Advanced Cauldron
by Marew
Advanced Cauldron turns the vanilla cauldron into a potion store, brewing station and dye vat for Fabric, adding heat-based brewing, arrow tipping and colored water.
What it does
A cauldron can hold up to 3 levels of a potion and keeps the potion type, so players pour potions in, store them and extract them later with glass bottles. A cauldron placed over a heat source such as a campfire, lava, magma or fire starts a brew that finishes on its own, with colored particle effects, and blaze powder is no longer needed for that step. Adding dye to water creates colored water, and several dyes can be mixed to blend colors or to dip leather armor. The palette covers 16 base dyes and blends any two into a new shade.
Right-clicking a potion cauldron with arrows tips them in bulk, and the cauldron level sets how many arrows are tipped, up to 16 by default and configurable. Tipped arrows can be crafted without a brewing stand, and modded arrow types can join via a tag-based registry.
Installation needs Fabric API, and the mod must be installed on both the client and the server. It is released under the MIT License, is open source, and is published for 1.20.1 and 1.21.1 with 1.0.4 for 1.21.1 as the latest file. Cloth Config and Mod Menu are optional and provide in-game configuration.
Key features
Potion storage in cauldrons
Cauldrons hold up to 3 levels of a potion and keep its type, so potions can be stored in them and taken out with glass bottles.
Heat-based brewing
A cauldron over a campfire, lava, magma or fire brews automatically and shows colored particle effects while it finishes.
Dye and RGB color mixing
Water can be dyed with 16 colors, mixed together with full RGB blending, and used to dip leather armor.
Bulk arrow tipping
A cauldron tips many arrows at once, with the amount set by its level and craftable tipped arrows that need no brewing stand.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Cauldron Brewing is a Fabric, Forge and Quilt mod for 1.20.6 that is not open source; the server must run it and clients may leave it out. Bedrock Cauldrons is a server-side Fabric mod, open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, published for 1.21.6 – 26.3. Potioncraft runs on client and server with Fabric, is open source under the MIT License, and covers 1.20 – 1.21.6.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Cauldron | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-04-12 |
| Cauldron Brewing | Fabric, Forge and Quilt | 1.20.6 | Server required, client optional | 2024-05-24 |
| Bedrock Cauldrons | Fabric | 1.21.6 – 26.3 | Server-side only | 2026-10-14 |
| Potioncraft | Fabric | 1.20 – 1.21.6 | Client and server | 2025-08-19 |
Questions
Does Advanced Cauldron need Fabric API?
Does the server need Advanced Cauldron?
Can Advanced Cauldron be configured in game?
In the catalog
Advanced Cauldron is one of 7,216 Magic mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,630 Magic mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Advanced Cauldron brings depth to Minecraft's cauldron system, turning it into a versatile tool for potion brewing, water dyeing, and arrow crafting — all without a brewing stand. Pour potions directly into empty cauldrons to store them. Each cauldron holds up to 3 levels and preserves the potion type. Extract…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/advanced-cauldron
- Owner
- Marew
- Published
- 2026-02-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-04-12
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15