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Adopt Me potions guide
Potions live in the Food tab of your inventory, which confuses everyone exactly once. Some are fed to pets, some are drunk by you, and they range from the two most useful items in the game (Fly and Ride) to a potion whose entire job is making your head bigger. This is every potion in the game, what it does, and how long it lasts. Current trading values for all of them are on the potion values page.
The whole shelf
| Potion | Effect | Lasts | Tradable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fly-A-Pet Potion | Fed to a pet, it makes that pet flyable, forever. The single most useful potion in the game, and one half of what FR means. | Permanent | Yes, 255 Robux in the Sky Castle |
| Ride-A-Pet Potion | Fed to a pet, it makes that pet rideable, forever. The other half of FR, and the unit some value lists price everything in. | Permanent | Yes, 130 Robux in the Sky Castle |
| Age-Up Potion | Ages a pet by 30 tasks instantly. Earned from Friendship level ups on Full Grown pets, never sold. | Instant | No, it cannot be traded |
| Super Age-Up Potion | Ages a pet by 183 tasks: one whole Legendary aging cycle in a single drink. | Instant | Yes |
| Sugar Skull Potion | A Halloween potion that ages a pet by 45 tasks. | Instant | Yes |
| Tiny Age Potion | Ages a pet by just 3 tasks. A Friendship reward, handy for finishing a pet that is nearly at the next stage. | Instant | No, it cannot be traded |
| Grow Potion | Your own avatar grows bigger. A player potion, not a pet one. | Until you leave the server | Yes, 395 Bucks in the Sky Castle |
| Big Brew Potion | Fed to a pet, it makes the pet larger. | 10 minutes | Yes, 350 Bucks in the Sky Castle |
| Small Sip Potion | Fed to a pet, it makes the pet smaller. | 10 minutes | Yes, 250 Bucks in the Sky Castle |
| Translucent Tea Potion | Fed to a pet, it makes the pet see-through. | 10 minutes | Yes, 600 Bucks in the Sky Castle |
| Big Head Potion | Your head grows. One per player at a time, and the cheapest laugh in the game. | Until you leave the server | Yes, 10 Bucks in the Sky Castle |
| Hyperspeed Potion | You walk faster. It stacks: every extra one makes you quicker still. | Until you leave the server | Yes, 40 Bucks in the Sky Castle |
| Anti-gravity Potion | You jump higher, and it stacks with every extra one you drink. | Until you leave the server | Yes, 99 Bucks in the Sky Castle |
| Levitation Potion | You float instead of walking. Removed from the Sky Castle years ago, so every copy left is an old one. | Until you leave the server | Yes, legacy item |
| Cure All Potion | Clears every need you or your pet currently has. The lazy player's best friend. | Instant | Yes, from gifts and the Task Board |
| Bonus Aging Potion | Your pet earns 1.2x aging XP. An aging-up reward potion. | 15 minutes | Yes |
| Bonus Bucks Potion | Your pet earns 1.2x Bucks from its needs. | 15 minutes | Yes |
| Busy Body Potion | Hands your pet a random blue need right now, so there is always something to do. | Instant | Yes |
| Choosy Potion | Hands your pet the Choose need, letting it ask for something specific. | Instant | Yes |
| Preferred Potion | Hands your pet a need with a preferred item attached, the kind that pays bonus rewards. | Instant | Yes |
| Future Sight Potion | Reveals what your pet's next need will be, so you can be standing in the right place when it lands. | Instant | Yes |
| Secret Talent Potion | Your pet temporarily knows every trick it can learn. | 10 minutes | Yes |
| Goofy Potion | Changes your pet's facial expression. Pure comedy, zero stats. | 10 minutes | Yes |
| Polymorph Potion | Your pet transforms into a different pet for a while. It looks the part; it does not trade as the part. | 10 minutes | Yes |
| Home Potion | Teleports you straight to the front of your house. | Instant | Yes |
| Teleportation Potion | Five teleports, to your house or the Nursery. A 2018 Christmas gift item. | 5 uses | Yes, legacy item |
| Instant Hatch Potion | Hatches an egg on the spot. Given out when an egg fails to hatch under the Instant Hatch gamepass. | Instant | Yes |
| Water Walking Potion | You walk on water instead of swimming in it. Its origin is genuinely unknown, which is part of why it trades so well. | Until you leave the server | Yes |
| Heart Potion | Hearts float around your body. A Valentine's Day 2019 item, and one of the priciest potions in trading. | Until you leave the server | Yes, legacy item |
| Snowflake Potion | You leave a trail of snowflakes as you move. From the 2018 Christmas gifts. | Until you leave the server | Yes, legacy item |
| Ghost Translucency Potion | Turns you translucent, ghost style. Brewed in the Potion Hunt minigame during Halloween 2021. | Short effect | Legacy item, rarely seen |
| Candle Summoning Potion | Summons candlelight around you. Another Potion Hunt brew from Halloween 2021. | Short effect | Legacy item, rarely seen |
| Dog Head Potion | Gives you a dog's head. The third of the Halloween 2021 Potion Hunt brews, and exactly as serious as it sounds. | Short effect | Legacy item, rarely seen |
| Dizzy Potion | The booby prize of the Potion Hunt: mix the wrong ingredients and this is what the cauldron handed you. It makes your avatar wobble. | Short effect | Legacy item, rarely seen |
The ones that matter most
Fly and Ride potions are permanent, and that is the whole point of them. A pet with both is FR, and FR versions of good pets are the currency serious trading runs on. Everything else on the shelf is temporary or instant, so never let a trader price a ten minute size potion like it changes the pet. It does not.
The age potions are a family, not a shortcut. Tiny Age (3 tasks), Age-Up (30) and Super Age-Up (183) all do the same job at different sizes. Age-Up and Tiny Age potions cannot be traded at all: they arrive through Friendship level ups, so the only way to get one is to raise a Full Grown pet's friendship. The math on what they are worth in time is in the Neon and Mega guide.
Where potions come from
The Sky Castle sells the Bucks shelf: Big Head, Hyperspeed and Anti-gravity for you, Grow for your avatar, and Small Sip, Big Brew and Translucent Tea for your pet, plus Fly and Ride for Robux. Three of them can also be brewed at home in cauldron furniture: a Big Head Potion brews for 200 Bucks in 45 seconds, a Hyperspeed for 650 Bucks in a minute, and an Anti-gravity for 3,000 Bucks in 75 seconds. The aging reward potions (Bonus Aging, Bonus Bucks, Busy Body, Choosy, Preferred, Future Sight, Secret Talent, Goofy, Polymorph, Home) arrive as rewards while you age pets up. The rest are event history: gifts from Christmases past, a Valentine's one off, and the four strange brews from the Halloween 2021 Potion Hunt, which nobody has been able to make since.
Effects and prices checked against the Adopt Me Wiki, November 2026. The four Halloween 2021 brews are legacy items; their exact durations were never published, so we describe them honestly as short effects.