SIMPLE AND EASY Potion Guide for Beginners! Complete Terraria 1.4 Potion Guide!

Hello friend have you ever felt like you’ve hit a roadblock in terraria finding it difficult to defeat the mechanical bosses despite your best efforts what if i told you that there was an easy way to make your terraria journey so much easier and smooth sailing well there is and the secret lies in

Potions at first glance you might think that potion effects are pretty negligible but if you’ve actually tried using some you’d realize that they are pretty game changing however potions might seem complex with all that herb farming and crafting but it really doesn’t have to be

That’s why i’m here to give you a simple guide that’s easy to understand and follow for getting started with potions in terraria i’ve digested all the information for you so let’s get started to put it really simply potions offer you various effects from simple healing to buffs and even to allowing gender

Change in the game not all potions can be crafted easily but most can be and they’re actually pretty simple to do so let’s break it down to make potions all you need are ingredients and the crafting station the crafting station is really simple here

All you need to do is melt some sand and furnace to make glass blocks and then craft glass bottles from these blocks then just place down a single glass bottle somewhere on a table or a platform or whatever and you’ve got your crafting station set up done now whenever you bring the materials

Near the bottle the option to craft the potions will appear if you’ve defeated skeletron you might find one of these weird looking tables in the dungeon this blue one is called an alchemy table and it functions exactly like a bottle allowing you to craft potions it has a huge benefit though

Crafting potions at an alchemy table has a 1 in 3 chance to not consume the potion materials this means that with your limited amount of potion ingredients you can make more potions on average this is huge especially if you’re making potions with rare ingredients so try to get your hands on the table

Asap starting out however a glass bottle is fine now that we have the crafting station out of the way let’s talk ingredients ingredients can be broken down as well basically all you need is bottled water and the other stuff bottled water is really easy to get as well

Remember those glass bottles you made earlier just make tons of them then head over to any water body it might be instinctive to click the bottle then click the water but that’s not how you do it instead just approach the water body then craft them from the side there this

Is only possible in 1.4 if you are not on the 1.4 update yet which are only console friends at the time of this video then just make sure your character is at least half submerged in the water body then craft them from the side it’s a little counter-intuitive but it’s

Definitely much faster than filling each bottle one by one and just a quick note here bolted water also heals 20 health like a super weak potion so you could use them if you’re desperate at the start but keep in mind that they also share the potion cooldown

So it’s not really something you’d use if you have better healing potions and with that we’ve got bottled water out of the way most potions require herbs there are a couple of herbs in the game and most are found in the wild however we can actually grow and farm

Them super easily and once we get that set up we can have an unlimited supply at low effort there are three ways you could farm herbs but i only recommend the first two methods that i’m going to mention firstly the easiest way to farm herbs is to do so using clay pot

This can be crafted from clay blocks at a furnace if you’re wondering where to find clay it can be found just slightly below the surface just head over to the side and dig a little and then you’ll find some red blocks they’re really easy to locate and they usually come in huge patches

Amass some clay pots then just place them down somewhere you can plant herb seeds in these the second way is to buy planter boxes from the dryad the dryad is an npc that moves in after you’ve defeated a boss so this method is unavailable if you’re having trouble with the first boss well

It might sound absurd to be stuck on the first boss but expert mode eye of cthulhu isn’t really a pushover this method is somewhat costly early on but all you need to do is place down these planter boxes which act as platforms as well seeds can then be planted on them

The downside to these is that they might take up more space and are more conspicuous but they are easier to get without crafting and a quick note here you don’t need de-bloom planter boxes for daybloom specifically all the planter boxes are purely for aesthetics and you can plant any herb in

Any planter box so just buy the one you think looks good to you the last way to farm herbs is to use blocks that they naturally spawn on for example you can use sand blocks to plant a water leaf or grass to plant a bloom however i find this difficult to set up

And manage any weapon swing or projectile will cause the herb to either harvest or die if it hasn’t matured yet so you need to be extra careful with that also setting up platforms of blocks is really more of a pain so really just use planter boxes or clay pots

Now that you’ve gotten your farm set up and in place let’s go grab our herbs to cultivate generally herbs have a few stages there’s a gif from the wiki that sums it up pretty nicely the first tiny sprout is when you’ve just planted it and the second stage is when they’ve matured

Harvesting or mining the first sprout will give you nothing you could harvest them during the second stage but just note that they will not yield seeds for planting but there is a way around this which i’ll mention later the best time to harvest herbs would be

To wait until the third stage where you see some flowers and blooms and where it might sparkle a little in-game as well this gives you the greater yield of herbs and seeds which you can then plant to continually multiply your supply the good thing about planter boxes and

