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Stacking Potions with a Balance

So we all know that potions can’t be stacked because it would be too overpowered but does it need to be every type of potion bottle? Over the years we’ve experienced Splash potions and Lingering potions and their sizes have changed so we should be able to do something about this. My suggestion is this: Make potions stackable but make it so it’s balanced. So we know that the bottles have some sphere shapes in them similar to Snowballs and Ender Pearls. They are spheres too so they take up more space in the inventory then the other more cubic materials. That’s why the Ender Pearl and Snowball can’t be stacked to 64 but instead to 16. Now the potion bottles also have a small cylinder to them also well making their shape change. We’re also counting the pixel sizes of these items as well to see how much inventory space the player will have in one slot so we need to think more about this. So I did the calculations and there are the results. The normal potion bottle is actually smaller than the Ender Pearl and the Snowball items pixel wise, the splash bottle is a little bit smaller than the items, and the lingering potion is of course the smallest one of them all. So now that the math is now done time to get how many potions you can stack in one inventory slot. Well here are the results once again:

 

Default Potions - 18 per slot

Reason: They are smaller than the previously mentioned items but because of their cylinder design we couldn’t go more then 16.

 

Splash Potions - 10 per slot

Reason: They are very close when it comes to size with the Ender Pearl and the Snowball but because of that we couldn’t go more then 10.

 

Lingering Potions - 22 per slot

Reason: They are by far the smallest version of the potion bottle and are much smaller than the Ender Pearl and the Snowball and also seeing that it doesn’t have the effects of a splash potion, it would be reasonable to make them 22 per inventory slot.



Would This be a Good Thing?: Personally I think it this would be much better then just to have only one potion per slot and combat would be more exciting. Now of course this could be broke but you never know until you try. Perhaps with the test combat snapshot in Java they could also test out the potion stacking to the public and then they can give their feedback on the feedback website.



Now I’m sorry if I got the pixel sizes wrong and I honestly do believe that some of these numbers should change but I just went for the reasonable logic of their size because there needs to be more reasoning then it being too overpowered. If you guys have better suggestions for the number of stacking please let me know because I'm sure a lot of you have something to say about this and if you like the idea of having potions stackable in a balanced way please give this post a vote and let me know what you thought of the idea in the comment section below.

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    I'm aware that posts like this get deleted but there needs to be some numbers for the stacks.

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    Great idea! but maybe the amounts are too much, it might be better with half of what you said.

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    I think it would be perfect to stack any potion in stacks of four. Players can still carry lots of potions, but they’ll have reason to use potions other than just buffs in fights because they don’t take valuable slots (where ender pearls, blocks, and golden apples need space).

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    What about just stacking 3 potions...
    The brewing stand makes 3 so it would make sense, where the number comes from

    You make 3 potins then you stack them (but not in the stand) and they must be exactly the same obviously.
    This would be a good balance between not stacking VS full stacks of 16 or 64.... At least in my opinion

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    Stack all potions to 16 like honey bottles. This would also make it easier to make item filters for potions.

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    I like the idea of stacking potions but imo they should be limited to stack sized under double digits. In keeping with stack size trends, 4 or 8 would be great. The main reason I would want this is to be able to sort out fire resistance potions from the other junk in  Piglin bartering.

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    Stacking potions I agree. Speed, leaping, and many other potions are irrelevant or never used because beacons or conduits provide longer lasting effects. Outside of those, would you rather keep ONE potion, or SIXTY-FOUR blocks / food items? Players often forego potions because the drinks take too much space that can be better used for other items. 
    So, having all potions to stack to 16 (like honey) or even 3 (brewing stand) would go a long way to make them far more useful: players can bring potions while exploring outside their beacon or conduit range and not feel the regret of losing multiple slots for 64 blocks (people would prefer to take multiple potions)
    As a balance, I like the idea of a cool-down between throwing splash or lingering potions, like an enderpearl.