Minecraft Potion Guide: Full Chart, Recipes and Levels

Potions are extremely useful items that can be brewed in Minecraft to be granted certain effects, such as increased speed, damage, resistances, and more. Below you will find a full chart, recipes and levels of all potions in Minecraft.

You can also add gunpowder to normal potions to create splash potions that can be thrown, or add Dragon’s Breath to splash potions to create lingering potions. Each potion can also be extended using the Redstone Dust, or leveled up by using Glowstone Dust.

Chart of all Minecraft Potions

Minecraft Potion Brewing Guide

All Base Potions Recipes and Levels

Awkward Potion

• Effect: Base for all other potions.
• Recipe: Nether Wart + Water Bottle

Mundane Potion

• Effect: Alternative base for Potion of Weakness in Bedrock Edition.
• Recipe: Water Bottle + one of the following: Blaze Powder, Breeze Rod, Ghast Tear, Glistening Melon Slice, Magma Cream, Rabbit’s Foot, Redstone Dust, Spider Eye, Sugar

Thick Potion

• Effect: Alternative base for Potion of Weakness in Bedrock Edition.
• Recipe: Glowstone Dust + Water Bottle

All Positive Potions Recipes and Levels

Potion of Fire Resistance

• Effects:
  • Level I: Provides immunity to burn damage for 3 minutes.
  • Extended: Provides immunity to burn damage for 8 minutes.
• Recipe: Magma Cream + Awkward Potion

Potion of Healing

• Effects:
  • Level I: Restores 2 hearts of health instantly.
  • Level II: Restores 4 hearts of health instantly.
• Recipe: Glistening Melon Slice + Awkward Potion

Potion of Invisibility

• Effects:
  • Level I: Grants invisibility for 3 minutes.
  • Extended: Grants invisibility for 8 minutes.
• Recipe: Fermented Spider Eye + Night Vision Potion

Potion of Leaping

• Effects:
  • Level I: Player can jump 0.5 blocks higher and safely fall from slightly higher for 3 minutes.
  • Level II: Player can jump 1.5 blocks higher and safely fall from slightly higher for 90 seconds.
  • Extended: Player can jump 0.5 blocks higher and safely fall from slightly higher for 8 minutes.
• Recipe: Rabbit’s Foot + Awkward Potion

Potion of Luck

• Effect:
  • Level 1:
• Recipe:

Potion of Night Vision

• Effects:
  • Level I: Increases light to Level 15 for 3 minutes.
  • Extended: Increases light to Level 15 for 8 minutes.
• Recipe: Golden Carrot + Awkward Potion

Potion of Regeneration

• Effects:
  • Level I: Restores 9 hearts in 45 seconds.
  • Level II: Restores 9 hearts in 22.5 seconds.
  • Extended: Restores 18 hearts in 90 seconds.
• Recipe: Ghast Tear + Awkward Potion

Potion of Slow Falling

• Effects:
  • Level I: Decreases falling speed and prevents fall damage for 90 seconds.
  • Extended: Decreases falling speed and prevents fall damage for 4 minutes.
• Recipe: Phantom Membrane + Awkward Potion

Potion of Strength

• Effects:
  • Level I: Increases attack damage by 3 for 3 minutes.
  • Level II: Increases attack damage by 6 for 90 seconds.
  • Extended: Increases attack damage by 3 for 8 minutes.
• Recipe: Blaze Powder + Awkward Potion

Potion of Swiftness

• Effects:
  • Level I: Increases speed and jump distance by 20% for 3 minutes.
  • Level II: Increases speed and jump distance by 40% for 90 seconds.
  • Extended: Increases speed and jump distance by 20% for 8 minutes.
• Recipe: Sugar + Awkward Potion

Potion of the Turtle Master

• Effect:
  • Level I: The player gets Slowness IV, which decreases speed by 60%, and Resistance III for 20 seconds.
  • Level II: The player gets Slowness VI, which decreases speed by 90%, and Resistance IV for 20 seconds.
  • Extended: The player gets Slowness IV, which decreases speed by 60%, and Resistance III for 40 seconds.
• Recipe:
  • Awkward Potion + Turtle Shell

Potion of Water Breathing

• Effects:
  • Level I: Allows breathing underwater for 3 minutes.
  • Extended: Allows breathing underwater for 8 minutes.
• Recipe: Pufferfish + Awkward Potion

All Negative Potions Recipes and Levels

Potion of Harming

• Effects:
  • Level I: Deals 6 damage instantly.
  • Level II: Deals 12 damage instantly.
• Recipe: Fermented Spider Eye + Potion of Poison

Potion of Infestation

• Effect:
  • Level 1: When an entity afflicted with this is attacked, there is a small chance the hit will spawn Silverfish. This effect lasts for 3 minutes.
• Recipe:
  • Awkward Potion + Stone block

Potion of Oozing

• Effect:
  • Level 1: When an entity afflicted with this dies within 3 minutes, their death spawns two slimes.
• Recipe:
  • Awkward Potion + Slime Block

Potion of Poison

• Effects:
  • Level I: Deals up to 36 damage in 45 seconds.
  • Level II: Deals up to 38 damage in 21 seconds.
  • Extended: Deals up to 72 damage in 90 seconds.
• Recipe: Spider Eye + Awkward Potion

Potion of Slowness

• Effects:
  • Level I: Slows players and mobs by 15% for 90 seconds.
  • Level IV: Slows players and mobs by 60% for 20 seconds.
  • Extended: Slows players and mobs by 15% for 4 minutes.
• Recipe: Fermented Spider Eye + Potion of Swiftness

Potion of Weakness

• Effects:
  • Level I: Reduces melee damage by 4 for 90 seconds.
  • Extended: Reduces melee damage by 4 for 4 minutes.
• Java Recipe: Fermented Spider Eye + Water Bottle
• Bedrock Recipes: Fermented Spider Eye + Awkward Potion, Mundane Potion, Thick Potion, or Water Bottle

Potion of Weaving

• Effect:
  • Level 1: When an entity afflicted with this dies within 3 minutes, their death spawns several cobwebs.
• Recipe:
  • Awkward Potion + Cobweb

Potion of Wind Charging

• Effects:
  • Level 1: If an entity afflicted with this potion dies within 3 minutes, they will unleash a burst of wind upon death that knocks back those around them.
• Recipe: Awkward Potion + Breeze Rod

That’s it for a full chart, recipes and levels of all potions in Minecraft. Be sure to check out the rest of the Minecraft tips and tricks articles on our dedicated hub page.

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