One of the most potent variants of the damage potion is the Instant Damage Potion II. These potions can deal significant amounts of damage, leaving your enemies vulnerable and defeated. So this is your weapon against them, and will be useful if you have build a mob grinder to kill large numbers of Zombies or Skeletons.Damage potions are an essential tool in Minecraft, especially when it comes to battling enemies or mobs. Undead Mobs (Skeletons, Zombies, Zombie Pigmen and Withers) are actually healed by a potion of Harming, and damaged by a Potion of Healing. A Splash potion of Farming can kill hundreds of chickens all at once. This is a useful weapon, but it’s even more useful in farming. If you have stuff to do under water… Splash Potion of Harming This will keep you safe if you are messing about with lava or fighting Blazes in the Nether. This will help you see in the dark, but more importantly, it will help you see a lot further when you are under water, in The Nether or in The End. The Most Useful Potions Potion of Night Vision You can’t place water in the Nether to fill your bottles, but you can make a cauldron and fill that with a bucket of water. This is useful in two situations: it will stop Cave Spiders from being able to poison you, and it is used to turn Zombie Villagers back to normal. The only useful thing you can do with one of these is add Fermented Spider Eye followed by Gunpowder to make a** Splash Potion of Weakness**. If you mess up and forget to add Nether Wart first, you’ll end up with one of these instead of an Awkward Potion. Lingering Potions can also be used to create Tipped Arrows, that will affect their targets. Lingering PotionsĪdd Dragon’s Breath to a Splash potion to create a Lingering potion, which can be thrown and will form a cloud of potion gas that will affect anyone who walks through it.

Splash PotionsĪdd gunpowder to your potion to turn it into a splash potion, which can be thrown and will affect nearby players and mobs. Dragon’s Breathĭragon’s Breath will turn a Splash Potion into a Lingering Potion. Gunpowder will turn your potion into a Splash Potion. Glowstone can make potions twice as powerful, but they will only last half as long. Most potions will last 3 minutes, but Redstone can turn them into an 8-minute version. Redstone will increase the duration of many potions. otherwise it will turn your potion into a Potion of Weakness. it turns a Potion of Healing into a Potion of Harming, or a Potion of Swiftness into a Potion of Slowness). This ingredient will corrupt your potion: in some cases it will make your potion do the opposite (eg. These modifying ingredients will improve or change the effects of your potion: Fermented Spider’s Eye Modifying IngredientsĪfter you have added your main ingredient you will have a basic potion. This potion doesn’t do anything, but your next ingredient will turn it into something useful.

This will turn the water into a Awkward Potion. Your first added ingredient should always be Nether Wart. You will need to place Blaze Powder in the slot at the top left to power the brewing process. Then you can fill some glass bottles with water, place them in the stand and start adding ingredients. Then you can go into the Nether and collect Blaze Rods and some Nether Wart. Before you can brew potions, you will need to find Diamonds, mine Obsidian and build a Nether Portal. Many critical ingredients are found only in the Nether. Potions provide healing, protection and other benefits, or can be made into weapons to throw at your enemies.

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