health bar. You can make it by brewing a glistering melon slice with an awkward potion. You can also obtain this potion by killing a witch while it’s drinking this potion.

To further enhance the power, you can use glowstone powder and make the potion heal you by 8 hearts instantly. Rather using this potion in enduring fights, use this when you have no other choice than to flee the situation.

5. Potion of Regeneration

• Items Required: A ghast tear, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effects: Health regeneration

Instead of instant healing, the Potion of Regeneration restores the player’s health over a period of time. It is faster than the regular regeneration and isn’t affected by the hunger bar of the player. You can brew it by combining an awkward potion with a ghast tear.

A basic potion of regeneration can restore 9 hearts of your health over a period of 45 seconds, whereas if you use glowstone to improve its power, it can do all that in just 22.5 seconds. Finally, if you use a redstone powder to increase its effect duration, it can restore 18 hearts of health over a period of 1.5 minutes in Java and 2 minutes in Bedrock edition. So, use this potion in long and enduring fights to passively increase your health without the need of consuming food.

6. Potion of Slow Falling

• Items Required: Phantom membrane, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effects: Reduced speed of falling

One of the best ways to avoid fall damage in Minecraft is by using a Potion of Slow Falling. It reduces the speed by which you fall from any in-game height, thus eliminating the damage that comes with it. To brew this potion, you need to combine a phantom membrane with a bottle of awkward potion. You can get the membrane by killing phantoms that spawn if you don’t sleep for multiple days in the game.

There is no use in increasing the strength of this potion, since all the damage received from a fall is absorbed in the base version itself. What you can do is increase the duration of the potion from 1.5 minutes given in the base version to a total of 4 minutes, if you’re making the tallest structure in your world.

7. Potion of Fire Resistance

• Items Required: Magma cream, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effects: Immunity to lava and fire-based damage
• Duration: 3 minutes

If you plan to make a Nether portal to explore the Nether dimension, it’s almost a necessity to brew a Potion of Fire Resistance. You can brew magma cream with bottles of awkward potion to make this potion in Minecraft. Alternatively, you can also barter with piglins to obtain the Potion of Fire Resistance in Minecraft.

The effect of the potion of fire resistance will stay for 3 minutes and if used a redstone powder, will be there for 8 minutes maximum. During this time, you will not receive any damage from the blaze fireballs, magma blocks, fire charges from the ghasts, lava or any other sort for fire based attacks.

8. Potion of Swiftness

• Items Required: Sugar, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effects: Increased movement speed and jump height

Working like a boost, the Potion of Swiftness allows you to jump higher and move at a much faster pace than usual. And since you only need to add sugar to awkward potions to make it, you can collect multiple copies of it easily. Make sure to follow our guide on how to make a sugar cane farm to make infinite potions of swiftness.

To specify its effects further, the basic potion of swiftness increases the speed and jump distance by 20% while the enhanced version (using glowstone) increases it by 40%. Therefore, you can travel at a speed of 7.85 meters per second using the potion of swiftness 2.

9. Potion of Strength

• Items Required: Awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effects: Increased attack damage

Minecraft, most of the time, is a game based on close combat. Because of that, the Potion of Strength can easily topple fights toward one side. It increases the damage dealt with each hit by the player. And unlike any other potion, it uses the fuel of brewing, blaze powder, as its main ingredient.

So, for the effect, you will be able to deal a damage of 3 points (1 and half heart) rather than the usual half heart damage using your fists. If you further increase its power, it will do a damage of 6 points (or 3 full hearts), and the effect stays for 1.5 minutes.

10. Potion of Leaping

• Items Required: Rabbit’s foot, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effects: Increased jump height

This potion allows you to jump higher than usual, just like a rabbit in the game. But you still can’t jump as high as the Minecraft frogs. If you are fine with the compromise, brew a rabbit’s foot with an awkward potion to obtain a Potion of Leaping.

To be precise, your jump height increases to 1.83 blocks and you get a reduction in fall damage by 1 block. The enhanced version of this potion allows an increase in the jump height by 2.51 blocks and a reduced fall damage of 2 blocks in the game. Use this potion while parkouring in your world and climbing difficult terrains.

11. Potion of Water Breathing

• Items Required: Pufferfish, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effects: Underwater breathing
• Duration: 3 minutes

The oceans of Minecraft are brutal. You have to struggle to breathe, fight hostile mobs and keep swimming. Fortunately, the Potion of Water Breathing can make your life easier by allowing you to breathe underwater. You can create it by brewing a pufferfish with an awkward potion.

Similar to the potion of fire resistance, there is no use of applying glowstone to improve the effect. Rather, you can simply increase the duration, by using a Redstone powder and get yourself water breathing for a 8 whole minutes rather than the usual 3 minutes.

