The Ultimate Guide to Let’s Do Herbal Brews: World Gen, Tea Drying, Brewing & Flasks

Let’s Do Herbal Brews is a Minecraft mod that transforms your world into a rich botanical playground — complete with harvestable plants, craftable teas, a functional kettle and stove system, and a powerful brewing cauldron for mixing potions into long-lasting flasks. Whether you’re hunting coffee beans in jungles or concocting a flask with 2+ hours of jump boost, this guide walks you through everything from first harvest to final brew.

World Generation: Where to Find Every Plant

Before you can brew anything, you need raw ingredients. Let’s Do Herbal Brews adds several new plants across different biomes, each with its own harvesting rules.

Coffee Beans — Jungle Biomes

Coffee bean plants spawn naturally in jungle biomes. Break them to collect raw coffee beans. To farm coffee sustainably, plant the beans on farmland — they will grow into a full crop that you can harvest repeatedly without destroying the plant.

Hibiscus — Jungle Biomes

Hibiscus also spawns in jungle biomes and comes in multiple colours. When you break a hibiscus flower, you receive the full flower item. For easy farming, simply use bone meal directly on the flower to multiply it in place — no farmland required. Breaking hibiscus without Silk Touch also has a small chance (improved by Fortune) to drop tea blossom seeds as a bonus.

Wild Rooibos — Savannah Biomes

Wild rooibos plants are found in savannah biomes. Breaking one drops a rooibos leaf, which you can plant on farmland. Harvesting a fully grown rooibos crop from farmland yields around three leaves rather than one, so replanting a single leaf each time quickly grows your supply.

Wild Yerba Mate — Mountainous Biomes

Yerba mate is slightly rarer, found in mountainous biomes. Left-clicking a wild plant drops one yerba mate leaf. Plant it on farmland and harvest the grown crop to receive four leaves instead of one — a very efficient return.

Lavender — Mountainous Biomes

Lavender also grows in mountainous biomes and comes in different shapes and sizes. To obtain the lavender blossom — the item you actually need for brewing — you must use shears on the plant rather than breaking it by hand. Breaking lavender without shears gives you a chance to receive tea leaves as a drop instead.

Bonus Craftable Items Worth Knowing About

Before diving into brewing, there are a few extra items in Let’s Do Herbal Brews that are easy to overlook but very useful:

Witch Hat — Crafted with vanilla ingredients. Provides a small armour value and a 40% reduction to magical damage.

Top Hat — Also reduces magical damage by 40%.

Stove — A craftable block that doubles as a furnace and is required to power your kettle for tea brewing.

Collecting Tea Leaves

Tea blossom leaves are the core ingredient for all teas in Herbal Brews. There are two ways to obtain them:

Shear vanilla Minecraft flowers — Left-click any flower with shears (this does not work in Creative mode) to receive tea blossom leaves directly.

Bonus drops — Breaking lavender or hibiscus without Silk Touch has a small chance to drop tea blossom leaves. Fortune improves this chance.

How to Dry Tea: Green, Black, and Oolong

Drying tea is a multi-stage process that requires patience but is essential before any brewing can happen. Here is the full chain from raw leaf to finished tea.

Stage 1: Making and Drying a Green Tea Leaf Block

Combine 9 green tea leaves in a crafting grid to create a green tea leaf block. Place the block on the ground and ensure it has open access to the sky — glass and other transparent blocks will obstruct the drying process. When small green particles appear rising from the block, it is drying correctly. This takes approximately five minutes. Once complete, the block converts into a dried green tea leaf block.

Break the dried green tea leaf block to collect your dried tea — but note the yield loss: you put in 9 leaves and only get 3 dried green tea leaves back. To produce 9 dried green tea leaves, you need to process 27 raw green tea leaves across three separate blocks.

Stage 2: Drying Into Black Tea

Craft your 9 dried green tea leaves back into a new block and place it down again. This block will continue drying into a black tea leaf block. Importantly, the process does not continue automatically — you must manually break the dried green leaf block, craft the 9 leaves into a new block, and replace it. The block will not self-progress from one stage to the next without this manual reset step.

Breaking a black tea leaf block yields only 2 dried black tea leaves, meaning you need to complete the dried green tea cycle five times to gather enough material for one block of black leaf tea.

Stage 3: Crafting Mixed Tea and Producing Oolong

The final stage skips another long drying cycle. Combine 4 dried green tea leaves and 4 dried black tea leaves to craft a mixed tea leaf block. Place this block down and allow it to dry. It will eventually produce Oolong tea — the most refined tea in the mod.

