Brewery

Brewery is an important plugin in EarthCraft and is known as "the alcohol plugin".

History

First Earth

Brewery has always been implemented since the server had started. It is a major plugin as it allows alcohol in Minecraft. It had been used in battles, however not much because of how unhelpful the brews are. They have only been used once when SPQR imprisoned Poseidon by getting him drunk.

Second Earth

TBA

Usage

Unlike in vanilla Minecraft it is not as easy as adding an Ingredient to a Brewing Stand and waiting for it to finish. Depending on the Recipe the whole process can be difficult and time consuming. Some Recipes may need a high precision when it comes to Ingredients or any other step in the process. If one step was not good enough, the quality of the Potions may suffer, leading to side effects like bad alcohol and other toxins.

This new difficulty of brewing of the good stuff makes only sense, if the players are not aware of the exact Recipes for at least the more valuable Potions (like Rum). This makes high quality Potions worth much more and an experimenting and perfecting of the Brewing Process would be promoted.

Depending on the Recipe, some Steps may not be needed, the following instruction describes the common procedure of brewing.

Fermenting

Step one consists of Fermenting the fresh Ingredients.

Place Cauldron over a Fire or other heat source
Fill it with water
Add Ingredients with a right-click
Wait a few minutes while they ferment
Fill in glass bottles

Use a clock on a cauldron, if you want to know the time the ingredients have been fermenting.

Distilling

Some Recipes don't need distilling.

Put the bottle with ferment into the brewing stand
Put glowstone dust as filter on top into the brewing stand (The filter will not be consumed)

Aging

A barrel is needed for aging.

Minecraft Barrel

Starting in 1.14 the Minecraft-Barrel can be used for aging of a few brews. Simply craft and place the barrel und put the brews inside.

You can also build bigger barrels. They can be built in two ways:

Small barrel

Use 8 wooden stairs to build a barrel shape.

Place a Sign on the lower right side and write "Barrel" in the upper Line: Message "Barrel created" should appear.

Big barrel

Use 5 Fences, 16 Wooden stairs, and 18 wood planks to build a barrel shape. Attach a Spigot (Fence) and a Sign that has "Barrel" written on the first Line: Message "Barrel created" should appear. You may remove the Sign from the Big Barrel after creating it.

Open the Barrel by clicking on it. Put the Bottles into the Barrels for aging. Depending on the Recipe, the Type of wood used for building the barrel may alter the quality of the aged Brew. The small minecraft barrel is always of wood type oak. The Barrel should not be destroyed while aging, as it would leak the brews.

Drinking

The Amount of Alcohol inside the Brew will be applied to the player when drinking. Depending on the quality of it, that may have different effects.

The Player may not be able to walk normally anymore, he will weave, making it almost impossible to walk straight
Effects like Blindness, Confusion, Poison etc. occur
The Chat will be altered depending on drunkeness, many things players write may be incomprehensible, sometimes it seems senseless
Is the Alcohol particularly strong, it may have poisonous effects
After drinking a lot, there is a chance of vomiting
When logging off, the player may have difficulties reaching his character, thus some loggins shortly after may be denied
After Overdrinking the player may faint (Disconnecting)

Brew Sealing

You can just give your created Brews to other Players and they might even put them back into a Barrel to keep ageing them. But most Shop-Plugins require sold items to be exactly equal and this is where sealing comes in. Imagine it like putting a seal on the bottle.

To sell Brews using Shop-Plugins, you will need to seal them using the Brew Sealing Table.
It is crafted with 2 Bottles over 4 Planks
Putting a Brew into the Sealing table will equalise it, making it equal to other Brews that have been brewed similarly.
Sealed Brews cannot be aged or modified any further and they don't show their details anymore.

Getting Sober

After drinking it takes a while until the alcohol is completely gone. During that time the alcohol level is steadily decreasing. Also it can be decreased through consuming of items defined in the config.

When logging off extremely drunk, it may happen that, if the player logs back in after a while, he may find himself at an completely unknown Place in the middle of nowhere having no idea how he got there.
But if he loggs back in after some hours or next morning, he will find himself at /home, again without any memories.
Also if the Alcohol was not of best quality, the player may face some bad type of hangover (slowness and hunger).

