Kettle Brewing: Ointments, Soups & Infusions
Kettle brewing enables witches to simmer complex multi-ingredient decoctions, creating potent ointments, enchanted soups, and spiritual essences over an open heat source. Unlike standard brewing stands that handle simple three-ingredient potions, the suspended kettle accommodates elaborate multi-step recipes that blend wild herbs, animal trophies, and alchemical extracts into concentrated supernatural elixirs.
Setting Up the Kettle
Constructing and mounting a kettle requires basic iron and organic cordage:
- Crafting the Kettle: Combining two
Stick, three 
String, and one 
Cauldron in a crafting table produces one 
Kettle. Position two sticks flanking a string in the top row, strings on the left and right of the middle row, and the cauldron centered in the bottom row. - Installation: Mount the kettle directly above an open heat source, such as fire or lava, and fill it with water to bring the kettle to a boil.
Preparing Redstone Soup
Redstone Soup serves as the vital liquid foundation for many high-tier magical infusions and ointments:
- Recipe Composition: Simmering one
Redstone Dust, one 
Drop of Luck, one 
Wool of Bat, one 
Tongue of Dog, one 
Belladonna Flower, and one 
Mandrake Root inside a boiling kettle brews one Redstone Soup. - This crimson broth acts as an energized vehicle capable of holding potent volatile herbs in stable alchemical suspension.
Compounding Ointments and Spiritual Essences
Once redstone soup is prepared, adding rare ingredients produces specialized unguents and otherworldly distillates:
Flying Ointment: Simmering one Redstone Soup, one 
Potion, one 
Diamond, one 
Feather, one Wool of Bat, and one Belladonna Flower produces one Flying Ointment, which witches apply to wooden brooms to take flight across the skies.
Happenstance Oil: Blending one Redstone Soup, one Potion, one 
Eye of Ender, one 
Golden Carrot, one 
Spider Eye, and one Mandrake Root brews one Happenstance Oil for fortune and divination rites.
Mystic Unguent: Combining one Redstone Soup, one Potion, one Diamond, one 
Rowan Sapling, one 
Creeper Heart, and one 
Demonic Blood synthesizes one Mystic Unguent for warding rituals.
Soul of the World: Simmering one Redstone Soup, one Potion, one Rowan Sapling, one 
Attuned Stone, one Mandrake Root, and one 
Golden Apple produces two Soul of the World essences.
Spirit of Otherwhere: Boiling one Redstone Soup, one Potion, one Wool of Bat, two Eye of Ender, and one Drop of Luck yields two Spirit of Otherwhere items for spatial manipulation.
Simmering Botanical Brews
The kettle also prepares specialized draughts for biological and environmental transformations:
Brew of Love: Combining one 
Poppy, one Golden Carrot, one 
Lily Pad, one 
Cocoa Beans, one 
Whiff of Magic, and one 
Water Artichoke yields three Brew of Love draughts.
Brew of Sprouting: Simmering one Rowan Sapling, one Tongue of Dog, one 
Alder Sapling, one Mandrake Root, one 
Hawthorn Sapling, and one Poppy yields three Brew of Sprouting concoctions.
Brew of the Depths: Simmering one Lily Pad, one 
Ink Sac, one Mandrake Root, one 
Tear of the Goddess, one Water Artichoke, and one 
Odour of Purity produces three Brew of the Depths.
Brew of the Grotesque: Blending one 
Mutandis Extremis, one Mandrake Root, one Water Artichoke, one Golden Apple, one Tongue of Dog, and one 
Poisonous Potato produces three Brew of the Grotesque.