How to Make Potions

When you have the required ingredients potions can be brewed and drunk to momentarily give you special abilities like faster running and night vision. The Crafting ingredients to brew these potions will mean entering The Nether to obtain them. Before you enter The Nether make sure you are kitted out in high powered armour and have a sword. The three types of potions that can be created are:

Splash Potions

These potions are thown and will affect any players/Mobs within range of the splash. The bottle will break upon hitting any Mob or Block and give off particles.

Drinkable Potions

These are drinking potions that when drunk give a status effect for a certain duration of time. It will not affect any Mob/Player around the player, and the player will retain the empty bottle for further use.

Lingering Potions

These potions must be thrown like a Splash potion. They will create a 'cloud' of that status effect in a radius which will last for roughly 30 seconds.

Brewing Stand

You will need to create a brewing stand at a Crafting table for your potions. This is easily achieved by using three cobblestone blocks to go with your Blaze Rod.

Base Potions

Water Bottle

Use: Base for ALL Potions

How to make: Glass Bottle + Water

Awkward Potions

Use: Base for primary Potions

How to make: Water Bottle + Nether Wart

Thick Potion

Use: Base for Potion of Weakness

How to make: Water Bottle + Glowstone Dust

Mundane Potion

Use: Base for Potion of Weakness

How to make: Water Bottle + Any Ingredient

Long Mundane Potion

Use: Base for Potion of Weakness

How to make: Water Bottle + Any Ingredient

Types of Potions

Potion of Instant Health

Effect: Instantly restores health

How to make: Awkward Potion + Glistering Melon

Potion of Swiftness

Effect: Increases Movement Speed

How to make: Awkward Potion + Sugar

Potion of Slowness

Effect: Lowers speed of Mob/Player

How to make: Potion Of Swiftness + Fermented Spider Eye

Potion of Regeneration

Effect: Restores health over a period of time

How to make: Awkward Potion + Ghast Tear

Potion of Harming

Effect: Does instant damage

How to make: Potion of Poison + Fermented Spider Eye

Potion of Strength

Effect: Increases attack damage

How to make: Awkward Potion + Blaze Powder

Potion of Weakness

Effect: Lowers attack power

How to make: Water Bottle + Fermented Spider Eye

Potion of Fire Resistance

Effect: Gives immunity to Fire and Lava

How to make: Awkward Potion + Magma Cream

Potion of Night Vision

Effect: Gives ability to see better in dark areas and underwater

How to make: Awkward Potion + Golden Carrot

Potion of Underwater Breathing

Effect: Gives ability to breathe underwater

How to make: Awkward Potion + Pufferfish

Potion of Poison

Effect: Degenerates health over time

How to make: Awkward Potion + Spider Eye

Potion of Leaping

Effect: Gives a jump boost of 1 1/2 Blocks and the ability to jump over fences

How to make: Awkward Potion + Rabbit's Foot

Potion of Invisibility

Effect: Grants Invisibility

How to make: Potion of Night Vision + Fermented Spider Eye

Potion of Decay (Exclusive to Minecraft PE)

Effect: Grants the Wither Effect

How to make: Unknown

Modifiers

Redstone

Effect: Increases duration of the Potion

Glowstone

Effect: Enhances the Potion's effects

Gunpowder

Effect: Converts a normal Potion into the splash variety

Fermented Spider Eye

Effect: Corrupts the Potion effects (only in certain cases)

Dragon's Breath

Effect: Used to convert a Splash Potion into a Lingering Potion

The video below is a tutorial showing you how to make potions.