AUTOMATIC POTION BREWER
An automated brewing system that feeds ingredients into a brewing stand in sequence and collects finished potions. Requires precise timing to add ingredients in the correct order.
Materials List
The material cost of one Automatic Potion Brewer
The parts list for Automatic Potion Brewer works out to 118 crafting ingredients once you make everything yourself, led by 30 Iron Ingot, 21 Cobblestone and 18 Stone, with 7 other kinds behind them.
The Automatic Potion Brewer leans on Hopper, Dropper and Redstone Comparator, and every one of them is covered in full on its own component page.
| Part used in Automatic Potion Brewer | How many per Automatic Potion Brewer | Crafting cost of a single one |
|---|---|---|
 Brewing Stand | 1 | 3 Stone Crafting Materials, 1 Blaze Rod |
 Hopper | 6 | 5 Iron Ingot, 1 Chest |
 Dropper | 3 | 7 Cobblestone, 1 Redstone |
 Redstone Comparator | 2 | 3 Redstone Torch, 3 Stone, 1 Quartz |
 Redstone Repeater | 4 | 3 Stone, 2 Redstone Torch, 1 Redstone |
 Chest | 2 | 8 Planks |
The full shopping list for Automatic Potion Brewer
30 Iron Ingot
21 Cobblestone
18 Stone
16 Planks
14 Redstone Torch
7 Redstone- 6 Chest
3 Stone Crafting Materials
2 Quartz
1 Blaze Rod
Prices for Automatic Potion Brewer are read straight off the recipes in Java Edition 26.2.
Start here: what an Automatic Potion Brewer is and what it does
An automated brewing system that feeds ingredients into a brewing stand in sequence and collects finished potions. Requires precise timing to add ingredients in the correct order.
As a utility build it automates a processing job, smelting, brewing, composting, or generating a resource, to save repetitive manual work. It is an advanced build that leans on careful piston timing and push-limit management, so plan the sequence before you place blocks.
Footprint: 3W x 5L x 6H. The Automatic Potion Brewer has worked since Minecraft 1.5+ and it still works the same way in the current 26.2 release.
What makes the Automatic Potion Brewer run, part by part
Droppers and hoppers deliver ingredients into a brewing stand in the strict order potions require: water bottles, then nether wart, then the modifier, then the amplifier or duration item. A hopper-clock timer paces each stage to the roughly 20-second brew time, and finished potions drain into a chest below.
Of the 8 materials in the list, these are the ones doing the actual work: brewing Stand, hopper, dropper, redstone Comparator, and redstone Repeater. Everything else is there to hold them in place and in line.
Because it automates a processing step, the limiting factor is the machine's own cycle time, and the redstone simply has to feed it in the correct order and rhythm.
How to build the Automatic Potion Brewer
- 1Place the brewing stand as the center of the system.
- 2Place a hopper on top feeding blaze powder (fuel) into the stand.
- 3Place hoppers below the brewing stand to collect finished potions into a chest.
- 4Build an ingredient delivery system using droppers and hoppers above the stand.
- 5Wire a timer circuit (hopper clock) to dispense ingredients at 20-second intervals (brewing time).
- 6Load ingredients in order: water bottles first, then nether wart, then modifier, then duration/amplifier.
- 7Each dropper stage fires after the previous brewing cycle completes.
- 8Test with a simple potion recipe before building the full multi-stage system.
What the Automatic Potion Brewer is used for
- ▸As a utility build it automates a processing job, smelting, brewing, composting, or generating a resource, to save repetitive manual work.
- ▸A advanced build that asks for 1× brewing Stand, 6× hopper, 3× dropper, and 2× redstone Comparator along with the rest of the 8 material types on the list above.
- ▸Connect its input and output chests to a wider item network so it processes resources unattended.
- ▸Scale the array up by repeating the unit once the single version works.
Tips & common mistakes
- !Add each ingredient only after the previous brew cycle finishes; rush the timing and you waste ingredients on a stand that is still busy.
- !At advanced level the whole trick is patience: get one single layer of the Automatic Potion Brewer working properly first, prove it, and only then repeat it for the rest.
- !Remember a powered hopper is locked, not active, keep stray redstone away from the hopper lines unless you deliberately want to gate item flow.
Questions people ask about the Automatic Potion Brewer
How do you build an Automatic Potion Brewer in Minecraft?
Place the brewing stand as the center of the system. Place a hopper on top feeding blaze powder (fuel) into the stand. The full build takes 8 material types and fits in about 3W x 5L x 6H.
What materials does an Automatic Potion Brewer need?
The main materials are 1× brewing Stand, 6× hopper, 3× dropper, and 2× redstone Comparator, plus the remaining structural and wiring blocks.
How hard is the Automatic Potion Brewer to build?
It is an advanced build that leans on careful piston timing and push-limit management, so plan the sequence before you place blocks. It is compatible with Minecraft 1.5+ and later.
How does the Automatic Potion Brewer actually work?
Droppers and hoppers deliver ingredients into a brewing stand in the strict order potions require: water bottles, then nether wart, then the modifier, then the amplifier or duration item. A hopper-clock timer paces each stage to the roughly 20-second brew time, and finished potions drain into a chest below.
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