Cauldron

For other uses, see Cauldron (disambiguation).

Cauldron

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

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Item description‌[BE only]	Holds liquids & potions
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	2
Hardness	2
Luminous	Depends on contained liquid
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	11 STONE
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

A cauldron is a block that can contain water, lava, or powder snow and, in certain situations, collect them from the environment. In Bedrock Edition, it can also hold dyed water or potions and can be used to efficiently create tipped arrows. It also serves as a leatherworker's job site block.

Obtaining

Breaking

A cauldron can be obtained using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing. Regardless of the tool, when a cauldron is destroyed, its contents are lost.

Block	Cauldron
Hardness	2
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	110.05 (JE) 10 (BE)
Wooden	11.5 (JE) 1.5 (BE)
Stone	10.75 (JE) 0.75 (BE)
Copper	10.6 (JE) 0.6 (BE)
Iron	10.5 (JE) 0.5 (BE)
Diamond	10.4 (JE) 0.4 (BE)
Netherite	10.35 (JE) 0.35 (BE)
Golden	10.25 (JE) 0.25 (BE)
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

A single empty cauldron is generated in each swamp hut. In Bedrock Edition, the cauldrons generated there are ¹⁄₃ to ³⁄₃ full of a random potion.

A cauldron ²⁄₃ full of water is generated in each igloo basement.

Cauldrons can be found in a few rooms inside of woodland mansions.

Two filled cauldrons can be found inside savanna, taiga, snowy taiga, and plains village tannery houses.

A single filled cauldron can be found in plains village and desert village tannery houses.

In Java Edition, three filled cauldrons can be found in plains village tannery houses.

Cauldrons can also generate in trail ruins and abandoned camps.

Crafting

A cauldron can be crafted from iron ingots.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Iron Ingot

Usage

Storage for substances

Cauldrons can hold a variety of substances. Fluids they cannot hold include milk, honey, mushroom stew, beetroot soup, rabbit stew and suspicious stew. In Java Edition, cauldrons containing fluids are considered by the game to be separate blocks from each other and from empty cauldrons, which does not affect gameplay but does affect the commands needed to place them.

In Bedrock Edition, when a cauldron is filled with any amount of some substance, attempting to add a different substance to the cauldron deletes the substance in the bucket/bottle, leaving the bucket/bottle. Adding a water bucket or bottle to dyed water will reset the color and increase the water level by the correct amount.

Water

A cauldron can be filled with water by using a water bucket on the cauldron. Once completely filled, a cauldron can be used to fill a water bucket by using an empty bucket on the cauldron; this empties the cauldron.

In Java Edition, despite containing water, using a fish bucket on a cauldron does not fill it with water, but places water against it, meaning it does nothing to the cauldron.^[1] In Bedrock Edition, using any bucket of mob does nothing, leaving the bucket filled.

In Java Edition, the water cauldron water color changes based on the biome it is in. In Bedrock Edition, the water color is always the same in any biome.

In Bedrock Edition, a cauldron can also be filled when water touches the top of the cauldron. Once the water block is removed, the cauldron will be filled with water. This affects cauldrons with dyed water and potions too, and will replace the contents of the cauldron with undyed water. Powder snow and lava cauldrons are not affected.

In Java Edition, a cauldron can contain three levels of water. One level of water can be added to a cauldron by using a water bottle on it. One level of water can be removed from a cauldron, filling a water bottle, by using a glass bottle on it.

In Bedrock Edition, a cauldron can contain six levels of water, and using a water bottle or a bottle on a cauldron respectively adds or removes two levels from it. If there are less than two levels remaining, a bottle cannot be used to retrieve the remaining water, and it must be either replaced or removed through a method that reduces the level by one.

A cauldron slowly fills with water when rained upon, if starting empty or with some water. This happens randomly, at 5% of the rate in which snow accumulates on the ground during snowfall.

Water can be stored in a cauldron, even in the Nether. Water in a cauldron does not freeze in cold biomes.

