Cauldron

For the boss in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Corrupted Cauldron.

Cauldron

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	2
Hardness	2
Luminant	Depends on contained liquid
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

A cauldron is a block that can contain water, lava and powder snow. In Bedrock Edition, it can also hold potions and dyed water. It also is a job site block used by leatherworkers in villages.

A water cauldron is a cauldron containing a water source, it has three fill-levels.

A lava cauldron is a cauldron containing a lava source.

A powder snow cauldron is a cauldron containing powder snow, it has three fill-levels.

Obtaining

Breaking

A cauldron can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing. Regardless of the tool, when a cauldron is destroyed, its contents are lost.

Block	Cauldron
Hardness	2
Tool
Breaking time
Default	10
Wooden	1.5
Stone	0.75
Iron	0.5
Diamond	0.4
Netherite	0.35
Golden	0.25

Natural generation

A naturally occurring cauldron inside of a witch hut.

A single empty cauldron is generated in each swamp hut. In Bedrock Edition, the cauldrons generated there are ¹⁄₃ to ²⁄₃ full of a random potion.

A cauldron ²⁄₃ full of water is generated in each igloo basement.

Cauldron in Woodland Mansion Jailinner

Cauldrons can be found in a few rooms inside of woodland mansions.

Two filled cauldrons can be found inside savanna, taiga, snowy taiga, and snowy tundra village tannery houses.

A single filled cauldron can be found in plains village and desert village tannery houses.

In Java Edition, three filled cauldrons can be found in plains village tannery houses.

Crafting

A cauldron can be crafted from iron ingots.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Iron Ingot

Usage

Storage for substances

Cauldrons can hold a variety of substances. Fluids they cannot hold include milk, honey and any food items which exist in bowls; namely mushroom stew, beetroot soup, rabbit stew and suspicious stew.

Holding water

A cauldron with different water levels in Java Edition.

A cauldron with different water levels in Bedrock Edition.

A cauldron can be filled with water by using a water bucket on the cauldron. Once completely filled, a cauldron can be used to fill a water bucket by using an empty bucket on the cauldron; this empties the cauldron. Despite containing water, using a fish bucket on a cauldron does not fill it with water, but places water against it, meaning it does nothing to the cauldron

A cauldron can also be filled by dumping a water bucket on the block above the cauldron. Once you remove the water block, the cauldron is filled to the full level with water.‌

It can contain three levels of water. One level of water can be added to a cauldron by using a water bottle on it. One level of water can be removed from a cauldron, filling a water bottle, by using a glass bottle on it.

A cauldron slowly fills with water when rained upon, if starting empty or with some water. This happens randomly, at 5% of the rate in which snow accumulates on the ground during snowfall.

Water can be stored in a cauldron even in the Nether. Water in a cauldron does not freeze in cold biomes.

Water in a cauldron does not absorb explosion damage; make sounds and particles; absorb fall damage; or damage endermen, striders, or blazes. Cauldrons do not deal drowning damage to mobs inside of them and fish act as if there is no water inside it. The player cannot float or swim in it, as the water is about level with the player's waist. Jumping in a cauldron does not produce any bubble or water particles.

A cauldron placed below a down-facing pointed dripstone that has water placed a block above it slowly fills with water.

Attempting to add lava or potion to water empties the cauldron.‌

A cauldron also does not count as a riptide source.

The water in a cauldron cannot be sucked up by a sponge, whether the sponge is touching the cauldron or not.

Applying dye to cauldron water

Cauldron filled with water with different color‌

In Bedrock Edition, leather armor is dyed through a cauldron, so a cauldron can hold dyed water. Using a dye on a cauldron filled with water colors the water, consuming the dye. Different dyes may be added to produce mixed colors. Using leather armor or leather horse armor on the cauldron dyes that item the color of the water, reducing the water in the cauldron by one level for each item dyed.

Attempting to add water, lava or potion to dyed water empties the cauldron.

Holding lava

Cauldron filled with lava

Cauldrons can be used to hold lava. In Bedrock and Education editions, when a cauldron is already filled with water, it empties the cauldron and makes an extinguishing sound. A cauldron filled with lava emits a light level of 15, similar to lava, and burns any entity inside of it; in Bedrock and Education editions, this includes mobs that do not take damage from lava like zombified piglins.

Lava inside a cauldron does not interact with water outside of the cauldron. The lava disappears upon putting water in the cauldron.

A redstone comparator with a lava cauldron behind it outputs redstone signal strength of 3.

A cauldron placed below a down-facing pointed dripstone that has lava placed a block above it slowly fills with lava.

