40d:Alcohol

Alcohol is one of the staples of the dwarven diet, it quenches their thirst and gives them positive thoughts. Healthy dwarves will drink alcohol exclusively when available. When dwarves are forced to drink water, they begin to work slowly from alcohol dependency.

Wounded dwarves will not drink alcohol; they must be given water by a caretaker with a bucket. Therefore, a fortress cannot survive on alcohol in the absence of drinking water, unless dwarves are abandoned when wounded. Alcohol can either be brewed at a still, brought with you from the embark screen or traded with visiting carvans.

To brew alcohol at a still requires a brewable plant and a barrel. Every unit of plant 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.

Brewable Plants

Grown Inside

Ingredient	Beverage Produced
Pig tails	Dwarven Ale
Cave wheat	Dwarven Beer
Sweet pods	Dwarven Rum
Plump helmets	Dwarven Wine

Grown Outside

Ingredient	Beverage Produced
Whip vine	Whip Wine
Sun berries	Sunshine
Sliver barb	Gutter Cruor
Rope reed	River Spirits
Fisher berries	Fisher Berry Wine
Rat weed	Sewer Brew
Longland grass	Longland Beer
Wild strawberries	Strawberry Wine
Prickle berries	Prickle Berry Wine
Bloated tubers	Tuber Beer
Muck root	Swamp Whiskey

Not Brewable

Plants that cannot be brewed include:

• Quarry bushes (Rocknuts)
• Dimple cups