Potions

Custom Potions are a feature available on the BadWolfMC Network. Unlike in vanilla Minecraft it is not as easy as adding an ingredient to a brewing stand and waiting for it to finish. Depending on the recipe the whole process can be difficult and time consuming. Some recipes may need high precision across multiple complex steps. If even a single step is imprecise, the quality of the potions may suffer and you may experience side effects.

Depending on the recipe, not all steps may be needed. The following describes the more common procedures of crafting custom potions. Players are encouraged to experiment and refine their techniques.

Brewing

Steep ingredients in a cauldron placed over a fire

The first step consists of brewing the fresh ingredients.

1. Place a cauldron over a fire, campfire, or lava source.
2. Fill the cauldron with water, lava, or snow (depending on the recipe).
3. Add ingredients with a right click.
4. Wait while the ingredients steep.
5. Use glass bottles to extract the steeped ingredients.

Distilling

Distill brewed ingredients in a distillery crafted with 3 pots and 3 bamboo fences.

Some recipes require distilling ingredients, often multiple times, in order to ensure quality. Distilleries can be crafted using 3 pots and 3 bamboo fences in a vertical 2x3 configuration as shown in the image. The side with the 2 stacked pots serves as the "input" for the potions to be distilled, while the single pot serves as the "output" for potions that have been distilled. This allows for larger batches.

1. Put the bottle with brewed ingredients into the distillery input. Particles will appear above the output pot as the potions are distilled.
2. Distilled potions can be removed from the output pot once complete.
3. Repeat if multiple distillations are required.

Aging

Barrels are needed for aging in many recipes. There are two sizes: medium and large. These barrels are specially built with the material required by the brew. Current materials for barrels include all wood types and cut copper variants. Barrels can be opened by right-clicking on them.

• Put the distilled bottles into the barrels for aging.
• Depending on the recipe, the type of material used may alter the quality of the aged brew.
• Aging times are in units of Minecraft days but listed on the final brew as years.
• The barrel should not be destroyed while aging, as it would leak after a short while.
• When breaking the spigot, everything inside will be dumped out.

How to build medium barrels for aging

How to build large barrels for aging

Medium barrel

1. Use 8 stairs to build a barrel shape.
2. Place a sign on the lower right side and write "Barrel" on the first line.

A "Barrel created" message should appear if the barrel was properly built.

Large barrel

Use 5 Fences, 16 stairs, and 18 wood planks or cut copper blocks to build a barrel shape. Attach a spigot (fence) and a sign that has "Barrel" written on the first line.

A "Barrel created" message should appear if the barrel was properly built. For the large barrel only, you may remove the sign after creating it.

Mixing

Some potions, especially those in our "Brilliant Blends" category, require mixing ingredients. These usually include already completed potions and some other catalyst or garnish.

Mixing is simple and similar to the initial cooking/brewing process, except that a water cauldron is used without a heat source. Ingredients are right-clicked into the cauldron and left to mix for a set amount of time, then extracted again with empty glass bottles. Be careful to follow the recipe since some of these also require additional steps!

Drinking

The effects of the brew will be applied to the player when drinking. Depending on the quality and type of potion it may have different effects.

• The player may not be able to walk normally anymore.
• Chat may be altered depending on the effects of the brew, and many things players write may be incomprehensible, sometimes senseless - bypass this by prefixing your chat with the channel command (e.g. /g [message]). The player may also say things they didn't intend.
• The player may see blocks or items that aren't really there.
• If the brew is particularly strong or improperly brewed it may have several negative effects including toxins that create additional problems.
• When logging off, the player may have difficulties reaching his character, thus some login attempts shortly after may be denied.
• The player may faint (disconnect).

Managing Effects

After drinking it takes a while until the effects are completely gone, but will steadily decrease after consumption. Consuming brews from the "Cures" category can also help to reduce the effects faster, and drinking milk can help to remove some of the lingering negative potion effects.

When logging off, extremely affected players may log back in at a completely unknown place in the middle of nowhere having no idea how they got there. If they log back in after several hours or the next morning, they may also find themselves at /home again.

