Minecraft Bedrock Brewing Guide - Theria Games

Introduction

Brewing is a vital skill in Minecraft, allowing you to craft potions with temporary status effects that can significantly enhance your abilities for exploration, combat, and survival. These magical concoctions can provide benefits such as increased strength, improved speed, resistance to damage, and even invisibility. Conversely, you can also brew potions to hinder your enemies with effects like poison, slowness, and weakness. Mastering the art of brewing involves understanding the necessary equipment, the specific ingredients required for each potion, and how to modify potions for different applications. This Minecraft Bedrock Brewing Guide provides everything you need to know about using potions to stay alive in Minecraft Bedrock Edition.

Brewing Equipment

To embark on your brewing journey, you will need several essential pieces of equipment. The brewing stand is the core of the brewing process, used to combine water bottles with various ingredients to create potions, splash potions, and lingering potions. It is crafted using one blaze rod, obtained by defeating Blazes in Nether Fortresses, and three cobblestone blocks.

Alternatively, brewing stands can be found in villages or End City ships. The brewing stand has slots for up to three water bottles at the bottom, one slot for the base ingredient at the top center, and a fuel slot at the top left. The cauldron serves as a container for water. One bucket of water can fully fill a cauldron, or it can be filled with three water bottles. A full cauldron can then be used to fill three glass bottles, which are crafted from three glass blocks. Filling a glass bottle with water from a water source or a water-filled cauldron creates a water bottle, which is the fundamental base for almost all potions.

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The brewing stand requires blaze powder as fuel to operate. Blaze powder is crafted by placing a blaze rod in the crafting grid. One piece of blaze powder fuels the brewing stand for 20 brewing operations. Fuel is consumed when a brewing operation begins and is not recovered if the process is stopped early.

Brewing Process

In Minecraft Bedrock, brewing potions starts with filling glass bottles with water to create water bottles. These bottles are then placed in the bottom slots of the brewing stand interface, which serves as the primary tool for potion-making. To activate the brewing stand, blaze powder must be added to the top left slot as fuel.

Once the brewing stand is powered, a base ingredient is placed in the top center slot to begin the potion-making process. Most potions require nether wart as the first base ingredient, transforming water bottles into awkward potions. Although awkward potions have no effects, they are essential for brewing almost all useful potions.

After creating an awkward potion, an effect ingredient is added to the top slot, determining the potion’s specific ability. Different ingredients yield various effects, such as healing, strength, or invisibility, making potions valuable for survival. Each brewing step takes approximately 20 seconds per ingredient, allowing players to craft potions efficiently.

Base Potions

Awkward Potion

Awkward Potion is created by adding nether wart to a water bottle and is the foundation for almost all effect potions in Minecraft Bedrock Mobile. While it has no effects on its own, it is essential for crafting useful potions such as Healing, Strength, and Fire Resistance. The best use for Awkward Potions is as a required step in potion brewing, making them a necessary component for players looking to gain powerful buffs.

Blaze Powder

Ghast Tear

Redstone Dust

Rabbit Foot

Glistering Melon Slice

Sugar

Spider Eye

Magma Cream

Mundane Potion

Mundane Potion is made by adding items like blaze powder, ghast tears, redstone dust, rabbit’s foot, glistering melon slice, sugar, spider eye, or magma cream directly to a water bottle. Despite the variety of ingredients used to make it, this potion has no effects and cannot be used in further brewing. Since it serves no practical purpose, players should avoid making Mundane Potions to conserve brewing ingredients for more useful potions.

Thick Potion

Thick Potion is created by adding glowstone dust directly to a water bottle, but like Mundane Potions, it has no effects and cannot be used to create other potions. This potion is generally useless in brewing, as it does not contribute to any beneficial or negative potion effects. The best approach is to avoid wasting glowstone dust on Thick Potions and instead use it to enhance existing effect potions for greater potency.

Potion of Weakness

Potion of Weakness is a unique base potion that is brewed by adding a fermented spider eye directly to a water bottle, skipping the need for an Awkward Potion. Unlike other base potions, it has an important use, as it weakens attack damage and is essential for curing zombie villagers when combined with a golden apple. This potion is best used to convert zombie villagers back into normal villagers, making it a valuable tool for building and expanding villages in survival mode.