12. Potion of Night Vision

• Items Required: Golden carrot, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effects: See in the dark
• Duration: 3 minutes

Since the arrival of Warden in Minecraft, the game has gotten a bit darker – both literally and figuratively. Fortunately, to counter that, all you need is the Potion of Night Vision. It allows you to see clearly in dark areas and even somewhat counter the Warden’s darkness effect. You simply need to add a golden carrot to an awkward potion to obtain this potion.

Not only that, you can use this potion in the Nether dimension as well, to see some of the biomes more clearly. Using the potion of night vision, all your surrounding will brighten up to a light level of 15, enhancing waters with a blue shine and lava with an orange shine.

13. Potion of Invisibility

• Items Required: Fermented spider eye, Potion of Night Vision, and blaze powder
• Effects: Invisibility

As the name reveals, the Potion of Invisibility allows you to turn invisible. Doing so will make almost all the mobs in the game ignore you. But this doesn’t work with the Warden, which is a blind mob that relies upon vibrations.

To make this potion, you need to corrupt a Potion of Night Vision by brewing a fermented spider eye in it. Alternatively, you can also kill a wandering trader while it’s drinking the Potion of Invisibility to obtain it.

With the introduction of the player locator bar in Minecraft Chase the skies, now you can use the potion of invisibility to hide your waypoint from the bar and go incognito in the game.

14. Potion of Weakness

• Items Required: Fermented spider eye, water bottle, and blaze powder
• Effects: Reduced attack damage

A Potion of Weakness reduces the attack damage of the user who consumes it, making their each attack weaker than usual. It is a great potion to counter powerful enemies and also well-geared players. To brew this, you only need to add a fermented spider eye to a water bottle, so it’s a rather cheap potion.

To be more specific about its use, this potion can reduce the melee damage of players or mobs by 4 points (or 2 whole hearts) in Java edition. While in Bedrock all mobs or players affected by this will have their attacking power reducing by 0.5 points of their base damage.

15. Potion of Poison

• Items Required: Spider eye, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effects: Health of the target slowly decreases over time

You can use the Potion of Poison to give a poison effect to your target. It causes the consumer’s health to slowly degrade until it reaches one heart. But keep in mind that this potion can’t kill another player or mob. You can craft it by brewing a regular spider eye with awkward potion in Minecraft.

The base version of this potion can cause up to 18 hearts of damage over a time of 45 seconds. If the duration is enhanced, it can do 36 hearts of damage (Java), and 48 hearts of damage (Bedrock) over a period of 1.5 and 2 minutes respectively. Finally, if the power of potion is enhanced with glowstone, it does 19 hearts of damage in under 22 seconds for both versions.

16. Potion of Slowness

• Items Required: Fermented spider eye, Potion of Swiftness, and blaze powder
• Effects: Reduced movement speed

Many Minecraft fights – in PvP or against mobs – are based on the opponent’s speed. To counter that, the Potion of Slowness reduces the movement speed. It slows down their attacks as well as general movement. So, to create it, you need to corrupt a Potion of Swiftness or a Potion of Leaping by adding a fermented spider eye in the brewing station.

So, if you throw this potion on a mob or a player, their movement speed will decrease by 15% for base versions. Whereas if the power is improved, it can reduce that by 60% of the normal movement speed.

17. Potion of Harming

• Items Required: Fermented spider eye, Potion of Poison/Potion of Healing, and blaze powder
• Effects: Deals Instant Damage

Instead of slow decay like the poison effect, the Potion of Harming instantly decreases 6 health points on impact. While the enhanced version of the potion can do up to 12 health points (6 hearts) of damage on impact.

You can obtain it by corrupting the Potion of Poison or Potion of Healing with a fermented spider eye. Not to forget, Potion of Harming is the only potion that can kill its target, thus, making it the most dangerous potion in Minecraft.

18. Potion of Oozing

• Items Required: Slime block, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effects: Summons two slimes when a mob or player dies

Potion of oozing is a special Minecraft potion that provides a mob effect. When a mob or player dies with the oozing effect, two medium slimes will spawn around their position. This means the potion of oozing is only useful when an entity dies.

This potion in particular is extremely useful, as it allows you to farm slimes and slime balls rather quickly. To make an oozing potion, you’ll need to combine an awkward potion with a slime block inside a brewing stand. The mob affected can be any mob including easy-to-kill passive mobs like chickens.

So, if you use one slime block to make three potions of oozing, you could get stacks upon slime balls if you splash and kill lots of chickens.

19. Potion of Infestation

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

Potion of infestation is the second mob effect potion. It grants a 10% chance of spawning 1-3 silverfish once a mob or player with this effect is hurt. This particular potion doesn’t have practical uses, as silverfish don’t drop anything useful and are mostly annoying to deal with.

