How To Make a Minecraft Potion of Weakness

Imagine finding a rare brewing stand while exploring a pitch-black cave that is illuminated by the glow of precious ores. When you learn that you can make potions to help you on your adventures, your heart skips a beat. So today, we will be revealing the secrets of the Potion of Weakness, one of Minecraft’s most fascinating mixtures. 

Let us take you on a voyage through the Minecraft scenery and its enigmatic ingredients as we learn the art of crafting this indispensable mixture. So, prepare to mix up some magic and discover the secret to creating a Potion of Weakness in Minecraft.

It doesn’t matter your level of experience – whether a potion master or novice explorer! We’ll all cover how to make a splash and lingering potion of weakness in this guide. You don’t want to miss out; keep reading.

What is a Potion of Weakness in Minecraft?

The Potion of Weakness, as its name implies, weakens the mob or character that uses it. In this context, weakness is the attack damage, which is diminished by 0.5 of its initial value. 

It is the only potion you can brew without requiring Nether Warts – an essential component in all other potions of Minecraft. Remember that a Potion of Weakness only affects melee attacks, but weapons still perform their usual damage. 

Meanwhile, the potion typically lasts for 1 minute and 30 seconds. However, you can add Redstone Dust to it to extend its timespan.

What Ingredients Do You Need To Make a Minecraft Potion of Weakness?

The following ingredients are required to make a Minecraft potion of weakness from scratch:

• 1 Fermented spider eye
• A crafting table (craft with 4 wood planks)
• 1 water bottle 
• A brewing stand (craft with a blaze rod and 3 cobblestones)
• 1 blaze powder (craft with blaze rod)

But if you want to make different kinds of weakness potion, you’ll also require the following:

• Dragon’s breath
• Gunpower
• Redstone 

Note: When witches get defeated, sometimes they release a potion of weakness. To make a fermented spider eye, add 1 brown mushroom (sheared from mooshroom cows, cut down from giant mushrooms, or found in caves or other dark places), 1 spider eye (drops from spiders), and 1 sugar (craft from honey bottle or sugarcane) in the crafting bench.

How To Get Some Ingredients Required For a Potion of Weakness

Now that you’ve known the ingredients required to make this potion, let’s show you how to get some of these ingredients.

How to get Fermented Spider Eye

Since fermented spider eyes do not drop, you have to make them after gathering some ingredients at the crafting table. To obtain spider eyes, you must kill spiders and gather brown mushrooms and sugar. If you have sugarcane, it’s simple to make sugar because you can do it at the crafting bench.

Further, it’s easy to farm spiders at night or in caves. And if you’re not a mushroom farmer, you can get brown mushrooms in taiga settings, the Nether realm, and swamp biomes. 

After assembling your materials, arrange your sugar, mushrooms, and spider eyes in the center row of the crafting bench. The ingredient ratio the fermented spider eye recipe uses is 1:1:1.

How to Craft a Brewing Stand

It takes three cobblestone blocks alongside a blaze rod to create the brewing stand recipe. So, arrange the blocks in a row on the lower crafting bench, with the blaze rod in the center.

If you’re a rookie player, you might find it difficult to establish your first brewing stand because it requires killing blazes in the Nether realm. Nevertheless, to access potions and better crafting recipes, or to complete the game, you will have to do that.

How to Make Water Bottles

Let’s say you’ll be making three water bottles. For this, you’ll need three glass blocks. This quantity will be enough to simultaneously create the maximum amount of potions permitted at the brewing stand.

Then, arrange a single glass block in the center of the 3×3 crafting table’s lower row. Afterward, insert the remaining two blocks at the sides of the middle row. Your goal is to form a V-shape from glass blocks.

Shovel some sand and smelt it in a furnace with wood, sticks, or coal if you do not have any glass. The smelting ratio of sand-to-glass is 1:1.

How to get blaze powder

Getting blaze powder requires a straightforward process. Assemble a single blaze rod in the crafting bench and get two blaze powders. Since you can only find blaze rods as loot from blaze mobs in the Nether, you’ll have to fight & work more to obtain them.

Supported Minecraft Platforms

The following versions of Minecraft support a potion of weakness (1:30):

Platforms	Supported (Version)
Java edition (Mac/PC)	Supported (1.31.)
Pocket Edition (PE)	Supported (0.12.1)
Education Edition	Supported
Xbox 360	Supported
Window 10 Edition	Supported
Xbox One	Supported
Nintendo Switch	Supported
PS3	Supported
PS4	Supported
Wii U	Supported

How To Make a Potion of Weakness in Minecraft

The steps below will guide you to make a potion of weakness (1:30) in Minecraft.

• Use 1 Blaze Rod to craft a Blaze Powder. 

• Create a Crafting Table using four wood planks. You can use any type of wood planks (Crimson Planks, Warped Planks, etc).

• Open the 3×3 crafting grid by placing the Crafting Table in its designated spot and engaging with it.

• Build a Brewing Stand. Place a Blaze Rod in the center of the upper row and three Cobblestones in the second row.

• To access the brewing menu, position the Brewing Stand and engage with it.

• For the Brewing Stand to function, incorporate the Blaze Powder into the extreme left box.

• Within the brewing menu, incorporate a Water Bottle into one of the bottom boxes.

Pro Tip: If you place three Water Bottles in the bottom boxes of the brewing menu, you can make up to three potions simultaneously.

• Put a Fermented Spider Eye in the brewing menu’s top box.

• Then await the completion of the progress bar. Upon completion of the brewing process, the Water Bottle will be swapped out for a Potion of Weakness (1:30).

How To Make a Splash Potion of Weakness in Minecraft 

You can throw a Splash Potion of Weakness at your enemies. To create it, put Gunpowder at the brewing menu’s top box alongside a regular weakness potion in the bottom box.

How to Make a Lingering Potion of Weakness

To do this, place Dragon’s Breath to the brewing menu’s top box and include a Splash Potion of Weakness in the bottom box.

How to Make Longer-lasting Potion of Weakness (3:00)

It’s possible to create a weakness potion that lasts longer than usual. Simply incorporate Redstone into the brewing menu’s top box alongside a regular potion of weakness in the lower box. 

Pro Tip: To Make a long-lasting Splash Potion of Weakness, use a potion of weakness (3:00).

The particular duration of potions may differ slightly based on the version of Minecraft you use.

What Does the Potion of Weakness Do?

Drinking the Potion of Weakness (1:30) minimizes your attack damage by 4x for 1 minute and 30 seconds. Since this has no usefulness, change it into the Splash Potion of Weakness, which you can throw at your enemies.

Meanwhile, using a Lingering Potion of Weakness forms a lingering cloud that transfers weakness to others who interact with it. There are various ways to utilize a potion you’re holding, and this depends on the platform you’re using.

Nintendo: Press and hold ZL

PC: Right-click and hold

PlayStation: Press and hold L2

Mobile: Tap and hold

Xbox: Press and hold LT

Pro Tip: Utilize the Splash Potion of Weakness to heal zombie villagers. Afterward, use the Golden Apple.

Conclusion

You can play Minecraft with endless possibilities once you learn how to make a Potion of Weakness. This potion is an invaluable weapon in your toolbox. Hence, you can use it to heal a zombie villager and bring them back to life, or use it to weaken strong opponents in battle. 

Remember to experiment with different potions and ingredients as you venture further into Minecraft to uncover even more magical effects. Ultimately, the possibilities are endless when combined with imagination and a little alchemical knowledge.