Potion

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 "Water Bottle",
 "Awkward Potion",
 "Thick Potion",
 "Mundane Potion",
 "Long Mundane Potion",
 "Uncraftable Potion",
 "Potion of Night Vision",
 "Potion of Invisibility",
 "Potion of Leaping",
 "Potion of Fire Resistance",
 "Potion of Swiftness",
 "Potion of Slowness",
 "Potion of the Turtle Master",
 "Potion of Water Breathing",
 "Potion of Healing",
 "Potion of Harming",
 "Potion of Poison",
 "Potion of Regeneration",
 "Potion of Strength",
 "Potion of Weakness",
 "Potion of Slow Falling",
 "Potion of Wind Charging",
 "Potion of Weaving",
 "Potion of Oozing",
 "Potion of Infestation",
 "Potion of Luck",
 "Potion of Decay"
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Potions are bottled consumable liquids that give effects for a certain amount of time when drunk. They are primarily obtained from brewing. Every potion is brewed starting from a water bottle, which is considered a type of potion that has no effects.

Base potions

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  Water Bottle
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  Awkward Potion
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  Mundane Potion
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  Thick Potion

Effect potions

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  Potion of Night Vision
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  Potion of Invisibility
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  Potion of Leaping
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  Potion of Fire Resistance
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  Potion of Swiftness
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  Potion of Slowness
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  Potion of the Turtle Master
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  Potion of Water Breathing
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  Potion of Healing
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  Potion of Harming
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  Potion of Poison
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  Potion of Regeneration
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  Potion of Strength
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  Potion of Weakness
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  Potion of Slow Falling
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  Potion of Wind Charging
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  Potion of Weaving
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  Potion of Oozing
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  Potion of Infestation
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  Potion of Luck‌^{[Java Edition only]}
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  Potion of Decay‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Almost all potions are obtained by brewing.

The potion of Luck‌^{[JE only]} and the potion of Decay‌^{[BE only]} cannot be brewed. They can be obtained via commands, and are also available in the Creative inventory in their respective editions.

A witch has an 8.5% chance to drop a potion of Healing, Fire Resistance, Swiftness, or Water Breathing if it dies while drinking one of them.

A wandering trader also has an 8.5% chance to drop a potion of Invisibility if killed while drinking it.

Two potions of Healing II can be found in the brewing stand on end ships in end cities.

In Bedrock Edition, the cauldron in a swamp hut contains 1 to 3 bottles of a random potion. There is a 25% chance for a potion of Healing or Poison, 15% for Swiftness, 10% for Slowness, Weakness, or Water Breathing, and 5% for Fire Resistance.

{ "item": "Potion of Regeneration", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.36541317641224724, "structure": "Ancient City", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Potion of Regeneration", "stacksize": 2, "chance": 0.20351336037302348, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Supply chest" }

{ "item": "Potion of Regeneration", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.06999999999999995, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Ominous trial spawner" }

{ "item": "Potion of Regeneration", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.050000000000000044, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Trial spawner" }

{ "item": "Potion of Swiftness", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.050000000000000044, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Trial spawner" }

{ "item": "Potion of Water Breathing", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.6666666666666667, "structure": "Buried Treasure", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Potion of Strength", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.06999999999999995, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Ominous trial spawner" }

{ "item": "Potion of Strength", "stacksize": 2, "chance": 0.20351336037302348, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Supply chest" }

{ "item": "Potion of Swiftness", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.36, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Secret chest" }

{ "item": "Potion of Healing", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.36, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Secret chest" }

{ "item": "Potion of Leaping", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.36, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Secret chest" }

{ "item": "Potion of Night Vision", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.36, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Secret chest" }

{ "item": "Potion of Swiftness", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.36, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Secret chest" }

{ "item": "Potion of Healing", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.36, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Secret chest" }

{ "item": "Potion of Leaping", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.36, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Secret chest" }

{ "item": "Potion of Night Vision", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.36, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Secret chest" }

When given a gold ingot, piglins have a ¹⁰⁄₄₆₉ (~2.13%) chance to barter a water bottle, and a ⁸⁄₄₆₉ (~1.71%) chance to barter a potion of Fire Resistance.

Water bottles can be fished up as junk items.

Wandering traders can sell 1 extended potion of Invisibility for 5 emeralds.

A glass bottle can be used on a filled cauldron to fill it with water, making a water bottle. This drops the water level in the cauldron by one. In Bedrock Edition, a cauldron can hold 1 to 3 bottles of any potion, which can be picked up by the same method to fill the bottle with the corresponding potion.