Effect Potions

Potion of Weakness

Potion of Fire Resistance is created by combining an Awkward Potion with Magma Cream. This potion grants full immunity to fire and lava damage for three minutes, making it invaluable for exploring the Nether and dealing with Blazes or lava lakes. By adding redstone dust, the effect can be extended to eight minutes, ensuring longer protection in hazardous environments.

Potion of Healing

Potion of Fire Resistance is created by combining an Awkward Potion with Magma Cream. This potion grants full immunity to fire and lava damage for three minutes, making it invaluable for exploring the Nether and dealing with Blazes or lava lakes. By adding redstone dust, the effect can be extended to eight minutes, ensuring longer protection in hazardous environments.

Potion of Invisibility

Potion of Invisibility is made by corrupting a Potion of Night Vision with a Fermented Spider Eye. It renders the player invisible for three minutes, making it useful for avoiding hostile mobs or sneaking past enemies in multiplayer. Adding redstone dust extends the invisibility effect to eight minutes, providing longer stealth advantages.

Potion of Leaping

Potion of Leaping is brewed by combining an Awkward Potion with a Rabbit’s Foot. This potion increases jump height and reduces fall damage for three minutes, making it useful for parkour, escaping enemies, or exploring mountainous terrain. When enhanced with glowstone dust, Potion of Leaping II further increases jump height, allowing for even greater mobility.

Potion of Night Vision

Potion of Night Vision is created by adding a Golden Carrot to an Awkward Potion. This potion allows the player to see clearly in the dark for three minutes, making it useful for cave exploration, underwater navigation, or nighttime travel. When extended with redstone dust, the effect lasts for eight minutes, providing prolonged visibility in low-light conditions.

Potion of Poison

Potion of Poison is brewed by adding a Spider Eye to an Awkward Potion. It inflicts poison damage over 45 seconds, making it useful for weakening enemies before attacking. Redstone dust extends the duration to 1:30, while glowstone dust creates Potion of Poison II, which deals damage more quickly over 22 seconds.

Potion of Regeneration

Potion of Regeneration is created by adding a Ghast Tear to an Awkward Potion. It restores health over 45 seconds, making it useful for recovering from battles or surviving dangerous situations. Redstone dust extends the healing to 1:30, while glowstone dust enhances it into Potion of Regeneration II, which heals more rapidly over 22 seconds.

Potion of Slow Falling

Potion of Slow Falling is brewed by adding a Phantom Membrane to an Awkward Potion. It slows the player’s falling speed and prevents fall damage for 1:30, making it extremely useful for elytra flights or descending from high places. Redstone dust extends the duration to four minutes, providing longer safety against falls.

Potion of Slowness

Potion of Slowness is created by corrupting a Potion of Swiftness or Potion of Leaping with a Fermented Spider Eye. It reduces movement speed by 15% for 1:30, making it useful for slowing enemies in combat. Redstone dust extends the effect to four minutes, while glowstone dust creates Potion of Slowness IV, drastically reducing speed by 85% for 20 seconds

Potion of Strength

Potion of Strength is made by adding Blaze Powder to an Awkward Potion. It increases melee damage for three minutes, making it an essential potion for boss fights, PvP combat, and dealing with tough mobs. Redstone dust extends the effect to eight minutes, while glowstone dust enhances it into Potion of Strength II, which further increases melee damage for 1:30.

Potion of Swiftness

Potion of Swiftness is brewed by adding Sugar to an Awkward Potion. It increases movement speed and jump distance for three minutes, making it useful for escaping danger, traveling long distances, or improving mobility in battle. Redstone dust extends the effect to eight minutes, while glowstone dust enhances it into Potion of Swiftness II, which provides an even greater speed boost for 1:30.

Potion of the Turtle Master

Potion of the Turtle Master is created by combining an Awkward Potion with a Turtle Shell. It reduces movement speed and incoming damage for 20 seconds, making it useful for tanking damage during intense fights. Redstone dust extends the duration to 40 seconds, while glowstone dust creates Potion of the Turtle Master II, which further increases damage resistance but significantly slows movement.

Potion of Water Breathing

Potion of Water Breathing is brewed by adding a Pufferfish to an Awkward Potion. It allows players to breathe underwater for three minutes, making it essential for ocean exploration, underwater building, and fighting aquatic mobs. Redstone dust extends the effect to eight minutes, providing extended underwater survival without the need for air.

Newer potions in Minecraft

Potion of Infestation

Potion of Infestation is created by adding a Stone Block to an Awkward Potion. When a target is affected by this potion and takes damage, there is a chance that Silverfish will spawn around them, making it useful for overwhelming enemies with additional hostile mobs. This potion is particularly effective in PvP battles or against groups of enemies, as Silverfish can quickly multiply and create chaos.

