How to make a Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed) in Minecraft

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How to make a Potion of Swiftness (8:00 - Speed) in Minecraft

Potion of Swiftness is a brewable item that increases player speed.The Potion of Swiftness (or speed) increases the player’s movement speed by 20%. But, you can increase it to a maximum of 40% by upgrading the potion with glowstone dust. Now, since you are moving at a faster pace, the game also extends your field of view to help you avoid accidental interactions. Moreover, to make things even more interesting, you can also make a splash Potion of Swiftness in Minecraft.There are many potions you can make in Minecraft. They can help you do more damage or heal yourself. An essential potion to make would be swiftness potions as these can help you travel across the land faster and get away from danger. You can also turn them into splash potions to make mobs like horses move even faster. When used on other mobs, this splash potion can make almost every mob move at a much faster speed. But that doesn’t work on boss mobs or flying mobs in the game. Though, you can use it on other players while using the multiplayer mode in the game. With that, take a look at the ingredients we need to make the speed potion in Minecraft. How to make a Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed) in Minecraft

Supported Platforms

A Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed) is available in the following versions of Minecraft:

  • Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 
  • Minecraft Pocket Edition (PE) 
  • Minecraft Xbox Editions 
  • Minecraft PS Editions 
  • Minecraft Nintendo 
  • Minecraft Windows 10 Edition
  • Minecraft Education Edition

How to make a Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed) in Minecraft

Where to find this Potion of Swiftness in Creative Mode

You can find a Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed) in the Creative Inventory menu

  • Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) : Brewing
  • Minecraft Pocket Edition (PE) : Miscellaneous and Equipment
  • Minecraft Xbox Editions : Brewing and Equipment
  • Minecraft PS Editions : Brewing and Equipment
  • Minecraft Nintendo : Brewing and Equipment
  • Minecraft Windows 10 Edition : Miscellaneous and Equipment
  • Minecraft Education Edition : Miscellaneous and Equipment

Required Materials to make this Potion

  • Three Water Bottles
  • Sugar
  • Awkward Potion
  • Brewing Stand
  • Blaze Powder
  • Redstone dust

To make things easier and avoid clutter, you can use our guide to make a Brewing Stand in Minecraft. You can use it to make and improve any type of potion in the game. Once it’s ready, you need to make an Awkward Potion. It’s a base potion created by brewing nether warts in water. You will need it to make a variety of advanced potions, including Potion of Swiftness and Potion of Night Vision. 

How to craft this Potion in Survival Mode

  • Open the Brewing Stand menu

To begin, place blaze powder in the left cell of your Brewing stand. It will automatically turn itself into the fuel of the stand.

  • Add Blaze Powder to Activate the Brewing Stand

Then, place bottles of awkward potion in the bottommost cells of the brewing stand. You can create up to three potion bottles at the same time.

  • Add Items to make this Potion

In the Brewing Stand menu, you place ingredients in the top box and the potions are created in the bottom three boxes.To make a Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed), you will need 1 Potion of Swiftness (3:00 – Speed) and 1 redstone dust.Place the Potion of Swiftness (3:00 – Speed) in one of the bottom boxes in the Brewing Stand menu. Then add the redstone dust to the top box.

  • Move the Potion of Swiftness to Inventory

Now that you have made Potion of Swiftness, you need to move the new item to your inventory.

If you drink the Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed), it will give you a +20% increase in speed for 8 minutes.At this point, you can add this Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed) to your inventory or you can continue and turn the potion into a Splash Potion of Swiftness (6:00 – Speed).

Item ID and Name

A Potion of Swiftness has the following Name, ID and DataValue

  • Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) : Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed) (minecraft:potion), 373, 8258
  • Minecraft Pocket Edition (PE) : Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed) (minecraft:potion), 373, 15
  • Minecraft Xbox One : Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed) (minecraft:potion), 373, 15
  • Minecraft PS4 : Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed) (minecraft:potion), 373, 15
  • Minecraft Nintendo Switch : Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed) (minecraft:potion), 373, 15
  • Minecraft Windows 10 Edition : Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed) (minecraft:potion), 373, 15
  • Minecraft Education Edition : Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed) (minecraft:potion), 373, 15

Give Command for Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed)

  • Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.18.1, 1.18.2 and 1.19, the /give command for Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed) is:

/give @p potion{Potion:”minecraft:long_swiftness”} 1

  • In Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 1.9, 1.10, 1.11 and 1.12, the /give command for Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed) is:

/give @p potion 1 0 {Potion:”minecraft:long_swiftness”}

  • In Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 1.8, the /give command for Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed) is: /give @p potion 1 8258
  • In Minecraft PE, Xbox One, Switch, Win 10, Education Edition : /give @p potion 1 15

Things to Make with this Potion

You can use a Potion of Swiftness (8:00 – Speed) to make items in Minecraft such as splash potion of swiftness (8:00/6:00 – speed).To give additional speed to other players and mobs in the game, you can convert your regular potion into a splash potion. A splash potion is a throwable version of the potion and created by brewing the potion with gunpowder. You can easily collect gunpowder by killing a creeper before it explodes or from various chest loots. Place the potion bottles in the bottom 3 cells and gunpowder in the middle cell at the top of the Brewing stand. Within seconds, you will have the throwable splash potion whose bottles are curved at the top.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You now know how to brew a potion that can save you time. Potion of swiftness is a good potion for any alchemist to have on hand. Especially if you have a horse and a splash potion. It will make you travel the lands much faster and cover more ground during the daylight. Potion of swiftness can also help you with boss fights as you can evade ranged attacks easier and get closer to the boss faster to deal more damage. So now that you know this, why don’t you use this to enhance your performance and fire up your game. All The best !