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Cauldron Alchemy

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Using Cauldron Alchemy

To use Cauldron Alchemy, you must place a Cauldron on top of a Magma Block, then right click the Cauldron. This will open the Cauldron Alchemy menu. Below is the minimal build to use Cauldron Alchemy

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The Cauldron Alchemy screen is like the Furnace interface, though the Fuel slot is replaced with the water level of the Cauldron. When out of water, you cannot use the Cauldron and must refill it with water.

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Refilling the Cauldron

To refill the Cauldron, you can use the vanilla Dripstone mechanics to refill the Cauldron with water. You can also use Water Bottles and Buckets of Water to refill the Cauldron.

Some Alchemy recipes restore water, such as converting Wet Sponges to Sponge, or putting Water Bottles or Water Buckets into the GUI rather than emptying them with right click on the block.

Alchemy Recipes

If you have any suggestions for new Alchemy Recipes, feel free to suggest them in the S5 Roundtable in the Discord, or via a Ticket.

Concrete Cycle

Concrete Powder can be efficiently converted to hardened Concrete, and then back to Concrete Powder for only water cost.

Basic Stone Conversions

  • Stone -> Cobblestone
  • Deepslate -> Cobbled Deepslate

Grass Cycle

Grass -> Podzol -> Mycelium -> Grass

Dirt Cycle

Dirt -> Rooted Dirt -> Coarse Dirt -> Dirt

Stone Cycle

This is an infinitely cycling recipe that allows for conversion between these materials, excluding Cobbled Deepslate
Cobblestone/Cobbled Deepslate -> Gravel -> Clay -> Sand -> Cobblestone

Prismarine Cycle

This is an infinitely cycling recipe that allows you to convert between Prismarine and Dark Prismarine
Prismarine -> Dark Prismarine -> Prismarine

Red Sand Cycle

This is an infinitely cycling recipe that allows you to convert between Red Sand and Netherrack
Netherrack -> Red Sand -> Netherrack

Azalea Cycles

Azalea -> Flowering Azalea -> Azalea
Azalea Leaves -> Flowering Azalea Leaves -> Azalea Leaves

Water Containers

  • Water Bottle or any normal Potion -> Refill Cauldron 33%, returns bottle
  • Water Bucket -> Refill Cauldron 100%, returns bucket
  • Wet Sponge -> Sponge (Fills 1% water)
  • Sponge -> Wet Sponge (Stores 1% water)

Block Cleaning

  • Any Stained Glass -> Glass
  • Any Stained Glass Pane -> Glass Pane
  • Any Glazed Terracotta -> Equivalent Normal Terracotta
  • Any Mossy Block -> Non-Mossy Variant
  • Any Banner -> White Banner

Glass Recycling

  • Glass -> Sand
  • 3x Glass Pane -> 1x Sand

Simple Alchemy

  • Soul Soil -> Soul Sand
  • Obsidian -> Crying Obsidian
  • Charcoal -> Black Dye
  • 8x Snow Block -> 1x Blue Ice
  • 1x Blue Ice -> 4x Packed Ice
  • 1x Packed Ice -> 4x Ice
  • Sticky Piston -> Piston
  • Any Sapling -> Stick (+ recovers water)
  • Any fish item -> Bonemeal

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