If the brew was not of the best quality, the player may also experience slowness and hunger for a short time.

Potion Handling

Sealing

Our shop plugin requires all of the items sold from a specific container to be exactly equal, which is accomplished by sealing your brews. This process equalizes similarly crafted potions so that they cannot be aged or modified any further. They will no longer show the finer details of the potion, but they can now be sold in larger batches.

To seal your batch, load all of the desired items into your inventory, hold one of the potions in your hand, and use the command /brew seal all.

Dumping

Failed and/or unsealed potions can be "dumped" into hoppers by clicking the hopper with the potion. This returns the empty bottle allowing for proper reuse and recycling.

Recipes

BadWolfMC has both permanent and seasonal recipes that can be won, purchased, or discovered through experimentation. Recipes can be stored in-game in Dr. Totter's Practical Guide to Pungent Potions, a magical book that keeps track of which recipes you've unlocked and displays the selected recipe in a book GUI for the user. The Guide can be obtained on all servers through a custom recipe.

Permanent Recipes

Some basic recipes are automatically unlocked in your recipe book. Most other permanent recipes are obtained by discovering and purchasing them in server builds.

Alpha Locations

• Atlantis
  • Fine Apple Cider
  • Black Widow
  • Fishy Business
  • Fire Cider
  • Smooth Watermelon Sugar Potion
• Citadel
  • Double Chocolate Potion
  • Frostbite Fizz
  • Potato Soup Recipe
  • Sparkling Chorus Potion
  • Weeping Angel
• The Fair
  • Glowing Shroom Juice
  • London Juniper Potion
• Krop Tor
  • Strawberry Milk
• Mansion
  • Fine Dark Hoppy Potion
  • Golden Flame Elixir
• Mars
  • Arcane Remedy
  • Hot Chocolate
  • Potion of Fatal Death
• Nether
  • Cold Brew Coffee
  • Fireball
  • Horchata
• Old Village
  • Danish Floral Infusion
  • German Fruit Infusion
  • Ork Blod Mjod
  • Swamp Water
• Pirate Isles
  • Dirty Banana
  • Lucky Bamboo Tea
  • Potion of Illumination
• Spawn
  • Bubbly Berry Potion
  • Chocolate Milk
  • Cherry Potion
  • Fine Agave Potion
  • Scottish Peat Potion
• Tardis
  • Gamer Girl Bath Water
  • Nebula Noir
  • Sweet Tea

Beta Locations

• Acid Spawn
  • Crimson Cascade
• Prison
  • French 75
• Sky Spawn
  • Crimson Kiss

Gamma Locations

• Spawn
  • Amber Orchard Elixir
  • Bubbly Juniper
  • Bunny Hop
  • Fae Blossom
  • French Aged Berry Potion
  • Golden Grove
• Tardis
  • Starlight Spritz
• Trenzalore Nether
  • Inferno's Kiss

Seasonal Recipes

BadWolfMC also has seasonal recipes that can only be brewed and used during the active season. Off-season brews, even once brewed, will not work and should be stored for the next time their season is active. The active brews can only be discovered through experimentation using the following clues:

Spring Brews (Active)

Cuban Rose Brew

ingredients: rose bush/2, dark oak leaves (minty?)/2, ice/3, natural sweetener/1
cauldron: water
brewing time: 6 minutes
distillations: 3
wood: same as  the leaves
age: ???
difficulty: 4/10
effect strength: 30%
effects: ???

St. Germain's Enderflower Brew

ingredients: fresh flowers from the end/7, sugar/3, ice/2
cauldron: water
brewing time: ???
distillations: 3
wood: ???
age: twice the number of brewing time
difficulty: 4/10
effect strength: 20%
effects: vwoop+vision

Fairy Fire

ingredients: sparkly dust/10, fiery dust/5, light ___ dye/1, two in the ____ dye/1
cauldron: water
brewing time: >15, <25 minutes
distillations: ménage à trois
wood: giggity
age: 60 days
difficulty: 10/10
effect strength: 40%
effects: resistance, strength, health boost, glow

