Every Potion starts with a water bottle. Made by filling a Glass Bottle at a water source, or from a Cauldron. As seen in the brewing chart on the right, the first step of most potions is to create an Awkward Potion, by placing Nether Wart above water bottles in the brewing "grid". Potions with varied effects are made by adding secondary ingredients to the Awkward Potion. Tertiary ingredients can be added to alter the potion's effect in some way. As a general rule, adding Redstone will increase the duration of the potion, adding Glowstone (Dust) will increase its potency, and adding a Fermented Spider Eye will corrupt the potion's effect. Finally, Splash Potions can be created by adding Gunpowder to any potion. This allows the potion to be thrown as a weapon. While adding an ingredient into glass bottles filled with water or potion, only one of an ingredient is required to fill all three slots. E.g. One Nether Wart can create three Awkward Potions.

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Enchanting is probably my favorite part about the game. It gives you a chance to strengthen your weapons/armor. Here is some basic information from the wiki.

Enchanting is a game mechanic that involves using an Enchantment Table to add special bonuses to tools, weapons or armor. To enchant an item, you need the required Experience level for the enchantment and an Enchantment Table. Each enchantment costs the player experience levels but in turn allows the player to enchant armor, swords and tools with one or several random bonus attributes as well as making the items glow with a brilliant hue.

Here is a list of enchantments.



The get the highest possible enchantments levels, you must place 30 bookshelves, half of them on the ground exactly 1 blocks distance away from the table. Then a place more bookshelves on top of that layer.