Learn the Minecraft brewing basics for cooking up potions and saving the day in Mojang’s blocky universe
If you’re new to Minecraft brewing and want to get to grips with the basics – including what on earth you should do with your phantom membranes – we’ve created a simple guide to get you started. Our guide includes Minecraft brewing equipment, key ingredients, and some of the most powerful mixtures you can concoct.
Minecraft brewing can be used to create a vast array of consumable potions that will cause various status effects, such as healing buffs, strength enhancers, and elemental cures. All potions created from brewing require a base ingredient, which can then be adapted and enhanced using a secondary ingredient and/or modifier.
We’ve broken down exactly what you’ll need in this Minecraft brewing guide below, including some of the most common ingredients and their effects. We’ll start by breaking down the key equipment you’ll need to get started on your journey to become a Minecraft brewing pro before moving onto the ingredients you’ll be combining. So, without further ado, here’s your Minecraft brewing primer for beginners.
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Brewing stand: used to add and combine ingredients into water bottles
Cauldron: holds one bucket of water or three bottles of a single potion. The cauldron equates to three glass bottles
Blaze powder: the fuel for brewing, an essential to fuel the brewing stand
Glass bottle: used at a water source to create a water bottle. Is also the potion container
Water bottle: the starting base for all potions, created from filling a glass bottle at a water source or cauldron
HOW TO USE A MINECRAFT BREWING STAND
Fill 1-3 glass bottles with water from either a cauldron or a water source
Place the water bottle(s) into the bottom three slots
Fill the top spot with the base ingredient
Use Blaze Powder for the brewing process
Repeat these steps until you have the desired potion
MINECRAFT BREWING INGREDIENTS
BASE
The base ingredients are the first ingredient added to the brewing process. Every potion requires a base ingredient, which determine the potion’s type. The base ingredients are listed below, along with the type of potion each ingredient creates. The modifier effect is when the ingredient is used at the end of the brewing process, to enhance or adapt potions.
Ingredient
Potion type
Modifier effect
Nether Wart
Awkward Potion
None
Redstone Dust
Mundane Potion
Extends potion duration
Glowstone Dust
Thick Potion
Enhances potion potency
Fermented Spider Eye
Potion of Weakness
Corrupts a potion, reversing its effects
Gunpowder
Splash Water Bottle
Explodes on impact
Dragon’s Breath
Lingering Water Bottle
Explodes on impact, leaves a damaging cloud
SECONDARY
The secondary ingredient, also known as the effect ingredient, is to be added to the base one. This ingredient will influence the type of potion created.
Ingredient
Effect
Sugar
Swiftness
Rabbit’s Foot
Swiftness
Glistering Melon
Healing
Pufferfish
Water breathing
Magma Cream
Fire resistance
Golden Carrot
Night vision
Blaze Powder
Strength
Ghast Tear
Regeneration
Turtle Shell
Water breathing
Phantom Membranes
Slow falling
Fermented Spider Eye
Poison
ELEMENT INGREDIENTS
An addition to Minecraft brewing can be found in the Minecraft Bedrock and Education Editions and includes the elemental ingredients below that can cure nausea, weakness, poison, and blindness.
Element
Effect cured
Bismuth
Nausea
Cobalt
Weakness
Silver
Poison
Calcium
Blindness
If you’re excited to venture out from the confines of your mining sanctuary, brewing in Minecraft is a great skill to have. Now you’re familiar with the basics, you can experiment with Minecraft brewing recipes to create potions to suit your combat needs.
Some of the Minecraft potions created from brewing include poison, fire resistance, and healing, but ingredients can be combined and manipulated to create a wide range of potions using Minecraft brewing recipes. But, for now, best of luck on finding the materials you need to help you in your future endeavours.
Earlier this week, prominent streamer Ludvig ‘Anomaly’ Lagerstedt received a 30-day suspension from Twitch after he briefly showed a Minecraft skin depicting Adolph Hitler. Anomaly is appealing the ban – he says it’s “quite excessive” – but the streamer has already gotten into hot water with Twitch over hateful conduct in the past.
