Improved Potions
by BigSTy1
Improved Potions reworks brewing by adding a pestle, a small cauldron and new potion types that players craft with boiled water and components.
What it does
Brewing gains new tools and items, including a pestle and a small cauldron. Water has to be boiled in the cauldron before it can be used, and some components must be ground or combined with the pestle first. Regular potions keep their vanilla form, and the mod adds special potions beside them. A chosen potion can carry up to three effects, depending on the ingredients picked.
The mod also changes the Swamp biome, which gains five new structures. All text in the datapack is translated into English, Ukrainian and Russian, and the displayed language follows the game's selected language setting.
The mod is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and the datapack variant is also listed. The latest builds target 26.3, and the release line covers 1.21.5 – 26.3. The mod is not open source and is released under All rights reserved. Its author notes state that it needs Optifine and other mods to run.
Key features
Pestle and small cauldron
A pestle and a small cauldron are added, and components are prepared with them before brewing.
Boiled water for brewing
Water must be boiled in the cauldron before any brewing recipe can use it.
Potions with three effects
A potion can combine up to three effects, chosen by the ingredients the player selects.
Special potions
Special potions are added alongside the regular vanilla potions, giving players more options.
Five new Swamp structures
The Swamp biome generates five new structures that are added by the mod.
Translated datapack
The datapack is translated into English, Ukrainian and Russian, and follows the language selected in the game.
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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
Copper Cauldron is a Fabric and Quilt mod for 1.21.8, licensed under the Apache License 2.0 and open source, and it runs on client and server. Bedrock Cauldrons is a Fabric-only server-side mod for 1.21.6 – 26.3, licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only and open source, so clients need nothing. Overbrew covers 26.3 on all four loaders, is not open source, and is released under a custom license.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improved Potions | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.5 – 26.3 | Server required, client optional | 2026-09-16 |
| Copper Cauldron | Fabric and Quilt | 1.21.8 | Client and server | 2025-08-16 |
| Bedrock Cauldrons | Fabric | 1.21.6 – 26.3 | Server-side only | 2026-10-14 |
| Overbrew | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 26.3 | Server required, client optional | 2026-07-17 |
Questions
Does Improved Potions need Optifine?
Which loaders can run Improved Potions?
Is the server required to run Improved Potions?
In the catalog
Improved Potions is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,715 Food mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/improved-potions
- Owner
- BigSTy1
- Published
- 2025-05-27
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-16
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15