How To Make A Potion of Weakness in Minecraft [2024]

In the world of Minecraft, you’ll find magic and potions to be a major factor that decides the outcomes of battles and can help even out the odds. The Potion of Weakness is one such potion that can prove to be quite useful in most situations. That’s why we’ll be talking about the potion of weakness today; what it is, how to get one, how to use it and more.

What is a Potion of Weakness?

The Potion of Weakness is a potion that inflicts the weakness effect on you; this reduces your melee attack damage. While the potion may seem to do more harm than good at the first glance, it is primarily used as a component in brewing advanced potions. The Potion of Weakness is also the simplest potion to brew, as it’s the only potion not requiring a nether wart.

At any rate, let’s look at how we can obtain a Potion of Weakness in Minecraft.

Obtaining a Potion of Weakness

You can obtain a Potion of Weakness through the following means:

1. Witches can sometimes drop a Potion of Weakness when defeated.
2. Brew one yourself.

Ingredients Required Brewing a Potion of Weakness

To brew a Potion of Weakness, here’s what you’ll need to have in your inventory:

1. A Crafting Table
2. A Brewing Stand
3. One Blaze Powder
4. One Bottle of Water
5. One Fermented Spider’s Eye

Some of the ingredients require a bit of effort to obtain, but we’ll be helping out in that regard.

1. Crafting Table

While newcomers have a 2×2 grid for crafting, that simply isn’t enough — especially when you’re looking to craft more complex stuff. Therefore, to get a 3×3 crafting grid, you need a crafting table. A crafting table can be crafted by following the steps below:

1. First off, you’ll need a decent amount of wood. Since you’ll need wood to craft your shield too, make sure to get it all in one go. At any rate, wood is the easiest resource to obtain in Minecraft. Simply, chop or punch away at the trees to get some. 3 logs should be enough.
   

   

2. Once you’ve got the wood, open up your crafting menu. Place 1 log of wood in any crafting slot to obtain 4 wooden planks.
   

   

3. Now, remove all the wood logs from the crafting slots and fill all the slots with the wooden planks you just crafted. The result will be a crafting table. 
   

   

4. Place the crafting table somewhere in your base.
   

   

5. Finally, exit the crafting screen and access it once more to see the changes.
   

   

2. Brewing Stand

To craft a Brewing Stand, you’ll need 1 Blaze Stick and 3 cobblestone. A blaze stick is dropped by a blaze, while cobblestone is very common underground. Then, follow these steps:

1. Open up the crafting menu. Place the components exactly as shown below.
   

   

2. Place the crafted Brewing Stand in your inventory. 
3. Now, equip the Brewing Stand and place it in your base. The Brewing Stand can now be used to concoct potions.
   

   

3. Blaze Powder

Blaze Powder is used to power the brewing process in the Brewing Stand. In order to craft Blaze Powder, you’ll need another Blaze Stick.

1. Open up the crafting menu. Place 1 Blaze Stick in any box in the grid.
   

   

2. Place the Blaze Powder in your inventory.

4. Bottle of Water

A Bottle of Water in Minecraft is easy enough to get. You can find them while fishing, or you can make one using a Glass Bottle. Glass Bottles are found while fishing, drinking from bottles, or you can craft one. Glass bottles are also dropped by witches. Here are the steps to craft a glass bottle and how you can convert it into a bottle of water:

1. To craft a glass bottle, you’ll need 3 Glass, which can be smelted using a Furnace. You’ll require any kind of Sand and you can use any kind of fuel (coal, wood, etc.). Use 3 blocks of sand and 3 fuel when smelting.
   

   

2. After you’ve smelted the Glass, place it in your inventory.
3. Then, open up your crafting menu. Place the 1 glass in the each column of the grid.
   

   

4. Place the crafted glass bottles in your inventory.
5. Next, equip 1 glass bottle from your inventory and find a water body in your Minecraft world.
   

   

6. Stand next to the water body and right-click while aiming at the water to fill your glass bottle with water and turn it into a bottle of water. If you’re using a controller or playing on a console, press your left trigger (LT/L2/ZL) while aiming at the water.
   

   

7. A message that reads Water Bottle will appear on the screen and your glass bottle will turn blue with water.
   

   

Images sourced from MCBasic on YouTube.

5. Fermented Spider’s Eye

This is the most difficult ingredient to obtain. Only by crafting can you get a Fermented Spider’s Eye. To craft one you’ll need 1 Brown Mushroom, 1 Sugar and 1 Spider’s Eye.

