The Cauldron is the latest utility block to be added to the game! It allows you to combine different ingredients in order to create a variety of new Items. Currently, the cauldron supports the creation of a various number of soups and stews. In the future, it will be extended to support potion creation/alchemy.

The idea behind the cauldron is to allow you to reduce the amount of items you are carrying, and increase the value of those items by combining them together!
Items in Vitality are designed to be significant. This means your inventory is relative small, but each item has a little bit more depth behind it: Meat items have a quality and food value which determines how much hunger they replenish. This value varies depending on how you hunt a mob, or grow a crop and the players level/skills.

Similarly, to avoid having to carry around loads of food items, each item of food carries a relatively large hunger rating. The soups and stews act as a means of combining together raw ingredients and thus reducing their impact on your inventory space.

Soups also have the added benefit of both boosting your Vitality (Vitality is the stat which governs how “healthy” you are, it goes up when you are well nurtured, and goes down if you are injured or cold. It affects health regen rate and a number of other things). Soups also have a warming effect and can be used to warm up the player in the middle of a storm :)!