Terraria is a popular 2D world Sandbox game similar to Minecraft in which the world is 3D. You can build, mine, explore, craft and do tons of other activities in the game in order to survive. To help you do it in an easier way, Terraria offers a huge variety of potions that can help you recover your health, increase spawn rate, decrease falling speed and much more.
Most of them require a specific set of ingredients while a few can be purchased from merchants, witches etc. There are a few more of them available in the game, and we will discuss them all in the guide below.
Terraria: Recovery potions
The first category is the recovery potions that help you restore health and mana.
Greater Healing Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water (3), Pixie Dust (3), Crystal Shard
- Crafting station: Placed Bottle or Alchemy Table
- Effect: Restores 150 health
Healing Potion
- Ingredients: Lesser Healing Potion (2), Glowing Mushroom
- Crafting station: Placed Bottle or Alchemy Table
- Effect: Restores 100 health
Lesser Healing Potion
- Ingredients: Mushroom, Gel (2), and Bottle (2)
- Crafting station: Placed Bottle or Alchemy Table
- Effect: Restores 50 health
Lesser Restoration Potion
- Ingredients: Lesser Healing Potion, Lesser Mana Potion
- Crafting station: Placed Bottle or Alchemy Table
- Effect: Restores 50 health
Mana Potion
- Ingredients: Lesser Mana Potion (2), Glowing Mushroom
- Crafting station: Placed Bottle or Alchemy Table
- Effect: Restores 100 mana
Restoration Potion
- Ingredients: Mushroom, Glowing Mushroom, Pink Gel, Bottle
- Crafting station: Placed Bottle or Alchemy Table
- Effect: Restores 90 health
Super Healing Potion
- Ingredients: Greater Healing Potion (4), Nebula Fragment, Solar Fragment, Stardust Fragment, Vortex Fragment
- Crafting station: Placed Bottle or Alchemy Table
- Effect: Restores 200 health
Super Mana Potion
- Ingredients: Greater Mana Potion (15), Fallen Star, Crystal Shard (3), Unicorn Horn
- Crafting station: Placed Bottle or Alchemy Table
- Effect: Restores 300 mana
Greater Mana Potion
- Buy from Wizard
- Dropped by Biome Mimics
- Found in fishing crates
- Effect: Restores 200 mana
Lesser Mana Potion
- Buy from Merchant
- Found on Platforms in the Dungeon
- Effect: Restores 50 mana
Strange Brew
- Purchased from Skeleton Merchant
- Effect: Restores 80 health and 400 mana
Terraria: Buff Potions
These potions provide buffs in various aspects like spawn rate, arrow speed, fishing power and more.
Ammo Reservation Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Double Cod, Moonglow
- Effect: 20% chance of not consuming ammo
Archery Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Daybloom, Lens
- Effect: 20% increased arrow speed and damage
Battle Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Deathweed, Rotten Chunk
- Effect: Increases enemy spawn rate
Builder Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Blinkroot, Shiverthorn, Moonglow
- Effect: Increases placement speed and range
Calming Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Damselfish, Daybloom
- Effect: Decreases enemy spawn rate
Crate Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Damselfish, Daybloom
- Effect: Increases chance to get a crate
Dangersense Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Amber,
Moonglow, Shiverthorn, Waterleaf - Effect: Allows you to see nearby danger sources
Endurance Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Armored Cavefish, Blinkroot
- Effect: Reduces damage taken by 10%
Featherfall Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Daybloom, Blinkroot, Feather
- Effect: Slows falling speed
Fishing Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Crispy Honey Block, Waterleaf
- Effect: Increases fishing power
Flipper Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Daybloom, Blinkroot, Feather
- Effect: Lets you move swiftly in liquids
Gills Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Waterleaf, Coral
- Effect: Breathe water instead of air
Gravitation Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Fireblossom,
Deathweed, Blinkroot, Feather - Effect: Allows the control of gravity
Greater Luck Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Waterleaf,
Ladybug, Pink Pearl - Effect: Increases the Luck of the user
Heartreach Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Crimson Tigerfish, Daybloom
- Effect: Increases pickup range for life hearts
Hunter Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Daybloom,
Blinkroot, Shark Fin - Effect: Increases pickup range for life hearts
