Minecraft Potion Recipes (2026): Every Brewing Recipe
Current for Java & Bedrock. Every potion recipe below, with ingredients, base/extended durations and level II values. Brew once, learn the pattern, and you can make any potion.
The brewing chain: Water Bottle → (Nether Wart) → Awkward Potion → (one ingredient) → Potion → (Redstone / Glowstone / Gunpowder modifier).
Brewing Stand recipe (crafting the stand itself)
Before any potion: craft the Brewing Stand with 1 Blaze Rod + 3 Cobblestone (Blackstone, Cobbled Deepslate and their variants also work) - Blaze Rod in the middle slot, the three stone blocks across the bottom row. Blaze Rods drop from Blazes in Nether Fortresses; if you'd rather not fight for one, brewing stands also generate in village churches (grab it with any pickaxe) and at End Ship hulls. The stand burns Blaze Powder as fuel - one powder covers 20 brewing operations.
The setup
- Brewing stand: 3 cobblestone + 1 Blaze Rod (or find one in a Nether fortress). Fuel it with Blaze Powder.
- Bottles: fill glass bottles at water, place up to three in the bottom slots.
- The base: brew Nether Wart into water bottles to make the Awkward Potion - the starting point for almost every potion.
All Minecraft potion recipes (Awkward Potion + one ingredient)
Add one ingredient to an Awkward Potion. Durations are Java Edition values; +Redstone extends them, +Glowstone upgrades to level II (where it exists, at a shorter duration).
| Potion | Add to Awkward Potion | Base | +Redstone (Extended) | +Glowstone (Level II) |
| Healing (instant) | Glistering Melon | instant | - | Healing II |
| Regeneration | Ghast Tear | 0:45 | 1:30 | Regen II (0:22) |
| Strength | Blaze Powder | 3:00 | 8:00 | Strength II (1:30) |
| Swiftness (Speed) | Sugar | 3:00 | 8:00 | Swiftness II (1:30) |
| Fire Resistance | Magma Cream | 3:00 | 8:00 | - |
| Night Vision | Golden Carrot | 3:00 | 8:00 | - |
| Water Breathing | Pufferfish | 3:00 | 8:00 | - |
| Leaping (Jump Boost) | Rabbit's Foot | 3:00 | 8:00 | Leaping II (1:30) |
| Poison | Spider Eye | 0:45 | 1:30 | Poison II (0:21) |
| Slow Falling | Phantom Membrane | 1:30 | 4:00 | - |
| Turtle Master | Turtle Shell | 0:20 | 0:40 | Turtle Master II (0:20) |
| Oozing | Slime Block | - | - | - |
| Weaving | Cobweb | - | - | - |
| Wind Charged | Breeze Rod | - | - | - |
| Infested | Stone | - | - | - |
The four newer potions at the bottom of that table come from the Trial Chambers update and behave differently from everything above them: the build defines no Redstone or Glowstone variant for any of the four, so there is no extended version and no level II. They take Gunpowder to become splash potions and Dragon's Breath to become lingering, like any other potion, and that is the whole of it. Each is brewed from an Awkward Potion plus one ingredient: Slime Block, Cobweb, Breeze Rod and Stone respectively.
Counted from the game: the build ships 16 potions brewed directly from an Awkward Potion and 279 brewing recipes in total once every splash, lingering, extended and level II combination is included.
Negative potion recipes (corrupt with a Fermented Spider Eye)
Add a Fermented Spider Eye to a finished potion to flip it. These are the ones players look up most, so they get their own list:
| Potion | Recipe | Base |
| Harming (instant) | Fermented Spider Eye into Healing or Poison | instant |
| Weakness | Fermented Spider Eye into a water bottle (no Awkward needed) | 1:30 (4:00 extended) |
| Slowness | Fermented Spider Eye into Swiftness or Leaping | 1:30 (4:00 extended) |
| Invisibility | Fermented Spider Eye into Night Vision | 3:00 (8:00 extended) |
Special: Potion of Weakness
Weakness skips the Awkward step - brew a Fermented Spider Eye directly into a water bottle. Turn it into a splash potion (gunpowder) for curing zombie villagers - see the villager trades guide for the discount trick.
The modifiers (apply to any finished potion)
| Add | Effect |
| Redstone Dust | Extends duration (Extended). |
| Glowstone Dust | Increases potency to level II (shorter duration). Can't combine with Redstone. |
| Gunpowder | Turns it into a Splash potion (thrown). |
| Dragon's Breath | Turns a Splash potion into a Lingering potion (cloud). |
| Fermented Spider Eye | Corrupts an effect: Healing→Harming, Swiftness→Slowness, Night Vision→Invisibility, Poison→… etc. |
Supply tip: a Cleric villager sells the two modifier ingredients - redstone dust (Novice) and glowstone (Journeyman) - and buys your nether wart at Master, so a single cured Cleric turns a potion hall self-sustaining. Full prices in the villager trades guide.
Most useful potions to keep stocked
- Fire Resistance - mandatory for the Nether and lava diving (mining ancient debris).
- Healing / Regeneration - combat and boss fights.
- Strength + Swiftness - melee and travel.
- Night Vision + Water Breathing - caves and ocean monuments.
- Splash Weakness + Golden Apple - villager curing.
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