Immersive Brewing

1.1.0 - October 30th, 2026

Development notes for Immersive Brewing, covering improvements to recipe planning, batch preparation, storage, guidance and accessibility. This is not a release announcement.

Brewing and Recipe Planning

• Improved Kettle recipe discovery. Searches run incrementally, search matching plans before dividing them into pages, and reliably reopen selected plans.
• Clearer compatibility information. The Notebook explains recipe support, effect-scaling limitations, exclusions and incomplete searches instead of presenting every recipe as fully supported.
• Safer batch preparation. Stage ingredients from the open Kettle, your normal inventory and one selected Batch Carrier. Previews move nothing, and transfers only proceed if the inventories still match the preview.
• Quick finishing for eligible potions. Convert potions into splash potions, or splash potions into lingering potions, while preserving their potion data and duration. These conversions do not award another brewing score or milestone.
• Clearer Alembic previews. See expected yields, quality limits, repeat-processing restrictions, returned containers and reclamation information before starting.

Storage and Batch Carriers

• New six-slot Apothecary Rack. Store exact potion stacks, reserve slots with ghost previews, add short labels and read its contents through comparator output.
• Quick carrier packing and restocking. Fill or replenish a Batch Carrier from the Rack in one action.
• More useful Batch Carriers. Added selected slots, named loadouts, label colours and emblems, previews of missing loadout items, and optional automatic selection of the next slot when one empties.
• A rebindable carrier shortcut moves the selected stored stack into a safe hotbar slot.

Brewer’s Notebook and Practice

• Expanded beginner guidance. Added clearer first steps, crafting diagrams using currently loaded recipes, and four guided Kettle lessons.
• Improved favourites and ingredient planning. Favourite replacement is explicit, and ingredient checklists can be pinned.
• A journal of your last 32 batches helps compare similar attempts and shows which assistance settings were used.
• Practise favourite recipes without spending ingredients. Practice checks that the exact recipe and brewing profile are still available, then starts a fresh practice session. It produces no items or milestones.

Controls and Accessibility

• In-game control and accessibility settings, including input options that do not require pressing multiple buttons together.
• Clearer brewing feedback, with text describing heat momentum and the next action to prioritise.
• Improved focused narration, brewing-profile colours and particles, and explanations of station states.
• Assistance settings are shown clearly, and accessibility options retain the full scoring range.
• Drinking animations follow the use duration reported when drinking begins. Compatibility with other drink-speed mods still requires runtime testing.

Save Handling and Modpack Support

• Supported older Notebook and job data update to the new formats automatically.
• Unknown newer data is preserved rather than overwritten. Jobs containing missing items are held with their original data intact.
• Expanded recipe-catalogue support for addons and operator diagnostics explaining recipe handling, search limits and effect policies.