Water in a cauldron does not absorb explosion damage; make sounds and particles; absorb fall damage;^[2][3] allow tridents enchanted with Riptide to activate;^[4][5] or damage endermen‌^{[JE only]}, striders, or blazes.^[6][7] Cauldrons do not deal drowning damage to mobs inside of them^[8] and fish act as if there is no water inside it.^[9] The player cannot float or swim in it, as the water is about level with the player's waist. Jumping in a cauldron does not produce any bubble or water particles.

A cauldron placed below a down-facing pointed dripstone that has a waterlogged block‌^{[Java Edition only]} or water source placed a block above it slowly fills with water. The cauldron can be placed at most 10 blocks below the dripstone, and will not be filled if any solid block, water or lava‌^{[JE only]}/ any block‌^{[BE only]} is within this range.

The water in a cauldron cannot be sucked up by a sponge, whether the sponge is touching the cauldron or not.^[10]

Lava

Cauldrons can be used to hold lava. Lava can be manually added to a cauldron using a lava bucket, and can be removed with an empty bucket. In Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education, when a cauldron is already filled with water, it empties the cauldron and makes an extinguishing sound.

A cauldron filled with lava emits a light level of 15, similar to lava, and burns any entity inside of it.

Lava inside a cauldron does not interact with water outside of the cauldron. The lava disappears upon putting water in the cauldron.

A redstone comparator with a lava cauldron behind it outputs redstone signal strength of 3.^[11][12]

A cauldron placed below a downward-facing pointed dripstone that has lava placed a block above it slowly fills with lava, making lava renewable. The same condition for filling water from pointed dripstones applies.

Lava inside cauldrons does not have different height "levels" like water inside cauldrons does, and glass bottles cannot be used on a lava cauldron.

Lava inside cauldrons does not spread fires like free lava.

Holding powder snow

Powder snow is currently the only solid material that can be stored in a cauldron. A cauldron slowly fills with powder snow during snowfall, if starting empty or with any layer of powder snow already inside. Up to three‌^{[JE only]} or six‌^{[BE only]} layers can be filled. When the cauldron is full, interacting using a bucket creates a powder snow bucket and empties the cauldron. Entities standing in the cauldron do not take freeze damage, and entities wearing leather boots still fall through the powder snow. As with cauldrons full of water, falling into a powder snow cauldron does not prevent fall damage.

A redstone comparator with a powder snow cauldron behind it outputs a redstone signal strength proportional to the fill level, up to 3.

Contrary to a cauldron filled with water, a powder snow cauldron that is not full cannot be filled up with a powder snow bucket, as using the bucket on the cauldron instead places powder snow against it.

Dyed water

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.

Using a dye on the cauldron colors the water (at any fill level), consuming the dye. Multiple dyes may be added (one at a time) to produce mixed colors. Using any piece of leather armor, leather horse armor, or wolf armor on the cauldron dyes that item the color of the water, reducing the water in the cauldron by two levels for each item dyed.

In Bedrock Edition, dyes cannot be applied to armor directly and are applied to cauldron water instead. When a dye is used on undyed cauldron water, the water becomes dyed, and will have the color of that dye.

If a cauldron with NBT data for dyed water is placed, when it rains, the cauldron can fill up to 1 level, and the color will not be reset. Any other cauldron with dyed water is not affected by rain.

Potions

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.

For the color of potions in cauldrons, see Effect colors § Potion colors.

In Bedrock Edition, a cauldron can hold normal potions, splash potions and lingering potions. Using a potion on a cauldron empties the potion and increases the level of the potion in the cauldron by two levels. A glass bottle can then be used on a cauldron with a potion in it, filling the bottle with that potion. This reduces the potion in the cauldron by two levels.

Using an arrow on a cauldron that contains a potion transforms the arrow into a tipped arrow with that potion effect, and reduces the potion in the cauldron by one level. Tipping multiple arrows at once (as a stack) can be more efficient, but it uses more levels depending on the number of arrows. If the cauldron has only one to three levels, using any number of arrows on it uses all of the remaining levels, and tips up to 16 arrows. If the cauldron has 4 or more levels, the level decreases based on the number of arrows tipped. Tipping 1 to 16 arrows reduces the level by 1. Tipping 17 to 32 arrows reduces the level by 4, and tipping 33 to 64 arrows reduces the level by 6. Generally speaking, this means the player can get up to 32 tipped arrows per potion. This can be done by filling the cauldron to level 4 (2 potions), tipping 16 arrows, taking a potion out of the cauldron, and then tipping 16 more arrows.

