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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