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Learn how to make a cauldron in Minecraft and the differences between its functions in Java and Bedrock Editions.
The cauldron is an unassuming block in Minecraft serving a niche function and primarily used as a stationary bucket. Fairly easy to craft, a cauldron can serve as a decorative item to go along with a brewing stand, as it holds water for filling glass bottles or lava to burn unwanted items. While using a cauldron in Java Edition can be an aesthetic choice, cauldrons are far more versatile in Bedrock Edition, especially for dyeing and alchemy.
Cauldron Crafting Ingredients
To craft a cauldron, you’ll need:
- Iron ingots (7 total)
Here’s how to get them:
- Mine iron ore underground, in caves, or in abandoned mineshafts. You’ll need a stone pickaxe or better.
- Once you’ve collected iron ore, smelt it in a furnace or blast furnace to obtain iron ingots.
Cauldron Crafting Recipe
Open a crafting table and arrange the 7 iron ingots in a U-shape on the crafting grid:
- Top Row: Iron | (empty) | Iron
- Middle Row: Iron | (empty) | Iron
- Bottom Row: Iron | Iron | Iron
You can also find cauldrons in swamp huts, village tannery houses, woodland mansions, and igloo basements.
How To Use a Cauldron in Minecraft
Cauldrons can hold substances like water, lava, and powdered snow. Their primary function is to be used in alchemy to help with the crafting of potions. While holding a bucket of water, right-click to empty the bucket into the cauldron. You can similarly extract the fluid using an empty bucket. Here are some features of the cauldron:
- A cauldron with water can fill three glass bottles.
- When the cauldron is destroyed, its contents are lost.
- Fills with water when it is rained on and with powdered snow during snowfall.
- While holding a dyed item, right-click on a cauldron containing water to wash off the dye.
- A cauldron holds water even in the Nether.
- Water in the cauldron does not freeze in cold biomes.
- A pointed dripstone above the cauldron will continuously fill it with either lava or water, making it a renewable resource of either.
- Fish cannot be placed in a cauldron.
- Placing a cauldron near an unemployed villager can turn it into a leatherworker.
- A cauldron with water or powdered snow will extinguish the fire on any entity when they fall into it.
- Cauldrons can be used with redstone comparators to detect fill levels, making them useful in signal-based contraptions.
Using Cauldrons in Bedrock Edition
Cauldrons have a far greater role in Bedrock Edition when it comes to dyeing and alchemy.
- You can dye the water in a cauldron by right-clicking it with any dye.
- Using leather armor, armor, or wolf armor on a cauldron with dyed water will dye it that color.
- Potions can be placed inside a cauldron.
- Using a stack of arrows on a cauldron filled with a potion will give all the arrows the potion’s effect.
- Cauldrons with potions in them spawn naturally in witch huts.
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