Brewing

Brewing is the method used to produce various drinks, mostly alcoholic, in barrels. You will need a placed barrel, three buckets of water and six other ingredients, which will vary depending on the drink you want to brew. The recipes are shown below.

Brewing is done in steps of ten minutes per step, so it will take a fairly long time to create something of strong potency. Each step will increase the potency of the drink (in the case of alcoholic drinks it will also increase the alcoholicity) which will boost its effects as well (nausea from alcoholic drinks and special effects from the magical drinks). The potency achieved, when the actual step is completed, will be shown when you hold the cursor over the product field. The levels of potency from least to greatest are: weak, light, moderate, strong, and potent. The maximum potency level 'Potent' is reached after 50 minutes (five brewing steps).

As soon as your desired potency is reached, you can press "Stop Brewing". After that, you can take the drink out by right-clicking the front of the barrel with an empty mug. The barrel holds enough drink to fill 16 mugs.

As of Beta 20, breaking a filled barrel will preserve its content. Breaking a barrel that is still brewing however, will not continue the brewing process while the player carries it around as an item. The process will continue once the player places the barrel down again.

Brewing recipes
The arrangement of the ingredients does not matter (exept for the buckets). You get the empty buckets back.

'*The Nausea effect only occurs on a certain chance, depending on the alcohol percentage. See alcoholicity for more details.'

Tips for Brewing
When brewing magical drinks it is best to brew them to maximum potency as they contain little or no alcohol and have no negative effect (except for Orc Draught, which will initially cause some health damage). If you brew drinks for the saturation effect, you should be careful not to brew drinks that are too strong, seeing as potent alcoholic drinks can inflict severe nausea for a very long time. Drinks will usually heal around one hunger point (a half "food piece") per potency level. Good drinks for saturation include Ale, Cider, and Perry. As you drink more and more booze, you'll gain tolerance to alcohol, and eventually, you'll no longer get drunk easily, and you can drink more powerful drinks to fill your hunger saturation.

Another thing you should consider when brewing is that the brewing process will only make progress if the chunk that the barrel is in is loaded (just like furnaces and other related blocks), so travelling far from home will pause the brewing process.


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