Immersive Brewing 1.2.0

This update completely overhauls the brewing experience, replacing traditional minigames with hands-on interactions, cinematic workstation views, improved visuals, and more immersive brewing mechanics.

What's New

• Completely redesigned brewing: The Mortar, Kettle, and Alembic now feature hands-on interactions instead of traditional minigame screens. Prepare ingredients, operate equipment, and complete each step directly at your workstations.
• Cinematic brewing: Get an up-close view of your workstations with smooth camera transitions, interactive tools, and detailed animations. An optional first-person view lets you work without camera movement.
• Hands-on ingredient preparation: Grind ingredients using the Mortar and Pestle, apply pressure, fold materials with the scraper, and collect your prepared ingredients. Different materials respond differently, making preparation an important part of the brewing process.
• Interactive Kettle brewing: Pour bottles, adjust the burner, add ingredients, stir mixtures, and bottle finished potions yourself. Different brews require different heating and stirring techniques, with visual feedback to help you get things right.
• Redesigned distillation: Operate the Alembic's burner, cooling system, valves, and collection equipment manually. Carefully separate impurities from your brew to collect the best results.
• More natural tool interactions: Pick up bottles, carry ingredients, pour liquids, and handle brewing tools through continuous movements. Tools and containers visibly move with your actions, and other players can see what you're doing.
• Improved liquid effects: Stirring creates visible wakes, ingredients ripple the surface as they're added, and different materials appear individually in the mixture. Brewing now feels much more alive and responsive.
• Simplified recipe preparation: The Kettle's recipe book automatically shows what you can brew with your available ingredients, including required materials, quantities, and missing supplies. You can start brewing directly from the workstation without navigating a separate recipe menu.
• Improved stirring mechanics: Use the paddle to mix ingredients or sweep sediment from the bottom of the Kettle. Different mixtures require different amounts of attention, making stirring more meaningful.
• Shared multiplayer brewing: Multiple players can help prepare the same batch by working on different parts of the equipment. Brewing pauses safely when nobody is attending it, allowing you to return later without losing progress.
• Improved finishing and storage: Bottle your finished creations directly from the workstation, complete the final container preparation by hand, and interact more naturally with the Apothecary Rack and Batch Carrier.
• Redesigned workstations: The Kettle features a larger opening and improved bottle placement, while the Alembic has clearer, more detailed equipment for distillation. The Apothecary Rack also makes stored bottles easier to inspect.
• More customization and accessibility: Added adjustable camera settings, simplified keyboard controls, left-handed support, reduced camera movement options, customizable guidance, narration, and practice interactions for learning the equipment.
• Better modpack support: Added customizable brewing process profiles through datapacks, allowing modpack creators to adjust how ingredients are prepared, potions are brewed, and mixtures are distilled.
• Save compatibility: Existing recipes, potions, and brewing quality calculations remain unchanged. Batches started in earlier versions can still be completed through their original interface.

Additional Improvements

Numerous fixes and improvements have been made to workstation interactions, inventory handling, multiplayer synchronization, camera behavior, brewing feedback, and overall stability.

Brewing is now a hands-on experience, from crushing your first ingredient to pouring the finished potion.