Brown mushrooms can be found in swamps, the Nether and other poorly lit areas. Sugar can be crafted using sugar canes, elements and with a Honey Bottle. It can also be dropped by witches. Similarly, a spider’s eye can also be dropped by witches, although you’re more likely to get one by killing a Spider or a Cave Spider, provided that you kill them yourself or with a tamed Wolf.

Once all these have been procured, follow the steps below:

1. Open up the crafting menu. Place the components next to each other anywhere on the grid.
   

   

2. Place the crafted Fermented Spider’s Eye in your inventory.

Crafting the Potion of Weakness

When you’re done with gathering the ingredients, it’s finally time to craft the potion:

1. First, open up the Brewing Stand menu by interacting with it.
   

   

2. In the menu, place the water bottle in any one of the bottom slots. If you want to make 3 potions at once, fill all 3 bottom slots with water bottles.
   

   

3. Next, place the Blaze Powder in the top-left slot. This powers the whole brewing process.
   

   

4. Finally, place the Fermented Spider’s Eye in the top-center slot. This will initiate the brewing process.
   

   

5. When the process finishes, all the water bottles you placed in the bottom slots will be replaced with Potions of Weakness.
   

   

Images sourced from Crafting Steps on YouTube.

Crafting a Longer-lasting Potion of Weakness

While the standard Potion of Weakness in Minecraft lasts for a total of 1 minute and 30 seconds, a more enhanced variant can be brewed that lasts for 4 minutes. To brew this longer-lasting variant, you’ll need Blaze Powder and Redstone Dust, which can be found mining very deep underground in caves or ravines with an iron pickaxe or something better. Once you have it, follow these instructions:

1. Open up the brewing menu from the Brewing Stand.
2. Place the Blaze Powder in the top-left slot.
   

   

3. Next, place the Potion of Weakness in any one of the bottom-center 
   

   

4. Finally, place the Redstone dust in the top-center slot. The brewing process should begin.
   

   

5. When the process is completed, you’ll see that the Redstone dust has disappeared. If you bring your cursor on the Potion of Weakness, it should display (4:00) next to its name, signifying its longer effect.
   

   

Images sourced from MCBasic on YouTube.

Crafting Additional Potions using the Potion of Weakness

As we mentioned earlier, the Potion of Weakness used by itself acts only as a de-buff. However, combining it with other materials can result in different potions that can help you out in combat. These potions are:

1. Splash Potion of Weakness

A Splash Potion of Weakness is a potion meant to be thrown at an enemy. When it hits the enemy, it will not inflict any damage. Instead, it’ll weaken the enemy just like a normal Potion of Weakness does when you consume it; decreasing their damage. To craft a Splash Potion of Weakness, you’ll need Gunpowder, Blaze Powder and naturally, a Potion of Weakness. Then follow the steps below:

1. Open up the brewing menu from the Brewing Stand.

   

2. Place the Blaze Powder in the top-left slot.

   

3. Next, place the Potion(s) of Weakness in any of the bottom slots.

   

4. Finally, place the Gunpowder in the top-center slot. The brewing process should begin.

   

5. When the process is completed, you’ll see that the Gunpowder has disappeared. If you bring your cursor on the Potion of Weakness, it should display the name as Splash Potion of Weakness.

   

2. Lingering Potion of Weakness

A Lingering Potion of Weakness is an enhanced version of the Splash Potion of Weakness, as it can be used against hordes of enemies. Unlike its less-powerful Splash version, which only effects 1 enemy at which it is thrown, the Lingering Potion of Weakness will release a cloud that inflicts the weakness condition on whomever comes into contact with it.

To make a Lingering Potion of Weakness, you’ll need 1 Dragon’s Breath, Blaze Powder, and, obviously, a Splash Potion of Weakness. Similar to its predecessors, you can use a longer-lasting Splash Potion of Weakness over the normal one when brewing the Lingering potion. Here’s how to craft the Lingering Potion of Weakness:

1. Open up the brewing menu from the Brewing Stand.

   

2. Place the Blaze Powder in the top-left slot.

   

3. Next, place the Splash Potion(s) of Weakness in any one of the bottom

   

   slots.
4. Finally, place the Dragon’s Breath in the top-center slot. The brewing process should begin.

   

5. When the process is completed, you’ll see that the Dragon’s Breath has disappeared. If you bring your cursor on the Potion of Weakness, it should display the name as Lingering Potion of Weakness.

   

Like the Splash Potion of Weakness, the Lingering Potion of Weakness can also be used to cure Zombie villagers when used along with a Golden Apple.

Read More: How to Make A Shield in Minecraft

Conclusion

The Potion of Weakness can be used to make some essential potions like the ones described above. These can help give you an edge over your enemies, especially when you’re in a boss fight. While it may seem like a lot of trouble to gather all these ingredients, its guaranteed to pay off.