Most Common uses for Cauldrons

[damianthedamned]

What's the most common way people use cauldrons on here?

just got one in game and naturally -as a noob to BTW- I don't really know how to efficiently use it much besides tanning leather. I barely know what to do with it. :\

[wirer]

It cooks food. and makes hellfire ingots.

Stoking it allows you to recycle bows into 2 sticks 2strings, rotten arrows into flint, arrows into some other stuff, leather products into glue, meats into tallow, wood products into potash, make kibble, soap

or you could toss hellfire/gunpowder related materials in and blow your base up

[Mud]

The very first thing it will do for you is cook your food without consuming your fuel sources (wood/coal).

[damianthedamned]

i noticed it isnt cooking flour into bread. is that normal?

[damianthedamned]

and it's not like I haven't read the wiki about it. I was just trying to gauge the effectiveness of the foods it cooks. i like it not using any fuel a lot.

[FlowerChild]

If you have a zombie in a gimp suit, the uses are self-explanatory.

[Mud]

i noticed it isnt cooking flour into bread. is that normal?

the cauldron turns flour into donuts I believe.

[damianthedamned]

umm.. lol i know there's a gimp suit in the mod but as a noob to it idk if you're being humorous or for real lol.

[wirer]

cauldrons can't cook certain foods, like bread(use a furnace), baked potates(use a furnace), fried egg(use a furnace)

donuts need flour and sugar to form in a cauldron

[Gunnerman21]

its a big vat of water and oil, it won't cook bread. Bread is for baking, but if you add sugar to the flour in the cauldron is makes doughnuts, which are not as good as bread in my opinion... But it can cook stews, look at the BTW changelog in the wiki for versions 4.60 and up, they have the recipes for the new food.

Edit: partly Ninja'd

[damianthedamned]

yeah. it makes sense when I think about it. as a cook I should have immediately realised that. I suppose notch has the idea of multi-use cooks everything easy magic block in my head lol

[FlowerChild]

I think we should stop going off-topic and talk more about this zombie thing.

[Benanov]

If you don't have a lot of meat, you won't get too much use out of a cauldron. (You can boil potatoes, though. Functionally equivalent.)

Cauldrons will collect things dropped in the top of it - use water flows to direct your millstone output to there.

You'll need a cauldron to tan leather, which is how you get a saw.

[FlowerChild]

Ok, spoilers:

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1 carrot + 1 potato + creeper oysters + zombie in gimp suit in the cauldron = ?

[Benanov]

I think we should stop going off-topic and talk more about this zombie thing.

Well, once you get the zombie in the gimp suit, it's hard to get him into the cauldron...but once you do... well that's the ticket. Chicken fried zombie. Flour, egg, rotten flesh, creeper oysters...

[Foxy Boxes]

Does the zombie's abs show as much as it's ass?


I use the cauldron for cauldron-y things. Like sacrificing chickens.

[FlowerChild]

Well, once you get the zombie in the gimp suit, it's hard to get him into the cauldron...but once you do... well that's the ticket. Chicken fried zombie. Flour, egg, rotten flesh, creeper oysters...

It's easier if you tip the cauldron. You just kinda have to back him into it and tip it repeatedly until he hops in.

[SterlingRed]

Other than their primary use, which is boiling live zombies of course, they can also be used for item collection.

Cauldrons are accessible pre saw, meaning they can be used in place of hoppers early game for collecting items. An expensive replacement mind you, but in a pinch it'll do.

Also cauldrons can be used to collect/store items in builds that a hopper would normally catch on fire. Like an automated kiln for example. Of course at this point you might as well use a crucible as they're much cheaper.

[Benanov]

Well, once you get the zombie in the gimp suit, it's hard to get him into the cauldron...but once you do... well that's the ticket. Chicken fried zombie. Flour, egg, rotten flesh, creeper oysters...

It's easier if you tip the cauldron. You just kinda have to back him into it and tip it repeatedly until he hops in.

I prefer to tip my gimp-suited zombies in cash.

[PatriotBob]

Well, once you get the zombie in the gimp suit, it's hard to get him into the cauldron...but once you do... well that's the ticket. Chicken fried zombie. Flour, egg, rotten flesh, creeper oysters...

It's easier if you tip the cauldron. You just kinda have to back him into it and tip it repeatedly until he hops in.

I prefer to tip my gimp-suited zombies in cash.

Wat.

I don't even...

[razar51]

What's the most common way people use cauldrons on here?

just got one in game and naturally -as a noob to BTW- I don't really know how to efficiently use it much besides tanning leather. I barely know what to do with it. :\

Before the changes to iron they were my primary item collection blocks until I made it to crucible tech. Most of my automated structures would have cauldrons at the end as the storage devices since they have more inventory space than hoppers and wouldn't output enough to warrant setting up power to place the items in chests.

[Nekhs]

Cauldrons used to be amazing for item collection! I remember my first semi-auto dung farm using a cauldron because I hadn't yet gotten a saw, much less a hopper.

Now the iron could be better used elsewhere, and by the time you have a good supply of iron you likely also have access to hoppers.

I'll admit, I haven't gotten to cauldron tech without dying since BTW updated to 1.5.1, however.

My most common use for cauldrons aside from low-tech item collection is for cooking and tanning leather.

It's been ages since I've gotten to the point where I can stoke a cauldron, much less a point where rendering items is a thing.