If there is only one level of potion in the cauldron, it cannot be retrieved using a glass bottle and must be either replaced or used to tip arrows.

An entity that stands in a cauldron filled to any level with any potion does not receive the effect of the potion.

Using an empty bucket on a cauldron filled with any potion does nothing, as the bucket remains empty and the potion in the cauldron does not empty.

Removing dye from items

A cauldron with undyed water can wash the dye off of leather armor, leather horse armor, wolf armor, and shulker boxes, and can also remove the top-most pattern layer of a banner. This is done by pressing use on the cauldron with the leather armor, wolf armor, shulker box, or banner in hand. Each wash reduces the water in the cauldron by one level. The water does not become dyed while removing dye from objects.

Profession

If a cauldron has not been claimed by a villager, any nearby unemployed villager has a chance to change their profession to leatherworker and claim the cauldron as their job site block.

Extinguishing fire

A cauldron with water or powder snow extinguishes entities on fire that fall into it and the entity emits black particles. This includes mobs, players, items (if they land in the cauldron before burning up), and flaming arrows‌^{[JE only]}. Flaming arrows stuck into the side are also extinguished. Entities must reach the water or powder snow in it. Each entity extinguished causes the substance in the cauldron to decrease by one level. If the cauldron is filled with powder snow, it then becomes a water cauldron with one less level of water.

Redstone component

A cauldron can act as a power source for a redstone comparator. With a cauldron behind it (either directly, or separated by an unpowered solid block), a comparator outputs a signal strength proportional to how full the cauldron is: 0 for empty, 1 for one-third full, 2 for two-thirds full, and 3 for completely full or filled with lava. However, if there is a block between the cauldron and the comparator, the comparator does not immediately update.

Sounds

Generic

Despite being composed entirely of iron, cauldrons do not use iron sounds. Mojang have stated that this is not a valid discrepancy to address.^[13]

Java Edition:

stone sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

normal sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.stone	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.27 [sound 1]	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.3	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.12	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.22	1.0

Unique

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Cauldron	cauldron	Block & Item	cauldrons	block.minecraft.cauldron item.minecraft.cauldron
Lava Cauldron	lava_cauldron	Block	cauldrons	block.minecraft.lava_cauldron
Powder Snow Cauldron	powder_snow_cauldron	Block	cauldrons	block.minecraft.powder_snow_cauldron
Water Cauldron	water_cauldron	Block	cauldrons	block.minecraft.water_cauldron

Bedrock Edition:

Cauldron	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Block	cauldron	lava_cauldron	118	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	item.cauldron	tile.cauldron.name
Item	cauldron	None	432	Item	—	item.cauldron.name

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	Cauldron

Block states

Java Edition:
Water cauldron and powder snow cauldron:

Bedrock Edition:

Block data

In Bedrock Edition, a cauldron has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format#Cauldron.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Tie Dye Outfit	Use a cauldron to dye all 4 unique pieces of leather armor.	—	15	Bronze