Shamrock Shake

ingredients: 3 lobed plant/10, sugar/5, ice/3, sparkly bits from the pot at the end of the rainbow/3
cauldron: water
brewing time: 17 minutes
distillations: 3
wood: spruce
age: ???
difficulty: 7/10
effect strength: 30%
effects: luck, speed

Spring's Radiance

ingredients: one of every overworld flower type
cauldron: water
brewing time: half the number of overworld flowers
distillations: half the number of brewing time
wood: one that will brighten up your brew
age: a score of solar rotations
difficulty: 6/10
effect strength: 30%
effects: saturation, absorption

Ostara Basket

ingredients: something lucky/3. basket filler/a multiple of 3 not otherwise in this list, things to dye/a multiple of 3 not otherwise in this list, chocolate/a multiple of 3 not otherwise in this list, sweetener/a multiple of 3 not otherwise in this list
cauldron: water
brewing time: same multiple of 3 as the chocolate
distillations: factor of 3
wood: pink!
age: ???
difficulty: 7/10
effect strength: -15% (it's a cure!)
effects: speed, minor miner haste, regeneration

Summer Brews (Inactive)

Pride Punch

ingredients: 1 each of a rainbow plant bouquet, 3 Sugar
cauldron: water
brewing time: 6 minutes
distillations: 28
wood: any
age: 21 years
difficulty: 7/10
effect strength: 30%
effects: Saturation/Absorption

Pink Lemonade

ingredients: 10 Yellow Things, 3 Rose Bush, 6 Sugar, 2 Ice
cauldron: water
brewing time: 20 minutes
distillations: ???
wood: birch
age: 5 days
difficulty: 6/10
effect strength: 20%
effects: Speed/Regen

Emerald Isle Cocktail

ingredients: 1 Emerald, Green Stained Glass, 1/2 Result of a Cake Trade-In
cauldron: water
brewing time: 8 minutes
distillations: 1
wood: jungle
age: ??? days
difficulty: 4/10
effect strength: 20%
effects: Villagers love you!

Wicked Shenanigans

ingredients: 4 Emerald Ore, (Brew Time -2) Black Stained Glass, 2 Fallen Stars
cauldron: water
brewing time: ??? minutes
distillations: 1
wood: jungle
age: 4 days
difficulty: 4/10
effect strength: 20%
effects: Why do I hear pillagers?

To Kill A Mockingbird

ingredients: 3 Feathers, Wheat Seeds, 3 Cookies
cauldron: water
brewing time: 7 minutes
distillations: 7
wood: acacia
age: ??? day
difficulty: 4/10
effect strength: 65%
effects: Levitation/Slow Falling

Hot Summer Nights

ingredients: 9 Obsidian, Magma Blocks, 3 Phantom Membrane, Shooting Star
cauldron: ???
brewing time: 6 minutes
distillations: ???
age: 10 days
wood: any
difficulty: 9/10
effect strength: 70%
effects: Strength/Speed/Resistance

Konbucha Tea

ingredients: Slightly Slimy Kelp, Sweetener
cauldron: water
brewing time: a few minutes
distillations: ???
age: not long
wood: Japanese Cedar
difficulty: 4/10
effect strength: 7%
effects: Water Breathing/Speed

Fall Brews (Inactive)

Pumpkin Brew

ingredients: wheat/???, pumpkin/6
cauldron: water
brewing time: ???
distillations: 0
wood: ???
age: 13 days
difficulty: 7/10
effect strength: 8%

Butter Brew

ingredients: sugar/6, something_glittery/6
cauldron: water
brewing time: 13 minutes
distillations: 0
wood: ???
age: ???
difficulty: 7/10
effect strength: 8%

Witchy Brew

ingredients: eye_of_newt/3, sugar/6, shrooms/?, glistering_melon/3
cauldron: water
brewing time: ???
distillations: 6
wood: jungle
age: ???
difficulty: 9/10
effect strength: 20%

Bloody Brew

ingredients: spider_eye/3, nether_wart/6, root_veg/?
cauldron: water
brewing time: ???
distillations: 3
wood: ???
age: 13 days
difficulty: 8/10
effect strength: 15%

