Mystery Potions
by lukebemish
Mystery Potions changes what brewing produces, so a potion's effect is only learned by drinking it once in a given world.
What it does
Brewed potions gain new effects, and the effect a potion gives depends on the world seed. Within one world a potion always does the same thing, but the same potion can do something different in another world, so players cannot know its effect before testing it the first time. The mod adds several named recipes, including Swampy Brew, Flaming Concoction, Mariner's Mixture and Bottled Time, along with brewing routes that use a lily pad, charcoal, a pufferfish or a clock as ingredients.
Some ingredients come from specific sources: Distilled Emeralds are obtained by trading with illagers, and Floating Blood drops from loot. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. Files are published for Forge and Quilt for 1.20.1, with version 1.0.0 released on 2023-07-11. It requires GroovyDuvet, GroovyModLoader (GML), JsonWrangler and Quilted Fabric API (QFAPI) or Quilt Standard Libraries (QSL), and it is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later.
Key features
Seed-dependent potion effects
Each world assigns its own effects to potions, so recipes that work in one save may behave differently in another.
Named brews
Recipes such as Swampy Brew, Flaming Concoction, Mariner's Mixture and Bottled Time produce potions with set outcomes in each world.
Unidentified results
A potion's effect is not shown beforehand, so the result is only known after the first drink.
Illager loot ingredients
Distilled Emeralds come from trading with illagers, and Floating Blood comes from loot.
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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.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 2
How it compares
Light's Extended Potions is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 that is not open source, with All rights reserved licensing. Concoction is server required with the client optional, published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt across 1.20.3 – 1.20.4 under the MIT License. Touch of Alchemy is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later and is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mystery Potions | Forge and Quilt | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2023-07-11 |
| Light's Extended Potions | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-09-18 |
| Concoction | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20.3 – 1.20.4 | Server required, client optional | 2024-01-16 |
| Touch of Alchemy | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-10-04 |
Questions
Does Mystery Potions need Forge or Quilt?
Do the server and players need Mystery Potions?
Why does a potion behave differently in another world?
Which libraries must be installed alongside it?
In the catalog
Mystery Potions is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,337 Food mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Mystery Potions adds a variety of potions with effects whose details vary across different worlds, depending on the world seed - it is impossible to tell exactly what the potion will do until you've tried it the first time! Within a given world, a potion will always have the same effect, for every player, but this…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/mysterypotions
- Owner
- lukebemish
- Published
- 2023-07-11
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-07-11
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15