Minecraft Potion Chart – All Recipes & Ingredients

The chart lists 24 potions in four categories: 3 base potions (Awkward, Mundane, and Thick Potion), 10 positive potions such as Healing, Strength, Fire Resistance, and Night Vision, 4 negative potions (Poison, Harming, Weakness, and Slowness), and 7 special potions. The special category includes the Potion of the Turtle Master, the four 1.21 potions, and two potions that cannot be brewed. Use the Base, Positive, Negative, and Special tabs to filter the list.

Craft a Brewing Stand with 3 Cobblestone (or Cobbled Deepslate or Blackstone) and 1 Blaze Rod. It needs Blaze Powder as fuel before it can brew; one Blaze Powder is enough for 20 brewing operations. Place Water Bottles in the lower slots and add the ingredient at the top: first Nether Wart for an Awkward Potion, then the effect ingredient from the chart.

Add Nether Wart to a Water Bottle in a Brewing Stand. The Awkward Potion has no effect on its own but is the base for almost all effect potions. The exception is the Potion of Weakness: it is made directly from a Water Bottle and a Fermented Spider Eye, without Nether Wart, and is useful for curing Zombie Villagers. It lasts 1:30, or 4:00 with Redstone.

Redstone Dust extends the duration, while Glowstone Dust strengthens the effect to level II but usually shortens its duration. You can't use both on the same potion. For example, a Potion of Strength (Awkward Potion + Blaze Powder) lasts 3:00 normally, 8:00 with Redstone Dust, and 1:30 at level II. Not every potion has both variants: Fire Resistance, Night Vision, and Water Breathing can only be extended, while the 1.21 potions can be neither extended nor strengthened. The badges on the cards show you which variants are available.

Gunpowder turns a potion into a Splash Potion; Dragon's Breath turns a Splash Potion into a Lingering Potion. The “Splash Potion” and “Lingering Potion” badges on each card show whether you can brew that variant. This also works with the base potions; their variants have no effect either. The Potion of Luck has no badge; its splash and lingering variants are only available in Creative mode or via commands. The Potion of Decay (Bedrock Edition only) can't be brewed itself, but you can brew it further into a splash and lingering potion. You can also make Tipped Arrows with a Lingering Potion: surround it with 8 arrows on a Crafting Table.

First brew a Potion of Night Vision (Awkward Potion + Golden Carrot), then add a Fermented Spider Eye. It reverses the effect, turning Night Vision into Invisibility. The potion lasts 3:00, or 8:00 with Redstone. The same principle turns Healing or Poison into a Potion of Harming, and Swiftness or Jump Boost into a Potion of Slowness.

Java Edition 1.21 added four potions, listed under Special in the tool. All start with an Awkward Potion: Wind Charging with a Breeze Rod, Weaving with a Cobweb, Oozing with a Slime Block, and Infestation with Stone. They last 3:00 and can be neither extended with Redstone Dust nor strengthened with Glowstone Dust. Ominous Trial Spawners in Trial Chambers also throw them directly at players.

Two potions in the chart can't be brewed. A Potion of Luck can't be obtained through normal brewing in any edition, only through a command or in Creative Mode. The Potion of Decay only exists in Bedrock Edition, not in Java Edition. There, you can get it only through a command or from the Creative inventory. Fletcher Villagers rarely (0.1%) sell Arrows of Decay, but not the potion itself. Mundane and Thick Potions can be brewed, but they are dead ends with no effect.