Minecraft is full of things that are designed to hurt or kill you, and many of them can be defended against by building armor. If you want to protect yourself from fire, fireball attacks, and even the endless lakes of lava found underground and in the Nether, however, then you’ll want to make a fire resistance potion or two and keep them handy at all times.

What You Need to Make the Potion

Before you can make your own fire-resistant potion, you need to pull together a list of ingredients and make a brewing stand in Minecraft. The ingredients you’ll need are:

• Nether wart
• Magma cream
• A water bottle.
• Blaze powder

How to Make a Fire Resistance Potion in Minecraft

Once you’ve gathered all the ingredients, follow these steps to make the potion:

1. Open the Brewing Stand interface.

   To access this interface, you need to craft a brewing stand, place it, and then interact with it.

2. Place at least one Blaze powder in the upper left slot of the brewing stand.

   One Blaze powder will last for the creation of multiple potions.

3. Place a bottle of Water in the bottom left slot in the brewing interface.

4. Place the Nether Wart in the top middle slot of the brewing interface.

5. When the process finishes, the water bottle will transform into an Awkward Potion.

6. Place the Magma Cream in the upper middle slot of the brewing interface..

7. The Fire potion is now ready, and you can move it to your inventory.

How to Use a Fire Resistance Potion in Minecraft

After crafting a fire resistance potion, you can store it in a chest for future use, keep it in your inventory for emergencies, or use it right away if needed. To activate the potion, equip it and drink by pressing your use item button. A short drinking animation will play, followed by the activation of the fire resistance effect.

When the fire resistance potion is active, you gain temporary immunity to all heat-based damage. This means you�re protected from Blaze fireballs, natural fire sources, and lava, making these potions essential for Nether excursions.

Here’s how to use a fire resistance potion in Minecraft:

1. Equip the Fire Resistance potion.

2. Drink the Fire Resistance potion using your use item button.

   • Windows 10 and Java Edition: Right click.
   • Pocket Edition: Tap the Fish button.
   • Xbox 360 and Xbox One: Press the left trigger.
   • PS3 and PS4: Press the L2 button.
   • Wii U and Switch: Press the ZL button.

3. You can open your inventory to check the remaining time on your Fire Resistance.

4. With Fire Resistance active, you can enter lava without dying.

   You can still catch on fire when using this potion, so make sure to put yourself out before the potion effects end.

How to Get Nether Wart, Blaze Powder, and Magma Cream

The components required to craft fire resistance potions are all found in the Nether, so you’ll have to do a bit of dangerous adventuring before you can craft this useful item. There’s a ton of lava in the Nether, and the fire-based Blaze mob, which is one of Minecraft’s toughest mobs to fight, holds the blaze rods required to make blaze powder. The process of obtaining these items gets a lot easier after you’ve done it once and have access to fire resistance potions.

After you’ve built yourself a gateway to the Nether, you’re ready to track down the components necessary for making fire resistance potions. Here’s how to get nether wart:

1. You can obtain the items in any order, but nether wart is the easiest. You’ll find this red fungus growing in Nether Fortresses as well as a number of other locations.

2. Harvest the Nether Wart with any tool, and then dig up the Soul Sand.

3. Once you get back to your base, you can place the Soul Sand, plant the Nether Wart, and have a never ending supply of the stuff.

How to Get Blaze Powder

To obtain blaze powder, venture into the Nether. You may find it in chests, but otherwise, you must defeat Blaze enemies to collect their rods, which can then be converted into powder.

1. Locate a Blaze in the Nether.

   These enemies are often found in Nether fortresses. If you can’t find one, and you have Minecraft cheats enabled, you can spawn one by typing /summon blaze.

2. Fight and defeat the Blaze.

3. Pick up the Blaze rods it drops.

4. Place a Blaze rod into your crafting interface.

5. Remove the Blaze powder from the crafting output.

Finding or Making Magma Cream in Minecraft

Magma cream can be found in random chests in the Nether, and you can also craft it using slime and blaze powder. Here’s how to get some magma cream in Minecraft:

1. While you’re in the Nether looking for Nether Wart and Blazes, look for chests.

2. If you’re lucky, you may find a chest that contains Magma Cream.

3. If you can’t locate any Magma Cream, then leave the Nether and go hunting for Slimes.

4. Fight and defeat some Slimes.

5. Pick up any Slime they drop.

6. Open your crafting interface.

7. Place Slime and Blaze Powder in this pattern.

8. Move Magma Cream from the crafting output to your inventory.

   You need Blaze powder to run the brewing stand, so don’t convert it all to Magma Cream.

How to Make Water Bottles in Minecraft

The final component for the fire resistance potion is a water bottle. You might find it in a witch’s hut, but crafting it is straightforward.

1. Place sand in a furnace to make glass.

2. Open the crafting interface and place glass in this pattern.

3. Equip a bottle, and press your use item button when standing near water.

   • Windows 10 and Java Edition: Right click.
   • Pocket Edition: Tap the Fish button.
   • Xbox 360 and Xbox One: Press the left trigger.
   • PS3 and PS4: Press the L2 button.
   • Wii U and Switch: Press the ZL button.

4. Your water bottle is now ready to turn into a potion.