Potion of Oozing

Potion of Oozing is brewed by combining an Awkward Potion with a Slime Block. When an affected target dies, two Slimes will spawn in their place, which can be useful for farming Slimeballs or creating additional distractions during combat. This potion is especially effective in enclosed spaces where Slimes can trap and slow down enemies, making them easier to defeat.

Potion of Weaving

Potion of Weaving is made by adding a Cobweb to an Awkward Potion. When a target affected by this potion dies, 2-3 Cobweb blocks will spread around them, making it useful for slowing down other enemies in the area. This potion is particularly beneficial in PvP scenarios, where it can restrict movement and create obstacles that hinder an opponent’s ability to escape or fight back.

Potion of Wind Charging

Potion of Wind Charging is brewed by combining an Awkward Potion with a Breeze Rod. When an affected target dies, they will emit a wind burst that knocks back nearby entities, making it effective for disrupting groups of enemies or pushing opponents away. This potion is highly useful for controlling the battlefield, preventing enemies from closing in, or knocking them off ledges in high-altitude combat situations.

Potion Modifiers

Redstone Dust

Redstone dust can be added to most potions, except for healing and harming, to extend their duration. This makes potions last longer, allowing players to benefit from effects like Fire Resistance, Night Vision, or Water Breathing for extended periods. Extended potions are ideal for long exploration trips, Nether adventures, or prolonged combat encounters where maintaining buffs is essential.

Glowstone Dust

Glowstone dust enhances certain potions, increasing their potency but reducing their duration. Enhanced potions are usually marked with “II” and provide stronger effects, such as greater healing, increased strength, or a more potent regeneration rate. This modification is best for quick, intense battles where maximum benefits are needed in a short amount of time, such as fighting bosses or engaging in high-stakes PvP combat.

Gunpowder

Gunpowder transforms any regular potion into a splash potion, allowing it to be thrown and affect multiple targets upon impact. This is especially useful in multiplayer settings or when applying buffs to allies without manually handing them potions. Splash potions are also great for debuffing enemies, such as using a Potion of Weakness on mobs or opponents to reduce their attack power.

Dragon’s Breath

Dragon’s breath can be added to a splash potion to create a lingering potion, which releases a cloud of potion effects that remain in the area for a short time. Any entity passing through the cloud will be affected, making lingering potions useful for setting traps, area denial in PvP, or healing teammates in a designated space. Lingering potions are particularly effective for controlling the battlefield, whether slowing enemies with Lingering Slowness or damaging them with Lingering Poison.

Fermented Spider Eye

Fermented spider eye corrupts certain potions, changing their effects to the opposite or a more negative form. For example, it turns a Potion of Night Vision into a Potion of Invisibility, a Potion of Swiftness into a Potion of Slowness, and a Potion of Healing into a Potion of Harming. Corrupting potions is a powerful tactic for creating deadly weapons against opponents, making this modifier essential for strategic PvP battles or weakening hostile mobs.

Conclusion

Mastering the art of potion brewing in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition provides a significant advantage in exploration, combat, and survival. By understanding the brewing process, essential equipment, and the effects of various potions, players can prepare for any challenge the game presents. Whether enhancing abilities with potions like Strength and Swiftness, ensuring survival with Fire Resistance and Water Breathing, or weakening enemies with Slowness and Poison, the strategic use of potions can turn the tide of any encounter.

Additionally, potion modifiers such as redstone for extended duration, glowstone for enhanced effects, and gunpowder or dragon’s breath for different application methods allow players to customize their potions to suit their needs. The introduction of newer potions, like Infestation and Oozing, expands the possibilities for creative gameplay.

Ultimately, potions are a powerful tool that, when used wisely, can make exploration safer, battles easier, and survival more manageable. Whether preparing for a Nether expedition, taking on the Ender Dragon, or defending against hostile mobs, having the right potions at your disposal is key to thriving in the world of Minecraft: Bedrock Edition.

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Frequently Asked Questions(FAQs)

🍄Can I stack potions?

No, potions do not stack, even if identical.

🍄What potions are most useful in survival?

Healing, Fire Resistance, Strength, Night Vision, and Water Breathing.

🍄How many potions can I brew at once?

Three, just fill all three bottle slots in the brewing stand.