How to make healing potions minecraft

Although eating food refills your health in Minecraft, you might find yourself wishing you had a health potion sometimes. These potions give your health a boost by increasing your health drastically and quickly compared to foods.

Creating health potions is fairly easy to brew using a brewing stand and certain ingredients. You can look at the simple process of brewing the health potions below.

How to Make Health Potions in Minecraft

Firstly, Minecraft has two types of health potions: the potion of Healing and the potion of Regeneration. We will first look at how to create the Potion of Healing. 

Healing Potion Minecraft Recipe

Potion of Healing gives you an instant health effect. It gives you four healing points and eight points if the potion is level II. You will need to brew an Awkward potion first and use a glistering melon to brew the Potion of Healing.

Crafting a Glistering Melon

To craft a Glistering Melon, you will need to combine a melon slice and eight gold nuggets:

1. Open your crafting table GUI.
2. Place a melon slice in the middle.
3. Now, surround the melon with gold nuggets, each in the empty spaces.
   
4. You can then grab the Glistering melon from the right side of the GUI.

Brewing an Awkward Potion

You can use a Nether wart to make an awkward potion in a brewing stand.

1. Place at least one water bottle in the bottom of the brewing stand.
2. Place a blaze powder on the left, where you can see its outline.
3. Use a Nether wart on the top space and wait for the process to finish.
4. Once the process finishes and the Nether wart disappears, the water bottles will change into Awkward Potion.
   

Now you have both key materials needed to brew the Potion of Healing. Follow the steps below to brew the Awkward potion into the Potion of Healing.

1. With Awkward potions in the bottom of the brewing stand, place the glistering melon in the ingredient section at the top of the stand.
2. Check if you have enough fuel for the brewing process and let the potion cook.
3. When the arrow pointing down on the right fills up, and the Glistering Melon disappears, you can grab the potion of Healing from the bottom.
   

Makeing the potion of Regeneration

The potion of Regeneration regenerates your health over time. The normal regeneration potion heals up to 18 health points in 45 seconds, while its level II heals 17.6 health points over 22 seconds.

You can follow the steps above to brew Awkward potions as you will also need them. Another ingredient you need for the potion of Regeneration is a Ghast Tear. So make sure you have them beforehand.

Once you have all the ingredients, you can:

1. Place the ghast tear on the top of the brewing stand.
2. Make sure the blaze powder is adequate for the preparation of the potion.
3. Place the awkward potions in the bottom and wait for them to brew.
4. When brewing is complete, you can grab the potions from the bottom and place them in your inventory to use.
   

Can I make the healing potions stronger?

You can easily make the potions’ effect last longer or have a stronger effect for a shorter period of time. Let’s look at increasing the effect first. You will need Glowstone dust with you for this method.

1. Place the already brewed potions in the bottom of the brewing stand.
2. Place the Glowstone dust at the top.
3. With the blaze powder on the left fueling the stand, wait for the potion to cook.
4. You can then grab the potions from the bottom. They will now change into level II.
   

You can use this process for both the Potion of Healing and Regeneration. They can heal you as per the stats above.

You can increase the duration of the effect for the potions using Redstone dust. However, it is crucial to remember that you can only use the process below on the potion of Regeneration. The potion of Healing does not have any timer; hence you cannot increase the duration. 

1. Place the potion of Regeneration on the bottom of the stand.
2. Make sure you have enough blaze powder to power the brewing stand.
3. Place the Redstone dust in the input section at the top of the stand.
4. Wait for the arrow on the right to be full and the Redstone to disappear. 
5. Once everything settles, you can grab your potion of Regeneration with an increased duration.
   

The potion of Regeneration+ (increased duration) has the same effect as its first level. But it will last for one minute and 30 seconds as opposed to the normal ones that last for 45 seconds.

Among the diverse activities that you can make in Minecraft, one stands out for its recipe-centered content, alchemy. In Minecraft, brewing specific potions is a complex activity that requires a few rare items and a good amount of knowledge; healing potions are among the most exciting.

A healing potion in Minecraft is an excellent tool that can considerably ease gameplay hardships. The game’s risky encounters with enemy mobs and even antagonistic players can end badly without an extra aid to your character’s health.

Nevertheless, making any potion in Minecraft requires specific items; you must follow the game’s recipes religiously to create a unique concoction, and health potions are no different.

Therefore, let’s dive deep into a few recipes to clear up how to make healing potions in Minecraft.

Potions

In short, potions are bottled substances that you can either use on your player as a consumable item or throw at mobs to inflict a specific type of damage.

