Visually move items into cauldrons

[Mitality]

Whenever a player puts an item into a cauldron, let's spawn in a client side item entity in front of them and move it into the cauldron along a curved track. To the player, this could look like the item would leave their hotbar, move upward, then down into the opening of the cauldron. Could use easing functions as well.

[Thorinwasher]

Or a Bézier curve

[Mitality]

For the path, yes, I meant easings for the item's speed

[Thorinwasher]

Or do a reverse calculation of the trajectory with gravity. Probably gets a bit weird when players are under the cauldron. Or bezier but then gravity at the end, probably winning solution.

So imagine the center of a cauldron block is (0,0,0). Then we choose the closest point to a point to the player within the limit (cos(theta), 1, sin(theta)). Then do a bezier curve to that point where the starting vector is player facing, and destination vector is (-cos(theta), 0, -sin(theta)). And then we just have a simple gravity simulation left. I don't know, is this too complicated? Note that we have to make the easings function make this a smooth animation.