The original thread ( http://dis.4chan.org/read/games/1284263751/1-40 ) will soon inevitably reach 999 replies and be thread-stopped, so before this happens I'm taking the initiative to make another thread for this topic, so that people know where to continue the neverending rage (should they feel that a thread with 999 replies in it is not enough).
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Anonymous2012-01-12 3:10
So if I understand the Minecraft Alchemy chart directly:
You water out by filling a bottle with water.
Then if you add any ingredient to this bottle other than a nether wart, you get a completely worthless potion. (Either a Thick potion or a Mundane potion, which can only be crafted into Potions of Weakness.)
In order to get the actual potions, you have to find a lava lake, cool it into obsidian, find diamond ore, craft diamond tools, mine the obsidian, go to the Nether, find some nether warts, find some soul sand, start a nether wart within the Nether (because these warts won't grow elsewhere), and then add them to the potions.
In other words, potion making is the tier above diamond mining and the Nether. Potion making is for people who either cheat (either through giving themselves the potions directly, or by turning off monsters to prevent Ghasts from blowing up their Nether nether wart farms), or for people who has mined all there is to mine, but stays around because they are now converted faggots.
The potion system is made of fail. Great thinking, Jeb.