Barrel

• General

Barrel
A barrel standing on a furnace
Basic Information
Type	Solid Block
Physics	No
Renewable	No
Transparency	Yes
Flammable	No
Luminance	No
Tool	Any tool
Drops	Itself
History
Added in	Public Beta 1 (as ale barrels)

“	[The barrels] were in fact already standing in rows in the middle of the floor waiting to be pushed off. Some of them were wine-barrels, and these were not much use, as they could not easily be opened at the end without a deal of noise, nor could they easily be secured again. But among them were several others, which had been used for bringing other stuffs, butter, apples, and all sorts of things, to the king's palace.	”
–The Hobbit, Barrels Out of Bond

Barrels are used for brewing and storing all manner of drinks ranging from alcoholic beverages to herbal tinctures. They can also be used like a boat (this is a reference to The Hobbit).

Brewing

Since Public Beta 8, barrels are needed to brew Middle-earth drinks and potions. For this, you will need three buckets of water and six other ingredients; more information on brewing can be found here.

Note that when broken while brewing, a barrel will pause, but not fully stop brewing; once placed again, it will resume.

The GUI of a barrel when right-clicking it

Crafting

Barrels can be crafted on a normal crafting table using wood planks of any type on the top and bottom rows, a bucket in the center, and iron ingots in the two remaining slots.

File:Barrel Crafting.png

The crafting of a barrel

Obtaining

Barrels can also be found in many structures, in which case they will already contain a certain drink. Examples for this are the Rohan Mead Halls, containing mead barrels, or Gondor Fortresses, containing ale barrels. Barrels are also currently the only way to obtain red wine, namely in Wood-elven Towers.

Riding

Barrels can be placed in water by right-clicking the water with the barrel in hand. The barrel can then be ridden, similar to a boat, but slightly slower. Barrels do not break when they hit the shore, but when broken with your hand or a tool, they drop a barrel. As barrels do not break when they hit land like vanilla boats do, they make a sturdy and well-used alternative and are often regarded as superior to the vanilla boat in that regard. Note that a barrel is more difficult to navigate and has a larger turning radius than the boat.

Riding a barrel in the rivers of Mirkwood Corrupted merits an achievement, "Out of bond".

Special Note

In order to ride in barrels, the barrel must be placed in 2 deep water; placing it in one deep water will just place the barrel as a block.

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