If a cauldron is filled by lava, using glass bottles on the cauldron does nothing.

Holding powder snow

A cauldron filled with powder snow with different level.

Powder snow is currently the only solid material which can be stored in a cauldron. A cauldron slowly fills with powder snow during snowfall, if starting empty or with any layer of powder snow already inside. Up to three layers can be filled. When the cauldron is full, interacting using a bucket, creates a powder snow bucket and empties the cauldron. Entities standing in the cauldron do not take freeze damage, and entities wearing leather boots still fall through the powder snow.

A redstone comparator with a powder snow cauldron behind it outputs a redstone signal strength proportional to the fill level, up to 3.

Contrary to a cauldron filled with water, a powder snow cauldron that is not full cannot be filled up with a powder snow bucket, as using the bucket on the cauldron instead places powder snow against it.

Filling cauldrons with potions

Cauldron filled with different type of potion‌

In Bedrock Edition, a cauldron can hold normal potions, splash potions and lingering potions. Using a potion on a cauldron empties the potion and increases the level of the potion in the cauldron by one level. A glass bottle can then be used on a cauldron with a potion in it, filling the bottle with that potion. This reduces the potion in the cauldron by one level.

Using an arrow on a cauldron that contains a potion transforms the arrow into a tipped arrow with that potion effect, and reduce the potion in the cauldron by one level. Tipping multiple arrows at once can be more efficient, and it may use more than one level at once. 1 level of potion tips up to 16 arrows, 2 levels up to 32, and a full cauldron can tip a full stack of arrows, resulting in 21.33 tipped arrows per potion.

Attempting to put water, lava or a different potion into a cauldron with a potion causes an explosion sound, and the cauldron is emptied.

An entity that stands in a cauldron filled to any level with any potion does not receive the effect of the potion.

Using an empty bucket on a cauldron filled with any potion does nothing, as the bucket remains empty and the potion in the cauldron does not empty.

Removing dye from items

A cauldron with water can wash the dye off of leather armor and shulker boxes, and can remove the top-most pattern layer of a banner, by pressing use on the cauldron with the leather armor, shulker box, or banner in hand. Each wash reduces the water in the cauldron by one level. The water does not become dyed while removing dye from objects.

Changing profession

If a village has a cauldron that has not been claimed by a villager, any villager that does not already have a profession or job site block may change their profession to leatherworker.

Extinguishing fire

A cauldron with water or powder snow extinguishes entities on fire that fall into it and the entity emits black particles. This includes mobs, players, items (if they land in the cauldron before burning up), and flaming arrows‌. Flaming arrows stuck into the side are also extinguished. Entities must reach the water or powder snow in it. Each entity extinguished causes the substance in the cauldron to decrease by one level. If the cauldron is filled with powder snow, it then becomes a water cauldron,

Redstone component

An example of a cauldron used in a redstone circuit.

See also: Redstone circuit

A cauldron can act as a power source for a redstone comparator. With a cauldron behind it (either directly, or separated by an unpowered solid block), a comparator outputs a signal strength proportional to how full the cauldron is: 0 for empty, 1 for one-third full, 2 for two-thirds full, and 3 for completely full or filled with lava. However, if there is a block between the cauldron and the comparator, the comparator does not immediately update.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8
	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.37	0.5
?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0
	Blocks	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.stone	1.0	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Cauldron	cauldron	Block & Item	cauldrons	block.minecraft.cauldron item.minecraft.cauldron
Lava Cauldron	lava_cauldron	Block	cauldrons	block.minecraft.lava_cauldron
Powder Snow Cauldron	powder_snow_cauldron	Block	cauldrons	block.minecraft.powder_snow_cauldron
Water Cauldron	water_cauldron	Block	cauldrons	block.minecraft.water_cauldron

Bedrock Edition:

Type	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
Normal block	cauldron	118	Block & Ungiveable Item	item.cauldron	tile.cauldron.name
Brighting block	lava_cauldron	465	Block & Ungiveable Item	Identical	—
Item	cauldron	432	Item	—	item.cauldron.name

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	Cauldron

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:
Cauldron, Water cauldron and powder snow cauldron:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
level	0	0 1 2 3	Fullness of a cauldron, 0 is empty and 3 is full.

Bedrock Edition:
Cauldron and brighting cauldron:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
fill_level	0x1 0x2 0x4	0	0 1 2 3 4 5 6	0 1 2 3 4 5 6	Fullness of a cauldron, 0 is empty and 6 is full.
cauldron_liquid	0x8	water	water	0	The cauldron contains water
			lava	1	The cauldron contains lava
			powder_snow	Unsupported [sic]	The cauldron contains powder snow.