A glass bottle can also be used on a water source block to fill it with water. This does not affect the water source block.

Potions are used by pressing and holding use with the potion bottle in hand, as with all consumable items. When consumed, they bestow the corresponding status effect upon the player and return a glass bottle.

Drinking a potion while already under the effects of the same potion does not add onto the effect's duration, but simply resets it. A potion effect does not "downgrade" if a lower level is activated. For example, if a player has Regeneration II, drinking a regular potion of Regeneration does not have any effect.

Potions can be modified in five ways.

1. Adding glowstone dust into certain potions enhances their level of effect.
2. Adding redstone extends the duration of the effect.
3. Adding gunpowder into a potion makes it a splash potion (area effect).
4. Adding dragon's breath to a splash potion makes it a lingering potion (area effect that lingers on the ground).
5. Adding a fermented spider eye into specific potions modifies their effect, usually inverting it; this is referred to as "corruption".

The modifications of enhancement and extension are mutually exclusive.

Enhancing most potions trades some of its duration for a bigger effect. For example, the base Regeneration lasts for 44 seconds whereas Regeneration II lasts for only 22 seconds but heals more per tick during that time.

Extending a potion generally makes it last ⁸⁄₃ times as long as its base potion, so a duration of 3 minutes becomes 8 minutes.

The usual result of corruption is to invert the potion's effect (for example Swiftness becomes Slowness). However:

• Corrupting potion of Poison (a continuous damage effect) creates a potion of Harming (an instant damage effect) instead of Regeneration (a continuous healing effect).
• Corrupting a potion of Night Vision turns it into a potion of Invisibility instead of Blindness or Darkness.

Corrupting an extended or enhanced potion results in a corrupted potion with the same modifier, if it is supported by the corrupted effect. The only exception to this is the enhanced potion of Slowness, which cannot be brewed by corrupting an enhanced potion of Swiftness or Leaping. All of the corrupted potions except Harming can be extended, but only Harming and Slowness can be enhanced.

Base potions are potions that have no effect when the player drinks them, but are necessary as the basis for other potions.

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The effects given by potions of Healing and Harming are reversed on undead mobs. Potions of Healing deal damage, and Harming heals them. In addition, undead mobs are not affected by Poison or Regeneration.

In Bedrock Edition, hitting an undead mob with a Regeneration Potion always registers as Regeneration I, no matter the level of the used potion.

Using a water bottle, splash water bottle, or lingering water bottle on dirt, coarse dirt, or rooted dirt converts it into mud, returning a glass bottle with it. This process can be automated with a dispenser.

In Bedrock Edition, using a potion bottle on a cauldron empties the potion into it and fills the cauldron by ¹⁄₃ of its capacity. Using a glass bottle on a cauldron filled with a potion drains it by ¹⁄₃ and fills the bottle. A single cauldron can store up to three potions of the same type. Different potions cannot be combined in a cauldron, nor can they be mixed with any other substance. Arrows can be also tipped when used on a cauldron containing potion. A single portion of potion can tip 16 arrows at once, while a full cauldron can tip a stack of arrows at once.

In Java Edition, the uncraftable potion is a potion with no effect that is unobtainable in Survival. It is also available in splash potion and lingering potion forms, as well as for tipped arrows.

Uncraftable potions have the same texture as water bottles.

It can be obtained using the following command: /give @s minecraft:potion. It is also obtained when a potion has invalid or missing potion effect tags, and thus serves as a placeholder.

In Java Edition, potions can also be obtained with any status effect using /give and the potion_contents data component.

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Bedrock Edition:

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In Bedrock Edition, potions use the following item data values to indicate the kind of potion:

Java Edition:

Normal potions use a "potion" tag inside "potion_contents" component to indicate the potion type. The values of the tag (to be prefixed with minecraft:) are:

Bedrock Edition:

Issues relating to "Potion" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• When a player drinks two potions by quickly switching to another potion immediately after drinking one, the second drinking animation is not shown.^[verify]
• A potion of Poison II lasts for 22.5 seconds, but it is displayed as 22 seconds because the item hover display shows rounded-down integer values.
• The "Local Brewery" advancement uses the uncraftable potion texture for its icon.

Bedrock Edition has unused potion textures for several effects, along with their splash variants. These effects are: Absorption, Blindness, Haste, Health Boost, Hunger, Mining Fatigue, Nausea, Resistance, Saturation, and Levitation, as well as the Luck potion textures also present in Java Edition. These unused textures were added along with the other potion textures in Pocket Edition v0.12.1 alpha, except for the potion of Levitation, which was added in Pocket Edition 1.0.0. The textures were changed along with the other potion textures during the texture update in Bedrock Edition 1.10.0. Strangely, the potion of levitation texture is a duplicate of the splash potion of levitation texture.

