A brewing stand lets players mix water bottles with ingredients to make potions. Ingredients include nether wart, blaze powder, magma cream, glistering melon, spider eyes, sugar, etc.
Brewing can make potions that give you effects like healing, strength, fire resistance, and night vision.
These potions help fight monsters or explore in Minecraft.
Players must learn to make a brewing stand because potions are very important.
How to Make a Brewing Stand in Minecraft
Only two materials are needed to craft a brewing stand – cobblestone (or any other stone) and a blaze rod.
Cobblestone is extremely common in Minecraft, found in caves, strongholds, villages, and more. You can also craft cobblestone by smelting stone. Three blocks of cobblestone are required.
Blaze rods can only be obtained by defeating Blazes in Nether fortresses. Blazes will drop blaze rods, but not always, so you may need to battle multiple to get one. Just one is necessary to make a brewing stand.
Once you have the three cobblestones and one blaze rod, you have all you need to create the brewing stand.
Interact with Crafting Table to Access Grid
With materials in hand, walk up to a crafting table and access the 3×3 crafting grid interface. If you do not have a crafting table, you can quickly craft one with four wooden planks.
Grid allows you to arrange items to form new blocks and tools. The brewing stand recipe utilizes this grid, so you must access it through a crafting table.
Place Cobblestones and Blaze Rod in Grid
First, place the three cobblestone blocks along the bottom row of the crafting grid, filling the first three slots from left to right.
Next, position the blaze rod in the very center square of the grid.
If done correctly, the brewing stand image will appear in the result box on the right side of the interface.
Retrieve the Brewing Stand from the Result Slot
To claim the crafted block, click and drag the brewing stand image from the result slot on the right into your inventory.
You can place the brewing stand wherever you want and use it to concoct potions.
And that’s it. With three cobblestones, one blaze rod, and a crafting table, you can quickly assemble a brewing stand to unlock potion brewing in Minecraft.
Conclusion
Potions deliver powerful benefits that can improve quality of life and combat efficacy during gameplay. They can turn invisible, breathe underwater, gain night vision and boosted speed, and more, opening up new possibilities.
But again, none of these potion benefits are accessible without first building the brewing stand detailed in this guide. You can only unlock swiftness, regeneration, healing, strength, resistance, and other powers through a brewing stand.
So invest the time to gather Blaze Rods from the Nether and craft this essential block. It will be more than worth the effort when you’re speeding through biomes, instantly healing mid-fight, or raining harm on enemies.