Recipes

Alcohol recipes

Wheatbeer

Ingredients: 3x Wheat
Cooking time: 8 minutes
Age time: 3 days
Wood: Birch
Difficulty: 1
Alcohol level: 5

Beer

Ingredients: 6x Wheat
Cooking time: 8 minutes
Age time: 3 days
Wood: Any
Difficulty: 1
Alcohol level: 6

Darkbeer

Ingredients: 6x Wheat
Cooking time: 8 minutes
Age time: 8 days
Wood: Spruce
Difficulty: 2
Alcohol level: 7

Red Wine

Ingredients: 5x Sweet Berries
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Age time: 20 days
Wood: Any
Difficulty: 4
Alcohol level: 8

Mead

Ingredients: 6x Sugar Cane
Cooking time: 3 minutes
Age time: 4 days
Wood: Oak
Difficulty: 2
Alcohol level: 9

Apple Mead

Ingredients: 6x Sugar Cane, 2x Apples
Cooking time: 4 minutes
Age time: 4 days
Wood: Oak
Difficulty: 4
Alcohol level: 11

Apple Cider

Ingredients: 14x Apple
Cooking time: 7 minutes
Age time: 3 days
Wood: Any
Difficulty: 4
Alcohol level: 7

Apple Liquor / Calvados

Ingredients: 12x Apple
Cooking time: 16 minutes
Distill runs: 3
Age time: 6 days
Wood: Acacia
Difficulty: 5
Alcohol level: 14

Whiskey

Ingredients: 10x Wheat
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Distill runs: 2
Age time: 18 days
Wood: Spruce
Difficulty: 7
Alcohol level: 26

Burning Whiskey

Ingredients: 10x Wheat, 2x Blaze Powder
Cooking time: 12 minutes
Distill runs: 3
Age time: 18 days
Wood: Spruce
Difficulty: 7
Alcohol level: 28

Moonshine

Ingredients: 15x Wheat, 8x Sugar
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Distill runs: 15
Age time: 20 days
Wood: Crimson
Difficulty: 10
Alcohol level: 52

Rum

Ingredients: 14x Sugar Cane
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Distill runs: 2
Age time: 14 days
Wood: Oak
Difficulty: 6
Alcohol level: 30

Vodka

Ingredients: 10x Potato
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Distill runs: 2
Difficulty: 4
Alcohol level: 20

Mushroom Vodka

Ingredients: 10x Potato, 3x Red Mushroom, 3x Brown Mushroom
Cooking time: 18 minutes
Distill runs: 5
Difficulty: 7
Alcohol level: 18

Golden Vodka

Ingredients: 10x Potato, 2x Gold Nugget
Cooking time: 18 minutes
Distill runs: 3
Difficulty: 6
Alcohol level: 20

Gin

Ingredients: 9x Wheat, 6x Cornflower/Blue Orchids (any of these two), 1x Apple
Cooking time: 6 minutes
Distill runs: 2
Difficulty: 6
Alcohol level: 20

Tequila

Ingredients: 8x Cactus
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Distill runs: 2
Age time: 12 days
Wood: Any
Difficulty: 5
Alcohol level: 20

Absinthe

Ingredients: 15x Grass
Cooking time: 3 minutes
Distill runs: 6
Difficulty: 8
Alcohol level: 42

Green Absinthe

Ingredients: 17x Grass, 2x Poisonous Potato
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Distill runs: 6
Difficulty: 9
Alcohol level: 46

Brandy (NOT COMPLETE YET)

Ingredients: 10x Sweet Berries, 1x Honey Bottle
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Distill runs: 10
Age time: 25 days
Wood: Oak
Difficulty: 8
Alcohol level: 48

Eggnog

Ingredients: 5x Egg, 2x Sugar, 1x Milk Bucket
Cooking time: 2 minutes
Distill runs: 2
Age time: 14 days
Wood: Any
Difficulty: 4
Alcohol level: 10

Non-alcohol recipes

Potato soup

Ingredients: 5x Potato, 3x Grass
Cooking time: 3 minutes
Difficulty: 1

Coffee

Ingredients: 12x Cocoa Bean, 2x Milk Bucket
Cooking time: 2 minutes
Difficulty: 3

Iced Coffee

Ingredients: 8x Cookie, 4x Snowball, 1x Milk Bucket
Cooking time: 1 minutes
Difficulty: 4

Hot Chocolate

Ingredients: 3x Cookie
Cooking time: 2 minutes
Difficulty: 2

Lean

Ingredients: 3x Quartz, 3x Amethyst Shard, 1x Lava Bucket, 6x Sugar
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Difficulty: 5