Brewing Tea: The Stove and Kettle Setup

With your dried teas ready, it is time to brew. You will need a stove and a kettle.

Crafting and Placing the Kettle

The kettle is crafted from either copper or iron — both work identically, the difference is purely cosmetic. Place your stove on the ground, then shift-click your kettle onto the top of the stove to mount it. The stove does not require coal or fuel to power the kettle, although it functions as a standard furnace for smelting as well.

Using the Kettle Interface

Right-click the kettle to open its interface. The slots work as follows:

Left slot: Glass bottles (output vessels for your brewed tea).

Middle slot: Blaze powder — this heats the kettle.

Right slot: Water buckets — fills the water level.

Different teas require minimum heat and water levels to brew. For example, green tea requires a specific minimum water level plus a heat threshold. As long as your levels meet or exceed the minimum, the brew will succeed. Add your chosen tea leaf to the appropriate slot and the kettle will produce the finished tea drink.

What Every Tea Does: Effects and Benefits

Each brewed tea in Let’s Do Herbal Brews grants a unique status effect. Here is a complete breakdown:

Green Tea — Grants the Balanced effect, giving Absorption to all players within a 10-block radius for 90 seconds. Excellent for group play and multiplayer scenarios.

Black Tea — Grants Tough, providing Resistance and Regeneration.

Hibiscus Tea — Grants Life Leech, which leeches life from enemies on hit.

Lavender Tea — Grants Feral, which drains saturation but provides Regeneration, increases attack damage, and raises maximum health by 4 HP.

Coffee — Grants Deep Rush, which increases mining speed.

Milky Coffee — Brew a standard coffee first, then add a milk bucket to the kettle alongside it. This produces milky coffee, which grants Deep Rush for a significantly longer duration than regular coffee.

Rooibos Tea — Grants Regeneration for 10 seconds.

Oolong Tea — Grants Fortune.

Yerba Mate Tea — Grants Bonding, providing Absorption and Regeneration to all players within a 10-block radius for 90 seconds. A fantastic support drink.

The Brewing Cauldron: Crafting Powerful Flasks

The brewing cauldron takes things to the next level by letting you combine multiple vanilla potions into a single long-lasting flask.

How to Use the Brewing Cauldron

Place your brewing cauldron and right-click it to open the interface. In the right-hand slot, add herbal infusion (crafted from any of your brewed teas — this acts as the base catalyst). Then load in your desired vanilla potions — for example, a Potion of Strength, a Potion of Swiftness, and a Potion of Healing. The cauldron will combine all of their effects into one flask.

Flask Crafting Rules

If you add two potions of the same type (e.g., Strength I and Strength II), the cauldron outputs the highest tier — in this case, Strength II.

Flasks may come in different visual variants, but these differences are purely aesthetic.

The cauldron interface displays the remaining brew time so you always know when your flask is ready.

Do not rely entirely on JEI (Just Enough Items) for flask recipes — the in-game brewing cauldron will display effect outputs more accurately than JEI’s recipe listings.

As an example of the cauldron’s power: combining a Potion of Healing, a Potion of Leaping, and a Potion of Night Vision produced a flask granting Jump Boost for over 2.4 hours, Instant Health II, and Night Vision for 1 hour. The flask system makes vanilla potions dramatically more efficient for long adventures and boss fights.

The Completion Banner: The Final Reward

Once you have crafted every tea variant in the mod, you will unlock the Completion Banner — a special reward item that passively grants Absorption to all players within an 8-block radius. It is the ultimate goal for completionists and a powerful passive aura for group survival or server play.

Summary: Mastering Let’s Do Herbal Brews

Let’s Do Herbal Brews is one of the most rewarding botanical mods available for Minecraft. Here is a quick recap of the core loop:

Harvest plants across jungle, savannah, and mountainous biomes.

Collect tea blossom leaves by shearing vanilla flowers or as bonus drops.

Dry green tea → dried green tea → dried black tea → mixed tea → oolong, following the manual block-replacement steps.

Set up a stove and kettle to brew each tea variety using the correct heat and water levels.

Use the brewing cauldron with herbal infusion and vanilla potions to craft incredibly potent, long-duration flasks.

Craft every tea variant to earn the Completion Banner and its group Absorption aura.

With patience in the tea-drying chain and smart use of the brewing cauldron, Let’s Do Herbal Brews adds a deep, rewarding progression system to any Minecraft modpack. Happy brewing!

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