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2				Cauldrons are present in the code, but are not assigned to a block ID (and thus are unobtainable without mods (archived link: [1])).
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				Cauldrons have been given a block ID, an item ID, and a crafting recipe.
1.2.1			12w06a				Cauldrons have now become renewable, due to zombies sometimes dropping iron ingots.
1.4.2			12w40a				Empty cauldrons can now be found in witch huts.
1.5			13w02a				The walls inside of the cauldron now use the bottom texture, and the cauldron now has no bottom.[14]
			13w02b				Fixed the model error from 13w02a.
1.8			14w03a				Cauldrons now appear completely opaque.[15]
			14w03b				Cauldrons now render as normal again.
			14w04a				If a cauldron is set to render as the block inside of a minecart via commands or map editing, it now appears as this (previously it would be entirely invisible).
			14w06a				Cauldrons now have extra planes inside the feet. Additionally, cauldrons now appear solid, meaning water placed into them no longer appears translucent.
			14w10a				The cauldron's feet now have planes on all sides.
1.8.2			pre1				Added "Cauldrons filled" and "Water taken from cauldron" to statistics.
1.9			15w44a				The model of cauldrons has been changed to fix mirrored faces.
1.11			16w39a				Cauldrons now generate naturally in jail cells in woodland mansions.
July 19, 2017							Jeb tweets image of a new jungle planks, cauldron and dandelion textures.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of cauldrons have been changed.
			18w48a				Cauldrons now generate in the updated plains villages.
			18w49a				Cauldrons now generate in the updated savanna villages and the new snowy tundra villages.
			18w50a				Cauldrons now generate in the updated desert and taiga villages.
			19w03a				The numerous missing cullface arguments for the cauldron have been fixed.
			19w11a				Cauldrons now serve as leatherworker villagers' job site block.
			19w13a				The cauldron's hitbox has been fixed.[16]
1.17			20w45a				Filled cauldrons no longer work as a workstation for villagers.[17]
			20w48a				Cauldrons can now collect water and lava dripped by pointed dripstone.
			21w11a				Lava buckets and powder snow buckets can now be emptied into any filled cauldron.
			21w13a				Filled cauldrons work again as a workstation for villagers.
1.20			23w12a				Cauldrons now generate in trail ruins.
26.3			snap1				Cauldrons now generate in abandoned camps.
			snap4				Added the #cushion_uses_collision_shape block tag.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.14.0			build 1				Added cauldrons.
							Cauldrons are generated naturally in witch huts.
v0.15.0			build 1				Cauldrons can now be moved by pistons.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Cauldrons now generate naturally in woodland mansions, their fullness status is unknown.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of cauldrons have been changed.
							Cauldrons now generate in tannery houses in villages.
1.16.0			?				The lighting of cauldrons has been changed.
1.16.220 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.16.220.50				Cauldrons can now collect water and lava dripped by pointed dripstone.
1.17.0			beta 1.17.0.52				Powder snow buckets can now be emptied into cauldrons.
1.20.0			Preview 1.20.0.22				Cauldrons now generate in trail ruins.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.24				Cauldrons drop themselves only if mined using a pickaxe, matching Java Edition.
26.40 Experiment Drop 3 of 2026			Preview 26.40.27				Cauldrons now generate in abandoned camps.
26.50			Preview 26.50.22				All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU7	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added cauldrons.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Empty cauldrons can now be found in witch huts.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Cauldrons now generate naturally in jail cells in woodland mansions.
TU60	CU51	1.64	1.64	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	Water in a cauldron can now be dyed.
							Armor can be dyed in a cauldron filled with dyed water.
							Cauldrons can no longer be moved by pistons.
TU62	CU52	1.66	1.66	1.66	Patch 31	1.0.12	Cauldrons can once again be moved by pistons.
			1.90				The textures of cauldrons have been changed.
			1.91				Cauldrons now generate in tannery houses in villages.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added cauldrons.

