Enchant the bottle, not the potion, and the bottle comes back to you every time you drink
You enchant glass bottles. Empty ones, a whole stack at a time, at the ordinary enchanting table you already have. Then you use them like any bottle (fill one at a river, brew it at a stand, drink the result) and the enchantment rides along through every single one of those steps and comes back to you on the empty bottle afterwards. So it is a permanent property of your glassware rather than a one-off buff, which is why one good enchanting session equips you more or less forever. Important: it needs a second mod, Flavor Text, installed alongside it, and will not run without it.
The first time you drink an enchanted potion you check your inventory out of suspicion, and there it is: your bottle, empty, still glinting. From then on the bottle is the thing you care about and the potion is just what happens to be in it this week. You start planning around glass. You brew into a specific bottle. You leave a Vintage bottle sitting in a chest for a couple of in-game days on purpose, because the tooltip is quietly counting, and you know that when you come back the potion inside will be worth twice what you put in.
Round of Drinks buys everyone within 8 blocks the same potion at half duration.
New to this mod? Do these in order and you will have seen the point of it.
When you finish a potion, vanilla hands you a brand new, anonymous glass bottle. The mod copies your enchantments onto it instead. That single decision is what the whole mod is built on: the enchantment is a property of your bottle, not of the drink, so the real cost of an enchanted potion afterwards is just the brewing.
This is Flavor Text's ladder, shared: 1–16 bottles asks for 1–8 levels, up to 48–64 asking for 24–30, and bookshelves scale that from 15% at none to 100% at fifteen. A full stack of 64 reads 1 / 3 / 5 at a bare table and 10 / 20 / 30 in a full library. There is no randomness in the number.
You can also bring a potion you already brewed and improve that. Potions do not stack, so the ladder asks what share of a full stack is in the slot rather than a raw count, and one potion out of a possible one is everything you could have committed, which means the full level-30 ladder for a single bottle of Strength. Empty bottles are the efficient route, sixty-four at a time; a filled potion is the reactive one you take when you want this potion better right now.
Every hand-fill in the game goes through one shared piece of vanilla code (water source, dragon's breath, cauldron fill and cauldron empty), so a single hook carries the enchantment in both directions. Brewing is bracketed too: the brewing stand builds fresh potion stacks that would otherwise throw the enchantment away at the first nether wart, so the mod snapshots before and restores after. The one exception is honey: beehives build their honey bottle by hand instead of going through that path, so honey is out of scope.
Half of them read the act of drinking and work on anything, including plain water: Chug, Refreshment, Cleansing, Fortifying, Springwater and Last Drop. The other half read what is in the bottle and need an actual brew, namely Prolonged, Potent and Round of Drinks. Two treasures, Everflowing and Vintage, are never offered at the table at all.
A Vintage bottle's contents gain +25% duration per in-game day, capped at +100% after four days, which is about eighty real minutes. The tooltip reads out 'Aged N day(s)' and the bonus, because a treasure whose whole mechanic is invisible waiting would otherwise read as broken. The clock restarts every time what is in the bottle changes, so an awkward potion that aged four days does not become a pre-aged Strength potion; each brewing step is a new potion.
The drink is never consumed, with a thirty-second cooldown between sips. Minecraft keys item cooldowns on the item type and every potion in the game is the same item, so that cooldown locks out your emergency healing potion too. This is kept deliberately: the infinite bottle is your sustain, not your combat rotation, and it renders as the ordinary cooldown sweep for free.
Once a bottle is both enchanted and full, nothing will add a second enchantment to it. The table refuses because vanilla insists an enchantable item's enchantments be empty, and the anvil only accepts empty bottles. The way through is to empty it: drink it or pour it out, get your enchanted bottle back, and put that on the anvil. The loop is enchant, fill, drink, anvil, fill again, and the only thing you can never do is upgrade a potion without spending it.
Drink 30%, 45% or 60% faster.
Where: Common, at the table on bottles or potions.
Drinking restores 2, 3 or 4 hunger. Works on plain water.
Where: Common.
Potion effects last 25%, 50% or 75% longer. Stacks with redstone brewing.
Where: Common.
Drinking also clears 1 or 2 harmful effects, spending them on the longest-lasting ones first.
Where: Uncommon.
Absorption I or II for 90 seconds on drinking.
Where: Uncommon.
Plain water grants Regeneration I for 4 or 8 seconds.
Where: Uncommon.
A 15%, 25% or 35% chance the drink is not consumed.
Where: Uncommon.
Effects hit one level harder for half the time, and then the original finishes out underneath. Instant effects get a second dose instead.
Where: Rare.
Every player within 8 blocks shares your potion at half duration.
Where: Rare.
The drink is never consumed, with 30 seconds between sips, and that cooldown covers every potion you are carrying.
Where: Treasure. Never at the table; Cleric book trades and the anvil.
Potions age in the bottle: +25% duration per in-game day, capped at +100% after four days. The tooltip shows the current age.
Where: Treasure. Never at the table; Cleric book trades and the anvil, on empty bottles only.
Flavour, not rules. None of this changes how the mod behaves.
That is the closing line of Round of Drinks' description in the game itself. It shares whatever you just drank with every player within eight blocks, at half duration, which makes a single well-brewed Strength II into a round for the table. Tamed animals do not get a share yet; the author has noted that they probably should.
Vintage is the mod's argument that some things should be worth waiting for. Four in-game days, roughly eighty real minutes, doubles the duration of whatever is in the bottle, which is long enough to feel like you left something in a cellar and short enough to actually happen across a session or two. The clock is honest: brew into the bottle again and it starts over, because each brew is a new potion.
Yes. Flavor Text is a required dependency, not an optional integration. It owns the enchanting table's front door, the widened input slot, the level ladder and the anvil pricing. Without it there is no way to get a bottle into the table at all.
Yes, at the table. Since potions do not stack, one potion counts as a full commitment and gets the full ladder: the table asks for level 30 and still only charges three.
No. The empty bottle you get back carries it, which is the entire point of the mod.
The enchantment survives the detour but lies dormant, since every boost is gated on actually drinking. You get the same enchanted empty back either way.
No. Beehives build their honey bottle by hand rather than going through the code path everything else uses, so honey is deliberately out of scope for now.
Never from the table. Cleric book trades, then an anvil, and the anvil only accepts empty bottles, so both are a decision you make before you brew.
Status: The jar compiles and the author has tested it himself, but it has not had a real playtest yet.
.jar file into your mods folder.This wiki documents the mods; it does
not host them. Builds live in the project's own repository under
mc-bottle-episode/build/libs/.
By Bulletpies. Built on Flavor Text's public batch-enchanting api package.