Graveyard Smash Brew

ingredients: something_rotten/3, dem_bones/6, bird_skins/3
cauldron: water
brewing time: 6
distillations: ???
wood: ???
age: ???
difficulty: 8/10
effect strength: 15%

Nether Regions Brew

ingredients: some_mineral/6, nether_wart/6, glowstone/1, something_explosive/1
cauldron: extra hot
brewing time: ???
distillations: 10
difficulty: 8/10
effect strength: 15%

Monster Mash

ingredients: internal_structural_support/3, offensive_projectiles/3, trap_material/3, the_better_to_see_you_with/3, green_meat/3, snot/3, boom_juice/3, speed/6
cauldron: water
brewing time: unlucky. verrry unlucky.
distillations: 6
wood: yes please
age: 6 days
difficulty: 6/10
effect strength: 15%

Pumpkin Spice Latte (Cure)

ingredients: orange_gourd/1, coffee_beans/5, raw_sugar/?, milk/1
cauldron: water
brewing time: optimal brew time for a French Press
wood: ???
age: 5 days
difficulty: 5/10
effect strength: -10%

Winter Brews (Inactive)

Irish Hot Cocoa

ingredients: cocoa beans/???, sugar/3, "no famine here"/1
cauldron: water
brewing time: ???
distillations: 0
age: n/a
difficulty: 8/10
effect strength: 15%

Mulled Cider

ingredients: "cider's main ingredient"/6, "cinnamon sticks"/1, glistering melon/1
cauldron: water
brewing time: 6 minutes
distillations: 0
age: n/a
difficulty: 6/10
effect strength: 10%

Celebration Bubbly

ingredients: "grapes"/9, something sparkly"/3
cauldron: water
brewing time: ???
distillations: 0
wood: oak
age: ???
difficulty: 7/10
effect strength: 15%

Snowman Bubbly

ingredients: snow/3, nose/1, eyes and buttons/5, arms/2
cauldron: cold
brewing time: longer than it takes a snowman to melt
distillations: 3
age: n/a
difficulty: 5/10
effect strength: 30%

Candy Apple Cider

ingredients: apples/8, "candy apple"/1, sugar/3
cauldron: water
brewing time: x = 1/3 the number of cocoa beans required for the perfect Irish Hot Chocolate
distillations: x = 1/2 the minutes of brewing time for perfect Candy Apple Cider
wood: oak
age: 4 days
difficulty: 4/10
effect strength: 10%

Cranberry Cider

ingredients: cranberries/?, apples/same as the number of cranberries, sugar/3, bottle of something sweet/1
cauldron: water
brewing time: 7 minutes in heaven
distillations: how much time heaven actually takes
wood: crimson
age: 3 days
difficulty: 5/10
effect strength: 10%

Cason's Frozen Brew

ingredients: wheat, ice
cauldron: cold
brewing time: same number of ice blocks in minutes
wood: any
age: 3 days
difficulty: 3/10
effect strength: 6%

White Christmas

ingredients: white stuff/10, other white stuff/2, holly berries/10, sweetness/5
cauldron: cold
brewing time: same number of minutes as one of the white stuffs
distillations: same number of runs as one of the white stuffs
difficulty: 6/10
effect strength: 15%

Alton Brown's Eggnog

ingredients: eggs/the actual number that Alton's recipe calls for, sugar/one less than the number of eggs, milk/one less than the number of sugar, vanilla/one less than the number of sugar, pinch of cinnamon, pinch of nutmeg
cauldron: water
brewing time: one more minute than the number of eggs
distillations: the same number of runs as the amount of sugar
difficulty: 9/10
effect strength: 15%

Peppermint Mocha

ingredients: chocolate/the number of the (canon) doctor who got a movie, peppermint oil/half the amount of chocolate, peppermint leaves/half the amount of peppermint oil, sweetness/the number of peppermint oil plus the number of peppermint leaves, some milk, some cold stuff
cauldron: water
brewing time: same number of minutes as the amount of chocolate
distillations: one less run than the number of peppermint leaves
difficulty: 7/10
effect strength: -15%