Water cauldron

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2				If made to work with a mod, cauldrons can be filled with a water bucket.
							Cauldron water transparency appears inconsistent depending on hardware.
1.3.1			12w22a				Cauldrons can now be filled with water, if placed outside during rain or a thunderstorm.
1.4.2			12w34a				Holding a piece of dyed leather armor and right-clicking a water-filled cauldron now washes away all dyes applied to the leather armor.
1.5			13w02a				The walls inside of the cauldron now use the bottom texture, and the cauldron now has no bottom.[14]
			13w02b				Fixed the model error from 13w02a.
1.6.1			13w18a				When used with a redstone comparator, cauldrons now output a signal varying in strength according to the amount of water inside.
1.7.2			13w43a				Cauldrons now extinguish burning entities.
1.8			14w10a				The cauldron's feet now have planes on all sides.
			14w30a				Right-clicking a non-empty cauldron with a banner now removes the top-most pattern layer.
1.9			15w43a				A cauldron now generates within igloo basements, 2⁄3 full.
			15w44a				A full cauldron can now be emptied with a bucket, filling the bucket with water.
							The models of cauldrons have been changed to fix mirrored faces.
1.11			16w32a				When a cauldron washes a dyed item (leather armor or banner), it reduces its water level by 1.
			16w33a				A water bottle is now able to add 1 water level to a cauldron.
1.13			18w10d				Shulker boxes can now be undyed in a cauldron.
			18w15a				Water in cauldrons is now white colored.[18]
			18w20b				Cauldron water is now colored again, depending on the biome.
							This currently affects ocean temperature variants and swamps.
							Swampland M water has a yellowish color while in a cauldron.[19]
			pre3				Swampland M water now has the same water color in cauldrons as regular swamps.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of cauldrons have been changed.
			19w03a				The numerous missing cullface arguments for the water cauldron have been fixed.
1.17			20w45a				Normal and water cauldrons have been split into different blocks, making filled cauldrons no longer work as a workstation for villagers.[17]
							This also means that any structures before this snapshot that have cauldron(s) fill with water no longer generate(s) cauldron. Instead, water cauldron(s) generate.
							Using a banner on a cauldron to remove the top-most pattern layer now reduces the water level of the cauldron, even in creative mode.[20]
			21w13a				Filled cauldrons work again as a workstation for villagers.
1.20.2			23w31a				The speed of rain filling cauldrons with water is now affected by the game rule randomTickSpeed.[21]
26.1			snap7				The water in cauldrons used for holding water is now semi-transparent.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.14.0			build 1				Added water cauldrons.
							Water color in cauldrons can be changed by adding dyes.
							Cauldrons can be used to dye and strip dye from leather armor.
v0.15.0			build 1				Cauldrons can now be used to dye and strip dye from leather horse armor.
							Water cauldrons can now be moved by pistons.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Cauldrons now generate naturally in igloo basements.
							Cauldrons now extinguish burning entities.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of cauldrons have been changed.
1.17.30			beta 1.17.20.23				Dyed water cauldrons can no longer be filled with their respective liquid by water dripped from pointed dripstone if they aren't already full.
1.20.0			Preview 1.20.0.20				Water in cauldrons now uses the lava texture, but with water's translucency level and standard color multiplier.[22]
1.20.10			Preview 1.20.10.20				Cauldron water now uses the correct texture.
1.20.80			Preview 1.20.80.20				Cauldrons can now be used to dye and strip dye from wolf armor.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU7	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added water cauldrons.
TU12							Water is no longer removed from a water bucket when filling a cauldron in creative mode.
TU14		1.04					Cauldrons fill with water if placed outside during rain or a thunderstorm.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Cauldrons with water in them extinguish burning entities, taking away one water level each time.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Using a non-empty cauldron with a banner now removes the top-most pattern layer.
							A cauldron now generates within igloo basements, 2⁄3 full.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		A full cauldron can now be emptied with a bucket, filling the bucket with water.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added cauldrons.
							Water color in cauldrons can be changed by adding dyes.
							Cauldrons can be used to dye leather armor.

Lava cauldron

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.17			20w45a				Cauldrons can now be filled with lava.
			21w20a				Lava cauldrons now emits redstone signal strength of 3.[11]

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.9.0			beta 1.9.0.2				Cauldrons can now be filled with lava.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of cauldrons filled with lava has been changed.
1.18.30			beta 1.18.20.25				Blazes, ghasts, magma cubes, striders, wither skeletons, zoglins, and zombified piglins, and mobs and players with the Fire Resistance effect no longer take damage from cauldrons filled with lava.[23]

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
			1.88				Cauldrons can now be filled with lava.
			1.90				The texture of cauldrons filled with lava has been changed.

Powder snow cauldron

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.17			20w46a				Cauldrons can now be filled with powder snow.
1.17.1			pre1				Powder snow now fills twice as fast in a cauldron.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.17.0			beta 1.17.0.52				Cauldrons can now be filled with powder snow.