Clay pots is that weapon swings will not kill a plant even in its infant stage you have to manually harvest it by clicking on it with a pickaxe which allows you to control when you want to harvest it let’s go through the herbs where to find them and when they bloom

First of all we have the day bloom which is found pretty commonly on grass you’re likely to see these by randomly exploring the world at the start they bloom in the daytime so from 4 30 am to 7 29 pm in-game if you need to see

The in-game time make a gold watch at a table and chair using the required materials with watches you can see the time which allows you to plan ahead for harvesting next we have the blink route which is commonly found underground they are a little hard to find sometimes

But you usually stumble across a couple while spelunking unfortunately they bloom randomly so just hope you get some seeds while you’re at it next we have the death weed arguably the most difficult and annoying one to plant the death weed is only found in corruption or crimson biomes and that

Doesn’t sound too bad however they only bloom during a blood moon or during a full moon there is a way to see the moon phase in terraria but you need to do angler fishing quests and i don’t wish to burden you with that just enter the corruption at night and

Hope that death weed is in bloom for the seed next we have the moon glow and herb found in jungles these aren’t too hard to find and they bloom at night so 7 30 pm to 4 29 am in game time when they are in bloom they also have a

Very distinct glow so it’s not too hard to locate some we also have the shiver thorn found in ice biomes but these are also pretty common and they bloom as long as you give them enough time these are super easy and reliable to harvest water leaf is another relatively simple

One found on sand blocks so it’s either in the desert or in the ocean beaches if you’re lucky these bloom when it rains so it’s not too difficult as well lastly we have the fire bloom which is only found in the underworld you will need fire blossoms for obsidian

Skin potions which is an important potion in mining hellstone unfortunately the underworld is rather tough at that point in time so guessing fire blossom might be a challenge these bloom during sunset so 3 45 pm to 7 30 pm in game however if it’s raining they won’t bloom even if it’s during sunset

To put it simply all you need to do is explore the world and grab these herbs hopefully catching them when they bloom so you can get seeds to plant yourself after you’ve planted them just harvest them when they bloom so you can get even more seeds and then you can repeat the

Cycle just make sure you harvest death wheat in particular whenever they bloom because they’re the most annoying ones to catch if you want to make this whole herb farming less annoying and more efficient explore the jungle and look for a staff of regrowth these can be found in chests located

Within jungle shrines which are always lighted with a green torch a stuff of regrowth will not only increase the amount of herb and seeds you gain from harvesting it will also only allow harvesting from blooming plants in clay pots and planter boxes so all you need to do is mindlessly

Swing the stuff around and it will do all the work for you another great added benefit is that it allows the harvest of seeds from natural non-blooming herbs so it’s really good to get your herb farm set up this way even if you find a fire blossom

Or a death weed out of bloom the staff will produce seeds for you allowing you to start the farm regardless so to recap make bottles or use an alchemy table then make glass bottles and fill them with water farm your herbs a great way to start is

To find a stuff of regrowth collect seeds from herbs all around the world then replant them using the staffs of harvest is also really good and easy which helps you amass tons of herbs finally just craft the potions you need of course i didn’t talk about every potion material because that would just

Take way too long you can simply give the guide a bottled water to see each recipe or just check the wiki most of the relevant buff potions are just water herbs and maybe a fish or something which you can just fish for in the relevant biome

So remember the wiki is your best friend Let me just cover a few buff potion recommendations as well regeneration potions boosts your health regen which actually helps you stay alive quite a bit iron skin potions increase your defense which helps you survive endurance potions are similar cutting all damage received by 10 percent swiftness potions are also good to make

You speedier they don’t exactly stack with hermes boots but they do stack with a couple of other things and there’s no harm using them if you’re a mage magic power potions and mana regeneration potions are hugely beneficial and as a summoner the summoning potion is probably rather essential

Also try making pumpkin pie using pumpkins which seeds you can buy from the dryad this also boosts your health regen which helps a lot more in expert mode having an arsenal of potions like this is basically what you need for most bosses there are a few niche potions like the

Archery potion for arrow users the ammo reservation potion for rangers hard reach potions to increase heart pick up range and more but you don’t really need those unless you’re having a really really tough time one of the best quality of life potions in the game however is the splunker potion

Drinking one highlights all the oars and treasures on your screen which allows you to find whatever you want pretty easily be a chest oars or life crystals or even live fruits it shows them all i wouldn’t even recommend going spelunking without one of these luck potions are also great for boosting

Your drop rate by a small amount when you’re farming something just give the guide one bottle of water to see how to craft all these potions that might be of interest to you that’s about it for potions in terraria 1.4 i hope this guide was well broken up and easy to understand

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