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Potion of Freezing how to brew it in Minecraft

The Potion of Freezing is the combat potion of the 26.4 game drop. It is brewed from an Ice Ball and gives the Freezing effect: the target freezes as if it were stuck in powder snow, slows down and then takes cold damage. Nobody drinks it on purpose, it is made to be thrown.

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Brew it step by step

Put Blaze Powder in the fuel slot and up to 3 bottles at the bottom, then add each ingredient at the top.

01 + → Awkward PotionNether Wart + Water Bottle
02 + → Potion of FreezingIce Ball + Awkward Potion
+ + → OptionalPotion of Freezing (+)Redstone Dust · Extends the duration · 1:30
+ + → OptionalSplash PotionGunpowder · Throwable
+ + → OptionalLingering PotionDragon's Breath · Leaves a cloud, base for Tipped Arrows

// Fuel: Blaze Powder

At a glance

Effect: Freezing
Duration: 0:45
With Redstone: 1:30
Level II: Doesn’t exist
Key ingredient: Ice Ball

All variants and durations

Variant	Normal	With Redstone	Level II
Potion	0:45	1:30	—
Splash Potion	0:45	1:30	—
Lingering Potion	0:11	0:23	—
Tipped Arrow	0:06	0:11	—

■ Normal · ■ With Redstone · Lingering = ¼ of the duration, Tipped Arrow = ⅛

What Freezing does

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Slowly freezes the target, as standing in Powder Snow would: players shake, jump lower and end up taking damage. Leather Armor stops the freezing, but not the effect itself.

Other ways to get Freezing

Applied byFrostbite

Commands

Potion/give →

/give @s minecraft:potion[potion_contents={potion:"minecraft:long_freezing"}]

Splash Potion/give →

/give @s minecraft:splash_potion[potion_contents={potion:"minecraft:long_freezing"}]

Lingering Potion/give →

/give @s minecraft:lingering_potion[potion_contents={potion:"minecraft:long_freezing"}]

How to brew it

At a Brewing Stand, add an Ice Ball to an Awkward Potion (water and Nether Wart). You get a Potion of Freezing lasting 45 seconds. Add Redstone Dust to double it. There is no level II. Ice Balls come from Frostbites, the frozen zombies of cold biomes.

Watch the order: an Ice Ball added to a plain Water Bottle gives a useless Mundane Potion, so always start from the Awkward Potion.

What Freezing does

Potion of Freezing in Minecraft: A Blaze inside the cloud of a Lingering Potion of Freezing — A Blaze inside the cloud of a Lingering Potion of Freezing Scene setup: Potion thrown for real; the cloud was kept at a 3-block radius and lasted longer, the Blaze held in place. Frost is barely visible on its model. In-game screenshot · Java Edition 26.4 Snapshot 6

As long as the effect lasts, the target keeps freezing, exactly like in Powder Snow: frost covers the screen, movement slows down, and once fully frozen it starts taking damage. Since it hurts over time, it is a weapon, not a buff.

Immune mobs: Strays, Polar Bears, Snow Golems, the Wither, Frostbites and the zombie family (Zombies, Drowned, Husks) ignore the cold.
Extra damage: Blazes, Magma Cubes and Striders take more freezing damage than other mobs. This is the potion to bring to a Nether Fortress, with one catch: a Blaze stops freezing while it charges its fireballs, because it then counts as burning.
Protection: while you wear any piece of leather armor, such as a Leather Tunic, the effect cannot freeze you. Being on fire does the same for as long as the flames last.

Best ways to use it

Add Gunpowder for a Splash Potion you throw at a group, then Dragon's Breath for a Lingering Potion that freezes everything crossing a corridor. Around a lingering potion, eight arrows become Tipped Arrows of Freezing for a Bow. If you get hit by your own cloud, a Milk Bucket clears the effect.

✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.4 Snapshot 7 · updated 3 November 2026