Cauldron

The Cauldron is a large multipurpose iron vat that uses heat applied from below to cook, craft, tan, render or otherwise combine items placed inside them. It is required to progress in the tech tree.

When placed directly above fire (from a Campfires, lit Netherrack or powered Hibachis) the Cauldron slowly process any valid recipes in its inventory, one at a time. This allows large quantities of items to be left in in a cauldron for processing, and come back later to collect them in their completed form.

Its steep Iron cost makes it quite an investment, but a very valuable one, since it also unlocks many new recipes that allows the player to multiply its Food by combining them.

To improve cooking/processing time, you can add up to 8 adjacent or diagonal fires next to the central one.

More advanced recipes for rendering items down require the fire underneath the Cauldron to be stoked, which is achieved only with Hibachis and Bellows. When Bellows receive an alternating signal of Mechanical Power, the air they blow will increase the heat of Hibachi fire. Reactions requiring a regular flame, such as cooking or boiling, will not proceed when it is heated by a stoked flame. It should be noted that a cauldron with a stoked flame will be hot enough to detonate explosive substances such as Gunpowder or Hellfire Dust, causing local damage and for the Cauldron to be lost.

The Cauldron can be tipped by application of Mechanical Power. When tipped, all items in the Cauldron will spill onto the block clockwise along - when facing the pot - the axle providing power to the Cauldron.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output
Cauldron	Iron Ingot, Bone and Water Bucket

Usage

The Cauldron is the best way to cook Food, and the final upgrade from the Campfire and the Brick Oven.

It can cook food the fastest, and once you have access to the Nether and Netherrack, doesn't require any fuel.

Initially, the Cauldron can be fueled by a lit Campfire placed below, and up to 9 campfires can be used to speed up the cooking time, at the cost of a lot of fuel.

Once the player has a Diamond Pickaxe and can access the Nether, Netherrack can be used instead of a campfire, which removes the fuel requirement.

Finally, Hibachis can be used in combination with Bellows, to produce stoked fire and unlock different recipes.

Example

The first way to use a cauldron, using Campfires and requiring fuel. More fire, up to 9, means faster cooking.
Using Netherrack for infinite fire and no fuel required.
Using Bellows and a Turntable to make stoked fire and unlock new recipes.

Cooking Time

The formula for calculating cook times (in ticks, 1 second = 20 ticks) is:

T = 4350 / (5 + 3 * (#fires - 1))

Number of fire	Cooking time in ticks	Cooking time in seconds
1	870 ticks	43.5 seconds
2	544 ticks	27.2 seconds
3	396 ticks	19.8 seconds
4	311 ticks	15.55 seconds
5	256 ticks	12.8 seconds
6	218 ticks	10.9 seconds
7	190 ticks	9.5 seconds
8	168 ticks	8.4 seconds
9	150 ticks	7.5 seconds

To put it simply, 6 fires cook twice as fast as a single fire, and 9 fires cook twice as fast at 6 fires (4x as fast as 1 fire)

Applications

Unstoked Flame Cooking

Cauldrons can cook anything that a Brick Oven can cook, with the exception of Bricks, Nether Bricks, or baked goods like Pumpkin Pie, Bread or Cake, which can instead be cooked in a Kiln instead.

There are also many new Cauldron-specific recipes for more advanced Food types.

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Hunger Restored
Cooked Chicken or Cooked Fish or Cooked Mutton or Poached Egg	Raw Chicken or Raw Fish or Raw Mutton or Raw Egg		2 shanks
Cooked Mystery Meat or Cooked Porkchop or Cooked Wolfchop or Steak	Raw Mystery Meat or Raw Porkchop or Raw Wolfchop or Raw Beef		2.5 shanks
Boiled Potato	Potato or Baked Potato		1 shank
Cooked Carrot	Carrot		1 shank
Chicken Soup	Cooked Chicken, Cooked Carrot, Boiled Potato, Bowl		4 shanks
Chocolate	Cocoa Powder, Sugar, Milk		1 shank
Chowder	Cooked Fish, Milk, Bowl		2.5 shanks
Cooked Scrambled Egg	Raw Scrambled Egg		2 shanks
Cooked Mushroom Omelet	Raw Mushroom Omelet		2 shanks
Cream of Mushroom	Brown Mushroom, Milk,Bowl		1.5 shanks
Donut	Flour, Sugar		.5 shank or .25 roll
Kebab	Raw Kebab		4 shanks
Hearty Stew	Cooked Carrot, Boiled Potato, Brown Mushroom, Flour, Bowl, Cooked Chicken or Cooked Mutton or Steak or Cooked Porkchop or Cooked Mystery Meat or Cooked Wolfchop		5 shanks
Foul Food	Any Food, Dung		.5 shank Has a 80% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 30 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.

Unstoked Flame Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output		Name	Ingredients	Input » Output
Tanned Leather	Scoured Leather, Dung, 2 Jungle Bark or 3 Spruce Bark or 5 Oak Bark or 8 Birch Bark 8 Blood Bark			Blasting Oil	Hellfire Dust, Tallow
Blood Wood Sapling	Oak Sapling, Birch Sapling, Pine Sapling, Jungle Sapling, Nether Wart, Soul Urn			Cement Bucket	Bucket, Gravel, Sand, Soul Urn
Concentrated Hellfire	Hellfire Dust			Element	Blaze Powder, Redstone, Hemp Fiber or String
Filament	Glowstone Dust, Redstone, Hemp Fiber or String			Fuse	Gunpowder, Hemp Fiber or String
Gunpowder Manual crafting	Nitre, Brimstone, Coal Dust
Gunpowder Cauldron crafting	Nitre, Brimstone, Coal Dust			Nethercoal	Coal Dust, Hellfire Dust
Nether Groth Spores	Brown Mushroom, Red Mushroom, Nether Wart, Mycelium, Dung, Soul Urns.			Nether Sludge	Hellfire Dust, Potash
Piston	Sticky Piston, Soap			Chopping Block	Bloody Chopping Block, Soap
Dyed Wool Block	White Wool Block, Dye or Dung			Dyed Wool Slab	White Wool Slabs, Dye or Dung
White Wool Block	Dyed Wool Block, Potash			White Wool Slab	Dyed Wool Slab, Potash
Cactus Green	Cactus

Stoked Flame Cooking

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Hunger Restored
Kibble	Bone Meal, Rotten Flesh, Sugar		1.5 shanks Has a 50% chance of causing Food Poisoning for 60 seconds, making you more hungry and unable to eat food.

Stoked Flame Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output		Name	Ingredients	Input » Output
Soul Flux, Brimstone	Ender Slag			Flint, Feather, Shaft	Arrow or Rotted Arrow
Glue	Leather Derived Item or Book			Potash	Wood or Wooden Plank or Siding or Moulding or Corner or Saw Dust or Soul Dust or Bark (any kind)
Soap	Tallow, Potash			String, Shaft, Bone	Bow or Composite Bow
Tallow	1 Raw or Cooked Porkchop or 2 Raw or Cooked Mystery Meat or 4 Raw Beef or Steak or 4 Raw or Cooked Mutton or 8 Raw or Cooked Wolfchop

Keep in mind

• If Dung is cooked alongside food in the Cauldron, Foul Food will be produced, effectively ruining the food. Avoid tanning Leather and cooking at the same time!
• Lava will not heat the Cauldron.
• Do NOT use Bellows to stoke the fire under a Cauldron containing Hellfire Dust or any other explosives.
• The Cauldron can be smelted in the Crucible into 42 Iron Nuggets.

See Also

• Food
• Bellows
• Hibachi
• Netherrack
• Campfire