To make a weakness potion in Minecraft, you brew a water bottle with a fermented spider eye (no nether wart needed) in a brewing stand, then optionally extend it or turn it into splash/lingering form for more strategic use.

How to Make Weakness Potion (Minecraft)

Quick Scoop

  • Base item: Water bottle in a brewing stand.
  • Main ingredient: Fermented spider eye.
  • No nether wart required (unique among potions).
  • Duration: 1:30 by default, 4:00 with redstone.
  • Variants: Regular, extended, splash, lingering.
  • Common use: Curing zombie villagers with a golden apple, weakening mobs or players in combat.

Ingredients You Need

  • Brewing stand (plus blaze powder as fuel).
  • Glass bottles filled with water (water bottles).
  • Fermented spider eye, crafted from:
* Spider eye
* Brown mushroom
* Sugar

In many guides, the first step is crafting sugar from sugar cane, then combining it with a brown mushroom and a spider eye to get the fermented spider eye.

Step‑by‑Step: Basic Potion of Weakness

  1. Prepare water bottles
    • Smelt sand into glass, craft glass bottles, then fill them from any water source to get water bottles.
  1. Set up the brewing stand
    • Place the brewing stand and fuel it with blaze powder.
  1. Load the water bottles
    • Put 1–3 water bottles in the bottom slots of the brewing stand (brewing three at once is resource‑efficient).
  1. Add the fermented spider eye
    • Put the fermented spider eye in the top ingredient slot.
 * Wait for the brewing to complete; the water bottles become potions of weakness (1:30 duration).

Unlike most potions, you do not start from an awkward potion with nether wart; weakness is brewed directly from water bottles plus fermented spider eye.

Making Longer, Splash, and Lingering Versions

Extend the Duration (4:00)

  1. Brew regular potions of weakness (1:30) as above.
  1. Put those potions back into the brewing stand.
  1. Add redstone dust in the top slot.
  1. Brew to get potions of weakness lasting 4:00.

Make Splash Potion of Weakness

  1. Start with either regular or extended potions of weakness.
  1. Put them in the brewing stand.
  1. Add gunpowder in the top slot.
  1. Brew to turn them into splash potions of weakness.

Make Lingering Potion of Weakness

  1. Start with splash potions of weakness.
  1. Put them in the brewing stand.
  1. Add dragon’s breath in the top slot.
  1. Brew to get lingering potions of weakness, which leave a weakening cloud on the ground.

Uses and Tips in 2025–2026 Gameplay

  • Curing zombie villagers
    • Throw a splash potion of weakness at the zombie villager, then feed it a golden apple to start the curing process.
  • Combat and PvP
    • Weakness cuts attack damage by about 4 points (2 hearts worth of damage), making it a tactical choice against strong melee enemies.
  • Strategy
    • Brew three at a time to stretch your blaze powder and ingredients.
* Extended (4:00) splash or lingering versions are strong for area denial or defending bases.

Some recent guides frame weakness potions as a strategic tool in both PvE and PvP, especially as players experiment with more status‑effect‑based combat instead of pure armor stacking.

FAQ and Forum‑Style Notes

“Do I need nether wart for weakness?”
No—this is the only standard potion you brew straight from water + fermented spider eye, which makes it a bit faster if you haven’t farmed nether wart yet.

“What versions is this for?”
Video guides in early 2025 show the same recipe working across versions like 1.16–1.21.x, so it’s still the go‑to method in current updates.

Some forum and video creators also highlight igloos with basements as “free potion of weakness” spots because they naturally generate a brewing stand with one weakness potion you can use for your first villager cure.

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