Mo' Potions: Expand Your Brewing Stand in Minecraft
Vanilla brewing has always felt a little limited. You get your standard suite of combat and utility potions, and that is largely it. Mo' Potions changes that in a big way by adding a whole catalog of brewable effects that were never available at the brewing stand before. From a Potion of Haste to an Arrow of Blindness, this add-on turns alchemy into a genuinely creative pursuit.
What Mo' Potions Adds to Minecraft
This is a Forge mod, and support for Minecraft 1.20.1 is available. The author has stated there are no plans to support other mod loaders, so if you are running Fabric or NeoForge, this particular add-on will not load. For players on the supported Forge version, the mod slots cleanly into an existing world and starts expanding your options immediately.
The core idea is simple: almost anything becomes brewable. Each new potion has its own base ingredient and a distinct given effect, so experimentation at the stand is rewarded. Here is a sample of what you can create:
- Potion of Haste — brewed from a Thick Potion with Fermented Sugar, it speeds up mining and boosts attack speed.
- Potion of Mining Fatigue — the inverse, made by adding a Fermented Spider Eye to a Potion of Haste.
- Potion of Blindness — a Thick Potion plus an Ink Sac surrounds the player with thick black fog.
- Potion of Decay — a Wither Rose turns a Potion of Poison into a brew that kills the affected mob outright.
- Potion of Resistance — a Fermented Spider Eye converts Fire Resistance into solid damage reduction.
- Potion of Levitation — Slow Falling plus a Fermented Spider Eye lifts the consumer gently upward.
- Potion of Satisfaction — a Mundane Potion with a Golden Carrot fully saturates you and removes the need to eat.
- Potion of Luck — a Glistering Melon turns Leaping into better loot from chests and fishing.
- Potion of Conduit Power — a Heart of the Sea grants underwater sight, breathing, and faster mining.
There are also Potions of Nausea, Glowing, Hunger, Absorption, Bad Luck, and more, giving you a deep bench of effects to work with.
Tipped Arrows and Brewing Upgrades
Every one of these brews can be turned into ammunition. To craft Tipped Arrows, combine eight arrows and one lingering potion of your choice in a crafting table. That means a single Arrow of Blindness can shut down a hostile mob's awareness before it ever reaches you, and an Arrow of Decay can finish a fight from a distance.
Standard brewing modifiers still apply. Some potions last longer when brewed with Redstone Dust, and become stronger when brewed with Glowstone Dust, so you can tune each batch to your playstyle. If you prefer a one-click install, the foxygame.net launcher carries Mo' Potions in its add-on catalog and handles version matching automatically, which saves a lot of manual file juggling.
Extra Content Beyond Potions
Mo' Potions is not only about the brewing stand. The add-on also introduces a handful of advancements, new ingredients, and other small features that reward exploration and experimentation. The advancements give you clear goals to chase while you learn the new recipes, and the ingredients tie neatly into existing vanilla materials like Fermented Spider Eyes, Wither Roses, and Hearts of the Sea.
How to Install Mo' Potions
Getting started is straightforward if you already run a Forge profile. First, confirm you are on Minecraft 1.20.1 with a matching Forge installation. Next, place the mod file into your mods folder. Finally, launch the game and check that the mod appears in your loaded mods list before creating or loading a world.
If you would rather skip the manual steps, you can download Mo' Potions through a launcher that manages dependencies for you. Either way, once the mod is active, open a brewing stand and start testing combinations. Keep a notebook handy, because the recipe list is long enough that trial and error is half the fun.
Final Thoughts
Mo' Potions for Minecraft fills a gap that vanilla alchemy has left open for years. It respects the existing brewing system while dramatically widening what that system can produce, and the tipped arrow support means every new effect has a combat application as well. For Forge players on 1.20.1 who enjoy alchemy, exploration, and a bit of creative chaos, this add-on is an easy recommendation.