The input slots (fuel, ingredient) of a brewing stands behave unlike all other slots, in the following ways:
Right-clicking on a stack of items generally splits it in half; but on the input slots of brewing stands, it picks up the entire stack instead. The client still assumes only half a stack was picked up.
If I have some of an item in the stand and some in my inventory, shift-clicking the stack in my inventory does not add it to ingredient slot in the brewing stand
Using the new double-click to pick up a stack inventory feature can have some unexpected results. To reproduce:
1. Put a stack of nether wart in the input of a brewing stand.
2. Have a single nether wart in your inventory.
3. Double click the single nether wart. Notice you now have 64 nether wart, even though 65 total have dissapeared from the stand and your inventory.
Neither of these behaviors occur with other specialized input slots, such as a furnace's fuel slot.
Also note other related inventory management issues relating to brewing stands listed in the "relates to" links below.
Linked issues
is duplicated by 13
relates to 2
Comments 16
Splitting Bug Confirmed. Shift Clicking Not Adding To Existing Stacks But Instead Creating New Stacks Could Just Be A Way Mojang Implemented Protection For Illicitly Stacking Potions.
Can confirm in 1.5.1. Was just about to submit a duplicate of this, good thing I remembered to search at the last minute.
Created MC-107378 for that.
I can confirm this. If you have at least 1 nether wart on the top slot of the brewing stand, you can't shit-click more nether wart. If the top slot is empty, shift-click works normally.