It is possible to make a potion of weakness in Minecraft and then place it in your inventory. After you have made the potion of weakness and you drink it, you will get the ‘Weakness effect,’ which will, in turn, reduce your attack damage by ½ for a total of 1 minute, 30 seconds. Many of us have different reasons for making a potion of weakness, although the common reason is that it will reduce your attack damage by 0.5. Luckily, to make a potion is relatively easy as long as you have all the items needed to make one.
For those who do not know the ingredients needed to make a potion of weakness, you will need to get a brewing stand. It might seem to be complicated, but to make a potion of weakness in Minecraft is fairly easy, but Minecraft will not teach you how to do it, of course.
Once you already know the process involved in making a potion, all you need do is just experiment with other items and ingredients to find out what each combination can result into.
If you have been wondering how you can make one for yourself, here is a step by step guide on how you can brew it and have it in your inventory in no time.
Make a Potion Requirement
As stated earlier, you will need a brewing stand in order to make a weak potion in Minecraft. You will also need some glass bottles. You can get a lot of items in the Nether, including the items needed to make a weakness potion.
Aside from the brewing stand, other items or materials needed are as follows:
- One (1) Fermented Spider Eye
- A Water Bottle
- Blaze Powder
How to Make a Potion of Weakness in Minecraft
For you to make a Potion of Weakness in Minecraft, you need one fermented spider eye as well as a water bottle. To make a water bottle, fill up an empty bottle of glass with water just the way you would fill a bucket up. The process of making a fermented spider eye is a bit complex, but if you follow the guide carefully, you will understand it.
To make a fermented spider eye, you will need the following items:
- One Spider Eye
- One Brown Mushroom,
- A unit of sugar
- After you have gotten these materials, at the top left corner of your crafting menu, place the brown mushroom there.
- Sugar follows suit in the right.
- Lastly, the spider eye goes beneath the sugar. Your fermented spider eye will be made.
As soon as you have your fermented eye and water bottle available, the next step is to open the put the blaze powder in the brewing stand menu where the blaze powder should be. This is on the left. Now place the water bottle in a slot at the bottom. If you want more than one potion, you will need to get more bottles as well as more items equivalent to the desired number of potions of weakness you want.
Lastly, the fermented spider eye should be placed inside the box that is directly above your water bottle then wait patiently for the brewing process to be completed. After the brewing has been completed, you will get your potion of weakness. As stated earlier, it lasts a total of one minute, thirty seconds.
Should you desire to make your potion of weakness last longer, use the steps above but put Redstones instead of fermented spider eye and place the end product, which is the potion of weakness where your water bottles are placed.
In addition, should you desire to make a splash potion of weakness in Minecraft, use the steps above also but place gun powder instead of fermented spider eye? Also, you would place your potion of weakness where you would have put your water bottle.
As soon as you have made your potion of weakness in Minecraft, it is now ready to be used. As it was mentioned earlier, the potion of weakness in Minecraft has a couple of various uses. That is, you can use it for a variety of things.
However, the most common use of the potion of weakness is to reduce the damage you get from an attack by 0.5. The potion will reduce the melee damage for a total of one minute and thirty seconds. Should in case you also decide to turn the potion of weakness you have made into a splash poison, do note that all you need to have to be able to cure zombie villagers is a golden apple. That is:
The golden apple is the only ingredient missing if you want to make your splash poison potent enough to cure zombie villagers.
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