The Magical World of "Minecraft": Potion Brewing Quiz / Test

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1. You decide you want to start brewing potions. The first item you will need on your journey is a brewing stand. What ingredients do you need to craft a brewing stand?

Answer: 3 cobblestone, 1 blaze rod

A brewing stand is crafted by placing three cobblestones in a horizontal row with a blaze rod in the center slot above the cobblestone. Obtaining a blaze rod requires venturing into the Nether and defeating a blaze, which are found in Nether Fortresses.

The other three choices are the ingredients needed to craft a clock (four gold ingots and one redstone), a compass (four iron ingots and one redstone), and a cauldron (seven iron ingots).

2. You place down your newly crafted brewing stand. Inside the stand you insert three water bottles and a nether wart to begin brewing your first potion. However, nothing happens. An important ingredient is missing. What is needed to power a brewing stand?

Answer: Blaze powder

Blaze powder is obtained by placing a blaze rod in a crafting slot. Each blaze rod produces two blaze powder. One blaze powder lasts for twenty uses of the brewing stand. Requiring blaze powder to fuel the stand was first introduced in version 1.9. Blaze powder is also a useful potion ingredient that is required to brew a potion of strength.

3. Through trial and error, you begin brewing your first potions. You soon realize there are only a few base potions that you can brew with a single ingredient. By themselves, these potions are not very useful. Which of the following is NOT a potion that can be brewed by adding only one ingredient to a water bottle?

Answer: Potion of poison

Awkward potions, thick potions, and mundane potions all have no effect when consumed. However, an awkward potion (brewable with the addition of nether wart) is necessary to create most other useful potions by adding additional ingredients. Thick potions (brewable with the addition of glowstone dust) and mundane potions (brewable with the addition of one of several different ingredients including redstone) are essentially useless.

A fermented spider eye can be added to a water bottle, thick potion, or mundane potion to create a potion of weakness.

This is the only potion with an effect that can be created with a single ingredient. A potion of poison requires the addition of a spider eye to an awkward potion in order to brew.

4. While exploring the Nether, you were attacked by a magma cube. You defeated the mob after a long battle. The mob dropped a magma cream which you now decide to put in your brewing stand. You create a new potion that would be quite useful for future exploration of the lava-filled Nether. Which potion can be brewed with magma cream?

Answer: Potion of fire resistance

The potion of fire resistance is brewed by adding a magma cream to an awkward potion. This potion lasts three minutes and protects the player from taking damage from fire, lava, or blaze attacks. Besides being dropped from magma cubes, magma cream can also be crafted. All that is needed is one slimeball and one blaze powder.

5. You plan to take on a dungeon full of zombies later today with a friend. You feel that a potion of strength will help the mission go faster. Instead of brewing two separate strength potions you know there is a way to create a shareable splash potion. What ingredient is needed to convert a potion into a splash potion?

Answer: Gunpowder

Splash potions are created by adding gunpowder to any potion in a brewing stand. Splash potions are thrown to disperse their effect within a four block radius. These potions can also be fired from a dispenser. Players receive effects faster through a splash potion than by drinking an ordinary potion. Splash potions are also both shareable between friends and can be thrown at enemies.

A potion of strength increases melee damage dealt for three minutes and is brewed by adding blaze powder to an awkward potion.

6. You are adding ingredients to your brewing stand to create a potion of swiftness. You successfully finish brewing the potion but then make a mistake. You now have a potion of slowness. What could have happened to cause your potion of swiftness to convert to a potion of slowness?

Answer: The potion was corrupted by adding a fermented spider eye.

Adding a fermented spider eye to a potion will corrupt its effect. This often means the potion's effects will be reversed or turn negative. For example, a potion of swiftness converts to a potion of slowness and a potion of night vision converts to a potion of invisibility.

A fermented spider eye is crafted with one sugar, one brown mushroom, and one spider eye. Potions do not expire, brown sugar does not exist in the game, and glowstone dust increases a potion's level when added.

7. It is becoming night. You are having a hard time seeing your surroundings, but you do not want to quit brewing potions quite yet. You decide to brew a potion of night vision to help you see through the night. Which of the following ingredients is necessary to make a potion of night vision?

Answer: Golden carrot

A golden carrot is crafted by surrounding a carrot with eight gold nuggets. A golden carrot is added to an awkward potion to create a potion of night vision. This potion allows the player to see at max light levels for three minutes. Warning! Even though it appears light when this potion is applied, hostile mobs still spawn.

This potion is also particularly useful for exploring darker regions such as the Nether and underwater.

8. Yesterday you discovered a water temple but were too scared to go underwater to explore it. Now that you are equipped with potions, you feel much braver. A potion of water breathing sounds useful for this mission; however, you are not sure its effects will last long enough to thoroughly search the temple. You discover you can extend the effects of the potion by adding redstone. How long does an extended potion of water breathing last?

Answer: 8 minutes

A potion of water breathing is brewed by adding a pufferfish to an awkward potion. The original potion lasts three minutes, while the extended version lasts eight minutes with the addition of redstone. The potion allows the player to explore underwater without depleting their oxygen bar. Most potions can be extended by adding redstone. Additionally, many potions can be increased to level II with better effects by adding glowstone dust.

9. As you begin to explore the world with your new potion knowledge, you stumble into a mob with a similar level of brewing prowess - a witch! The witch cackles and begins to attack. Right before you defeat the mob, she throws a potion at you that causes you to immediately lose three hearts. What potion did she throw at you?

Answer: Potion of harming

A potion of harming can be brewed through the corruption (the addition of a fermented spider eye) of a potion of healing. This potion causes three hearts to be lost instantly. A witch will throw splash potions offensively to harm her opponent and drink potions defensively to aid herself in battle. If a witch is killed while drinking a potion, she has a chance to drop that potion.

A witch can also drop other useful potion brewing ingredients such as glass bottles, glowstone dust, gunpowder, redstone, spider eyes, and sugar.

10. You feel stronger than ever with your potion brewing expertise. You've been defeating every mob you encounter and feel it is finally time to take down the Ender Dragon. You gather your best armor, weapons, and potions and travel to the End. Which of these potions would be the LEAST useful for defeating the Ender Dragon?

Answer: Potion of water breathing

As a player will not be underwater when fighting the Ender Dragon, the potion of water breathing is unlikely to be helpful. However, the other three potions will be very useful for defeating the Ender Dragon. The potion of swiftness will aid players when dodging attacks and the potions of healing and regeneration will help players quickly regain lost health.

Increasing the duration and level of these potions is also strongly recommended. Additionally, the Ender Dragon is useful for creating another type of potion called lingering potions. Using a glass bottle near the Ender Dragon's breath attack will give the player an item called dragon's breath.

This ingredient can be added to a splash potion to create a lingering potion. When used, a lingering potion creates a bubble with status effects that lasts thirty seconds and effects any player that walks through it.

Source: Author Sethdv7

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The Magical World of "Minecraft": Potion Brewing Quiz

"Minecraft" is known for elaborate structures and custom worlds all created using blocks. However, the game also has a magical side. See if you can correctly answer these ten questions involving potion brewing. This quiz is written for PC version 1.12.

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