What You Need to Make a Potion of Weakness

You’ll need the following materials to make a basic Potion of Weakness from scratch in Minecraft:

A Crafting Table (craft with 4 Wood Planks)A Brewing Stand (craft with 1 Blaze Rod and 3 Cobblestones)1 Blaze Powder (craft with 1 Blaze Rod)1 Water Bottle1 Fermented Spider Eye

To make variants of the weakness potion, you will also need the following items:

RedstoneGunpowerDragon’s Breath

How to Make a Minecraft Potion of Weakness

Here’s how to make a Potion of Weakness (1:30) in Minecraft.

How to Make Splash Potion of Weakness in Minecraft

To create a Splash Potion of Weakness that you can throw at enemies, add Gunpowder to the top box of the brewing menu and a regular Potion of Weakness in the bottom box.

How to Make Longer-lasting Potion of Weakness (3:00)

To create a weakness potion that lasts longer, add Redstone to the top box of the brewing menu and a regular Potion of Weakness in the bottom box.

How to Make a Lingering Potion of Weakness

To create a Lingering Potion of Weakness, add Dragon’s Breath to the top box of the brewing menu and a Splash Potion of Weakness in the bottom box.

What Does the Potion of Weakness Do?

Drinking the Potion of Weakness (1:30) will reduce your attack damage by 4x for a minute and a half. This isn’t very useful, so you should turn it into the Splash Potion of Weakness, which you can throw at others. Using a Lingering Potion of Weakness creates a lingering cloud that inflicts weakness on others who come in contact with it. The way to use a potion that you’re holding differs depending on your platform:

PC: Right-click and holdMobile: Tap and holdXbox: Press and hold LTPlayStation: Press and hold L2Nintendo: Press and hold ZL