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How to Make a Potion of Invisibility in Minecraft


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A Potion of Invisibility will make your character model transparent for 3 minutes. This can be handy in Minecraft for many situations, however, making this potion will require multiple steps. You’ll need to brew another kind of potion first.

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    What You Need to Make a Potion of Invisibility

    Making 3 potions of invisibility from 3 potions of night vision and 1 fermented spider eye.

    When you interact with a Brewing Stand, you’ll first need to place some Blaze Powder onto the top left slot as fuel. Blaze Powder can be made from Blaze Rods–2 Blaze Powder from 1 Blaze Rod.

    The base potion that you will need to make a Potion of Invisibility is a Potion of Night Vision. Therefore, you should place as many of them as you want (up to 3) onto the bottom slots of a Brewing Stand.

    Lastly, you’ll need to put a Fermented Spider Eye on the top slot. When you do this, the white progress arrow will start filling up. After it’s done, you will get as many Potions of Invisibility as you had Potions of Night Vision.

    How to Get a Brewing Stand

    You can make a Brewing Stand from 1 Blaze Rod and 3 stone blocks of any kind–Cobblestone is the easiest. Place 3 stone blocks on the bottom row of a Crafting Table and then put the Blaze Rod in the centermost slot. You can get Blaze Rods as drops from Blazes, who hang out in Nether Fortresses.

    How to Make a Potion of Night Vision

    This potion can be brewed by using Awkward Potions and a Golden Carrot. Place the Awkward Potions on the bottom slots of the Brewing Stand and the Golden Carrot on the top. You can make a Golden Carrot by putting a regular Carrot on the centermost slot of a Crafting Table and then surrounding it with 8 Gold Nuggets.

    How to Make a Fermented Spider Eye

    You will need 1 Spider Eye, 1 Sugar, and 1 Brown Mushroom to make 1 Fermented Spider Eye. Place the Spider Eye on the bottom-middle slot of a Crafting Table and then put the Sugar above it. After you do that, place the Brown Mushroom on the slot to the left of the Sugar.