Cauldron

A cauldron is a block that can contain water, lava or powder snow and, in certain situations, collect them from the environment. , it can also hold dyed water or potions, and can be used to efficiently create tipped arrows. It also serves as a leatherworker's job site block.

Breaking

A cauldron can be obtained using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing. Regardless of the tool, when a cauldron is destroyed, its contents are lost.

Natural generation

.]] A single empty cauldron is generated in each swamp hut. , the cauldrons generated there are to full of a random potion. A cauldron full of water is generated in each igloo basement. jail.]] Cauldrons can be found in a few rooms inside of woodland mansions. Two filled cauldrons can be found inside savanna, taiga, snowy taiga, and plains village tannery houses. A single filled cauldron can be found in plains village and desert village tannery houses. , three filled cauldrons can be found in plains village tannery houses. Cauldrons can also generate in trail ruins and abandoned camps.

Crafting

A cauldron can be crafted from iron ingots.

Storage for substances

Cauldrons can hold a variety of substances. Fluids they cannot hold include milk, honey and any food items that exist in bowls; namely mushroom stew, beetroot soup, rabbit stew and suspicious stew. , cauldrons containing fluids are considered by the game to be separate blocks from each other and from empty cauldrons, which does not affect gameplay but does affect the commands needed to place them.

Water

A cauldron can be filled with water by a water bucket on the cauldron. Once completely filled, a cauldron can be used to fill a water bucket by an empty bucket on the cauldron; this empties the cauldron. Despite containing water, using a fish bucket on a cauldron does not fill it with water, but places water against it, meaning it does nothing to the cauldron. , a cauldron can also be filled when water touches the top of the cauldron. Once the water block is removed, the cauldron will be filled with water. , a cauldron can contain three levels of water. One level of water can be added to a cauldron by a water bottle on it. One level of water can be removed from a cauldron, filling a water bottle, by a glass bottle on it. , a cauldron can contain six levels of water, and a water bottle or a bottle on a cauldron respectively adds or removes two levels from it. If there are less than two levels remaining, a bottle cannot be used to retrieve the remaining water, and it must be either replaced or removed through a method that reduces the level by one. A cauldron slowly fills with water when rained upon, if starting empty or with some water. This happens randomly, at 5% of the rate in which snow accumulates on the ground during snowfall. Water can be stored in a cauldron, even in the Nether. Water in a cauldron does not freeze in cold biomes. Water in a cauldron does not absorb explosion damage; make sounds and particles; absorb fall damage; allow tridents enchanted with Riptide to activate; or damage endermen, striders, or blazes. Cauldrons do not deal drowning damage to mobs inside of them and fish act as if there is no water inside it. The player cannot float or swim in it, as the water is about level with the player's waist. Jumping in a cauldron does not produce any bubble or water particles. A cauldron placed below a down-facing pointed dripstone that has a waterlogged block or water source placed a block above it slowly fills with water. The cauldron can be placed at most 10 blocks below the dripstone, and will not be filled if any solid block, water or lava/ any block is within this range. Attempting to add lava or potion to water empties the cauldron. The water in a cauldron cannot be sucked up by a sponge, whether the sponge is touching the cauldron or not.

Lava

Cauldrons can be used to hold lava. Lava can be manually added to a cauldron using a lava bucket, and can be removed with an empty bucket. , when a cauldron is already filled with water, it empties the cauldron and makes an extinguishing sound. A cauldron filled with lava emits a light level of 15, similar to lava, and burns any entity inside of it. Lava inside a cauldron does not interact with water outside of the cauldron. The lava disappears upon putting water in the cauldron. A redstone comparator with a lava cauldron behind it outputs redstone signal strength of 3. A cauldron placed below a downward-facing pointed dripstone that has lava placed a block above it slowly fills with lava, making lava renewable. The same condition for filling water from pointed dripstones applies. Lava inside cauldrons does not have different height "levels" like water inside cauldrons does, and glass bottles cannot be used on a lava cauldron. Lava inside cauldrons does not spread fires like free lava.