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Brewing Stand
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Brewing Stand

A utility block used to brew potions from water bottles, nether wart, and various ingredients. Requires blaze powder as fuel.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.0

Item ID

brewing_stand

Brewing Stand at a glance

Brewing Stand comes from crafting and Village church, and Utility Blocks is where it sits as a block. 64 Brewing Stand fit in a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 3456 in a double chest.

Breaking Brewing Stand works against a hardness of 0.5. It holds up against explosions exactly as well as it does against a pickaxe, and no better. A pickaxe is the right tool for Brewing Stand, and any tier of it collects the block. As a light source Brewing Stand is worth 1. It sits between Bone Block and Brick Stairs in Utility Blocks, number 60 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Blaze RodBlaze Rod
CobblestoneCobblestone
CobblestoneCobblestone
CobblestoneCobblestone
Brewing StandBrewing Stand

How to obtain

  • Crafting
  • Village church

Notes

Requires Blaze Powder as fuel (20 uses per powder). Serves as the Cleric villager job site block.

Frequently asked questions about Brewing Stand

  1. Blaze Rod, Cobblestone going into Brewing Stand, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Brewing Stand in Minecraft?

    Brewing Stand is crafted from Blaze Rod and Cobblestone at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from Village church, not just the recipe above.

  2. Brewing Stand coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.0

    When was Brewing Stand added to Minecraft?

    Brewing Stand was added in the 1.0 full release.

  3. Brewing Stand as a block, next to the pickaxe its 0.5 hardness asks for

    How long does Brewing Stand take to break?

    Brewing Stand carries a hardness value of 0.5, and it stands up to explosions at 0.5. Both numbers on Brewing Stand being equal is the usual case, and it is not built to hold off explosives. A pickaxe is the right tool for Brewing Stand, and any tier of it collects the block. It is also a light source, worth 1 on it. Java 26.2 holds Brewing Stand at exactly those figures, timing on it aside.

  4. Brewing Stand on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Brewing Stand used for?

    A utility block used to brew potions from water bottles, nether wart, and various ingredients. Requires blaze powder as fuel.

  5. 64 Brewing Stand drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Brewing Stand can you stack?

    64 Brewing Stand fill one slot, and filling it costs 64 Blaze Rod and 192 Cobblestone: 64 crafts. A double chest of Brewing Stand comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

Building with it

The brewing stand needs a blaze rod, so it arrives with the first Nether trip. It brews three bottles at once and burns blaze powder as fuel, which means the same fortress trip that unlocks brewing also supplies it. Every potion in the game starts here with a water bottle and a nether wart.

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