Inferno Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Flarefin Koi, Obsidifish (2), Fireblossom
- Effect: Ignites nearby enemies
Invisibility Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Blinkroot, Moonglow
- Effect: Grants invisibility and lowers the spawn rate of enemies
Ironskin Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Daybloom, Iron Ore
- Effect: Increase defense by 8
Lesser Luck Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Waterleaf, Ladybug, White Pearl
- Effect: Increases the Luck of the user
Lifeforce Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Prismite, Moonglow, Shiverthorn, Waterleaf
- Effect: Increases max life by 20%
Love Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Princess Fish, Shiverthorn
- Effect: Throw this to make someone fall in love
Luck Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Waterleaf,
Ladybug, Black Pearl - Effect: Increases the Luck of the user
Magic Power Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Moonglow,
Deathweed, Fallen Star - Effect: 20% increased magic damage
Mana Regeneration Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Moonglow, Daybloom, Fallen Star
- Effect: Increased mana regeneration
Mining Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Antlion Mandible, Blinkroot
- Effect: Increases mining speed by 25%
Night Owl Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Daybloom,
Blinkroot - Effect: Increases night vision
Obsidian Skin Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Fireblossom,
Waterleaf, Obsidian - Effect: Provides immunity to lava
Rage Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Hemopiranha, Deathweed
- Effect: Increases critical chance by 10%
Regeneration Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Daybloom,
Mushroom - Effect: Provides life regeneration
Shine Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Daybloom,
Glowing Mushroom - Effect: Emits an aura of light
Sonar Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Waterleaf, Coral
- Effect: Detects hooked fish
Spelunker Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Blinkroot, Moonglow, Gold Ore
- Effect: Shows the location of treasure and ore
Stink Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Stinkfish, Deathweed
- Effect: Throw this to make someone smell terrible
Summoning Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Variegated Lardfish, Moonglow
- Effect: Increases your max number of minions by 1
Swiftness Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Blinkroot, Cactus
- Effect: Increases your max number of minions by 1
Thorns Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Deathweed, Cactus, Worm Tooth, Stinger
- Effect: Attackers also take damage
Titan Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Bone Deathweed, Shiverthorn
- Effect: Increases knockback
Warmth Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Frost Minnow, Shiverthorn
- Effect: Reduces damage from cold sources
Water Walking Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Waterleaf, Shark Fin
- Effect: Allows the ability to walk on water
Wrath Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Ebonkoi, Deathweed
- Effect: Increases damage by 10%
Wiesnbräu
- Purchased from the Merchant during Oktoberfest
- Effect: Receive half damage and deal half damage
Other potions
Gender Change Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Daybloom, Moonglow, Blinkroot, Waterleaf, Deathweed, Shiverthorn, Fireblossom
- Effect: Changes the character's gender
Potion of Return
- Ingredients: Recall Potion, Obsidifish
- Effect: Teleports the player to their spawn point, and creates a portal to return to their previous location
Recall Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Specular Fish, Daybloom
- Effect: Teleports the player to their spawn point
Teleportation Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Chaos Fish, Blinkroot, Fireblossom
- Effect: Teleports the player to a random location within the world
Wormhole Potion
- Ingredients: Bottled Water, Specular Fish, Blinkroot
- Effect: Teleports the player to a teammate when they click their icon on the map
Red Potion
- Obtainable via chests and dropped by Jungle Mimics
- Effect: Inflicts the Darkness, Poisoned, Cursed, On Fire!, Weak, Confused, Slow, Silenced, Broken Armor, Bleeding, and Suffocation debuffs on the player that consumed it, or 3 random 30 minute buffs if used in a world with the seed "for the worthy"
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