“Minecraft” is a sandbox game where the possibilities of exploring its world are literally infinite. You can scour the land or explore under the oceans. Should you wish to do the latter, it can be really difficult. But can you? Of course. What you need is the Potion of Water Breathing.
What Is The Potion Of Water Breathing? What Can It Do?
Potions are a common thoroughfare in several games, such as “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” and “Hogwarts Legacy.” In the world’s favorite sandbox game, potions are also a necessity.
One of them, the Potion of Water Breathing, restrains the oxygen bar from depleting while you are underwater in “Minecraft.” Drinking this potion gives you the Water Breathing effect so you can breathe underwater for three minutes. It isn’t that long, but it means a lot.
Here’s how to brew some Potions of Water Breathing. Let’s first discuss what you’ll need.
Ingredients
Like many other recipes, you must first collect the ingredients to make this potion. They are:
- One Crafting Table (craft using four Wood Planks)
- One Brewing Stand (craft with a Blaze Rod and three Cobblestones – you’ll learn how later)
- One Blaze Powder (make this using a Blaze Rod)
- One Water Bottle
- One Nether Wart
- One Puffer Fish
That’s pretty much it. Meanwhile, you can also make variants of this potion. To do so, you will need:
- Gunpowder
- Redstone
- Dragon’s Breath
Crafting Your Brewing Stand
Before anything else, you must first craft your brewing stand. Here are the steps:
- Begin by crafting four Wood Planks. To do so, place a block of Wood in your crafting grid. Note here that you can use any type of Wood, including Oak and Jungle.
- Next, place your Planks into each box in your crafting grid to make your Crafting Table. Otherwise, you may also form a square in your grid.
- This time, you need to prepare your Blaze Rod. To acquire a Blaze Rod, you must defeat Blazes, Hostile Mobs found in Nether. Find them in a fortress here.
- Then, mine three Cobblestones or Blackstones.
- Place the Crafting Table before you.
- Once done, open the Crafting Table and access your three-by-three grid.
- Put a Blaze Rod in the upper row’s middle part, then three Cobblestones or Blackstones in the mid-row.
- Once your Brewing Stand is crafted, you can now access its Brewing menu.
Note: Those who do not want to go through this process (which is quite tedious, by the way), you can instead steal them from Minecraft villagers or the villages. Don’t worry. It’s not bad at this point. You need the Brewing Stand, don’t you? Igloos with a basement should have a Brewing Stand, so feel free to search for them if you find yourself spawning in the snowy biomes.
Now, let’s make that potion you need!
How To Make Your Water Breathing Potion
The steps are specified below.
- First, open your Brewing Stand. Then, add your Blaze Powder to the box in your Brewing menu’s upper-left corner. It activates the Brewing Stand.
- Then, add a Water Bottle to one of the three boxes in your Brewing menu’s bottom potion.
- On the top box of your Brewing menu, add your Nether Wart. Once the brewing process is finished, your Water Bottle will contain an Awkward Potion. It’s not yet your potion. The Awkward Potion is the one necessary to create secondary potions. Think of how it goes in “Little Alchemy 2.”
- Now, it’s time for your Puffer Fish to be added to the top box of your Brewing menu.
- The brewing process will commence. Once complete, the Awkward Potion will be replaced by the Potion of Water Breathing.
The potion also has other variants which you can make, too, of course:
- Splash Water Breathing Potion – This type of Water Breathing Potion can be used on other players. To make this, simply add Gunpowder to the Potion of Water Breathing.
- Lingering Water Breathing Potion – You can also make the Lingering Water Breathing Potion. You can use this to create a Water Breathing cloud. If a player or mob runs through the cloud, they will also get the potion’s Water Breathing effect, allowing them to breathe underwater for 45 seconds. To make this, simply add Dragon’s Breath to the Splash Potion of Weakness.
When Should You Use The Potion Of Water Breathing?
When you need to breathe underwater, right, you might say? But hold on, the potion has other uses as well.
Water Breathing potions were initially just a niche for some “Minecraft” players, but they eventually became more important to the game. Underwater, you can find so much loot, such as in shipwrecks and ruins, which include treasure maps that can lead you to buried treasures of diamonds and hearts of the sea, helpful in making a conduit.
But aside from that, the Potion of Water Breathing has also proved helpful for those who wish to defeat the Elder Guardians inside an Ocean Monument. Without proper breathing capabilities, exploring these underwater dungeons can be tricky, not to mention the powerful enemies, too.
Also, players who want to get their hands on Prismarine (an underwater stone), sponge blocks, and the gold treasure found in these monuments will need some Water Breathing potions.
So, this guide shall be helpful in those scenarios. For a visual walkthrough, watch this YouTube video.
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