Block data

In Bedrock Edition, a cauldron has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other
		Tie Dye Outfit	Use a cauldron to dye all 4 unique pieces of leather armor.	—	15G	Bronze

History

Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2			Cauldrons are present in the code, but are not assigned to a block ID (and thus are unobtainable without mods (archived link: [1])).
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3			Cauldrons have been given a block ID, an item ID, and a crafting recipe.
1.4.2		12w40a			Empty cauldrons can now be found in witch huts.
1.5		13w02a			The walls inside of the cauldron now use the bottom texture, and the cauldron now has no bottom.
		13w02b			Fixed the model error from 13w02a.
1.8		14w03a			Cauldrons now appear completely opaque.
		14w03b			Cauldrons now render as normal again.
		14w06a			Cauldrons now have extra planes inside the feet. These planes are now rendered solid, so the player cannot see through the water.
		14w10a			The cauldron's feet now have planes on all sides.
1.11		16w39a			Cauldrons now generate naturally in jail cells in woodland mansions.
July 19, 2017					Jeb tweets image of a new jungle planks, cauldron and dandelion textures.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 118, and the item's was 380.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of cauldrons have been changed.
		18w48a			Cauldrons now generate in the updated plains villages.
		18w49a			Cauldrons now generate in the updated savanna villages and the new snowy tundra villages.
		18w50a			Cauldrons now generate in the updated desert and taiga villages.
		19w03a			The numerous missing cullface arguments for the cauldron have been fixed.
		19w11a			Cauldrons now serve as leatherworker villagers' job site block.
		19w13a			The cauldron's hitbox has been fixed.
1.17		20w45a			Normal and water cauldrons have been split into different blocks, making filled cauldrons no longer work as a workstation for villagers.
		20w48a			Cauldrons can now collect water and lava dripped by pointed dripstone.
		21w11a			Lava buckets and powder snow buckets can now be emptied into any filled cauldron.
		21w13a			Filled cauldrons work again as a workstation for villagers.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.14.0		build 1			Added cauldrons.
					Cauldrons are generated naturally in witch huts.
v0.15.0		build 1			Cauldrons can now be moved by pistons.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Cauldrons now generate naturally in woodland mansions, their fullness status unknown.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of cauldrons have been changed.
					Cauldrons now generate in tannery houses in villages.
?					The textures of cauldrons have been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU7	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added cauldrons.
TU60	CU51	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	Water in a cauldron can now be dyed.
					Armor can be dyed in a cauldron filled with dyed water.
					Cauldrons can no longer be pushed by pistons.
		1.90			The textures of cauldrons have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added cauldrons.

Water cauldron

Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2			If made to work with a mod, cauldrons can be filled with a water bucket.
					Cauldron water transparency appears inconsistent depending on hardware.
1.3.1		12w22a			Cauldrons can now be filled with water, if placed outside during rain or a thunderstorm.
1.4.2		12w34a			Holding a piece of dyed leather armor and right-clicking a water-filled cauldron now washes away all dyes applied to the leather armor.
1.5		13w02a			The walls inside of the cauldron now use the bottom texture, and the cauldron now has no bottom.
		13w02b			Fixed the model error from 13w02a.
1.6.1		13w18a			When used with a redstone comparator, cauldrons now output a signal varying in strength according to the amount of water inside.
		13w43a			Cauldrons now extinguish burning entities.
1.8		14w10a			The cauldron's feet now have planes on all sides.
		14w30a			Right-clicking a non-empty cauldron with a banner now removes the top-most pattern layer.
1.9		15w43a			A cauldron now generates within igloo basements, 2⁄3 full.
		15w44a			A full cauldron can now be emptied with a bucket, filling the bucket with water.
1.11		16w32a			When a cauldron washes a dyed item (leather armor or banner), it reduces its water level by 1.
		16w33a			A water bottle is now able to add 1 water level to a cauldron.
1.13		18w10d			Shulker boxes can now be undyed in a cauldron.
		18w15a			Water in cauldrons is now white colored.
		18w20b			Cauldron water is now colored again, depending on the biome.
					This currently affects ocean temperature variants and swamps.
					Swampland M water has a yellowish color while in a cauldron.
		pre3			Swampland M water now has the same water color in cauldrons as regular swamps.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of cauldrons have been changed.
		19w03a			The numerous missing cullface arguments for the water cauldron have been fixed.
1.17		20w45a			Normal and water cauldrons have been split into different blocks, making filled cauldrons no longer work as a workstation for villagers.
		21w13a			Filled cauldrons work again as a workstation for villagers.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.14.0		build 1			Added water cauldrons.
					Water color in cauldrons can be changed by adding dyes. Items dipped in the water are dyed that color.
v0.15.0		build 1			Cauldrons are now used to dye leather horse armor.
					water Cauldrons can now be moved by pistons.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Cauldrons now generate naturally in igloo basements.
					Cauldrons now extinguish burning entities.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of cauldrons have been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU7	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added water cauldrons.
TU12					Water is no longer removed from a water bucket when filling a cauldron in creative mode.
TU14		1.04			Cauldrons fill with water if placed outside during rain or a thunderstorm.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Cauldrons with water in them extinguish burning entities, taking away one water level each time.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added cauldrons.
					Water color in cauldrons can be changed by adding dyes.
					Cauldrons can be used to dye leather armor.

