So the idea is simple, at the Brewing Station, after you have three Awkward Potions lined up, you can place the Eye of Ender into the top of the Brewing Station and what comes out are three Mineral Vision Potions. This Potion lasts for 1 minute, 2 if you enhance it with Redstone and it goes 25 blocks out normally and 50 blocks out with Glowstone Dust. The how far you can see is in all directions, so best to use underground.
Now the effect is like so, you look at a wall and see red glowing around a block, it's Redstone. Diamond, it's a light blue; Iron, a grey; Coal, a black; Lapis, a dark blue; Gold, yellow, and so on. So there is the idea. But considering the Eye of Ender is pretty easily made, at least I think so, that could be change to something harder to find.
Well we can always cut the times in half, 30 seconds for normal and 1 min for enhanced. 12 blocks out for regular and 24 for enhanced.
Uhhh, I don't think changing the duration of the potion will help you out here. The potion itself is overpowered and nearly a "get diamonds for free" card, because it puts a huge dent in making the effort to scrounge around and finding these ores yourself.
Even if it only had a radius of 24 blocks, it would still reveal 57905 blocks of space. That's absolutely tremendous and would completely ruin the point of mining.
Now the effect is like so, you look at a wall and see red glowing around a block, it's Redstone. Diamond, it's a light blue; Iron, a grey; Coal, a black; Lapis, a dark blue; Gold, yellow, and so on. So there is the idea. But considering the Eye of Ender is pretty easily made, at least I think so, that could be change to something harder to find.
No support
I am ninja'd far too often.
Uhhh, I don't think changing the duration of the potion will help you out here. The potion itself is overpowered and nearly a "get diamonds for free" card, because it puts a huge dent in making the effort to scrounge around and finding these ores yourself.