How To Use The Potion Stand In Minecraft

Potions

The latest version of Minecraft Pocket Edition adds the ability to brew potions which, when drunk, momentarily give you special abilities similar faster running and fire resistance.

Potions are non easy to make, though. The crafting requirements and brewing ingredients are hard to come by, and a crave a trip into the scariest place in the game: The Under.

So grip our hand tight, and let us accept yous through it - step by perilous step.

Step 1 - Get a canteen of water Sand

Potions take such humble beginnings: a elementary bottle of water. To start, go the beach and get three blocks of sand.

Glass

Utilise a furnace (crafted from 8 cobblestone blocks) to plough the sand into glass. Put the sand in the top slot, and fuel - such every bit wood or coal - in the bottom. When three glass blocks have been created, accept them.

Bottle

Now utilize the crafting tabular array to craft a bottle.

Water in bottle

Go find a trunk of water and tap and hold the bottle on information technology to make full the bottle upward.

Stride 2 - Enter The Nether

Your adjacent goal is to enter the nightmare hellscape that is The Nether. Before you do, make sure you are kitted out in high powered armour, and have a sword. You lot don't want to go in unprepared.

Portal

To make a portal to the Nether yous will need to pour water on lava source to make Obsidian. Then mine that with a Diamond Pickaxe. Identify them in the shape shown above, and then use Flint and Steel to power up the portal.

For more than info, see this article on The Nether.

Step 3 - Go Bonfire Rod and Nether Wart

Nosotros need to detect two things in The Under: a Bonfire Rod and some Under Wart. Both can be found inside Nether Fortresses, which expect like big dark brown buildings.

Within yous should find some Under Wart growing. Take information technology, and too catch the Soul Sand that is is growing in. You tin can grow your own Nether Wart dorsum above ground, and every bit this stuff is essential for potion brewing you'll want an endless supply.

Blaze

Too: impale a Blaze. They fight in groups and throw fireballs. Merely if you lot impale one, information technology should drop a Bonfire Rod. Catch information technology, then high tail information technology out of the Nether.

Step iv - Make a Brewing Stand Craft

You should at present be able to arts and crafts a Brewing Stand at a crafting table. You lot only need three asphalt blocks to go with your Bonfire Rod. Once you're done, plop the stand down and utilize information technology.

Stride five - Make a base of operations potion Awkward

Pretty much all potions start as an Bad-mannered Potion. To make this base potion, put a water bottle in the left slot and a Under Wart in the top. Out will pop: an Awkward Potion! Huzzah.

Step half dozen - Brand a potion Potions

Now, put your Awkward Potion in the left slot, and your ingredient in the summit. The easiest ingredient to get, if you lot're merely starting out, is saccharide. Y'all can get this past chopping down sugar canes and turning it into sugar.

Speed

Put those together and you lot'll get a speed potion which makes y'all run faster. Only drinkable the potion and your top speed will increase for several minutes.

Here are the other potions in the game, courtesy of the MCPE Wikia.

Name	Upshot	Ingredients
Potion of Regeneration	Restores health over fourth dimension	Awkward Potion + Ghast Tear
Potion of Instant Health	Restores health instantly	Bad-mannered Potion + Glistering Melon
Potion of Fire Resistance	Immunity to fire and lava	Awkward Potion + Magma Cream
Potion of Night Vision	Improved vision in dark	Awkward Potion + Golden Carrot
Potion of Underwater Breathing	Ability to breath underwater	Awkward Potion + Pufferfish
Potion of Force	Increases attack ability	Awkward Potion + Blaze Powder
Potion of Swiftness	Increases movement speed	Bad-mannered Potion + Saccharide
Potion of Poison	Drains health over time	Awkward Potion + Spider Centre
Potion of Leaping	Increases jump superlative / altitude	Bad-mannered Potion + Rabbit's Foot

Pace vii - Make it fifty-fifty improve

Potion better

A few dissimilar ingredients tin can be used on an existing potion to make it even better.

Glowstone, which can be found in The Nether, make potions stronger. Redstone, which can be constitute underground, makes them last longer.

Speed up

A fermented Spider Eye (a spider eye mixed with brown mushroom and sugar) corrupts the potion effects, making them harmful to monsters. Then, use gunpowder (dropped by Creepers) to create splash potions, which tin can be thrown at enemies to laissez passer on the furnishings.

Here are the recipes for that:

Name	Effect	Ingredients
Potion of Harming	Does instant damage	Potion of Instant Health + Fermented Spider Middle
Potion of Weakness	Lowers attack power	Water Bottle + Fermented Spider Eye
Potion of Slowness	Lowers speed	Potion of Swiftness + Fermented Spider Eye