Lava cauldron

Java Edition
1.17		20w45a			Cauldrons can now be filled with lava.
		21w20a			Lava cauldrons now emits redstone signal strength of 3.
Bedrock Edition
1.9.0		beta 1.9.0.2			Cauldrons can now be filled with lava.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of cauldrons filled with lava has been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
		1.88			Cauldrons can now be filled with lava.
		1.90			The texture of cauldrons filled with lava has been changed.

Powder Snow Cauldron

Java Edition
1.17		20w46a			Cauldrons can now be filled with powder snow.
1.17.1		Pre-release 1			Powder snow now fills twice as fast in a cauldron.
Bedrock Edition
1.17.0		beta 1.17.0.52			Cauldrons can now be filled with powder snow.

Potion cauldron

Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2			Cauldrons are intended to be used for the creation of potions.
					Cauldrons can be made to work with a mod, through which the following has been revealed: Applying a potion ingredient to a water cauldron cause it to change to a differently-colored lava texture, and adding any further potion ingredients to the filled cauldron cause the liquid to change color. Scooping out a potion with ingredients applied cause the potion to have an effect related to the ingredient, e.g. a potion brewed with a magma cream have Fire Resistance as an effect.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3			The system was deemed too complex and not user-friendly, so the cauldron's ability to brew potions has been replaced with the brewing stand. That brewing system is finalized and doesn't change in the rest of the pre-releases.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.14.0		build 1			Cauldrons can store potions, and explode if potions are mixed.
v0.15.0		build 1			Cauldrons are now used to make tipped arrows.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of cauldrons filled with potions have been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU60	CU51	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	Cauldrons can now be filled with potions and make an explosion sound if they are mixed.
					Effects can now be applied to arrows by using them on a potion-filled cauldron.
		1.90			The textures of cauldrons filled with potions have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Cauldrons can store potions.
					Cauldrons make an explosion sound if potions are mixed, and the potions disappear.
					Potions inside cauldrons have a bubbling effect.

Cauldron "item"

The following content is transcluded from Technical blocks/Cauldron.

Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2			Cauldrons have an extra, unobtainable item form corresponding to its block ID. This can be seen only if the block is assigned an ID with mods.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3			Cauldron items can be obtained via inventory editors with numeric item ID 118.
1.3.1		12w16a			Cauldron items can now be obtained in singleplayer worlds via the /give command using the respective numeric ID.
1.7.2		13w37a			The direct item form of cauldrons has been removed from the game. It can no longer exist as an item in any way, only as a placed block.
Pocket Edition Alpha
?					Cauldrons probably have an extra item form.
Bedrock Edition
?					Lava cauldrons have an item form.

Appearances

Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2			The cauldron item uses this texture in inventories, when held in first or third person view or as a dropped item.
					It can be seen only with mods in this version to assign it an item ID, but can be seen in vanilla in Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 and onward.
1.4.2		12w34a			The cauldron item now uses the aforementioned texture when in an item frame.
1.5		13w02a			The cauldron item now uses this texture in inventories, when held in first or third person view, as a dropped item or when in an item frame.
					This is due to major texture storage changes in this version.

Names

Java Edition

• Beta 1.9 Pre-release 3 - 13w36b: Cauldron

Issues

Issues relating to "Cauldron" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Arrows "stick" to the water in a cauldron.
• The inside of a cauldron is 0.25 (¹⁄₄) blocks tall.
• A cauldron holding water is the only way to have water in the Nether without the use of commands.

Gallery

• 

  All cauldron states in Java Edition.

• 

  All potions in cauldrons.‌

• 

  All cauldron water colors possible with one dye.‌

• 

  How potions were brewed in Beta 1.9 Pre-Release 2 if enabled through a mod.

References

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