You could however prank your server mates with it. To make a potion of infestation, you’ll need to combine a stone block with an awkward potion in a brewing stand.

20. Potion of Weaving

• Items Required: Cobweb, awkward potion and blaze powder
• Effects: Generates several cobwebs on the spot mob or player dies

The weaving potion is a fairly useful potion that causes 2-3 cobwebs to generate around the spot where a mob or player affected with weaving dies. This can be particularly useful, if you need to make a leash fast and all you have is cobwebs and mobs around you.

To make it you’ll need one cobweb and an awkward potion. So, with the cost of only one cobweb, you could potentially get a lot more if you splash and kill lots of easy targets.

21. Potion of Wind Charging

• Items Required: Breeze rod, awkward potion and blaze powder
• Effects: Creates a wind burst effect where mob or player dies

Potion of wind charging is the last mob effect potion that summons a wind burst effect on the spot where a player or mob affected dies. This potion yields no materials, but can be useful when combined with an elytra or when making a silly prank.

This effect also stacks, so if you kill lots of affected chickens at once, you’ll be able to launch yourself very high up very quickly. To make this potion, you’ll need to combine a breeze rod with an awkward potion.

22. Potion of Turtle Master

• Items Required: Turtle shell, awkward potion, and blaze powder
• Effects: Invulnerability and reduced movement speed

Unlike any other potion, the Potion of the Turtle Master has both negative and positive effects. It makes you immune to all types of damage in the game, but while doing so it also heavily reduces your movement speed. Depending upon the situation, it can be a lifesaver as well as a reliable weapon. You can craft it by brewing a turtle shell with an awkward potion.

23. Potion of Luck 

The Potion of Luck is a Minecraft Java-exclusive potion that is not obtainable in the survival mode without commands. It increases the luck attribute by 1. Moreover, the quantity of general loot as well as the chances for the players to obtain rarer loot is also boosted. You can get this potion from the creative inventory.

24. Potion of Decay

The Potion of Decay is a Bedrock exclusive potion that applies the Wither effect on its target. When it’s active, the target will continuously take damage until the effect ends. But, just like Minecraft Java’s Potion of Luck, you can’t brew this in survival mode. Instead, you have to use the following command to obtain it:

/give @p potion 1 36

How to Make Splash Potions in Minecraft

By default, the only way to use a potion in Minecraft is by consuming it. But that becomes a fatal flow when negative potions come into the picture. So, to make them more useful, you first have to convert them into throwable splash potions.

To do so, add gunpowder to a regular potion using a brewing stand. When the brewing finishes, your potion bottle will have its head bent, giving you a visual indicator of its throwable nature.

If thrown at the right time and angle, a splash potion can affect all entities with a maximum range of 8 blocks. However, the effect of the potion weakens with the increase in the mob’s distance from the center of impact. So, these are all the splash potions available in the game:

• Splash Potion of Night Vision
• Splash Potion of Leaping
• Splash Potion of Fire Resistance
• Splash Potion of Swiftness
• Splash Potion of Slowness
• Splash Potion of Turtle Master
• Splash Potion of Water Breathing
• Splash Potion of Harming
• Splash Potion of Poison
• Splash Potion of Regeneration
• Splash Potion of Strength
• Splash Potion of Weakness
• Splash Potion of Slow Falling
• Splash Potion of Wind Charging
• Splash Potion of Weaving
• Splash Potion of Oozing
• Splash Potion of Infestation
• Splash Potion of Luck
• Splash Potion of Decay

Minecraft Potion Chart

Every potion in Minecraft that adds a certain status effect starts with a base potion, which is mostly the Awkward potion or the Mundane potion in a single instance. You can further enhance its effect duration or strength by using redstone or glowstone powder. Or, you can create splash and lingering versions of them using gunpowder and dragon’s breath. So, here is a detailed flowchart with all the Minecraft potions and how their recipe related to each other:

How to Make a Minecraft Potion

In Minecraft, all the potions are made by adding different items to a water bottle using a brewing stand. This utility block that uses blaze powder as fuel and can create up to three potion bottles at once using a single ingredient. So follow the steps below to craft a potion in Minecraft:

• Place the brewing stand on the ground and make sure you have the items to make the desired potion.
• Right-click on the brewing stand and place the blaze powder in the top left square first. It will consume the powder and act as fuel, displayed as the yellow bar to the right.
• Now, place the three awkward potions in the three squares under the arrow.
• Finally, place the potion specific ingredient, like a golden carrot, glistering melon, in the square at the very top to start the brewing process.

You can also use the best Minecraft commands to make yourself even stronger than Minecraft’s bosses. However, if you’re overwhelmed by the huge variety of potions, refer to our list of the best Minecraft potions to brew and use the most important ones. With that said, which is your favorite Minecraft potion? Tell us in the comments below!