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This module adds a wide range of features to Minecraft's cauldrons, ranging all the way from tier IV potions to magical gear and drinkable wormholes. Zauber Cauldrons acts as a complete package and adds a whole new branch of magic to your game!

Zauber Cauldrons are an expansion to the game's magic system, allowing the creation of stronger potions, magical armor, effect granting crystals, and bottled wormholes. Several features in this module are dependent on the world seed, changing recipes and encouraging players to experimentally discover exactly how to use the most powerful mechanics.

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A Zauber Cauldron is created by "bespelling a boiling cauldron by reading out of a spell book". Any water-filled cauldron with a fire source (campfires or lit netherrack) below it can be used, and any enchanted book will suffice. To "read" from the spell book, simply hold the enchanted book and stand next to the cauldron. The cauldron will begin to give off steam, indicating the newly formed Zauber Cauldron is ready for use.

[[File:ZauberCauldronCreation.png|alt=|none|thumb|A player creating a Zauber Cauldron]]

All Zauber Cauldron recipes are performed by dropping items into the cauldron. Once the proper ingredients are inside, the resulting item will form, consuming the ingredients and some water. To assist in the process, a player looking at a Zauber Cauldron will be unable to pick up items inside the cauldron until they look away.

When crafting with a Zauber Cauldron two substrates are of particular importance: Water, and Powder Snow.  

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[[File:Zauber-potions.png|thumb|358x358px|All craftable tier IV potions.]]

Zauber Cauldrons can be used to strengthen any Tier II potion into a Tier IV potion. This recipe requires Prismarine Crystals, a Golden Apple, and a Tier II Potion.  

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If any unneeded ingredients are added to a Zauber Cauldron during a crafting process, they will be transformed into "Possessed Items" — weaponless Vexes that pester the player before dying a few seconds later. Each excess item entity in the cauldron transforms into a single Possessed Item.

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[[File:Zauber-armor.png|thumb|556x556px|A set of Zauber Armor. Usage of mending and unbreaking is highly recommended.]]

Zauber Cauldrons can be used to infuse golden armor with certain items, forming "Zauber Armor". This gives the armor an extra effect and boosts its defense. This recipe requires any piece of Golden Armor, an Enchanted Prismarine Shard, and a Modifier Item corresponding to the desired armor effect.

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When wearing a full set of Zauber Armor, the armor flavor that the player is wearing the most pieces of gets a virtual boost of one piece. This even applies if there is no prevalent flavor, but instead the number one spot is tied. In that case both flavors receive said boost.

Crystals are an advanced alternative to potions that provide continual tier II status effects (or for "instant" effects, once every 6.4 seconds). This recipe requires a Sea Lantern, a Nether Star, and a tier IV Zauber Potion.

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By experimenting with each flower individually, one can determine which flowers are lucky and which are poisonous by recording which ones emit poison clouds when added to the recipe. <ref>On [[Public Server Sky|PS-Sky]] the lucky flowers are dandelions, oxeye daisies, alliums, poppies, red tulips, pink tulips, white tulips, and blue orchids. </ref>

Zauber Cauldrons can be used to create a powerful potion, the "Wormhole in a Bottle", that can teleport the drinker great distances instantly - even across dimensions. This recipe depends on the world-seed, and will be different for every world, encouraging the players to experimentally figure out the details of the ingredients.

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The precise amount of Chorus Fruit, the quantities that will neither create a blurry wormhole nor summon vexes, can be determined via experimentation and testing. One common experimental method involves counting the number of Possessed Items that are summoned, which is the number of excess Chorus Fruit that was used, and reducing the input number of fruit by that quantity until a precise Wormhole is produced.

Magicol is a magical liquid which allows the player to color grass and spawnproof an area. To get started, water inside a Zauber Cauldron must first be converted into liquid Magicol. This can be done at any time and requires the following recipe inside a Zauber Cauldron filled with water. Any water level will do, but a full cauldron is recommended for maximum efficiency.

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Whilst drinkable Bottled Magicols have no pratical use, Splash or Lingering Bottled Magicols can be thrown to convert the biome around the impact area into one of 48 varieties (16 colors with three weather types each) of the Verzauberte Plains biome. All types of Verzauberte Plains are completely spawn-proof.

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== Technical Details==

The wither cloud produced from a Regeneration IV potion is 1.8 blocks in radius, and will slowly shrink to nothing in 7.5 minutes. It inflicts a Wither 6 for 64 seconds and Instant Damage 2 every 2 seconds. Each dose consumes 0.01 of the clouds radius, meaning 180 entities would need to enter the cloud to fully consume it before it dissipates.

The healing cloud produced from a Harming IV potion is 1.25 blocks in radius, and does not shrink. It grants Instant Healing 3 (6 hearts) every second, and has 14 doses of potion, after which the cloud disappears. <!-- These heart values may be wrong. The MC wiki says the effect is exponential by level, which I don't remember to be correct -->

Crafting checks are ran in stages to minimize passive lag:

Once the module has found a Zauber Cauldron that's ready for crafting checks, the module checks for so called "identifier Items". These are items that are unique to a recipe category, e.g. prismarine crystals for the Category "potions". Once such an item is found the module will start to go through all the entries for a recipe Category. These are specified within the <code><category folder/<category name>.mcfunction</code>, E.g. <code>Potions/Zauber_Potions.mcfuntion</code>. At this point the function checks for a second order identifier item, e.g. a speed potion, which is again unique within the category. Once that is found a function unique for the actual recipe checks for all the items that all recipes of the category have in common (e.g. golden apples for potion recipes) and then summons the output item.  

A blurry wormhole shifts the destination coordinates by adding random numbers to each coordinate. Typically, the coordinates remain within 12 blocks of the original cauldron coordinates, but in theory could be shifted as far 99 blocks in any given direction.

Crafting of Magicol can be disabled in case biomes changes are not desired. To do this run

  scoreboard players set $disable_magicol gm4_zc_data 1

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Many features of this modules have been changed over time. Prior to 1.13, the module did not have Wormholes, Magic in a Bottle, Possessed Items, or Soul Potions. The Luck Recipe required the player to be wearing full Zauber Armor, and did not change with the world seed. Instead, the duration of the luck effect depended on the number of flowers thrown into the cauldron. With all 10 flowers, the luck would last 100 minutes. Crystals would also function from anywhere in the players inventory.''^{Citation Needed}''

There also existed an additional version of Zauber Cauldrons exclusive to the Hermitcraft GM4 server, which contained features such as Haste Potions, Blood Moons, and a series of Magic Swords.

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