Zauber Cauldrons

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

Zauber Cauldrons

Module Type	Stand Alone
Created by	Bloo
Last Updated by	Bloo
Complementary Modules	Zauber Liquids
Compatible MC Versions	1.15

Features

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 features.

Creation

A Zauber Cauldron with some steam coming off of it.

A Zauber Cauldron is created by "bespelling a boiling cauldron by reading out of a spell book". Any water-filled cauldron with fire 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.

A player creating a Zauber Cauldron

Recipes

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 currently within it until they look away.

Potions

All craftable tier IV potions.

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

Be cautious when performing these recipes. They all have a side effect, either to the strengthening process or to the effects of the potion.

Potion Recipes

Product	Recipe (Zauber Cauldron)	Ingredients	Side Effects
Potion of Strength IV (1:30)		Potion of Strength II + Golden Apple + Prismarine Crystals	Ignites the area around the cauldron
Potion of Regeneration IV (0:22)		Potion of Regeneration II, Golden Apple, Prismarine Crystals	Potion gains Speed III (0:16) Emits a lingering wither cloud
Potion of Swiftness IV (3:20)		Potion of Swiftness II, Golden Apple, Prismarine Crystals	Potion gains Weakness IV (6:00)
Potion of Healing IV		Potion of Healing II, Golden Apple, Prismarine Crystals	Potion gains Nausea (0:08) Emits a lingering death cloud
Potion of Poison IV (0:32)		Potion of Poison II, Golden Apple, Prismarine Crystals	Summons cave spiders and cobwebs
Potion of Leaping IV (1:30)		Potion of Leaping II, Golden Apple, Prismarine Crystals	Summons a Killer Rabbit
Potion of Harming IV		Potion of Harming II, Golden Apple, Prismarine Crystals	Emits a lingering healing cloud
none		Any Splash or Lingering Potion, Golden Apple, Prismarine Crystals	The Zauber Cauldron explodes

Advanced Reactants

Many advanced Zauber Cauldron recipes use "Enchanted Prismarine Shards" as an ingredient. Enchanting a Prismarine Shard requires 30 levels of experience.

Product	Recipe (Zauber Cauldron)	Ingredients	Side Effects
Enchanted Prismarine Shard		Prismarine Shard	Consumes 30 XP Levels off of the closest Player

Extraneous Ingredients

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 and die a few seconds later. Each excess item entity in the cauldron transforms into a single Possessed Item.

Example Recipes with Excess Items

Example Recipe
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Product	Recipe (Zauber Cauldron)	Ingredients
Possessed Item

Magic in a Bottle

Possessed Items can be caught and stored by adding a glass bottle to the Zauber Cauldron, forming "Magic in a Bottle". These bottles are only stable if they contain a multiple of three Possessed Items, and will immediately shatter and release the Vexes contained within if this condition is not met. Otherwise stable Bottles of Magic also become unstable if they are left on the ground for too long, releasing the contained Vexes.

Example Recipes Creating Magic in a Bottle

Example Recipes

Product	Recipe (Zauber Cauldron)	Ingredients	Side Effects
Magic in a Bottle		Any Recipe, with more Items than required	Vexes will be caught in the bottle. Will not work if the amount of vexes that would be spawned is not a multiple of 3

A set of zauber armor. Usage of mending and unbreaking is highly recommended.

Armour

Zauber Cauldrons adds it's own set of customize able armor into the game. To craft this armor an Enchanted Prismarine Shard is required.

So called Zauber Armor comes in 4 flavors: Health Boost, Speed Boost, Knockback Resistance and Attack Damage; Armor pieces might be mixed and matched to the user's liking.

To craft this armor the user needs to drop any piece of golden armor - that isn't already Zauber Armor - alongside with an Enchanted Prismarine Shard and a modifier item into a Zauber Cauldron. This modifier item allows the user to chose from the four favors.

Product	Recipe (Zauber Cauldron)	Ingredients
Zauber Armor Piece		Golden Armor Piece + Modifier Item

Armor Modifiers

Modifier	Result
Glistering Melon Slice	+4 Max Health (2 Hearts)
Blaze Powder	+35% Attack Damage
Rabbit's Foot	+10% Speed
Eye of Ender	+0.25 Knockback Resistance

Turning Gold Armor into Zauber Armor also changes the defense values:

Zauber Armor Defense Values

Armor Piece	Armor Value	Armor Toughness Value
Helmet	+3 Armor	+3 Armor Toughness
Chestplate	+7 Armor	+3 Armor Toughness
Leggings	+5 Armor	+3 Armor Toughness
Boots	+2 Armor	+3 Armor Toughness
Full Set	+17 Armor	+12 Armor Toughness

This totals to +17 Armor Points, which is 3 Points (1.5 Shirts) lower than diamond, however, the high armor toughness accommodates for this.

Every piece of Zauber Armor also holds an Attribute Called "+25% Magic", used by an easter egg.

Crystals act as portable beacons. In total there are four types: Fire Resistance, Resistance, Speed and Regeneration.

Crystals

As an alternative to potions Zauber Cauldrons adds so called Crystals. These hold a potion effect and will never run out of it - quite useful for general survival or trips to dangerous locations.

Crystals are crafted using Sea Lanterns, Prismarine Crystals and an enchanted book of protection IV; The type of protection specifies the type of crystal.

