Anyone who has played Minecraft will agree that it is an extremely complex game. It is full of details and multiple interactions. Today we will be talking about potions in Minecraft, which are elements that will help us and they will facilitate many activities within this incredible world where everything takes place.
Minecraft is a game that does not go unnoticed, which is all the rage on social networks and has a really large online community. This game develops skills such as memory, concentration, visual dexterity and above all creativity.
What are potions in Minecraft?
The different and very varied potions that can be made in Minecraft They are obtained by different ways, alchemy is one of the mains and thanks to which most of these are obtained. Potions in Minecraft are used by its players to obtain effects that help you progress more quickly in the game. Although their use is not mandatory, they do represent a significant advantage.
By using potions, depending on their usefulness, you will be able to perform various tasks that were previously more complicated with a higher probability of success, such as exploration within the world of minecraft or defeat bosses or hostile enemies.
How to get potions in Minecraft?
- Through loot from creatures: as is the case of the witches, which drop different potions: Apnea, healing, speed and fireproof body. They will only do this when they die.
- Fishing: you can get jars of water.
- Filling Bottles: If you use a glass vial on a cauldron containing water or a glass fountain, it will turn it into a water bottle. Following the same principle, if you use a glass vial in a cauldron with a potion, it will be filled with the same.
- Natural Generation: In the Igloo basements there are potion stands where you will find a throwable potion of weakness. Also in the potion brewing stations found on the ships of the End cities you can find two Instant Heal II potions.
- Alchemy: This, as we already mentioned, is the main way to get them and of which we will speak especially.
What ingredients are used to make potions using alchemy in Minecraft?
This is dependent on the type of potion we want to make, and the effect we hope to obtain from it. Although in general there are three different categories of ingredients.
Basic Ingredients
Base ingredients are those that are added to jars of water. It is the elemental thing that you must have, they constitute the starting point for the start of each potion. There are 4 ingredients with which you can make practically any type of potion.
The basic ingredients are:
- Nether wart: used for rare potions, are used as the base for these potions.
- The luminous stone powder: is very useful in dense potions. It does not have a specific effect.
- Redstone powder: becomes important in vulgar potions. It has no specific effect.
- The fermented spider eye: used to craft weakness potions. Adding a durability of one minute and thirty seconds.
Secondary Ingredients
This is called those ingredients that will alter the rare potion, since they add specific effects to it. These ingredients do not influence the duration or intensity of it.
These can be added directly to a jar of water, and except for the Golden Carrot, which cannot be added directly to the water flask, all the others will form vulgar potions.
Known secondary ingredients are:
- Magma cream: this ingredient grants resistance to fire for a period of three minutes.
- Sugar: this ingredient will increase speed by 20 percent for a period of three minutes.
- Eye of spider: This ingredient applies poison for 45 seconds.
- Ghast's Tear: Offers Regeneration for a period of 45 seconds.
- Shimmering watermelon: This ingredient heals two hearts instantly.
- Blaze powder: Causes an increase in strength for a period of three minutes.
- Blowfish: allows you to breathe underwater for three minutes.
- Rabbit foot: You will have the ability to super jump for three minutes.
- Golden carrot: You will have night vision for three minutes.
Modifiers
These are ingredients that are going to produce changes in potions. Being able to change the extended duration and greater power.
Modifying ingredients are:
- Redstone powder: Increases the duration of the potion.
- Gunpowder: this causes the potion to become throwable.
- Luminous stone powder: This ingredient will increase potency.
- Dragon breath: makes the potion e resistant.
- Fermented Spider Eye: Corrupts the effect of the potion. This results in reversing the effect of the base potion or producing a negative effect.
The invisibility potion is considered a corrupted version of the opposite effect potion, obviously night vision.
What do you need to make potions?
For this we need a Potions Support, which provides an interface where you can build them. This interface will be made up of 5 spaces or squares different, each with a special use.
Other tools needed:
- You need a caldero: this will be used to fill glass bottles with buckets of water.
- Blaze powder: which is used as fuel to make potions.
- Hopper: it is used in the Potion Support, its function is to automate part of the process of making them.
- Glass bottle: This will become the container where the potions we make will be stored.
- bottle with water: It is the necessary base for the elaboration of all kinds of potions.
How to make potions in Minecraft?
Now, brewing a potion really isn't that complicated. It will only be necessary make sure you have all the tools and ingredients necessary for it.
Using the aforementioned Support for Potions, we will add the necessary elements in the interface intended for this. In 3 of the spaces, potions are added, which can be jars of water or previously prepared potions. In space number 4 the ingredient for the potion will be added. Of course, fuel cannot be missing, we are talking about Blaze Powder.
If our components are correct, the process will start with a bubble in the left bar, the right will go down. This process will take a little longer than those done in the oven.
We hope this guide has helped you to learn a little more about Potions in Minecraft and the different ways to obtain them. Let us know in the comments which potion you use the most when playing the game. We read you.