Potions Life 1.0.0 – First release

A hands-on alchemy mod inspired by the alchemy of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. Brew potions on a 3D workbench by doing every step yourself.

Requires: NeoForge 21.1.x · Minecraft 1.21.1 · No other mods needed

Alchemy Bench

• 3-block interactive workbench: click the objects with your cursor, in a first-person "workbench view" with zoom.
• Fully animated: cauldron, jug, mortar & pestle, spoon, bellows, hourglass timer, still and phial, with particles and sounds.
• Real steps: base liquid (water, wine, oil, distillate), grinding, adding ingredients, boiling (3 heat levels), stirring, distilling and bottling.
• Mistakes matter: wrong order or timing lowers your score or ruins the mixture.
• Open the recipe book at any time with B or the on-screen button. Abandon a brew whenever you want.

Recipes (40)

• 30 common recipes + 10 rare ones. Each recipe has its own technique (infusion, thermal shock, triple distillation, whirlpool stirring and more).
• Rare potions combine 2–4 effects and glow like enchanted items.
• 5 starter recipes; the rest are found as scrolls in chests, sold by villagers, or discovered through experiments.
• Rare recipes come as Torn Scroll Fragments: put 3 matching fragments in a crafting table to assemble the scroll.
• Every recipe has its own scroll icon.

Free Mode (experimentation)

• Mix whatever you want, in any order. If it matches a recipe, you discover it. If not, you create a brand new "Mixture" potion.
• Ingredients have hidden properties you learn by using them. 7 special effects (Extend, Crystallize, Empower, Concentrate, Invert, Stabilize, Refine).
• Every tool changes the result: liquids, mortar, fire, spoon and still.

Quality

• Herbs and many vanilla plants/items now have 1–5 stars (from crops, mobs, fishing and crafting). Better ingredients make better potions.
• Potion levels: Weak, Standard, Strong, Perfect.
• Alchemist Fame: 6 ranks, with better harvests and a chance of double potions.

Herbs & farming

• 6 herbs found in the wild: Chamomile, Sage, Nettle, Belladonna, Mint and Mandrake. Each is best harvested in specific conditions (day, night or rain).
• Herb Planter: grows herbs in stages; water nearby and bone meal speed it up and improve stars.
• Drying Rack: dried herbs gain +1 star.

Villagers

• New Alchemist profession (works at the Alchemy Bench) with its own house in villages.
• Trades from herbs and planters to scrolls, potions, and rare fragments at master level.

Other

• Two creative tabs, including one just for recipe scrolls.
• Config options (easy mode, boil tolerance, scroll chance, plant quality and more).
• Languages: English and Português (Brasil).
• Commands for testing (OP): /alchemy list | learn | learnall | forget | fame.

Notes

• Wild herbs and the Alchemist house only appear in newly generated chunks/villages.
• First release: bugs may happen. Please report them with your latest.log.