In the offending clip, Anomaly opens his Minecraft inventory and immediately closes it as he realises the Hitler skin is on display. “Oh my god, I have the wrong skin on me,” he says, bursting into laughter. On Twitter after the ban, Anomaly said “I had the skin because me and some friends were gonna record a Minecraft video and I was gonna make a little joke about ‘Meinkraft’ and forgot to change back the skin.”
According to the relevant bits of Twitch’s community guidelines, “hateful conduct is any content or activity that promotes, encourages, or facilitates discrimination, denigration, objectification, harassment, or violence” against people in a wide range of categories, and it’s not hard to see how Twitch might recognise Hitler jokes as – at the very least – ‘facilitating denigration.’
It’s not the first time Anomaly has been banned from Twitch for inappropriate conduct, as Dot Esports notes. Over a year ago, he received an indefinite suspension from the platform for violating the hateful conduct rules.
While we never officially got confirmation on why that ban happened – obviously it was eventually overturned – it did come immediately after a clip in which Anomaly dressed a black PUBG character in prison clothes, and followed with the same sort of exaggerated laugh we hear in the Minecraft clip.
Kill time behind the wheel in the wide, wide world of Minecraft.
What you need to know
Minecraft may be on its way to another platform: Tesla cars.
Tesla founder Elon Musk tweeted that the company is working on bringing the blocky game to its vehicles, and it’s a “high priority.”
Musk also revealed that Cuphead will launch in Teslas in August.
Minecraft has already become one of the most ubiquitous games out there, with ports on nearly every platform you can think of. However, you might be able to add another, unconventional platform to that list soon: Tesla vehicles.
Tesla founder Elon Musk recently tweeted that Minecraft is on his company’s list of to-dos for game ports. Going further, Musk says it’s a high priority, alongside Roblox.
Teslas all feature a large displays from which you control much of the car’s functions. Tesla has been gradually adding games to the built-in computers for months now, including Atari titles, Beach Buggy Racing 2, and even chess. Of course, the games are only meant to be played while the car is at rest, so don’t get your hopes up for playing Minecraft as you drive. That’s just plain dangerous.
For those of us without a Tesla, both Cuphead and Minecraft are available to pick up across Xbox One, Windows 10, and a number of other platforms in the meantime.
Minecraft Monday is returning for Week 6 as the UMG event put together by Keemstar continues.
The Week 6 rosters were recently announced, although the full teams aren’t complete yet. The first roster release says Bajan_Canadian is still in need of a partner. They have a few more hours to find a partner, so hopefully we’ll have full rosters by the time it starts.
ShotGunPlays & Technoblade won Week 1, Technoblade & iBallisticSquid won Week 2, traves & cscoop won Week 3, Vikkstar123 & Preston won Week 4 and Skeppy & BadBoyHalo won Week 5. Skeppy and BadBoyHalo are teamed up again for Week 6, so we could see a repeat champ.
When does Minecraft Monday start?
Date: July 22nd
Time: 4 p.m. EST, 1 p.m. PT
How to stream Minecraft Monday Week 6
UMG will be streaming the event live above.
You can also watch live from individual streamers on their respective platforms (some stream on Twitch, others stream on YouTube, a rare few choose other outlets).
Minecraft Monday Week 6 teams, rosters
WEEK 6
Player 1
Player 2
Team 1
James Charles
ConnorEatsPants
Team 2
Schlatt
Technopig
Team 3
JackSucksAtLife
Dangthatsalongname
Team 4
Yammy
LaurenzSide
Team 5
Traves
Cscoop
Team 6
CaptainSparklez
AntVenom
Team 7
DanTDM
ThinkNoodles
Team 8
Preston
Logodoptiz
Team 9
GoodGuyFitz
SwaggerSouls
Team 10
JeromeASF
Ph1LzA
Team 11
Skeppy
BadBoyHalo
Team 12
Vikkstar123
ZerkaaHD
Team 13
CallMeCarsonYT
Nivison
Team 14
iHasCupquake
JaidenAnimations
Team 15
Aphmau
NepentheZ
Team 16
Jon Bams
Papalatte
Team 17
Quackity
JunkyJanker
Team 18
xQc
m0xy
Team 19
Dennis
Sub
Team 20
Bajan_Canadian
NEED PARTNER
Minecraft Monday rules, scoring system
Eliminations: +10 Score
Victory: +30 Score
Top 2 Teams: +20 Score
Top 3 Teams: +10 Score
Surviving: +2 Score (Whenever a team is eliminated all other remaining teams earn +2 Score)
An added note, scoring for placements, surviving and victories are split between teammates if both are alive. But if one member of the team gets eliminated, the score is awarded to the surviving teammate.
