Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26119768-20150831025916

Here I am suggesting that when/if the Dorwinion faction is added, they have a wine barrel. This would be crafted on the Dorwinion crafting table using oak planks, (only oak, which is what most wine barrels are made of), and two 2 iron ingots, arranged like so:

I =ingot. W W W

W= oak plank. I   E   I

E = empty                     W W W

This would give you 1 wine barrel. When placed, the wine barrel would be two blocks long, one wide, and one high (unless a 2x2x2 seems better). To use a wine barrel, you would need a certain amount of alignment with the Dorwinions, (100-250?) To simulate learning how to make wine. First, you need grapes. I would suggest maybe around 2-4 varieties of grapes, for both red wine and white wine. Wikipedia doesn't give specifics on which grape is for which wine type, so I'm not sure what those varieties would be.

After harvesting your grapes, you would need to crush them. To do so you would use a press. This is crafted with 3 stone in  bowl shape, with a piece of string in the center, and a stone block in the middle of the top row. After a while, you would get crushed grapes. You would put this in a wine barrel with some sugar, and depending on the grape type, you will get whatever wine types Mevans wishes to add. For the potent red wine the Mirkwood elves drink, the fermentation process would take 20 minutes per level of potency.

After you get your desired potency, you can age your wine by selecting a button in the wine barrel gui, and it would take 30 minutes to age the wine, which would give some as yet unknown effect. This is something that doesn't seem essential to gameplay though.

That's it, constructive criticism is welcome. 