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A Cauldron is a block that, when filled with water from a bucket by right clicking, will fill up with water. This water can be used to refill three Glass Bottles. These bottles are then brewed into Potions with a Brewing Stand.
History
Alchemy was first hinted at in July 2011, when Notch hinted that redstone dust would later be used in potions.[1] Potion effects were introduced in Beta 1.8, and expanded on in the Beta 1.9 Pre-release.
The cauldron was originally going to be used to make Potions by using Brewing Recipes.[2] But later on, it was replaced by Jeb with the Brewing Stand because of the inconvenient method of brewing with the cauldron. As of Beta 1.9 Pre-release 3 Cauldrons can now be crafted and used to store water (once a Cauldron is emptied, it can be refilled with water from a bucket). Each Cauldron holds three bottles worth of water.
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Crafting
| Ingredients | Input » Output |
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| Iron Ingots | Template:Grid/Crafting Table |
Trivia
- Cauldrons cannot hold Lava or Milk, but the potions that were once put inside of it in earlier versions had a texture similar to Lava.
- Potions could be brewed in 1.9 Beta Pre-Release 2 by adding a bucket of water along with various other ingredients to a Cauldron. By adding different ingredients to the cauldron, over two thousand different potions can be brewed.
- When broken, Cauldrons do not drop any water, only the Cauldron itself.
- When a Cauldron is being mined with water in it, the water will start to get cracks in it as if it is a block.
- As of 1.9 Pre-release 3, Cauldrons are available in creative mode and can be crafted in Survival mode.
- As of 1.0.0, Cauldrons can be used to legitimately store water within the Nether, as opposed to water evaporating by trying to place it down with a bucket.
- Even if a Cauldron has water in it, a Piston can push it.
- Even if a Cauldron has water in it, it will not extinguish any mob (including the player) that is on fire.
- In creative mode, if you attempt to fly inside a cauldron with a block above your head, a glitch will occur causing you to be "stuck" in flight form without being able to lift or lower yourself.
- Standing in a Cauldron while the cauldron is being pulled by a piston will cause you to go through the cauldron rather than to be carried with it.
- On November 8, 2011, Jeb tweeted a reply to a suggestion for boiling food in a cauldron, saying he may consider it later.[8]
- It's possible to push a minecart inside of a cauldron by using pistons and half-slabs.
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See also
References
- ↑ http://notch.tumblr.com/post/779956568/the-rationale-for-redstone
- ↑ http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/119466949708222465
- ↑ http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/118764434196922368
- ↑ http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/119466949708222465
- ↑ http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/119710836469149697
- ↑ http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/119762786619359232
- ↑ http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/119763532312096769
- ↑ http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/133828493938130945


