Wild Potions

Awkward Potion + Diamond

The halfway stage of the ghost line, and not an empty bottle to drink: half a minute of regeneration. Above all it is the only road to the Ghost Potion.

Diamond Potion + Ender Pearl

Five minutes without a body: no damage lands on you, none leaves you, and while sneaking you walk through walls. Whoever sneaks into a mountain should be back outside before the time runs out.

Variants: 10:00 with a second Ender Pearl · Level II (2:30) with Glowstone Dust

Ghost Potion + Eye of Ender

A second figure with your face steps out of you. It stays for as long as it lives, wanders, and goes for monsters that come too close. Thrown at an animal or a monster it makes a copy of that creature instead – same kind, same health, same gear.

Every clone has a disposition of its own. Green sparks mean two clones belong together now, red ones that somebody has taken something badly. Hit a clone, or wall one in, and you have everybody who stands with it to deal with.

Cloning Potion + Bone

The same clone, but at your side: it follows you, attacks whoever attacks you and whoever you attack, and never turns on you. Unlike a wolf it never teleports; behind a door that fell shut it stays behind the door.

Awkward Potion + Rotten Flesh → Potion of Poison + Gold Nugget

For five minutes you are one of them as far as monsters are concerned: nobody picks you as a target, and whoever is already hunting you gives up. It is also where the chain forks to the Super and Chaos potions.

Camouflage Potion + Gold Ingot

Five minutes of Speed II, Strength II and four extra hearts, filled the moment you drink. What follows is the hangover: five minutes of weakness, slowness and hunger. There is no extending it – that would extend the hangover with it.

Camouflage Potion + Amethyst Shard, then + Gunpowder to throw it

The only potion here you throw rather than drink. For half a minute every direction arrives the wrong way round: forward walks backwards, left strafes right, and the view swings away from wherever the mouse is pushed.

Awkward Potion + Amethyst Shard

Amethyst grows out of the skin: two extra hearts, and a quarter of every blow handed back to whoever struck it. It has no clock – the sun is the clock. Under an open sky the crust keeps growing, slows you step by step and finally turns you entirely to crystal, leaving a crystal statue that holds your belongings. In the shade none of it happens.

Crystal Potion + Diamond

The same crust, grown through a diamond: ten extra hearts instead of two, and half again on every blow you strike. The sun stays exactly as dangerous.

Crystal or Diamond Crystal Potion + Milk Bucket

Takes the crystals off and does nothing else – whichever crust you are wearing. A bucket of milk drunk straight will not do it; the milk only counts once it has been through the brewing stand.

Crystal Potion + Rabbit's Foot

A quarter of your size and everything that follows from it: a smaller hitbox, a quarter of the reach, a quarter of the weight behind a blow and a noticeably shorter stride. In return you fit through gaps nothing else goes into.

Variant: 10:00 with Redstone

Shrinking Potion (5:00 or 10:00) + Gold Nugget

Small with no clock, until it is actively taken off. At this size a passage is a hall, and the way back is the Potion of Regrowth rather than a wait.

any Shrinking Potion + Milk Bucket

Grows you back at once and does nothing else. Five minutes at boot height is long when there is a creeper in the room.

Awkward Potion + Raw Mutton → Potion of Weakness + Wool (any colour)

Five minutes as a sheep in the field: monsters see a sheep, other players see a sheep. Every colour of wool brews the same potion.

Variant: 10:00 with Redstone

Sheep Potion (5:00 or 10:00) + Gold Nugget

Sheep form with no clock, until the Potion of Reversion ends it – or dying does. The difference between ten minutes and forever belongs on the bottle before it is drunk.

Sheep Potion (5:00 or 10:00) + Milk Bucket

Changes you back at once and does nothing else. As a splash potion it works across a field – which a bucket of milk drunk straight does not.