The Interactive Minecraft Brewing Chart
A flat wall chart makes you trace lines with your finger. This Minecraft potion chart does the work for you: choose the potion you want and it draws the complete brewing path as a step chain: Water Bottle → Nether Wart → Awkward Potion → ingredient → your potion, with the exact item for every stand slot and the base, extended, and level-II durations underneath. Flip to By ingredient and it works in reverse: tap Blaze Powder, a Ghast Tear, or Fermented Spider Eye and see everything that ingredient brews.
Brewing always starts the same way. Fill a glass bottle at water, add Nether Wart to make an Awkward Potion, then add one effect ingredient. The Awkward Potion is the base for nearly every recipe. The Mundane and Thick potions you sometimes get by accident are dead ends with no effect. Blaze Powder both fuels the stand and brews Strength, so it is worth stockpiling.
How to Make Potions in Minecraft: Modifiers
Once a potion is brewed, five more ingredients change what it does. Redstone Dust extends the duration, Glowstone Dust raises the tier (Speed I → Speed II), usually for a shorter time, and the two cannot be combined in one potion. Gunpowder turns any potion into a throwable Splash Potion, Dragon’s Breath turns a Splash Potion into a Lingering Potion (the base for tipped arrows), and Fermented Spider Eye corrupts the effect into its opposite, which the next section covers on its own.
Complete Minecraft brewing chart (Java 26.2)
| Potion | Ingredient (on Awkward) | Base | + Redstone | + Glowstone | Fermented → |
|---|
| Potion of Regeneration | Ghast Tear | 0:45 | 1:30 | 0:22 (II) | – |
| Potion of Swiftness | Sugar | 3:00 | 8:00 | 1:30 (II) | Slowness |
| Potion of Fire Resistance | Magma Cream | 3:00 | 8:00 | – | – |
| Potion of Healing | Glistering Melon Slice | Instant | – | Instant (II) | Harming |
| Potion of Night Vision | Golden Carrot | 3:00 | 8:00 | – | Invisibility |
| Potion of Strength | Blaze Powder | 3:00 | 8:00 | 1:30 (II) | – |
| Potion of Leaping | Rabbit's Foot | 3:00 | 8:00 | 1:30 (II) | Slowness |
| Potion of Water Breathing | Pufferfish | 3:00 | 8:00 | – | – |
| Potion of Slow Falling | Phantom Membrane | 1:30 | 4:00 | – | – |
| Potion of the Turtle Master | Turtle Shell | 0:20 | 0:40 | 0:20 (II) | – |
| Potion of Poison | Spider Eye | 0:45 | 1:30 | 0:21 (II) | Harming |
| Potion of Weakness | Fermented Spider Eye | 1:30 | 4:00 | – | – |
| Potion of Slowness | Fermented Spider Eye | 1:30 | 4:00 | 0:20 (IV) | – |
| Potion of Harming | Fermented Spider Eye | Instant | – | Instant (II) | – |
| Potion of Invisibility | Fermented Spider Eye | 3:00 | 8:00 | – | – |
| Potion of Oozing | Slime Block | 3:00 | – | – | – |
| Potion of Weaving | Cobweb | 3:00 | – | – | – |
| Potion of Wind Charging | Breeze Rod | 3:00 | – | – | – |
| Potion of Infestation | Stone | 3:00 | – | – | – |
Every column is computed from the tool's own brewing graph: the ingredient is the final brewing step, and the last column is what Fermented Spider Eye corrupts the potion into. Weakness, Slowness, Invisibility and Harming are themselves corruption products, so their ingredient reads Fermented Spider Eye.
What every Minecraft potion actually does
| Potion | Effect |
|---|
| Potion of Regeneration | Steadily heals you over time. |
| Potion of Swiftness | Increases movement speed. |
| Potion of Fire Resistance | Grants immunity to fire, lava and magma damage. |
| Potion of Healing | Instantly restores health (and damages the undead). |
| Potion of Night Vision | Lets you see clearly in the dark and underwater. |
| Potion of Strength | Increases melee attack damage. |
| Potion of Leaping | Increases jump height and reduces fall damage. |
| Potion of Water Breathing | Lets you breathe underwater without your air draining. |
| Potion of Slow Falling | Makes you fall slowly and cancels all fall damage. |
| Potion of the Turtle Master | Slowness IV + Resistance III: very slow, but heavily armored. |
| Potion of Poison | Damages over time, but never below half a heart. |
| Potion of Weakness | Reduces melee attack damage (used to cure zombie villagers). |
| Potion of Slowness | Reduces movement speed. |
| Potion of Harming | Instantly damages (and heals the undead). |
| Potion of Invisibility | Turns you invisible and hides you from the locator bar (worn armor and held items still show). |
| Potion of Oozing | On death, spawns two slimes (1.21 Trial Chambers). |
| Potion of Weaving | On death, spreads cobwebs around the spot (1.21 Trial Chambers). |
| Potion of Wind Charging | On death, releases a burst of wind (1.21 Trial Chambers). |
| Potion of Infestation | When hurt, a 10% chance to spawn 1–3 silverfish (1.21 Trial Chambers). |
The same effect text the chart shows when you pick a potion, rendered here so it is readable without running the tool. Note the two names players most often get wrong: the items are the Potion of Wind Charging and the Potion of Infestation, while the effects they apply are called Wind Charged and Infested.
The Fermented Spider Eye Corruptions
Fermented Spider Eye is the trickiest ingredient in any brewing guide because it does not add an effect: it inverts one. On a plain Water Bottle it brews Weakness. On finished potions it flips Swiftness and Leaping into Slowness, Night Vision into Invisibility, and both Poison and Healing into Harming. That is why Slowness and Harming each have two brewing routes, and why the reverse-lookup view lists four different potions under one ingredient.
Bottle Modifiers at a Glance
Building a Brewing Setup
Serious brewers keep a Nether Wart farm on soul sand, a stack of blaze powder for fuel, and a stocked ingredient chest so any recipe on this chart is one trip away. Heading to the Nether for Ghast Tears, Blaze Powder, or Glowstone? Plan the trip with the Nether portal calculator so your portals link where you expect. Trading for bottles, Redstone or Glowstone instead of mining it is often faster: the Minecraft villager trading chart shows which villager sells what, and the Minecraft circle generator helps lay out a round brewing room. More builds live in the gaming tools hub.
