Custom Brewing

Custom Brewing is a modded mechanic based on Witchery's brewing system. It requires a Witch's Cauldron in order to concoct some brews.

Getting Started

Highly recommend installing Patchouli and create the Witch's Brew book.

Mushrooms can be replaced with brown mushrooms

A Witch's Cauldron is needed to create brews.

The Cauldron should be placed above a heat source, like a Magma Block, Lava, Fire or Campfire. Right-clicking on the Cauldron with a Water Bucket will fill it.

Once the Cauldron water is boiling, the player can begin the brewing process.

The process has 4 steps: Capacity -> Catalyst -> Augmentation -> Completion

To begin the brewing process, the brew must attain capacity. Capacity is what allows the brew to have effects and augmentation.

To give the brew capacity, the player must throw a Nether Wart onto a boiling Witch Cauldron, which will emit purple particles and play chiming sounds.

Next the brew must now obtain catalysts. Catalysts are items that to specifies the brew's effect once thrown into the Cauldron. Certain catalysts take up more than one Capacity and have adds to the Soul Cost.

Cauldron holds a Speed Brew after a Sugar is thrown on it.

Then the brew can be augmented with additional properties, like longer duration and quicker drinking time. This step is optional, and each augmentation increases the Soul Cost of the brew.

Once the brew has its effects and augmentations, it can now enter the completion stage.

To begin the stage, there must be at least a Soul Candlestick nearby the cauldron. The Soul Candlestick siphons the soul energy from the Cursed Cage its placed on and sends it to the Cauldron.

Looking at the Cauldron while crouching will tell the Soul Cost and the total and used Capacity.

To begin the actual process, right click on the cauldron with a Cauldron Ladle:

This will cause the cauldron to siphon soul energy from nearby candlesticks. The more candlesticks nearby, the quicker the process becomes.

The cauldron will start to bubble rapidly at this stage.

After siphoning enough soul energy, the brewing process will be completed, and the player can start bottling the brew.

A ring of Witch particles around the cauldron signifies the process' success

Failure

If something went wrong with the brewing process (ie. adding an item onto the cauldron before putting in the Nether Wart), the brew will turn sickly brown and the cauldron will emit smoke.

The failed brew can be removed by bottling it into Bottle of Refuse, or by right-clicking on the cauldron with a Wand or Staff while crouching.

Capacity

Each effect and augmentation has a capacity requirement, add these ingredients in order to increase a brew's capacity. Increased capacity is needed to add multiple effects and augmentation to a brew, certain effects requires more capacity. It's only at this stage that capacity can be increased.

• +4 = Nether Wart

• +2 = Crimson Fungus

• +2 = Snap Warts

• +2 = Awakened Emerald

• +2 = Concentrated Emerald

• +4 = Ruby of Souls

Catalyst

Catalysts are when items are added to the Cauldron that give the brew an effect. Effects are what happens when the brew is used. To apply an effect to a brew the correct capacity must be available. Here is the list of available effects and catalysts.

Augmentation

Increases the effects of the brew and even modifies how the brew is dispersed. Each augmentation takes up 1 Capacity. The number next to the ingredient shows how much the available Soul Cost is increased by.

Dispersal

How the brew is dispersed in the world. Subsequent brew types require the previous type to be applied (ie. Brew must be Splash brew before it can be Lingering Brew).

• Gunpowder - Splash Brew

• Dragon's Breath - Lingering Brew.

• Wind Core - Gas Brew.

Duration

Increases effect duration of the brews.

• Redstone Dust - x1.25

• Prismarine - x1.5

• Chorus Flower - x2

Amplification

Increases the level of effect of the brews.

• Glowstone Dust - x2

• Blaze Rod - x2.5

• Mystic Core - x3

Area of Effect

Applies only for Splash, Lingering or Gas brews. Increases the area of effect of the brews.

• Charcoal - x1.25

• Firework Star - x1.5

• Tall Skull - x2

Lingering

Applies only for Lingering or Gas brews. Increases the duration of Brew Clouds or Gases.

• Hanging Roots - x1.25

• Big Dripleaf - x1.25

• Spore Blossom - x1.25

Drinking Speed

Applies only for normal brews. Decreases the time to drink the brew.

• Honey Bottle - x1.25

• Glow Lichen - x1.25

• Turtle Egg - x1.25

Velocity

Applies only for Splash, Lingering or Gas brews. Increases how far the player can throw the brew.

• Snowball - x1.25

• Bow - x1.25

• Crossbow - x1.25

Cosmetic

Modifies how the brew looks.

• Eye of Ender - Hides potion particles from effects.

• Dyes - Changes the color of the brew

Tips

• Crouching and right-clicking on the witch's cauldron with a Wand or Staff will remove its contents. Doing this will not refund any items that had been thrown into it.

• The witch's cauldron can be interacted with Dispensers.

• Placing the witch's cauldron in a biome under the tag "has_structure/swamp_hut" will reduce the Soul Cost by 1%.

• Placing up to 3 Witch Poles near the cauldron also reduced the Soul Cost, with each providing a 1% discount

Wood and flower can be of any type.

• Wearing a Witch Hat and Robes gives a chance of bottling more than 3 brews, up to 5.

  • Wearing a Crone Hat will increase it to 6.

• Apples can be used to bottle up brew instead of glass bottles. If advancedTootips is false, the resulting apple would be indistinguishable from a regular one, as it uses the same texture. Eating it will give the brew's effects, similar to drinking a brew bottle. The apple should not be used for splash, lingering and gas brews.