Editing 40d:Alcohol

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'''Alcohol''' is one of the staples of the dwarven diet; it quenches their {{L|thirst}} and gives them positive {{L|thoughts}}. Healthy dwarves will drink alcohol exclusively when it is available. When dwarves are forced to drink {{L|water}}, they begin to work slowly as a result of their alcohol dependency. Note that in Dwarf Fortress, {{L|milk}} is not actually drinkable - it is only used to make {{L|cheese}} or be cooked into prepared meals directly. Dwarves drink ''only'' alcohol and water.

Alcohol can be brewed at a {{L|still}}, brought with you from the {{L|embark}} screen, or {{L|trade}}d with visiting caravans.

[[:Image:Sober.jpg|Sobriety has no place in the fortress.]]

===Brewing===
To brew alcohol at a {{L|still}} requires a {{L|Alcohol#Brewable_plants|brewable plant}} and an empty {{L|barrel}}. Every unit of plant produces 5 units of alcohol. Brewing enough alcohol for even a medium-sized population requires a lot of barrels; be sure to keep plenty near hand.

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 {{L|grower}}s, 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.  Brewing (unlike cooking) also yields plantable {{L|seed}}s.

===Consumption===
A healthy adult [[dwarf]] consumes approximately 18 units of drink per year.  Each drink consists of the dwarf walking to a booze barrel (one not currently being drunk from), upending it over his alcohol-intake orifice ([[mug]]s are for simpering [[human]]s), and liquoring up.  Because dwarves tipple so frequently, the main liquor stash is often the second-most heavily populated area of the fort (right after the main [[meeting|meeting area]]) and [[dwarves]] spend much time walking to and from it.  So:  The booze should be both secure and accessible. An easy way to achieve this is to designate a booze-exclusive {{L|stockpile}} in the dining hall or statue garden. Fresh booze will be delivered directly to the party, and then a barrel-exclusive furniture stockpile by the still will return your 'empties' straightaway.

===Cooking===
Since a single brewable item will produce five units of alcohol, and each unit of alcohol can be cooked directly into {{L|food}}, it is profitable to brew any plants you intend to cook. In this manner, you may produce five times the food you would from simply growing and then cooking your crops. Be wary though, as you need to ensure enough remains behind for drinking.  Note that some consider this an {{L|exploit}}.

===Variety===
Dwarves will eventually stop drinking a type of alcohol if all they ever drink is that one type.  For example, if a fort has only {{L|dwarven wine}}, dwarves will become tired of drinking only that and will stop drinking until they have some of a different alcohol.

:Urist McSwiller: ''Why is there only ale?''

:Urist McManager: ''Because we only grow pig tails here!''

:Urist McSwiller: ''By [[Armok]] and all that's dwarvenly, I now take this pledge... Unless I taste some other alcohol, I would sooner drink '''{{L|water}}''' than yet another ale, even if it means slowing this fortress to a grinding halt and causing the death of everyone inside it!''

===Happiness===
Dwarves get happy thoughts from drinking.  The intensity of this buzz depends on the {{L|quality}} of the drink and whether it matches the dwarf's personal {{L|preferences}}.  The quality of a drink is a hidden value (with no effect on price) which improves with the skill of the {{L|brewer}}.  It is unknown whether high-value liquors (like {{L|Alcohol#Grown_Outside|sunshine}}) boost feelings more than low-value ones (like {{L|Alcohol#Grown_Outside|gutter cruor}}){{verify}}.  We do know that dwarves prefer to drink them. Dwarves also prefer a variety of alcohols to choose from, and they will get unhappy thoughts from drinking the same old booze every day.

===Wounded dwarves===
Wounded dwarves will not drink alcohol; they must be given {{L|water}} by a caretaker with a {{L|bucket}}. Therefore, a {{L|fortress}} cannot survive on alcohol in the absence of drinking water, unless dwarves are abandoned when wounded.

A permanently crippled dwarf, bedridden for life (whether from severe nervous system damage or from a severed limb), will never again drink alcohol, and upon inspection will have the thought "He needs alcohol to get through the working day, and he can't remember the last time he had some!" You may wish to put these poor dwarves out of their misery.

===Fire===
Players are advised to keep their alcohol stocks away from {{L|fire}}, as booze will very quickly boil away in red clouds. In previous versions, this was observed to inflict significant damage to dwarves, though currently{{version|0.28.181.40d}} the only damage comes from the fire itself.

=== Brewable plants ===

==== Grown inside ====

{|border=1 width="50%"
|- 
! width="40%"|Ingredient
! width="50%"|Beverage Produced
! width="10%" align="center"|Beverage Value
|-
| {{L|Pig tail}}
| Dwarven ale
| 2
|-
| {{L|Cave wheat}}
| Dwarven beer
| 2
|-
| {{L|Sweet pod}}
| Dwarven rum
| 2
|-
| {{L|Plump helmet}}
| Dwarven wine
| 2
|}

====Grown Outside====
{|border=1 width="50%"
|-
! width="40%"|Ingredient
! width="50%"|Beverage Produced
! width="10%"|Beverage Value
|-
| {{L|Sun berry}}
| Sunshine
| 5
|-
| {{L|Whip vine}}
| Whip wine
| 3
|-
| {{L|Rope reed}}
| River spirits
| 2
|-
| {{L|Fisher berry}}
| Fisher berry wine
| 2
|-
| {{L|Longland grass}}
| Longland beer
| 2
|-
| {{L|Wild strawberry}}
| Strawberry wine
| 2
|-
| {{L|Bloated tuber}}
| Tuber beer
| 2
|-
| {{L|Prickle berry}}
| Prickle berry wine
| 1
|-
| {{L|Rat weed}}
| Sewer brew
| 1
|-
| {{L|Sliver barb}}
| Gutter cruor
| 1
|-
| {{L|Muck root}}
| Swamp whiskey
| 1
|}

===Not Brewable===
Plants that cannot be brewed include:
* {{L|Quarry bush}} 
* {{L|Dimple cup}}
* {{L|Blade weed}}
* {{L|Hide root}}
* {{L|Kobold bulb}}
* {{L|Valley herb}}

{{Category|Food}}

=== Overview ===
This a complete chart showing possible plant uses[[Image:Df-crops-diagram.png|thumb|240px]].