This article will provide you with a step-by-step guide on how to make a brewing stand so you can create various potions anytime. Keep reading to find the easiest brewing stand recipe!
How to Make a Brewing Stand
Potions make you more powerful. Although their effect is temporary, they are essential for conquering challenges in Minecraft. For instance, if you’re running away from hostile mobs, a potion that gives you extra speed can save you.
However, before achieving such benefits, you must have a brewing stand.
Follow these steps to make a brewing stand in Minecraft:
Step 1: Get Your Materials
You need a Blaze Rod and three Cobblestones to make a brewing stand. You can obtain a Blaze Rod by defeating blazes in the Nether. Meanwhile, you can get Cobblestones by mining stone blocks using a pickaxe.
Important! Blazes only have a 50% chance of dropping Blaze Rods when you kill them. Using a Looting Enchantment can increase the chances of getting a Blaze Rod.
Step 2: Head on to the “Crafting Table”
Step 3: Place the Cobblestones in the Middle Row
Step 4: Position the Blaze Rod in the Middle of the Top Row
Step 5: Drag Your Brewing Rod Into the Inventory
There you have it! You now have a brewing stand for Minecraft potions.
Get more about the brewing stand in this official Minecraft article.
How to Make a Potion in Your Brewing Stand
Now that you have your brewing stand in Minecraft, it’s time to learn how to make potions using it. While there are different kinds of potions, crafting them is essentially the same. However, it’s worth noting that each potion has different ingredients.
Minecraft’s official website has an article explaining what potions are and the different types you can make.
Here are the steps for a basic potion-brewing process:
Step 1: Craft Blaze Powder
Blaze Powder is the pulverized version of a Blaze Rod. To create Blaze Powder, place a Blaze Rod in the middle of your 3×3 grid crafting table. Each Blaze Rod yields two blaze powders.
Step 2: Acquire Water Bottles
Right-clicking on water will let you get up to three water bottles. However, you must have glass bottles in your inventory before collecting water. To get these bottles, you can either craft, fish for them, or loot them from witches.
Step 3: Get a Netherwart
You’ll find Netherwarts naturally in Nether fortresses. However, be careful in entering the Nether as it is home to fire, lava, hostile mobs, and dangerous terrains.
Step 4: Go to Your Brewing Stand
Step 5: Craft Your Potion
To do this, place the Blaze Powder on the left-most grid. The Blaze Powder will activate your brewing stand, allowing you to craft your potion. Each Blaze Powder will power your brewing stand for up to 28 brews.
Next, place the water bottles on the three grids at the bottom of the crafting table and the Netherwart on the remaining grid above.
Important! These steps are only the basics of brewing a potion in Minecraft. Your Netherwart needs a secondary ingredient to brew an actual potion. For instance, combining Blaze Powder, water, Netherwart, and Sugar will yield a Speed Potion. Each potion requires a different secondary ingredient.
For a better context on potion-making, check out this article on how to make a Slow Falling Potion in Minecraft.
Enjoy Your DIY Brewing Stand!
It’s pretty easy to make a brewing stand. In fact, killing blazes and hopping they drop Blaze Rods might be the most challenging part of the process.
Once you have your brewing stand, you can reap the benefits of using potions to win against mobs. However, like the brewing stand, potions have their recipes. You also have to collect their ingredients before you can brew one.
