Highlights
- Invisibility potion makes players invisible to mobs, providing a layer of protection and trolling opportunities.
- Weakness potion is essential for curing zombie villagers and facilitating convenient trades.
- Fire resistance potion is the best for protecting against fire, lava, and flames in the Nether dimension.
One of the more mysterious and often forgotten aspects of Minecraft, the various potions available in-game can make many parts of the player's day-to-day life much easier and even far safer. While many potions in Minecraft are best used for PvP scenarios, a distinct collection of these magical drinks is fantastic for all players.
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With potions essentially locked behind accessing the Nether, making the most of the potions usually comes from various ingredients in the hellish dimension or rare Overworld materials. Since there's such a high bar for entry, the best potions players can use are those that make potential threats far less threatening.
10 Potion Of Invisibility
Turns The Player Invisible
- Potion Ingredients: Nether Wart, Golden Carrot, Fermented Spider Eye
A potion more geared towards PvP or even just messing with other players, the invisibility potion is still useful in normal survival worlds. While the fun of invisibility is lost on the hostile mobs, the effect of them not truly seeing the player remains.
Invisibility decreases the range at which mobs can detect the player, and while wearing armor decreases that range less than wearing nothing, the smaller range still works. For those in single-player worlds, invisibility can provide an extra layer of protection against pesky creepers and skeletons, and for those in multiplayer, there's the added benefit of trolling.
9 Potion Of Weakness
Reduces Melee Damage
- Potion Ingredients: Fermented Spider Eye
Weakness is certainly not a potion meant to be used on the player, and only ever affects players on accident, or from wayward witches. While this potion isn't best suited for personal usage, it does play a vital role when it comes to villager trades.
Curing zombie villagers is one of the best ways to have a villager near the player's base without having to hunt down an actual village, but curing these special zombies isn't quite that easy. The process requires a golden apple along with throwing a splash potion of weakness onto the zombie, making it an absolute necessity for players wanting convenient trades.
8 Potion Of Healing
Instantly Heals The Player
- Potion Ingredients: Nether Wart, Glistering Melon
Instant health potions are exactly as useful as they sound, providing either two hearts or four hearts upon consumption. With something as simple and straightforward as that, the potion is a great one to have.
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While the potion requires the odd ingredient of a glistering melon slice, needing both gold and watermelon, it isn't multi-stepped nor does it require ingredients from other dimensions beyond the starting nether wart. Additionally, when instant health potions have been turned into splash potions, they have an extra benefit. Potions that heal and harm the player have the inverse effect on undead mobs, and with that, instant health splash potions are even better during fights.
7 Potion Of Regeneration
Regenerates The Player's Health
- Potion Ingredients: Nether Wart, Ghast Tear
Regeneration is effectively a boosted instant health potion, doing as the name implies with the player's health, though losing any effect on undead mobs. While regeneration is the most convenient from golden apples, the potion is still great.
Even with the potion requiring a ghast's tear as the main ingredient, a decently rare and hard-to-obtain item, the potion is definitely worth it, providing between nine and eighteen hearts over the healing time of the potion. Against boss mobs especially, the regeneration potion is a great way to nullify damage.
6 Potion Of Strength
Grants A Damage Boost
- Potion Ingredients: Nether Wart, Blaze Powder
Strength potions are a fantastic option for players wanting to knock down boss mobs or other players quickly, even with the potion requiring blaze powder beyond the fuel for the brewing stand. Offering a damage multiplier of either 1.5 or 3 times depending on the level of the potion, the value of a strength potion is obvious.
The main ingredient of the strength potion may be blaze powder, which can be a dangerous ingredient for players to obtain, but it is certainly worth the damage output.
5 Potion Of The Turtle Master
Grants High Resistance With Reduced Mobility
- Potion Ingredients: Nether Wart, Turtle Shell
The potion of the Turtle Master is potentially the most involved potion to brew in the entire game. While it only requires one ingredient besides a nether wart, obtaining the turtle shell is no easy task.
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After breeding turtles at least twice, watching and protecting five baby turtles as they grow up, and picking up the turtle scute as they fully mature, the potion of the Turtle Master is within reach. The potion may have the negative side effect of slowing down the player up to 90% of the normal player movement speed, but since it offers up to 80% damage resistance, the positives easily outweigh the cons.
4 Potion Of Night Vision
Allows The User To See Without Any Lighting Differences
- Potion Ingredients: Nether Wart, Golden Carrot
Having access to night vision is a great way to explore regions players don't intend on returning to, or to explore exclusively underwater areas.
Using torches is certainly more effective in areas meant for constant use by the player, or for otherwise making a trail back to base, but night vision is a great way to avoid using up torches in places that don't matter long-term.
3 Potion Of Slow Falling
Grants Immunity To Fall Damage
- Potion Ingredients: Nether Wart, Phantom Membrane
A potion requiring an item dropped by the ever-popular phantom, the potion of slow falling is an often-forgotten potion that's actually extremely useful for players without perfect armor enchantments.
While the potion does slow the fall of a player in the air, more importantly, the potion prevents the player from taking any fall damage. From build height to bedrock, players will slowly drift down and don't have to worry about landing in water or otherwise hoping any feather-falling enchantments will protect them. And since phantoms are easy targets, these potions are a great and simple backup to have.
2 Potion Of Water Breathing
Grants Immunity To Drowning
- Potion Ingredients: Nether Wart, Pufferfish
The ability to not drown underwater is a necessity for some fights in Minecraft, as well as being an invaluable exploration tool. While the respiration enchantment offers a less powerful version of this potion, with a longer breath duration underwater, the full potion is easily one of the best in the game.
Whether it's for fighting through an ocean monument, searching through shipwrecks, or mining in underwater ravines, the potion of water breathing is infinitely useful. For players building or terraforming underwater, especially, not having to constantly swim up for air or hunt down parts for a conduit and needing just a pufferfish for the potion, the potion is priceless.
1 Potion Of Fire Resistance
Grants Immunity To Fire, Fireballs, And Lava
- Potion Ingredients: Nether Wart, Magma Cream
With one of Minecraft'sunofficial rules being to not dig straight down in case of lava, the existence of the fire resistance potion easily cements its place as the best potion in the game. Given the presence of the Nether, a dimension filled with fire, lava, and monsters that spew flames, the potion is even more useful.
It is the perfect potion to use in case of that drastic emergency of falling into molten rock, instantly stopping the panic caused by trying to find a way to a solid surface and hoping the fire extinguishes before the damage destroys the player.
