Brewing in Minecraft

Brewing is the process of creating potions, splash potions, and lingering potions by adding various ingredients to water bottles in a brewing stand. In Minecraft Education, brewing can also create medicine.
== Brewing equipment ==
Name 		Use
Brewing stand		Used to brew potions using ingredients and water.
Water 		A water source block can be used to fill infinite glass bottles.
Blaze powder 		Fuels the brewing stand. Holds 20 charges.
Water bottle 		The starting base for all potions, made by filling a glass bottle from a cauldron or a water source block.
== Ingredients ==
Unlike crafting, smelting, and stonecutting, there is no in-game recipe book for brewing.
=== Base ingredients and modifiers ===
Base ingredients are ingredients that can be added directly to a water bottle and are the starting point of all potions. Nether wart is the most fundamental of the base ingredients, as it is required to make the vast majority of potions.
Modifiers are ingredients used to alter the properties of a potion or to change a potion effect into a different one. The fermented spider eye is unique in that it is the only modifier that can convert a water bottle directly into an effective potion.
Name 		When added to water bottle	When added as a modifier
Nether wart 		Awkward potion 	—
Redstone dust 		Mundane potion 	Extends the duration of a potion.
Glowstone dust 		Thick potion 	Increases the level of a potion.
Fermented spider eye		Potion of Weakness 	Changes the effect of a potion.
Gunpowder 		Splash water bottle 	Turns a potion into a splash potion.
Dragon's breath 		Lingering water bottle
(from splash water bottle)	Turns a splash potion into a lingering potion.
==== Enhancement ====
Generally, upgrading a potion involves a trade-off between duration and potency. A potion with an enhanced effect has shorter duration, and a potion with extended duration cannot have an enhanced effect. However:
* Upgrading the effect of a potion that has no time parameter (e.g. Instant Health) with glowstone dust involves no trade-off.
* Increasing the time of a potion that has no effects with different levels (e.g. Fire Resistance) with redstone dust involves no trade-off.
==== Corrupting effect ====
A fermented spider eye changes a potion's base effect, often reversing it or producing a negative potion.
* A corrupted potion usually does the opposite of the original effect.
* Corrupting an enhanced or extended potion into an effect that supports the modifier results in a potion with the same modifier applied.
* Corrupting an enhanced potion of Poison/Healing results in a basic potion of Harming.‌[JE only] Enhanced potions of Leaping or Swiftness cannot be corrupted.
* A potion of Invisibility is considered the "corrupted" version of a potion of Night Vision.
==== Splash and lingering potions ====
By adding gunpowder, a drinking potion can be turned into a splash potion, which can be thrown to coat entities within the place of impact with a status effect. Subsequently, adding dragon's breath to a splash potion makes a lingering potion, creating a cloud that inflicts effects on entities that enter its area.
* Splash potions and lingering potions can be modified in the same manner as their normal counterparts. For instance, a splash water bottle can be brewed with any of the base ingredients; the result remains a splash potion.
* Some extended/enhanced splash and lingering potions cannot be brewed from their extended/enhanced potion/splash potion counterparts, respectively (e.g. Regeneration + → Splash Potion of Regeneration +).‌[BE only]
* In Bedrock Edition, splash potions' effects have only three-fourths of the duration of the drinkable form. For example, a drinkable potion effect of 8:00 is reduced to 6:00 as a splash potion.‌[until BE 1.21.0]. In Java Edition splash, and drinkable forms have the same duration.
* Lingering potions have only one-fourth of the duration of the drinkable form. For instance, a drinkable potion effect of 8:00 is reduced to 2:00 as a lingering potion.
== Trivia ==
* Although Jeb said that in Deluxe Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 there would be 161 possible different potion combinations with 2,653 in the future, in the actual third pre-release only 22 different potions could be made without the use of external programs. Of those, 19 potions had one of 8 different effects.
* By modifying the item NBT using an editor or commands, it is possible to get a potion that cannot be upgraded into a splash potion.
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