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Pathway 2, Subject 1

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Solution: FRESHWATERS

Solves: 44 Guesses: 360

These are Minecraft items that are used in brewing potions, as hinted to by the flavour text about brewing and nether warts (a key potion ingredient). Identify the potions brewed by the depicted items, and use the effect duration times (also hintd by the flavour text) to index the letters from the potion names.

Ingredients Potion Effect Duration (mins) Letter
Stone INFESTATION 3 F
Magma Cream FIRE RESISTANCE 3 R
Pufferfish, Redstone WATER BREATHING 8 E
Golden Carrot, Redstone NIGHT VISION 8 S
Blaze Powder, Redstone STRENGTH 8 H
Phantom Membrane, Redstone SLOW FALLING 4 W
Cobweb WEAVING 3 A
Pufferfish WATER BREATHING 3 T
Ghast Tear, Redstone (Bedrock) REGENERATION 2 E
Blaze Powder STRENGTH 3 R
Sugar, Redstone SWIFTNESS 8 S

This yields FRESHWATERS as the solution.



Author's notes

Author: Dan

How timeless is Minecraft? It sure has changed a lot since I last played it about a decade ago — some of the potions like the Potion of Infestation, Potion of Water Breathing, Potion of Night Vision, and Potion of Weaving are items that I never knew existed!

This puzzle was slightly constrained by the limited letter database available to me — there are only so many potions of whole minute durations, after all. This did unfortunately result in me having to include the Extended Potion of Regeneration, which has a duration of 2:00 in Minecraft Bedrock Edition but only a duration of 1:30 in Minecraft Java Edition. Hopefully the bedrock block included in the ingredients was not too misleading in this regard.


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Guess log

Frequency Guess
44 FRESHWATERS
10 SWIFTNESS
8 HASTE
7 SUGAR
6 FRESHWATER
6 GRANDIOSITY
6 POTION
6 REDSTONE
5 MANIA
5 POTIONOFSWIFTNESS
4 AWKWARD
4 BEDROCK
4 BLAZEPOWDER
4 FRESHLATERS
4 POTIONOFHASTE
4 SPEED
3 BEACON
3 EFFICIENCY
3 GAS
3 GLOWSTONE
3 INGREDIENTS
3 POTIONS
3 REGENERATION
3 WATERBOTTLE
2 ANAESTHETIC
2 AWKWARDPOTION
2 BIPOLAR
2 BREWING
2 DELUSIONS
2 DELUSIONSOFGRANDEUR
2 ELEVEN
2 EXTEND
2 FRESHLATARS
2 GODMODE
2 GRANDIOSEDELUSIONS
2 HASTEPOTION
2 LITHIUM
2 MAGMACREAM
2 MINECRAFT
2 NINE
2 PATIENCE
2 PATIENTS
2 PUFFERFISH
2 SLOWFALLING
2 STONE
2 STRENGTH
2 SUAR
2 SUGARANDREDSTONE
2 TEN
1 A
1 ABG
1 ACTIVITY
1 ACTIVITYINCREASE
1 ACTIVITYINCREASES
1 ADVANTAGE
1 ANAESTHETICS
1 ANTIPSYCHOTIC
1 APOTHECARY
1 APPLE
1 APPLEREDSTONE
1 BALANCE
1 BFH
1 BIPOLARDISORDER
1 BLAZEPOWDERREDSTONE
1 BOTTLEOFWATER
1 BUBBLETEA
1 BUFF
1 BUFFED
1 BUFFS
1 BURNOUT
1 C
1 CAVES
1 COBBLESTONE
1 CYCLOTHYMIA
1 DELUSION
1 DEPOT
1 DEPOTINJECTION
1 DESFLURANE
1 DIAMONDS
1 DIGOXIN
1 DISTRACTABILITY
1 DISTRIBUTION
1 DSM
1 DSMV
1 DURATION
1 DUST
1 EFFECT
1 ELEVATED
1 ENDURANCE
1 EXTENDED
1 EXTENDEDHASTE
1 EXTENDEDRELEASE
1 FIFTY
1 FIFTYTHREE
1 FLAG
1 FLIGHTOFIDEAS
1 FREASHWATER
1 FRESHLITERS
1 FRESHLY
1 FRESHSTART
1 FRTGROATGRI
1 FRTGROATGSI
1 FRTGROWTGSI
1 FRTGROWTJSI
1 GAMERULE
1 GCS
1 GENERALANAESTHESIA
1 GENERALANAESTHETIC
1 GENERATE
1 GENERATION
1 GHAST
1 GHASTTEAR
1 GLOWSTOBEDUST
1 GLOWSTONEDUST
1 GLUCOCORTICOID
1 GLUCOSE
1 GOLDENAPPLE
1 GOLDENCARROT
1 GOLDENPOTATO
1 GOLDENPOTATOREDSTONE
1 GOLGI
1 HASTEII
1 HEALING
1 ICU
1 IDENBDNSAML
1 IFWANISTSLWWRESSW
1 IFWNSSWWRSS
1 IFWWBS
1 IFWWS
1 IMPAIRMENT
1 INSANITY
1 INVINCIBLE
1 IRRITABILITY
1 ISOFLURANE
1 J
1 JAVA
1 K
1 MAGMACREAMREDSTONE
1 MAGMAGOLDENGHASTSUGAR
1 MANICEPISODE
1 MARKEDIMPAIRMENT
1 MIDAZOLAM
1 MUNDANE
1 NEGNHGGGNHS
1 NERTHWGRNHS
1 NETHERSHRINE
1 NITROUSOXIDE
1 NOTHING
1 ORIENTATION
1 PATIENT
1 PERSISTENCE
1 PICKAXE
1 POTIONMANIA
1 POTIONMASTER
1 POTIONOFREGENERATION
1 POTIONOFSTRENGTH
1 POTIONOFSWIFTNESSEXTENDED
1 POWERS
1 PREPARED
1 PRESSUREDSLEEP
1 PROPOFOL
1 PSYCHOTROPIC
1 PUFFERFISHREDSTONE
1 REDSTONEDUST
1 REDSTONEPOWDER
1 RESILIENCE
1 RESISTANCE
1 SECONDS
1 SELFCARE
1 SEVOFLURANE
1 SHARPNESS
1 SHOVEL
1 SILVER
1 SILVERFISH
1 SILVERFISHCURSE
1 SLEEP
1 SLEEPDEFICIT
1 SLEEPDISTURBANCE
1 SMOOTHSTONE
1 SNRI
1 SPEEDII
1 SSRI
1 STAMINA
1 SUGARANDREDSTONEDUST
1 SUGARNETHERWARTBASEREDSTONE
1 SUGARREDSTONE
1 SUPERPOWER
1 SUPERPOWERS
1 SUPPORTIVETHERAPY
1 SURVIVAL
1 SWARFNESS
1 SWEET
1 SWIFT
1 SWIFTWATER
1 SYMPTOMS
1 TIME
1 TITRATION
1 TREASURE
1 UNBREWABLE
1 WARD
1 WARDEN
1 WATER
1 WATERBREATHING
1 WELLBEING
1 WNSSRS
1 WOLVERINE
1 WRISTS
1 XRAY

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