How to Make and Use a Potion of Water Breathing in Minecraft
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A Potion of Water Breathing in Minecraft is a consumable item that grants the ability to breathe underwater. It gives the Water Breathing effect. Water Breathing does not have potency levels, but its duration can be extended.
Reasons why you may want the Water Breathing effect is when you’re catching fish, gathering resources like Corals and chest loot from shipwrecks, fighting mobs like the Drowned and Elder Guardians, exploring structures like ocean monuments and underwater ruins, and building your own structures underwater. In short, the Potion of Water Breathing is something you’ll find useful if you plan to spend a long stretches of time underwater.
A possible downside to using this potion is that its resources can be difficult to acquire, especially if you plan to do this in the early-game. It requires ingredients from the Nether and underwater. The duration of the status effect is also limited, ranging from 3-8 minutes. If you use the Splash, Lingering, and Arrow variants, the duration becomes shorter. However, once you get used to it, you’ll learn to maximize your time underwater.
Aside from a Turtle Shell, the Potion of Water Breathing and its variants are the only ways to get the Water Breathing effect in Minecraft. Turtle Shell is a type of armor or helmet that gives the user Water Breathing for only 10 seconds. This helmet can be more difficult to make than the potion since it requires Scute which you only get from baby turtles. You may want to consider this if you want to get the Water Breathing effect using other ways.
We recommend using a Potion of Water Breathing alongside the Depth Strider boot enchantment to increase your underwater movement speed. To get Depth Strider, you either need to enchant a pair of boots at an Enchanting Table or use an Enchanted Book and an Anvil. Another way to increase your speed underwater is by swimming with Dolphins, which grants you with the Dolphin’s Grace status effect.
How to Brew a Regular Potion of Water Breathing in Minecraft?
To brew a regular Potion of Water Breathing in Minecraft, gather the required tools and ingredients, then follow the recipe below:
Ingredients required:
Tools required for the brewing process:
How to Brew a Regular Potion of Water Breathing in Minecraft?
To brew a regular Potion of Water Breathing in Minecraft, gather the required tools and ingredients, then follow the recipe below:
1 – Make a Water Bottle
Before you can make the potion, you need a Water Bottle. You can make up to 3 Water Bottles to put in a Brewing Stand. However, this recipe uses only 1.
Make a Water Bottle by using a Glass Bottle on a water source. Glass Bottles can be obtained by putting 3 Glass Blocks in a Crafting Table. If you don’t have any Glass Blocks on hand, simply smelt Sand using a Furnace to get some.
2 – Obtain a Pufferfish
To get a Pufferfish, you need to fish one. You can fish it by either using a Fishing Rod or using a Bucket directly on a Pufferfish if you find one underwater. Alternatively, you can kill a Pufferfish underwater and it also drops 1 Pufferfish.
Guardians and Elder Guardians which can be found in ocean monuments have a chance of dropping Pufferfish, but this method is dangerous and generally not recommended unless you’re planning to loot resources in an ocean monument anyway.
3 – Gather Nether Wart and Blaze Rods
Next, go to the Nether to look for Nether Wart and Blazes. Both can usually be found in Nether Fortresses, with the Nether Wart growing on Soul Sand and Blazes floating nearby.
Defeat the Blazes to get Blaze Rods. Then, put the Blaze Rods in a Crafting Table to get Blaze Powder, which will act as your fuel for the Brewing Stand.
4 – Brew an Awkward Potion
Finally, prepare your Brewing Stand by putting Blaze Powder in the fuel slot. Place the Nether Wart in the base ingredient slot and the Water Bottle in any of the potion slots.
Wait for the brewing to finish to get an Awkward Potion.
5 – Brew a Potion of Water Breathing
With the Awkward Potion in the potion slot, put the Pufferfish in the base ingredient slot and wait. Once the brewing is done, you’ll get a Potion of Water Breathing!
This recipe produces a regular Potion of Water Breathing with an effect duration of 3 minutes.
| Result: Potion of Water Breathing (03:00) |
How to Use the Potion of Water Breathing in Minecraft?
Similar to all regular potions, the only way to use a Potion of Water Breathing is to drink it.
