40d:Still

Still

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Job Requirement
Brewing Plant Gathering
Construction
Materials	Jobs
1 of Block Stone Wood	1 of Brewing Plant Gathering
Materials Used
Barrel Bloated tuber Cave wheat Fisher berry Kobold bulb Longland grass Muck root Plump helmet Pig tail Prickle berry Rat weed Rope reed Sliver barb Sun berry Sweet pod Wild strawberry Whip vine
Goods Created
Dwarven ale Dwarven beer Dwarven rum Dwarven wine Sunshine Whip wine River spirits Fisher berry wine Longland beer Strawberry wine Tuber beer Prickle berry wine Sewer brew Gutter cruor Swamp whiskey

"Brew" redirects here. For "sewer brew", see alcohol.

The still is an important building for any dwarven settlement as it is common knowledge that no dwarf can last long without alcohol.

The still allows you to do two tasks:

• b Brew a drink
• e Extract plant essence

Brewing alcohol requires a brewable item (most crops from your farms as well as most gathered plants can be used) and an empty barrel. You can define which plants may be brewed from the Overall Status menu (z) under kitchen. Note that when making barrels for brewing, they will often be taken for use as food storage instead. Thus, it may be best to wait until winter, when food production drops, to produce barrels for brewing. It may also be helpful to reserve a few barrels in the stockpiles menu (p).

Every unit of plant brewed at a still produces 5 units of alcohol. A single stack of plants will be brewed in one go, and the resulting booze will be placed into a single barrel - a stack of Plump Helmet [5] will produce Dwarven Wine [25], and will only occupy a single barrel. Skilled growers, who tend to harvest larger stacks, can therefore reduce the number of barrels required to store alcohol, which in turn minimizes the required stockpile size.

Extracting plant essences is currently useful only for producing trade goods^{v0.28.181.40d}. Gnomeblight can be extracted from kobold bulbs. This requires a glass vial.

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