There’s no cheating allowed. Cheating includes no cross-teaming, no “feeding” to help another team no mods or resource packs that grant unfair advantages. Trash talk is allowed, but toxic trash talk could result in a ban.
UMG listed the games played as follows for Week 5. This section hasn’t been updated for Week 6, so we’ll keep an eye out in case it changes.
1. Hunger Games (Spark City)
2. TNT Run
3. Dropper
4. Spleef
5. Battle Arena
6. Find The Button
7. Run From The Lava
8. Bingo Hunt
9. Hunger Games (MAP)
Minecraft Monday Week 6 results
The leaderboard above will update throughout the tournament, and you can check at the end of the event who won.
The Super Duper Graphics Pack for Minecraft was announced at E3 2017. Just over two years later, it’s still never been released, and there has been little news about the update’s progress.
Back in 2017, the team sounded optimistic. “Today we’re revealing a new look for Minecraft that we’re super duper excited for you to try out, one that’s inspired by the power of Xbox One X and available this fall,” said Mojang brand director Lydia Winters on stage at Microsoft’s press conference that year. She was referring to the Super Duper Graphics Pack, an update that would allow Minecraft to run in 4K, as well as add new lighting effects and, on the Xbox One X at least, increase draw distances to make players’ worlds feel that much bigger.
While the Xbox One X came out as scheduled that fall, the Super Duper Graphics Pack did not. At MineCon later that year, the game’s studio announced it had been delayed until the following year. “There’s a lot of work to be done still and we’re not going to be ready to launch it in 2017,” the company wrote on its website. “We’ll be releasing Super Duper next year, and we’ll have more information for you here on Minecraft.net soon.”
That information never came, though, leaving people to wonder about its fate to this day. Minecraft wasn’t featured prominently at E3 last year or this year, and while the game has received major updates in the last two years, including The Life Aquatic patch that added oceanic exploration and cross-play betweenMinecraft players on Xbox One, PC, mobile, and Switch, the 4K graphics showcased two years on the Xbox One X are still missing. Notably, it’s the only first-party game on the platform that still doesn’t have any Xbox One X enhanced features.
While there’s been no official update about what’s going on with the Super Duper Graphics Pack from Microsoft (which declined to comment for this story), developers at Mojang said at a MineCon Earth panel last October that the update was proving trickier than originally thought, requiring portions of the game engine to be overhauled. This past March, community manager Helen Zbihlyj said on Twitter that there were only eight people working on the game’s new graphics engine, stressing what a monumental task this was given all of the platforms it needs to support, including VR. (Mojang did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)
Given those factors, it’s not surprising that the Super Duper Graphics Pack is taking so long. If anything, the surprising part is that Microsoft decided to make such a big deal out of the new Xbox One X enhanced update so early.
While a thread about the missing graphics pack blows up on the Xbox One subreddit every so often, fans recently poked fun at a now infamous tweetmade by a user called ItsGam3r saying they planned to buy an Xbox One X just for Minecraft after seeing the trailer for the new graphics. “It’s going to be great for Minecraft fans,” the official Xbox twitter account had responded at the time. “If only he knew…” wrote someone reposting the exchange on Reddit.
“I never ended up actually buying an XB1X, lmao,” ItsGam3r told Kotaku in a DM. “Although it looked pretty sweet.”