To do this in the Java and Education Editions, press right-click and hold until the drinking action is done.
The Bedrock Edition uses the following controls:
- Keyboard & Mouse: Right-click and hold.
- Controller: Press the LT, L2, or ZL button and hold.
- Mobile: Tap the screen and hold.
After drinking the potion, you will be left with an empty Glass Bottle. Particle effects will appear on the screen to indicate that the status effect is active. You can check more details on the status effect such as its duration by opening the inventory menu.
How to Extend the Duration of a Potion of Water Breathing?
To get an extended version of the Potion of Water Breathing, add Redstone Dust to a regular Potion of Water Breathing (03:00).
This gives you a Potion of Water Breathing with an effect duration of 8 minutes.
| Result: Potion of Water Breathing + (08:00) |
How to Make Other Variants of the Potion of Water Breathing?
The Potion of Water Breathing has Splash and Lingering variants that can be brewed by using Gunpowder and Dragon’s Breath respectively. Find out how to make each one by following the recipes below:
How to Make a Splash Potion of Water Breathing
Splash Potion of Water Breathing (03:00)
To get a Splash Potion of Water Breathing, add Gunpowder to a regular Potion of Water Breathing (03:00).
When this Splash variant is thrown at a mob or another player, it will give them the Water Breathing effect for 3 minutes.
Splash Potion of Water Breathing + (08:00)
There are two ways to extend the duration of the Splash Potion variant:
- Add Redstone Dust to a Splash Potion of Water Breathing (03:00) in a Brewing Stand.
- Add Gunpowder to a Potion of Water Breathing + (08:00) in a Brewing Stand.
Both methods return a Splash Potion of Water Breathing + (08:00). When this variant is used on an entity, it will allow them to breathe underwater for 8 minutes.
How to Make a Lingering Potion of Water Breathing
Lingering Potion of Water Breathing (00:45)
To get a Lingering Potion of Water Breathing, add Dragon’s Breath to a regular Splash Potion of Water Breathing (03:00).
When this Lingering variant is thrown at a block or area, it will leave behind a cloud of Water Breathing. Any entity that passes through this cloud will get Water Breathing for 45 seconds.
Lingering Potion of Water Breathing + (02:00)
There are two ways to extend the duration of the Lingering Potion variant:
- Add Redstone Dust to a Lingering Potion of Water Breathing (00:45) in a Brewing Stand.
- Add Dragon’s Breath to a Splash Potion of Water Breathing + (08:00) in a Brewing Stand.
Both methods return a Lingering Potion of Water Breathing + (02:00). The cloud this variant leaves behind will give passing entities 2 minutes of Water Breathing.
How to Make an Arrow of Water Breathing Using a Lingering Potion of Water Breathing
Arrow of Water Breathing (00:22)
To craft an Arrow of Water Breathing, put 8 Arrows and 1 Lingering Potion of Water Breathing (00:45) in a Crafting Table. This returns 8 Arrows of Water Breathing. When an entity is hit by this arrow, it will give them Water Breathing for 22 seconds.
Arrow of the Water Breathing + (01:00)
To craft an Arrow of Water Breathing with an extended duration, put 8 Arrows and 1 Lingering Potion of Water Breathing + (02:00) in a Crafting Table. When an entity is hit by this arrow, it will give them Water Breathing for 1 minute.
Where to Find a Potion of Water Breathing in Creative Mode?
In Creative Mode, you can find the Potion of Water Breathing and its variants in the Creative Inventory Menu by simply looking for them or searching their names.
Another method is to use console commands. This will only work if you have cheats enabled in your version.
In the Java Edition, enter the following command in the chat window to get a Potion of Water Breathing:
/give @p potion{Potion:"minecraft:water_breathing"} 1- give: This is the main command.
- @p: This refers to the nearest player or you. This can also be replaced by your username.
- potion{Potion:”minecraft:water_breathing”}: This indicates that you want to give the entity above a Potion of Water Breathing.
- 1: This is the amount of the above item that you want to have.
In the Bedrock Edition, enter the following command instead:
/give @p potion 1 19Check out the Minecraft Wiki to learn more about the /give command and other syntaxes you can use!
