Basic Potion Brewing

In Minecraft one of your best friends (in pvp and pve mainly) is the potion. A potion is used to give you a special ability for a limited amount of time. To get the necessary equipment to make these potions we will need to head off to the nether and find a fortress. but first we need a portal. To make a portal gather 14 obsidian (or ten without the corners)  and place them 4 across, and 5 high.

Then, to activate the portal make flint and steel and using it, right click the base of the portal. After that wait for the new terrain to generate and start looking for a nether fortress. (Black-ish purple stone) Then find a blaze. Kill them to get blaze rods, try and get about 3 or 4 to start. Also look out for Nether Wart. We DEFINITELY need that.

Now that you have found these materials head back to the normal world and get slime balls from slimes, or get them from magma cubes in the Nether. Once you have those, construct a potion brewer. Also, in your furnace cook 3 or so sand into glass blocks so you can make glass bottles. These will be used to hold your potions.

Next, fill up the bottles with water by right clicking it on a water source. After that, go back into the potion brewer and put the bottles in the row of 3 empty slots. In the top slot put in 1 Nether Wart, after its done brewing it will give you 3 Awkward Potions, these are the base potions ued to make any type of potion.

Here are some simple potions you can create using easy to collect ingredients.

1. Potion of Healing - 1 Nether Wart, 1 Glistering Melon

2. Potion of Fire Resistance - 1 Nether Wart, 1 Magma Cream (Made with Blaze Power and Slime Balls)

3. Splash Potion of Poison - 1 Nether Wart, 1 Spider Eye, 1 Gunpowder

Feel free to try using different ingredients to make different types of potions, such as night vision, strength, and even invisibility!

And that is about ALL you need to know about POTION BREWING in Minecraft! Don't forget to check out my other  Surviving Minecraft Tutorials to see how to do other topics such as - Farming, Mining, Breeding, and Enchanting!