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Boiling Pot

Build

Build a Boiling Pot with a CAULDRON or WATER_CAULDRON over a CAMPFIRE or SOUL_CAMPFIRE.

Boiling Pot station built over a campfire.
Boiling Pot station built over a campfire.
Boiling Pot cooking flow with visible station effects.
Boiling Pot cooking flow with visible station effects.

Core Loop

The Boiling Pot handles wet recipes, soups, cheese, rice, pasta, and recipes that return buckets or bottles.

How Recipes Behave Here

The Boiling Pot is the liquid and simmering station. It handles soups, rice, pasta, cheese, jam, wet ingredient conversions, and recipes that care about buckets or bottles. It is also where property stacking becomes easy to understand: jam can become an ingredient in later foods while keeping the food properties created from its fruit.

Common Chains

  • Fruit + sugar + bottle -> JAM; glow berries, golden apples, and chorus fruit can add food properties to the jam.
  • RICE + water -> COOKED_RICE, which then feeds sushi and fried rice chains.
  • Milk bucket -> CHEESE, and milk plus vinegar can produce the alternate cheese path.
  • Distillery grain wort uses the Boiling Pot before fermentation.

Good First Recipes

Try COOKED_RICE, CHEESE, then JAM. Those three cover water inputs, bucket returns, bottle returns, and property-carrying ingredients.

What Can Go Wrong

A bucket can be either a normal Minecraft interaction or a recipe ingredient. If you are testing a recipe, interact normally with the station and avoid vanilla cauldron habits. If the output keeps the wrong flavor or property, inspect the recipe rules: properties come from matching ingredient rules and from inherited input data.

Recipes

Recipe Output Inputs Source
CANDY_APPLE Default Candy AppleCANDY_APPLEDefault Candy AppleDefault Candy AppleGolden Candy AppleGolden Candy Apple APPLEorGOLDEN_APPLESUGAR1-2STICK Festive
CANDY_CORN CANDY_CORNCANDY_CORN SUGAR1-2HONEY_BOTTLECORN Festive
CANNED_TOMATOES CANNED_TOMATOESCANNED_TOMATOES TOMATOTIN_CAN Core
CHEESE Default CheeseCHEESE MILK_BUCKET Core
CHEESE CHEESECHEESE MILK_BUCKETVINEGAR Core
CHICKEN_CURRY CHICKEN_CURRYCHICKEN_CURRY COOKED_CHICKENRICEHEAVY_CREAMorMILK_BUCKETorCOCONUT_MILKTOMATOorONIONorGARLIC1-3 World
CHOCOLATE_EGG CHOCOLATE_EGGCHOCOLATE_EGG CHOCOLATEEGG Festive
COOKED_RICE COOKED_RICECOOKED_RICE RICEVINEGAR0-1 Core
DOUGHNUT Default DoughnutDOUGHNUTDefault DoughnutDefault DoughnutJelly DoughnutJelly DoughnutChocolate DoughnutChocolate Doughnut DOUGHJAM0-1SUGARorCOCOA_BEANSorHONEY_BOTTLE0-1 Core
FISH_AND_CHIPS FISH_AND_CHIPSFISH_AND_CHIPS CODorSALMONPOTATOBAG_OF_FLOURorCORNMEALVINEGARCOOKING_OIL Core
FRIED_CHICKEN FRIED_CHICKENFRIED_CHICKEN CHICKENBAG_OF_FLOURorCORNMEALCOOKING_OIL Core
FRIES FRIESFRIES POTATO1-2COOKING_OILSALT0-1 Core
JAM Default JamJAMDefault JamDefault JamGlow JamGlow JamGolden JamGolden JamChorus JamChorus Jam SWEET_BERRIESorGLOW_BERRIESorAPPLEorGOLDEN_APPLEorMELON_SLICEorCHORUS_FRUIT1-3SUGARGLASS_BOTTLE Core
MAC_AND_CHEESE MAC_AND_CHEESEMAC_AND_CHEESE DRY_PASTACHEESEMILK_BUCKETBUTTER0-1BACON0-1 Core
MASHED_POTATOES MASHED_POTATOESMASHED_POTATOES POTATO2BUTTERHEAVY_CREAMSALT0-1 Core
PASTA_BOLOGNESE PASTA_BOLOGNESEPASTA_BOLOGNESE DRY_PASTAMINCED_MEATorPLANT_PROTEINCANNED_TOMATOES Core
TOMATO_SOUP TOMATO_SOUPTOMATO_SOUP CANNED_TOMATOESHEAVY_CREAMBUTTERONION0-1 Core

Troubleshooting

Water buckets are recipe ingredients for some recipes. Avoid sneak-right-clicking when you mean to add the bucket as an ingredient, because sneak interaction may allow vanilla cauldron behavior.

See the full recipe index for ingredient links, processing time, recipe rules, and output actions.