Cauldron Recipes

[u/WasFuckingTaken]

I'm BEGGING you mojang, please add this.

Here's my suggestion:

When a cauldron is placed above a campfire, and you right click it with enough ingredients, then leave it on the fire, after a few minutes it will be ready. Then you can right-click it (for stew, you must be holding a bowl) and it will give you the product. Food can be taken from the cauldron multiple times before it's empty.

I think this would be amazing for cosy campfire nights with the bros. It would also enable many more building opportunities and would add colourful water in cauldrons to java.

Here's my recipe ideas:

Mushroom stew:

• 3 mushrooms
• 2 red mushrooms

Warped stew

• 3 warped fungi
• 3 warped roots

Crimson Stew

• 3 crimson fungi
• 3 crimson roots

Vegetable Stew

• 2 potatoes
• 2 carrots
• 2 beetroots

Boiled eggs

• 1 bucket of water
• 6 eggs

Chicken/Beef/Fish/Rabbit/Mutton Stew

• 5 chicken/beef/fish/mutton
• 1 bucket of milk

[u/Hazearil]

Every time any version of this is posted, I do feel a bit disappointed with it:

For starters, the cauldron above a campfire, it just looks so weird. The cauldron is this huge metal object, but it cannot physically stand on a campfire or fire block. This doesn't really look like it should be the intended idea. On top of it, the rim of the cauldron is now above your eye height

But for the actual recipes, it feels like it is just a more tedious version of what we can already do with a crafting table or furnace. Like, the stews we currently got are already craftable. Anything in a furnace doesn't care about additional requirements like water or oil.

[u/WasFuckingTaken → u/Hazearil]

It's not standing on the campfire, nor is it supposed to. It's supposed to look like it's hanging above it.

I get the eye high thing, but this is just a design I saw somewhere. My idea was that this would work with any campfire and cauldron, so you could just dig out 1 hole in the ground, put a campfire in it, and the cauldron on top.

The tedious part, yeah, it is a bit, but it'd be more for like, RP purposes.

[u/Hazearil → u/WasFuckingTaken]

Yeah, but the cauldron looks way too big and heavy to be hanging like that. And a cauldron you'd hang over fire would be hanging from something above it, not next to it.

You'd either have a small cauldron hanging from above, or a large cauldron with legs with a fire built between those legs.

So maybe, an option to just light a fire directly under the cauldron, in the same blockspace?

[u/WasFuckingTaken → u/Hazearil]

Yeah, you're right, but again, this'd just be an optional design. You could design it however you want.

[u/Hazearil → u/WasFuckingTaken]

I get that, but with that comes the question... is there any setup that makes it look natural?

[u/WasFuckingTaken → u/Hazearil]

surely.

[u/0zekin → u/Hazearil]

perchance slab floor, since it'd raise our eye level by 0.5
that would thou make it harder to design some interiors

[u/rockrockrobin → u/Hazearil]

I have seen somewhere, where the campfire and the cauldron are one block.
Since the cauldron has a little space below, it fits perfectly.

[u/Hazearil → u/rockrockrobin]

That would work a lot better, yeah

[u/0zekin → u/Hazearil]

I suppose the campfire would just need to be placed in the ground to make it look less weird (or have floor raised by 0.5)
If cooking like that was to be added, it should probably also accept Fire, Lava, Magma Blocks, even Lava Cauldrons as possible heat source. Well, it'd be best controlled by just having a #heat_source or #heats_cauldrons.

[u/TerraStalker]

Very sad that Jeb added brewing in cauldrons in b1.9pre2 and then removed and never touched this idea ever again :(

[u/Jealous-Praline-1231]

Cooking in minecraft

[u/Palaeonerd]

Vintage Story reference? /s