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Potion effectiveness & improvements

A lot of potions are useless individually, for example fire resistance even if your not in the nether it is always something that may come in handy, but something like poison, never used, probably never will. I think that potions should be revamped to actually be so effective that they may actually be useful.

For example, make it so that poison does maybe 1 heart every 1/2 of a second for 5 seconds at level 2, and 1 heart every second for 10 seconds at level 1, suddenly a potion of poison 2 is much more effective and powerfull.

(This also allows witches to be a more powerful and respected mob which is good because it is really rare so it should be more of a challenge)

I think this is needed, because currently to get potions the most common / normal method requires,

diamonds for obsidian,

a journey to the nether,

killing a blaze and looting a fortress,

getting the right ingredients in the right order,

carrying the potions one per slot,

and using them in the right place and at the right time,

for what is most of the time a negligable effect.

Basically potions should be more of a game changing feature than a small aid in some casual task your going to do later.

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• February 08, 2019 19:49
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  RobotZap10000 commented

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  • June 14, 2018 14:59
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  Think of this:

  Can you put plastic cups inside plastic cups? Probably yes

  Can you put plastic cups in plastic cups filled with water? No

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  AzaanDeen3473 commented

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  • June 19, 2018 22:04
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  But you can stack stone blocks on each other and that's not possible in real life either

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  • June 28, 2018 02:07
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  Pretty good idea! I definitely think that potions need another reason to be widely used, so first off, I completely agree that this is an important problem.

  There's nothing wrong with your idea, but I'd like to offer an alternative: in my post Make cauldrons, potions, and soups more useful, I propose making all potions stack to 4, with a small cooldown for splash potions. I think that this is good enough to make potions more useful, and I think that the timings of potions are pretty well balanced already.

  Thanks for posting! It was a good read.

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  Sheepherd XB commented

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  • July 04, 2019 11:24
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  I definitely think potions should be made stackable (at least in stacks of 3) as I agree that you have to go through so much effort for them for such little reward.

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  James Smallwood commented

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  • June 24, 2020 21:01
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  I think a good way to make potions more useful would be to keep the base effects the same, but then allow certain potions to be combined or brewed together to make more powerful potions. Beacon effects invalidate the most common potions, but making more powerful potions could balance potions against beacons: beacons would be less powerful but would be permanent, and potions would be more powerful but temporary. Two potion could be combined with a piece of glowstone dust to make a potion that is one level more powerful. For example, combining two speed potions could make a speed potion with +10% more bonus. Two +40% speed potions would yield a +50% speed potion, and two +50% potions would yield a +60% potion. This would make it possible to make more powerful potions, but make each new level exponentially more difficult to get. This would mean it would take 4 speed II potions to get a +60% speed potion, and 64 speed II potions to make a +100% speed potion. This could also work with strength, jump boost, healing, damage, and maybe poison and regeneration. For the other potions it would be inapplicable or too powerful or too convoluted.

  The functionality for this could be that if there are two layers of potion that can be combined in a cauldron, then right-clicking with a piece of glowstone dust on it will combine them.

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  AvigDas commented

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  • June 29, 2020 13:06
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  Potions effects should be able to be added into food items in Minecraft

  Potions should be able to be infused into food as you are unable to make a person just drink any potion which does damage to you, so it will make sense as then it would make poison and harming potions more effective at what they can do, you can even apply this with other potion effects.