Complete Guide to Minecraft Potion Recipes (Detailed Explanation, All Versions) Easy to Understand

Categories of Brewed Potions

Potions are mainly divided into the following categories:

• Awkward Potion
• Splash Potion
• Lingering Potion
• Mundane Potion
• Thick Potion

Among these, Thick Potion and Mundane Potion have no effect whatsoever in the game versions up to date, and are therefore not considered in this guide.

Other potions are generally crafted using Awkward Potion as the base. In the current version, only Awkward Potion can be used to make most potions. Splash Potion and Lingering Potion are primarily used to change the way a potion is used, requiring the addition of Gunpowder or Dragon's Breath respectively for conversion. Splash and lingering effects are typically added after the base potion is completed.

Detailed Explanation of Potion Usage Methods

• Bottled Potion: Needs to be drunk by the player.
• Splash Potion: Can be thrown at a target. The more accurate the throw, the longer the target receives the effect.
• Lingering Potion: Can be thrown at a designated location, creating a persistent effect cloud at the impact point. Any creature entering the cloud gains the potion effect.

Materials for Enhancing Potion Attributes

Here are the commonly used potion attribute adjustment materials and their functions:

• Redstone Dust: Extends the duration of the potion effect.
• Glowstone Dust: Increases the level (strength) of the potion effect.
• Gunpowder: Transforms the potion into a throwable Splash Potion.
• Fermented Spider Eye: Inverts the potion effect to its opposite.

Among these, Gunpowder is only used to change the usage method. Both Redstone and Glowstone are used to enhance potion attributes, but only one can be chosen: choosing extended duration means you cannot get a stronger effect, and vice versa. It's important to note that some potions only support increasing duration.

Regarding the Fermented Spider Eye: This material does not simply represent a negative effect; its function is to provide the opposite of the potion effect. For example, a Potion of Night Vision enhances the player's vision in the dark, while modifying it with a Fermented Spider Eye turns it into a Potion of Invisibility (making others unable to see you). This demonstrates the mutually opposing effects of "seeing others" and "others not seeing you".

About the Luck Potion

There is also a rather special potion called the Luck Potion. It increases the player's luck value, for example, making it easier to catch better items while fishing.

However, the Luck Potion cannot be obtained through brewing. It can only be acquired through Creative Mode, using commands, or with an extremely low probability from End City chests.