Enchantment things and Making Potions

How to Enchant Items in Minecraft

Enchanting is the way to make magic armor, weapons or tools. To enchant an item, you trade in experience levels. The more levels you trade in, the stronger the enchantment will be — but you won't know what you're getting until after it's done!

Enchantable Items

You can enchant all kinds of armour, swords, bows and tools including shears, fishing rods and flint-and-steel.

Enchantments

There are many types of enchantments: see the full list here.

How to Enchant Items

Get some experience points

Enchanting works by trading in experience levels (the green number above your toolbar) for enchantments. You get experience points (XP) in several ways, the main ones being killing mobs and from cooking or smelting things in furnaces.

Build an enchantment table

You will need obsidian, two diamonds and a book (made from paper, which is made from sugar cane, and leather, for which you will have to kill a cow).

Enchant your item

Right click on the enchantment table to bring up the enchanting interface.

Place the item you wish into the slot, and three potential enchantments will be offered.

The number of levels the enchantment will cost is shown in green; if you don't have enough levels the enchantment will be greyed out. Generally, the more levels you spend, the better the enchantment you will get.

The mysterious characters can be decoded, but they are not helpful. You can not tell what the enchantment will be until you purchase it.

If you don't fancy any of the enchantments offered (perhaps you wanted to spend a particular number of levels), you can pick up and replace your item and you will get a new set of offers.

Higher Level Enchantments

A basic Enchantment Table will only allow you to spend up to 8 levels on an enchantment. For more powerful enchantments, you will need to build bookshelves and place them near the enchantment table.

Each bookshelf increases the maximum available enchantment by 1 or 2 levels, up to a maximum of 30 levels (15 bookcases).

Bookshelf placement

Bookshelves should be 2 blocks away from the table, on the same level or one higher. There must be nothing between the bookshelf and the table.

Enchanted books

Instead of enchanting an item, you can enchant a book instead. The enchantment can be saved for later, and applied to an item using an Anvil.

Why would you want to do this?

• Maybe you have a lot of experience levels but don't have anything to enchant at the moment.
• Maybe you really want a Fortune enchanted pickaxe and don't want to waste diamonds on yet another Silk Touch tool.

Combining Enchantments

Once an item is enchanted, it can't be further enchanted using an Enchanting Table.

However, you can combine two enchanted items, or add a second enchantment from an enchanted book, using an Anvil.

Repairing Enchanted Items

You can repair enchanted items with an Anvil.

How to Brew Potions in Minecraft

Collect the stuff you will need

This is the hard part! You need some things that can only be found in the Nether.

Go to the Nether

You'll need to build a Nether Portal to get to the Nether. If this is your first trip there, be careful! You will need good armour, a bow, and plenty of arrows. If you have armour with a Fire Resistance enchantment, so much the better.

Find a Nether Fortress

Find a Nether Fortress; this is a building made out of Nether Bricks.

A nether fortress; look out for the dark Nether Bricks.

Get some Nether Wart

Explore the fortress until you find some Nether Wart; it will be growing in Soulsand at the bottom of a staircase.

Collect all the Nether Wart, and dig up the Soul Sand while you're at it. If you see more Soul Sand on your way back to your Portal, get some more.

Get Blaze Rods

Find Blazes, kill them and collect at least one Blaze Rod.

Be careful, Blazes are a dangerous enemy, and it's better to pick them off with arrows from a distance.

You can find Blazes hanging out anywhere in a Nether Fortress, but sometimes you will find rooms with a Blaze Spawner: it's dangerous to get too close to these.

Now head back to your Portal and get ready to brew!

Set up your Brewery

Nether Wart Farm

First, place the Soulsand you brought back, and plant some Nether Wart on it. This is your Nether Wart Farm. Nether wart is an ingredient in almost all the useful potions.

Craft a Brewing Stand

Use your Blaze Rod and some Cobblestone.

Place your brewing stand. Nearby you will also want a chest, a crafting table, and a well.

Water supply, brewing stand and storage.

To start brewing, you will need some glass, some Nether Wart, and some potion ingredients (check out the recipes to see what you'll need).

Brewing Potions

Prepare Water Bottles

Make some glass bottles:

Fill three bottles with water by right-clicking on your well (the water bottles do not stack; they will appear elsewhere in your inventory, so make sure you have some free slots first.

Load the Brewing Stand

When you right-click on your Brewing Stand, the brewing interface will open.

Place the water-bottles in the bottom three spaces.

Add the first ingredient

The first ingredient will almost always be Nether Wart. Place it in the top slot and brewing will start.

When the brewing is completed (it takes 20 seconds), your water bottles will have been turned into potions! This potion is called Awkward Potion, and it is not useful on its own. You must add a second ingredient.

Add the second ingredient

It's time to add a second ingredient. This ingredient will determine what kind of potion you are making. Glistering Melon will give you a Potion of Health; use Sugar for a Potion of Swiftness, Blaze Powder for a potion of Strength, or check out the other recipes here.

When this step has finished, you will have three useable potions!

Optional Ingredients

Further ingredients can be added to make a stronger potion, or a splash potion that can be thrown at friends or enemies.

	Redstone	Makes the effects of your potion last longer.
	Glowstone	Makes the effect of your potion stronger.
	Gunpowder	Makes a splash potion that can be thrown and will affect nearby players and mobs when it breaks.

Drinking Your Potion

Hold down the right mouse button, just like eating food.

Potion Recipes

Ingredients

See the full list here.

Glowstone

This optional ingredient increases the strength of your potion.

Redstone

This optional ingredient increases the duration of your potion.

Recipes

First place Water Bottles in the Brewing Stand. Then add these ingredients in order.

Useful Potions

First	Second	Third	Fourth
Potion of Healing Restores your health.
		(optional)	-
Potion of Regeneration Restores health over time.
		or (optional)
Potion of Fire Resistance Gives immunity to fire and lava. Great for fighting Blazes.
		(optional)	-
Potion of Strength Increases the damage you do in melee combat.
		or (optional)
Potion of Swiftness Increases your speed.
		or (optional)
Potion of Night Vision You can see in the dark.
		(optional)	-
Potion of Invisibility Makes you invisible, but you have to take off your armour.
			(optional)

Useful Splash Potions

First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth
Splash Potion of Healing Harms Skeletons, Zombies, Zombie Pigmen and Withers.
		(optional)		-
Splash Potion of Harming Heals Skeletons, Zombies, Zombie Pigmen and Withers, but harms other mobs.
			(optional)
			(optional)
Splash Potion of Weakness Useful against cave spiders; also can be used to heal Zombie villagers.
anything or nothing		(optional)		-

Not-very-useful Potions

The splash versions of these might be useful in the multiplayer game.

First	Second	Third	Splash
Potion of Poison Causes damage over time, but won’t kill. Why would you drink this?
		or (optional)
Potion of Slowness Restores health over time.
Potion of Swiftness or Potion of Fire Resistance		or (optional)
Potion of Weakness Additional ways to make the thing.
Potion of Strength or Potion of Regeneration		or (optional)