Potions



Potions are consumable items that either recover the user's health and/or mana either instantaneously or over time, or grant temporary buffs or debuffs to the user. Potions are commonly found in natural chests and Pots, can be dropped by enemies, purchased from NPCs, or crafted. Most potions can be crafted at a Placed Bottle or Alchemy Table, but flasks must be crafted at an Imbuing Station.

Potion buffs can be canceled at any time by right-clicking the buff icon, by selecting the buff icon and canceling it in the equipment menu , by selecting the buff with + / then canceling the buff with  , by double-tapping the buff icon , or by canceling the buff from the buffs screen. All potion buffs (including food buffs) are lost when dying, or when leaving and rejoining the world (this is not true as of 1.4.4).

In Journey Mode, all Potions require 20 research to unlock duplication, but 30 research is needed for recovery potions.

Healing Potion.png Recovery potions
These potions restore health, mana, or even both at the same time. They are limited in use by the Potion Sickness and Mana Sickness debuffs, respectively. The Potion Sickness debuff duration can be reduced with a Charm of Myths or a Philosopher's Stone.

Pad Thai.png Food and drink potions
Consuming foods will grant a Well Fed, Plenty Satisfied, or Exquisitely Stuffed buff, while drinks will grant the Tipsy effect.

Inferno Potion.png Buff potions
These grant the character a temporary, usually short-lived buff when consumed. They are crafted at a Placed Bottle or an Alchemy Table. Pressing the buff key ( by default) will consume one of each of the player's buff potions in their inventory.

Flask of Party.png Flasks
These grant the character a temporary melee and whips-specific buff when consumed. Only one flask buff can be active at a time. Crafted at an Imbuing Station.

Recall Potion.png Other potions
These are potions that do not fit in the other categories.

Trivia

 * Certain potions' sprites use bottles that correlate with real-life . These include:
 * All of the Lesser potions, using an.
 * The Strange Brew, using a.
 * The Ironskin, Regeneration, Swiftness, and Gills Potions all use s.
 * The in-game flasks are slight modifications of the s with special stoppers.
 * All other potions seem to be extreme modifications of the or Erlenmeyer flask.
 * All potions (excluding the Recovery potions) use a glass stopper.
 * The sprite for the Wiesnbräu is a reference to a popular drinking glass, and has been seen in the 2006 American comedy film .
 * On, if the player quickly uses a potion right after they leave their inventory, the potion will be used, but not consumed. However, the buff/debuff from it will only last 1 minute. Note that this might not work every time.
 * Some potions can only be crafted in worlds with the proper evil biome:
 * Note that since 1.4.0.1 update, you can place a Dryad in graveyard biome and get opposite evil's seeds, so all of the following potions are available to craft on every world.
 * Thorns and Wrath potions can only be crafted in worlds with Corruption ingredients.
 * Heartreach and Rage potions can only be crafted in worlds with Crimson ingredients.
 * Both the Heartreach and Thorns Potions can be found in Chests, regardless of world type. Additionally Heartreach potions can be found in Crates. However, this represents a limited (non-renewable) supply for Thorn Potions.
 * Of these four potions, only the Heartreach potion can be obtained from Crates.