Potion cauldron

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2				Cauldrons are intended to be used for the creation of potions.
							Cauldrons can be made to work with a mod, through which the following has been revealed: Applying a potion ingredient to a water cauldron cause it to change to a differently-colored lava texture, and adding any further potion ingredients to the filled cauldron cause the liquid to change color. Scooping out a potion with ingredients applied cause the potion to have an effect related to the ingredient, e.g. a potion brewed with a magma cream have Fire Resistance as an effect.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				The system was deemed too complex and not user-friendly,[24] so the cauldron's ability to brew potions has been replaced with the brewing stand.[25][26] That brewing system is finalized and doesn't change in the rest of the pre-releases.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.14.0			build 1				Cauldrons can store potions, and explode if potions are mixed.
v0.15.0			build 1				Cauldrons are now used to make tipped arrows.
v0.16.0			build 4				Added cauldron with potion of Decay.
Bedrock Edition
1.5.0			beta 1.5.0.4				Added cauldron with potion of the Turtle Master.
1.6.0			beta 1.6.0.5				Added cauldron with potion of Slow Falling.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of cauldrons filled with potions have been changed.
1.17.30			beta 1.17.20.23				Potion cauldrons can no longer be filled with their respective liquid by water dripped from pointed dripstone if they aren't already full.
1.21.0 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.21.0.20				Added cauldrons with potion of Wind Charging, potion of Weaving, potion of Oozing, and potion of Infestation.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU60	CU51	1.64	1.64	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	Cauldrons can now be filled with potions and make an explosion sound if they are mixed.
							Effects can now be applied to arrows by using them on a potion-filled cauldron.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Added cauldrons with potion of Decay, Turtle Master and Slow Falling.
			1.90				The textures of cauldrons filled with potions have been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Cauldrons can store potions.
							Cauldrons make an explosion sound if potions are mixed, and the potions disappear.
							Potions inside cauldrons have a bubbling effect.

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Cauldron" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• The inside of a cauldron is 0.25 (¹⁄₄) blocks tall.
• Using level editors or add-ons, cauldrons with liquids other than water can be made to be dyed or contain potions. When this is done, the fluid uses an opaque water texture, and the cauldron retains the applicable properties such as producing light if containing lava.

Gallery

Renders

Normal water

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  Level 1
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  Level 2
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  Level 3 - full
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  Level 1 (Bedrock Edition)
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  Level 2 (Bedrock Edition)
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  Level 3 - full (Bedrock Edition)

Dyed water

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

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  White water cauldron
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  Light gray water cauldron
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  Gray water cauldron
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  Black water cauldron
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  Brown water cauldron
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  Red water cauldron
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  Orange water cauldron
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  Yellow water cauldron
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  Lime water cauldron
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  Green water cauldron
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  Cyan water cauldron
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  Light blue water cauldron
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  Blue water cauldron
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  Purple water cauldron
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  Magenta water cauldron
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  Pink water cauldron

Cauldrons filled with potions

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

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Reason: Renders still show pre-Bedrock Edition 1.19.80 potion colors.

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  Night Vision potion cauldron
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  Invisibility potion cauldron
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  Leaping potion cauldron
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  Fire Resistance potion cauldron
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  Swiftness potion cauldron
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  Slowness potion cauldron
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  Turtle Master potion cauldron
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  Water Breathing potion cauldron
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  Healing potion cauldron
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  Harming potion cauldron
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  Poison potion cauldron
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  Regeneration potion cauldron
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  Strength potion cauldron
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  Weakness potion cauldron
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  Slow Falling potion cauldron
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  Decay potion cauldron

Powder snow

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  Level 1
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  Level 2
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  Level 3 - full

Screenshots

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  All cauldron states in Java Edition
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  All potions in cauldrons‌^{[BE only]}
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  All cauldron water colors possible with one dye‌^{[BE only]}

Mojang screenshots

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  Cauldrons filled with dyed water
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  A cauldron filled with potions
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  Using a cauldron to make tipped arrows
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  Ditto
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  Ditto
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  A cauldron full of snow
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  A cauldron
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  A sample of cauldrons

Development images

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  How potions were brewed in Beta 1.9 Pre-Release 2 if enabled through a mod

In other media

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  Cauldron as it appeared in Minecraft Earth
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  A cauldron as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons
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  The Corrupted Cauldron as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons
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  Cauldron as it appears in Minecraft Legends

References

External links

• "Block of the Month: Cauldron" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, November 25, 2024.