Brewing Stand

A Brewing Stand is a block used for brewing potions and splash potions.

Obtaining
Brewing stands can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it will drop nothing.

Brewing
The main purpose of brewing stands is to allow for brewing potions. Its interface can be opened by on them.

Light source
Brewing stands emit a light level of 1.

Data values
The bottom three bits are bit flags for which bottle slots actually contain bottles.

Block entity
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 * Tile entity data
 * : X coordinate of the Tile Entity.
 * : Y coordinate of the Tile Entity.
 * : Z coordinate of the Tile Entity.
 * : Optional. When not blank, prevents the container from being opened unless the opener is holding an item whose name matches this string.
 * : Optional. The name of this container, which will display in its GUI where the default name ordinarily is. For Command Blocks, the name will replace the usual '@' when using commands such as "say" and "tell".
 * : List of items in the brewing stand.
 * : An item, including the slot tag. Slots are numbered 0 to 3.
 * See Item Format.
 * : The number of ticks the potions have been brewing for.
 * : The number of ticks the potions have been brewing for.

Trivia

 * Even when the brewing stand is not in use, there is still smoke coming out of the top of it.
 * When a brewing stand is broken, particles from the bottle will appear, even if no bottle is in the stand.
 * No matter what potion is in the stand it always looks red.
 * Brewing stands will always face east, no matter what direction it was placed.
 * Even if there is an empty bottle in the brewing stand, it will still look like there is water in it.