Crystal Recipes

Ingredients	Result	Effect
Sea Lantern, Enchanted Book of Projectile Protection IV, Nether Star	Crystal of Speed	Speed II
Sea Lantern, Enchanted Book of Blast Protection IV, Nether Star	Crystal of Resistance	Resistance II
Sea Lantern, Enchanted Book of Fire Protection IV, Nether Star	Crystal of Fire Resistance	Fire Resistance II
Sea Lantern, Enchanted Book of Protection IV, Nether Star	Crystal of Regeneration	Regeneration II

To activate these crystals they must be in the Player's Off-Hand Slot and the Player must have the Luck Status Effect. This Effect may be obtained by any means, however, Zauber provides a way as well.

Luck

Unlike in vanilla, the luck potion effect is a core element to advanced Zauber Cauldron magic. Crystals are only active when the player has the luck effect; luck can also effect fishing loot.

To obtain the effect the player needs to perform the Luck recipe in a Zauber Cauldron, which depends on the world's seed. On module installation the module randomly groups the 10 types of small vanilla flowers into to categories: "normal" and "poisonous". To obtain the luck effect the player needs to combine all "normal" flowers, no "poisonous" flowers, an Enchanted Prismarine Shard and finally a piece of cut tall grass in a Zauber Cauldron.

Upon doing so, nearby players will be granted the luck potion effect. This effect will not wear off and can only be voided by death.

If the wrong flowers are used, the result depends on whether any of said flowers are poisonous. If none of the flowers are poisonous, nothing will happen, and the reactants will not be consumed. If at least one of the flowers is poisonous, the reactants will be consumed, a poison area effect cloud will be placed on top of the cauldron, and vexes will fly out.

These differing results are useful in finding the recipe for your current world. By testing what happens for an individual flower, one can find which flowers are normal and which are poisonous, and then use the recipe with the normal flowers.

Wormhole in a Bottle

Wormholes in a Bottle allows the user to teleport to the location the Magic in a Bottle was caught at - even across dimensions. To create one, 1-64 chorus and popped chorus fruit is needed; the amount of chorus and popped chorus fruit is randomized based on the world seed.

Guide to: How to create Wormholes in a Bottle

Wormholes in a Bottle allows the player to teleport to the location where the Magic in a Bottle was caught at (even across dimensions).

To create a Wormhole in a Bottle (in PSVI) you'll need:

- 1x Enchanted Prismarine Shard

- 1x Magic in a Bottle

- 35x Chorus Fruit

- 4x Popped Chorus Fruit

The amounts of Chorus and Popped Fruit will vary 1 to 64 depending on the world seed.

On PSVI: 35 Chorus Fruit and 4 Popped as mentioned before.

Creation of the Zauber Cauldron:

To create a Zauber Cauldron, you'll need to place the following blocks from top to bottom.

- Cauldron (filled with water)

- Fire

- Netherrack

To activate the Zauber Cauldron, you'll have to stand near the Cauldron while holding an enchanted book.

To create 3-sip wormholes, you'll have to add an extra block of Soul Sand under the Netherrack. In 1.16 version of minecraft, you'll have to do Soul Fire instead of Fire to get this same effect according to misode.

Creation of the Enchanted Prismarine Shard:

To create an Enchanted Prismarine Shard, you'll have to drop a Prismarine Shard into the Zauber Cauldron while carrying 30 XP Levels (the levels will be consumed).

To create Magic in a Bottle while doing the previous recipe, add to it 3 bulk items that don't stack in between them and a glass bottle.

You can always get Magic in a Bottle by doing any Zauber recipe and adding 3 bulk items and a glass bottle.

This guide was written by DroDo_ in a book at spawn and copied over by Jackohhh.

Wormhole in a Bottle

Ingredients	Result	Side Effects
Enchanted Prismarine Shard, Magic in a Bottle, 1 to 64 chorus fruit, 1 to 64 popped chorus fruit	Wormhole in a Bottle

Advancements

Advancement	Description	Requirement
Potion Chef	Create a Zauber Cauldron	Hold an enchanted book and look at a zauber cauldron
Underated Materials	Suit up with a full suit of Zauber Armor.	Equip zauber armour in all 4 armour slots
Soup Kitchen Magician	Where did my lunch go?	Stand near a rabbit when it teleports in a zauber cauldron
Questionable Ingredients	Just like the Rabbits!	Use a Wormhole in a Bottle
Clean Plate Club

Technical Details

Zauber Cauldrons uses Raycasting to ensure items in a Zauber cauldron can not be picked up.

EDITOR NOTE: Potion Cloud Details

Crafting checks are ran in stages to minimize passive lag:

First off, only Cauldrons with a valid structure - meaning a fire block beneath and water - are considered valid for crafting checks.

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 <category folder/<category name>.mcfunction, E.g. Potions/Zauber_Potions.mcfuntion. 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.

EDITORS NOTE : Moving Cauldrons

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History

Version	Date	Change
1.11	19 Dec 2016	Released Zauber Cauldrons
1.12	10 Jun 2017	Updated for 1.12 command format
1.13	19 Nov 2018	Updated for 1.13
		Added "Potion Chef," "Underated Materials," and "Soup Kitchen Magician" advancements.
	24 Dec 2018 Vexmas Update	Added Magic in a Bottle and Wormhole in a Bottle
		Added "Questionable Ingredients" advancement.
		Converted Item Names to json and fixed selectors.
1.15	8 Apr 2020	Zauber Cauldrons was installed on Public Server 6
1.15	24 Apr 2020	Installed a preview of the upcoming 1.16 update on Public Server 6
		Added multi use potions and wormholes
		Added "Clean Plate Club" advancement

Previous Versions

MC 1.11-1.12 Versions

The MC 1.11-1.12 versions did not have advancements.