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# ✦ ── Concrete Cauldrons

Coppercore makes converting **Concrete Powder into Concrete** much easier through the use of water-filled cauldrons.

Instead of placing Concrete Powder against water and breaking every block again manually, you can process it directly through a cauldron.

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### Using a Concrete Cauldron

To convert Concrete Powder:

1. Place a **Cauldron**.
2. Fill the cauldron with **water**.
3. Drop your **Concrete Powder** into the cauldron.
4. The powder will be converted into its matching solid Concrete.

The colour of the resulting Concrete always matches the Concrete Powder you put in.

This works with the normal coloured Concrete Powder variants available in Minecraft.

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### Water Usage

Converting Concrete Powder consumes water from the cauldron.

As you continue processing concrete, the cauldron's water level will decrease.

Once there is no usable water remaining, refill the cauldron before converting more Concrete Powder.

{% hint style="info" %}
**Tip:** Keep a nearby water source if you're processing large quantities of concrete.
{% endhint %}

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### Bulk Concrete

Concrete Cauldrons are particularly useful when working with large building projects.

Rather than repeatedly:

**Place Powder → Touch Water → Mine Concrete → Repeat**

you can simply process the powder through a cauldron and collect the finished blocks.

This makes large quantities of Concrete much less tedious to prepare while keeping the normal requirement of using water to harden Concrete Powder.

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### All Concrete Colours

The system can be used with the different colours of Concrete Powder.

For example:

**Orange Concrete Powder**

becomes:

**Orange Concrete**

and:

**Light Blue Concrete Powder**

becomes:

**Light Blue Concrete**

The plugin does not change the colour or type of the material beyond converting the Powder into its hardened Concrete form.

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### Why Use Concrete Cauldrons?

Vanilla Concrete is useful for building, but producing large amounts can involve a lot of repetitive block placement and mining.

Concrete Cauldrons provide a quicker alternative while still requiring you to:

* Craft or obtain Concrete Powder
* Supply water
* Process the material yourself

They simply remove some of the repetitive work involved in hardening every individual block.

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### No Commands Required

Concrete Cauldrons do not require a special player command or menu.

Everything is handled directly through an ordinary water-filled cauldron and your Concrete Powder.

{% hint style="info" %}
**Final reminder:** Fill a cauldron with water and drop Concrete Powder into it to convert the powder into its matching solid Concrete. Refill the cauldron as its water is used up.
{% endhint %}