Fermenting

The first step in every brew is fermenting your ingredients. The tool you do it in is a cauldron of water over a heat source — think of the cauldron as your cooking pot, and fermenting as what happens inside it.

Setting up the cauldron

1. Place a cauldron and fill it with water.
2. Put a heat source directly underneath — a fire, campfire, lava, or magma block. The water starts to boil.

Fermenting

• Right-click the cauldron with each ingredient to drop it in, in the amounts the recipe calls for.
• Let it boil for the recipe's time, measured in real minutes. Coloured particles rise while it works.
• Check progress any time by right-clicking the cauldron with a clock — it tells you "This cauldron has been boiling for X minutes."

The longer it boils, the more it ferments — and the finished bottle's description will literally say how many minutes it fermented for.

Bottling

When the time is right, right-click the cauldron with empty glass bottles to fill them with the base brew.

Timing matters: bottle too early or leave it boiling too long and the quality drops. Simple drinks like beer just need aging after this — spirits still need distilling.