🧪 Dye & Drip — Bedrock Cauldrons in Java

Dye & Drip is a lightweight, vanilla-friendly mod that bridges one of the oldest parity gaps between Minecraft versions. It brings the unique, intuitive, and highly useful cauldron mechanics from Minecraft Bedrock Edition straight into Java Edition.

Now, cauldrons are no longer just decorative blocks for cleaning leather armor—they are a fully functional tool for survival automation and crafting tipped arrows!

✨ Features

🔮 1. Normal Potions in Cauldrons

You can now pour any regular potion (from a standard drinkable bottle) into a cauldron by right-clicking it.
The cauldron has 3 levels of capacity. Each potion bottle fills it by 1/3. To completely fill the cauldron (to level 3/3), you need 3 bottles of the exact same potion.

🏹 2. Crafting Tipped Arrows

Dip regular arrows into a potion-filled cauldron via right-click to coat them with effects! The number of crafted arrows scales perfectly with the cauldron's fluid level:
- 1/3 full — crafts 21 tipped arrows (empties the cauldron to 0).
- 2/3 full — crafts 42 tipped arrows (empties the cauldron to 0).
- 3/3 full (completely full) — crafts exactly 64 tipped arrows (one full stack), completely emptying the cauldron.

💧 3. Drip & Fill Mechanics

Seamless environment integration. If a Water or Lava source block is flowing or dripping directly above the cauldron, it will gradually fill up with that corresponding fluid from above. This makes it incredibly easy to integrate cauldrons into your vanilla-style automated farms and technical builds.

📜 Terms of Use & Modpacks

Modpacks & Servers: You are completely free to use this mod in any custom modpacks, server setups, or public projects. No separate permission is required for this.
Porting & Redistribution Restriction: You are strictly prohibited from porting or adapting this mod to any other versions of Minecraft (specifically other versions of Java Edition or Bedrock Edition) without my explicit personal permission.

🛠 Technical Info

Mod Loader: Fabric
Game Version: 26.1.2
Compatibility: Perfect compatibility. Since the mod strictly adds these specific Bedrock features without modifying unrelated vanilla code or assets, it works flawlessly alongside other mods and custom resource packs.

🚀 Installation

Make sure you have the Fabric mod loader installed for the correct version.
Download the .jar file of Dye & Drip.
Place the downloaded file into your .minecraft/mods folder.
Launch the game and enjoy the parity features!

🎨 Credits

Developed by Loocik. All rights to original assets and mechanics belong to Mojang Studios.