• 👁 Potion of Absorption
  
  Potion of Absorption
• 👁 Potion of Blindness
  
  Potion of Blindness
• 👁 Potion of Haste
  
  Potion of Haste
• 👁 Potion of Health Boost
  
  Potion of Health Boost
• 👁 Potion of Hunger
  
  Potion of Hunger
• 👁 Potion of Mining Fatigue
  
  Potion of Mining Fatigue
• 👁 Potion of Nausea
  
  Potion of Nausea
• 👁 Potion of Resistance
  
  Potion of Resistance
• 👁 Potion of Saturation
  
  Potion of Saturation
• 👁 Potion of Levitation
  
  Potion of Levitation

• 👁 Water Bottle
  
  Water Bottle
• 👁 Potion of Night Vision
  
  Potion of Night Vision
• 👁 Potion of Invisibility
  
  Potion of Invisibility
• 👁 Potion of Leaping
  
  Potion of Leaping
• 👁 Potion of Fire Resistance
  
  Potion of Fire Resistance
• 👁 Potion of Swiftness
  
  Potion of Swiftness
• 👁 Potion of Slowness
  
  Potion of Slowness
• 👁 Potion of the Turtle Master
  
  Potion of the Turtle Master
• 👁 Potion of Water Breathing
  
  Potion of Water Breathing
• 👁 Potion of Healing
  
  Potion of Healing
• 👁 Potion of Harming
  
  Potion of Harming
• 👁 Potion of Poison
  
  Potion of Poison
• 👁 Potion of Regeneration
  
  Potion of Regeneration
• 👁 Potion of Strength
  
  Potion of Strength
• 👁 Potion of Weakness
  
  Potion of Weakness
• 👁 Potion of Slow Falling
  
  Potion of Slow Falling
• 👁 Potion of Wind Charging
  
  Potion of Wind Charging
• 👁 Potion of Weaving
  
  Potion of Weaving
• 👁 Potion of Oozing
  
  Potion of Oozing
• 👁 Potion of Infestation
  
  Potion of Infestation
• 👁 Potion of Luck
  
  Potion of Luck
• 👁 Potion of Decay
  
  Potion of Decay
• 👁 Old texture file for the uncraftable potion on Java Edition.
  
  Old texture file for the uncraftable potion on Java Edition.

• 👁 Thick Potion with status effects of Mining Fatigue (duration 4:00) and Instant Health II (duration 4:00).
  
  Thick Potion with status effects of Mining Fatigue (duration 4:00) and Instant Health II (duration 4:00).
• 👁 The bubbles emitted when a player (Noor) drinks a potion (of Swiftness)
  
  The bubbles emitted when a player (Noor) drinks a potion (of Swiftness)
• 👁 The effect of Night Vision (left image is with Night Vision, right image is without)
  
  The effect of Night Vision (left image is with Night Vision, right image is without)
• 👁 The view when a player uses Night Vision in the Nether
  
  The view when a player uses Night Vision in the Nether
• 👁 A brewing stand with a potion of Healing on it
  
  A brewing stand with a potion of Healing on it

• 👁 A savanna cleric villager standing next to a brewing stand.
  
  A savanna cleric villager standing next to a brewing stand.
• 👁 Then-new potion colors.
  
  Then-new potion colors.
• 👁 New-screenshot-of-potions-from-Jeb
  
  Potion effects showing up in the inventory.

• 👁 An officially licensed bottle LED desk lamp
  
  An officially licensed bottle LED desk lamp
• 👁 A water bottle depicting many potions
  
  A water bottle depicting many potions
• 👁 A guide to brewing before 1.6
  
  A guide to brewing before 1.6
• 👁 Brewing guide
  
  Brewing guide
• 👁 Light up potion
  
  Light up potion
• 👁 Light up potion
  
  Light up potion
• 👁 A potion as it appears in Dungeon Crawl!
  
  A potion as it appears in Dungeon Crawl!

• 👁 ItemSprite brewing-stand.png: Sprite image for brewing-stand in Minecraft
  Brewing
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  Glass Bottle
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  Medicine
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  Splash Potion
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  Lingering Potion
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  Tipped Arrow
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  Effect

• "WHAT ARE POTIONS (AND HOW CAN YOU MAKE THEM?)" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, May 12, 2022.