The main effects of potions are a time-limited buff or nerf. So, in the case of health potions, it’s a time-limited buff that enhances the player’s health status.

The most typical way of having potions is by crafting them at a brewing stand. Alternatively, you might get potions on chests inside ancient cities and buried treasures, and igloos. Witches and wandering traders can also drop potions after death.

There are various categories of potions in Minecraft; each category might have more than one type of potion containing a similar-yet-different effect.

Let’s clarify this by discussing the category of health potions.

Health Potions

In the health category, potions work by improving a player or mob’s health condition by either providing instant health or a regenerative status.

Health potions are an immediate alternative to foods since they’re both helpful in restoring a player’s health.

In the instant health section, we have:

• Potion of Healing – Instantly restores four health points (two whole hearts).
• Potion of Healing II – Instantly restores eight health points (four whole hearts).

Furthermore, the regenerative healing potions are:

• Potion of Regeneration – Restores eighteen health points (nine whole hearts) over time; one health point every 2.5 seconds for 45 seconds.
• Potion of Regeneration II – Restores eighteen health points in a shorter time; one health point every 1.25 seconds for 22 seconds.
• Potion of Regeneration + (plus) – Can restore either 36 or 48 health points depending on the potion’s duration. It provides one health point every 1 second for either 1:30 or 2:00 minutes.

Crafting any of the potions above is somewhat challenging. Typically, players on a mid to late-game status can achieve the necessary items more quickly.

These types of potions are highly useful in combat scenarios; using health potions, you’ll significantly increase your chances of winning a PvP duel.

Crafting Potions

Regardless of the potion that you’ll make in Minecraft, you’ll first need to create a brewing stand. The brewing stand is the most fundamental block to practicing alchemy in the game; to craft one, you’ll need:

• 1 Blaze Rod.
• 3 Cobblestones.

After acquiring the items from the list above, follow this setting on a crafting table:

Alternatively, you might find a brewing stand in the village’s alchemist’s house. There’s also a chance of encountering a brewing stand inside igloos; in this case, they’ll often contain a potion of weakness inside their GUI.

With the potion crafting spot ready, you’ll need to familiarize yourself with the brewing stand’s GUI. By opening the brewing display, you’ll notice one block at the top and three others sitting beneath it. The arrow pointing downwards indicates that the distillation follows that order.

In the upper slot, you must place the main ingredient for the potion. The brewing stand requires fuel to work. More specifically, the only available fuel for brewing stands is blaze powder, which you’ll need to place in the fuel slot.

A water bottle is necessary to start the brewing process. By crafting a glass bottle, you can use it while interacting with a water source. Consequently, the glass bottle will fill itself with water and become a water bottle. To craft a glass bottle, you’ll need three glass units.

Then, follow this setting:

After acquiring a water bottle, you’ll need to place it on the brewing stand and add a base ingredient. The base ingredient will combine with the water bottle, turning it into an awkward potion, making it eligible to receive an “effect” ingredient.

An effect ingredient will grant the potion a purpose. In our case, the effect ingredient should give the potion the regenerative or instant health effect.

You can improve a potion’s effect by adding an enhancer ingredient to the equation. For example, adding a glowstone dust unit will intensify the potion, whereas adding Redstone dust makes the potion’s effects last longer.

Brewing Health Potions

With all the information above, you’re now aware that you’ll need to combine a few water bottles with specific ingredients inside a brewing stand to craft a health potion.

The ingredients for health potions are:

• Glistering Melon Slice – Instant Health.
• Ghast Tear – Regeneration.

By brewing an awkward water bottle with any of the ingredients above, you’ll get either an instant health potion or a regeneration potion.

You can get a glistering melon slice in Minecraft by finding it inside chests on ruined portals in the Overworld and Nether or by crafting it on a crafting table. You’ll need a melon slice and eight gold nuggets to create a glistering melon slice. Then, in the crafting panel, recreate this setting:

A ghast tear item is a lootable object that ghasts drop after death. You can find ghasts in the Nether; they’re massively-sized white ghost-like creatures that float around in the Nether dimension. As hostile creatures, they throw explosive fireballs toward players.

Typically, ghasts can drop a maximum of 1 ghast tear. However, you can increase these prospects by enchanting the sword you’ll use to slay these mobs with the “Looting” enchantment. As a result, you can get up to four ghast tears from a single ghast.

As aforementioned, brewing a water bottle with a base ingredient grants the player an “awkward water bottle,” which the player will then brew again with any of the ingredients above to create a health-related potion.

Otherwise, if the player brews any health-related ingredients with a standard “water bottle” item, the result will be a “mundane potion,” which doesn’t have any effect.