All Minecraft Potions: Every Recipe & Effect (26.3)
All 19 brewable Minecraft potions — every effect ingredient, duration, and corruption path, plus splash, lingering, and arrow variants for Java and Bedrock.
FAQ
How many potions are in Minecraft?
What potion should I brew first?
Can every potion be made into a splash potion?
How does potion brewing work?
Every brewable potion follows the same chain: water bottle → Awkward Potion (nether wart) → effect ingredient → modifiers. One exception: Weakness brews a fermented spider eye directly onto a water bottle — no nether wart needed. See our brewing guide for the full setup.
All 19 brewable potions
| Potion | Effect ingredient | Base duration | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire Resistance | magma cream | 3:00 | Immunity to fire and lava |
| Swiftness | sugar | 3:00 | +20% move speed (II: +40%) |
| Strength | blaze powder | 3:00 | +3 melee damage (II: +6) |
| Leaping | rabbit’s foot | 3:00 | Higher jumps (II: half-block higher) |
| Regeneration | ghast tear | 0:45 | Restores health over time |
| Healing | glistering melon | instant | Restores 4 HP (II: 8 HP) |
| Poison | spider eye | 0:45 | Drains HP to 1, doesn’t kill |
| Night Vision | golden carrot | 3:00 | See perfectly in darkness |
| Invisibility | corrupt night vision | 3:00 | Vanish — mobs can’t track you |
| Water Breathing | pufferfish | 3:00 | Breathe underwater |
| Slowness | corrupt swiftness/leaping | 1:30 | −15% move speed (IV: −60%) |
| Harming | corrupt healing/poison | instant | 6 damage (II: 12), undead heal |
| Weakness | fermented spider eye | 1:30 | −4 melee damage; needed to cure villagers |
| Turtle Master | turtle scute | 0:20 | Slowness IV + Resistance III — 60% less damage |
| Slow Falling | phantom membrane | 1:30 | Float down, no fall damage |
| Wind Charging | breeze rod | 3:00 | Emit a wind burst on death |
| Weaving | cobweb | 3:00 | Spawn cobwebs on death; move faster through webs |
| Oozing | slime block | 3:00 | Spawn two slimes on death |
| Infestation | stone | 3:00 | 10% chance to spawn silverfish when hit |
Splash, lingering, and arrows
- Gunpowder → splash potion (throwable, affects an area)
- Dragon’s breath on a splash → lingering potion (leaves an effect cloud)
- Lingering potion + 8 arrows → 8 tipped arrows with the same effect
Anything new?
A Freezing potion line is confirmed for the Ice Caves drop — brewed from ice balls dropped by the new Frostbite mob. It is testable now in Java 26.4 Snapshot 3 (October 6), with the full drop still expected in December 2026.
What to read next
- Brewing Guide — stands, fuel, and the fastest recipe chains
- Status Effects — all 34 effects and where they come from
- Villager Trades — weakness potions power the zombie-cure discount trick
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