How to Make a Weakness Potion Minecraft Players Can Use

To learn how to make a weakness potion minecraft players need 1 water bottle, 1 fermented spider eye, a brewing stand, and blaze powder. Put the water bottle in the stand, add the fermented spider eye, and brew. Add gunpowder afterward if you need a throwable Splash Potion of Weakness.

How to make a weakness potion minecraft players use

A Potion of Weakness is one of the few potions that does not require Nether Wart or an Awkward Potion. You brew it by combining a fermented spider eye directly with a water bottle in a Brewing Stand.

The normal potion applies Weakness when consumed. To use it on another player or mob, brew the finished potion with gunpowder to create a Splash Potion of Weakness.

Ingredients and brewing equipment

Gather these materials before opening the Brewing Stand:

• 1 Brewing Stand
• 1 blaze powder to fuel the Brewing Stand
• 1 to 3 water bottles
• 1 fermented spider eye
• 1 gunpowder if you want a Splash Potion of Weakness

You can fill glass bottles from a water source block or a filled cauldron. A Brewing Stand requires 1 blaze rod and 3 cobblestone to craft, although you can also find one in certain generated structures and village cleric houses.

One fermented spider eye brews up to three potions at once if you place three water bottles in the bottom slots. The Brewing Stand uses blaze powder as fuel, so keep extra powder in the fuel slot when making several batches.

How to craft a fermented spider eye

The fermented spider eye is the key ingredient for this potion. Craft it from one spider eye, one sugar, and one brown mushroom.

Place the spider eye, sugar, and brown mushroom anywhere in the crafting grid. They do not need a specific pattern. The three ingredients produce one fermented spider eye.

Brewing the Potion of Weakness

Step 1: Fill the Brewing Stand

1. Place blaze powder in the fuel slot on the left side of the Brewing Stand interface.
2. Put one, two, or three water bottles in the bottom bottle slots.
3. Place one fermented spider eye in the ingredient slot at the top.
4. Wait for the brewing process to finish.

Each water bottle becomes a Potion of Weakness. The fermented spider eye is consumed during brewing, but the same brewing operation can affect all three bottles in the bottom slots.

Step 2: Collect the finished potions

Remove the completed Potions of Weakness from the bottom slots. A regular Potion of Weakness is drinkable and applies the effect to you, so do not use it on a zombie villager or another distant target. For that, convert it into a splash potion.

How to make a Splash Potion of Weakness

To make a weakness splash potion, brew gunpowder with one or more completed Potions of Weakness. Gunpowder changes the potion from a drinkable item into a throwable one.

1. Place the Potion or Potions of Weakness in the bottom bottle slots.
2. Put one gunpowder in the top ingredient slot.
3. Wait for brewing to finish.
4. Collect the Splash Potions of Weakness and throw one at your target.

A standard Potion of Weakness lasts 1 minute and 30 seconds. The splash version has a shorter base duration, so aim carefully and use it as soon as you are ready. Throwing the potion near the target applies the effect without requiring the target to drink it.

You can also use a dispenser to launch a Splash Potion of Weakness. This is useful for a prepared zombie villager curing station or a redstone setup.

How to cure a zombie villager

The most important use for Weakness is curing a zombie villager. You need a Splash Potion of Weakness and one regular golden apple. An enchanted golden apple is not required.

1. Protect the zombie villager from sunlight, hostile mobs, and accidental damage.
2. Throw the Splash Potion of Weakness so the zombie villager receives the Weakness effect.
3. Use a regular golden apple on the weakened zombie villager.
4. Wait while the conversion process completes.

The zombie villager shakes and shows curing particles after the golden apple is used. Keep it enclosed during the process because it remains vulnerable until it becomes a normal villager. Beds and iron bars near the zombie villager can help speed up the cure, but they are not required to begin it.

If you are curing more than one zombie villager, throw the splash potion where it can affect several targets, then use a separate golden apple on each one.

Other uses for Weakness

Weakness lowers a target’s melee attack power, making it useful when you need to survive close-range combat. You can drink the regular potion before fighting, but remember that it affects you rather than your enemy.

The splash version is more practical for combat because you can throw it at another player or mob. It can also be fired from a dispenser, which lets you create traps or defensive systems around a base.

Weakness is not a healing item and does not directly damage most targets. Its value comes from reducing melee damage and enabling the zombie villager curing process.

Common brewing mistakes

• Using an Awkward Potion: A Potion of Weakness is brewed from a water bottle and fermented spider eye directly. Nether Wart is not required.
• Using a regular spider eye: A regular spider eye is not the correct ingredient. Craft a fermented spider eye from a spider eye, sugar, and brown mushroom.
• Forgetting blaze powder: The Brewing Stand needs blaze powder as fuel before it can brew.
• Trying to throw the regular potion: Add gunpowder to turn it into a Splash Potion of Weakness.
• Using the wrong apple: A regular golden apple starts the zombie villager cure after Weakness is applied. An enchanted golden apple is unnecessary.
• Brewing gunpowder first: Make the Potion of Weakness first, then add gunpowder in a second brewing step.

For the fastest setup, prepare three water bottles, one fermented spider eye, one gunpowder, and enough blaze powder for both brewing steps. You will produce up to three Splash Potions of Weakness from one fermented spider eye, which gives you extra attempts if a zombie villager moves or the first throw misses.