If it’s about making potions, one of the first steps you have to take is to make a cauldron in Minecraft. Although this was the original idea for which it was conceived, the truth is that the cauldron is much more than this.
To have a fully functional base that performs to the maximum, the best thing is undoubtedly to have your own cauldron. Here you will discover everything you can do with it, including how to use it to make the inevitable positions.
Get or make a cauldron in Minecraft
To have your own cauldron, you can resort to two methods with their own advantages and disadvantages: make them yourself or find a naturally generated one.
Manufacture
If you decide to make a cauldron in Minecraft, you will only need 7 iron ingots. To do this, arm yourself with a good pickaxe (at least stone) and look for some iron mines, in addition to creating rafts, cauldrons, tools, you can also make an iron bucket to transport water.
Once you get them and have mined them, you just have to cook them in an oven to get your ingots. When you have your iron ingots, you must place them on a manufacturing table making a kind of “U” leaving the middle and upper center empty.
looking for a cauldron
If, on the other hand, you are short of resources or simply do not want to go mining, you can try to get a cauldron already made. To do this, what you must do is find a village or a cabin.
In the case of the villages, some of these have a villager as a blacksmith and in his home you can steal the cauldron with which he works.
If you feel guilty about depriving a blacksmith of his livelihood, you can also choose a slightly more dangerous path. In this way, he tries to head towards some swamp and he might find the witch’s hut. Of course, the witch probably does not like that you are in her house or that you want to take her things.
Uses of the cauldron in Minecraft
As mentioned, after making a cauldron in Minecraft, brewing potions is just one of the ways it can be used. Now it is time to specify them.
make potions
Although originally the cauldron was where the potions were made, for some time now this function has been fulfilled by the alembic or potion holder. In this particular, the cauldron was relegated to a minor role in which it provides the water from the water bottles. If you don’t know all the potions that exist, here is a list of them and the abilities they give you.
However, with each use, a third of the water contained is lost, so a water block is much more efficient (since it is not used up). In this way, the real usefulness of the cauldron is relegated to the Nether as it is the only way in which the water does not evaporate.
In another order of ideas, it is possible to build mechanisms using a network of hoppers, stills, chests, redstone, repeaters, thrusters and others that allow potions to be automated.
This mechanism is somewhat complex to craft, requiring space, special materials, and advanced crafting blocks. The curious thing about the system is that all you have to do is drop the ingredients in the cauldron and they will begin a long journey that will end with your potions ready.
To wash
Another use and one of the most common is to wash leather armor and flags. Holding it in your hand and applying it to the cauldron, it will remove the layer of dye on top of it, losing water in the process.
Fire system
As a water container, you can dip into the cauldron to put out the fire in case of fire. It also holds a water block that you can dig out and use with a bucket in an emergency. In addition, around him the flames tend to go out gradually so it is extremely useful.
water generator
Last but not least, you can make a cauldron in Minecraft and leave it exposed to rain to collect water. This is especially convenient if you don’t have a river nearby. Another way to get water when you don’t have a river nearby is to create a well and thus have infinite water.