Cauldron
The Cauldron is a large multipurpose iron vat that uses heat applied from below to cook, craft, tan, render or otherwise combine items placed inside them. When placed directly above a Fire block, which includes Campfires, lit Netherrack or Redstone-activated Hibachis, the Cauldron slowly process any valid recipes in its inventory, one at a time. This allows large quantities of items to be left in in a cauldron for processing, and come back later to collect them in their completed form.
Its steep Iron cost makes it quite an investment, but a very valuable one, since it also unlocks many new recipes that allows the player to multiply its Food by combining them, and is required to progress in the tech tree.
To improve cooking/processing time, you can add up to 8 adjacent or diagonal fires next to the central one.
More advanced recipes for rendering items down require the fire underneath the Cauldron to be stoked, which is achieved only with Hibachis and Bellows. When Bellows receive an alternating signal of Mechanical Power, the air they blow will increase the heat of Hibachi fire. Reactions requiring a regular flame, such as cooking or boiling, will not proceed when it is heated by a stoked flame. It should be noted that a cauldron with a stoked flame will be hot enough to detonate explosive substances such as Gunpowder or Hellfire Dust, causing local damage and for the Cauldron to be lost.
The Cauldron can be tipped by application of Mechanical Power. When tipped, all items in the Cauldron will spill onto the block clockwise along - when facing the pot - the axle providing power to the Cauldron.
Contents
Crafting
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Cauldron | Iron Ingot, Bone and Water Bucket |
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Usage
The Cauldron is the best way to cook Food, and the final upgrade from the Campfire and the Brick Oven.
It can cook food the fastest, and once you have access to the Nether and Netherrack, doesn't require any fuel.
Initially, the Cauldron can be fueled by a lit Campfire placed below, and up to 9 campfires can be used to speed up the cooking time, at the cost of a lot of fuel.
Once the player has a Diamond Pickaxe and can access the Nether, Netherrack can be used instead of a campfire, which removes the fuel requirement.
Finally, Hibachis can be used in combination with Bellows, to produce stocked fire and unlock different recipes.
Example
The first way to use a cauldron, using Campfires and requiring fuel. More fire, up to 9, means faster cooking. |
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Using Netherrack for infinite fire and no fuel required. |
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Using Bellows and a Turntable to make stocked fire and unlock new recipes. |
Applications
Unstoked Flame Cooking
Cauldrons can cook anything that a Brick Oven can cook, with the exception of Bricks, Nether Bricks, or baked goods like Pumpkin Pie, Bread or Cake, which can instead be cooked in a Kiln instead.
There are also many new Cauldron-specific recipes for more advanced Food types.
Unstoked Flame Crafting
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Tanned Leather | Scoured Leather, Dung, 2 Jungle Bark or 3 Spruce Bark or 5 Oak Bark or 8 Birch Bark 8 Blood Bark |
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Blasting Oil | Hellfire Dust, Tallow |
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Blood Wood Sapling | Oak Sapling, Birch Sapling, Pine Sapling, Jungle Sapling, Nether Wart, Soul Urn |
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Cement Bucket | Bucket, Gravel, Sand, Soul Urn |
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Concentrated Hellfire |
Hellfire Dust |
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Element | Blaze Powder, Redstone, Hemp Fiber or String |
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Filament | Glowstone Dust, Redstone, Hemp Fiber or String |
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Fuse | Gunpowder, Hemp Fiber or String |
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Gunpowder | Nitre, Brimstone, Coal Dust |
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Nethercoal | Coal Dust, Hellfire Dust |
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Nether Groth Spores |
Brown Mushroom, Red Mushroom, Nether Wart, Mycelium, Dung, Soul Urns. |
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Nether Sludge |
Hellfire Dust, Potash |
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Piston | Sticky Piston, Soap |
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Chopping Block | Bloody Chopping Block, Soap |
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Dyed Wool Block | White Wool Block, Dye or Dung |
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Dyed Wool Slab | White Wool Slabs, Dye or Dung |
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White Wool Block | Dyed Wool Block, Potash |
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White Wool Slab | Dyed Wool Slab, Potash |
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Cactus Green | Cactus |
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Testing a new recipe template, the recipes below are a duplicate from above -Batto
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Tanned Leather | Scoured Leather, Dung, 2 Jungle Bark or 3 Spruce Bark or 5 Oak Bark or 8 Birch Bark 8 Blood Bark |
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Blasting Oil | Hellfire Dust, Tallow |
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Blood Wood Sapling | Oak Sapling, Birch Sapling, Pine Sapling, Jungle Sapling, Nether Wart, Soul Urn |
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Cement Bucket | Bucket, Gravel, Sand, Soul Urn |
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Concentrated Hellfire |
Hellfire Dust |
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Element | Blaze Powder, Redstone, Hemp Fiber or String |
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Filament | Glowstone Dust, Redstone, Hemp Fiber or String |
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Fuse | Gunpowder, Hemp Fiber or String |
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Gunpowder | Nitre, Brimstone, Coal Dust |
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Nethercoal | Coal Dust, Hellfire Dust |
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Nether Groth Spores |
Brown Mushroom, Red Mushroom, Nether Wart, Mycelium, Dung, Soul Urns. |
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Nether Sludge |
Hellfire Dust, Potash |
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Piston | Wooden Siding, Iron Ingot, Stone Brick, Soul Urn, Redstone Latch |
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Chopping Block | Stone Brick |
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Stoked Flame Cooking
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Kibble | Bone Meal, Rotten Flesh, Sugar |
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1.5 shanks Has a 30% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food. |
Stoked Flame Crafting
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Soul Flux, Brimstone |
Ender Slag |
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Flint, Feather, Shaft |
Arrow or Rotted Arrow |
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Glue | Leather Derived Item or Book |
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Potash | Wood or Wooden Plank or Siding or Moulding or Corner or Saw Dust or Soul Dust |
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Soap | Tallow, Potash |
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String, Shaft, Bone |
Bow or Composite Bow |
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Tallow | 1 Raw or Cooked Porkchop or 2 Raw or Cooked Mystery Meat or 4 Raw Beef or Steak or 4 Raw or Cooked Mutton or 8 Raw or Cooked Wolfchop |
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Keep in mind
- If Dung is cooked alongside food in the Cauldron, Foul Food will be produced, effectively ruining the food. Avoid tanning Leather and cooking at the same time!
- Lava will not heat the Cauldron.
- Do NOT use Bellows to stoke the fire under a Cauldron containing Hellfire Dust or any other explosives.
- The Cauldron can be smelted in the Crucible into 42 Iron Nuggets.