Brewing recipes

[arungupta]

I understand crafting and smelting recipes using Forge. How do I create brewing recipes ?

 

[1] is unanswered and answer in [2] is not clear. Is Brewing supported or planned in upcoming releases ?

 

[1] http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/index.php?topic=2611.0

[2] http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/modification-development/1428976-adding-brewing-recipes

[arungupta]

Had troubles with the "weird string format". Can you share an example for that ?

[Draco18s]

Potions are mo***fu*** weird.

Those "weird strings" are basically a serialized way of doing bitwise math.  Add, subtract, AND, NOT, XOR, etc.  This is because every single potion in vanilla is a single item with 140 different damage values:

 

Basically, each potion ingredient makes a change to the bits, only works if certain bits are active (for example, you can't make a splash potion out of a bottle of water even though if you give yourself a potion with those flags you will get a splash potion that doesn't exist) etc. etc.

 

The one time I dug into the code I was duplicating it for my own purposes and even then it was tricky to work with and ended up redefining how the string options even worked because I couldn't get the original to do what I wanted/needed.