Fermentation Barrel
Yeast, a dairy chain and four drinks — the barrel does all of it, and works out which recipe you meant on its own.
The fermentation barrel is the all-in-one fermenting station. Pour in water or milk, drop in some ingredients, and let time do the work. It makes yeast, dairy products and drinks.
How it works
Right-click the barrel to open it: two ingredient slots, an output slot, and two tanks — one for what you pour in, one for finished drinks.
Fill the input tank by right-clicking the barrel with a filled container:
| Container | Fills | Left with |
|---|---|---|
| Water Bucket | 1 litre of water | Bucket |
| Milk Bucket | 1 litre of milk | Bucket |
| Water Bottle | ⅓ litre of water | Glass Bottle |
The input tank holds 2 litres; the drinks tank holds 3 litres.
Then put the right ingredients into the two input slots. If they match a recipe, fermenting starts on its own — there is no button to press.
The barrel only works on one recipe at a time, and it decides which one from what is inside it. Don’t mix ingredients for two recipes at once, or nothing will happen until you sort it out.
What you can make
| Product | Ingredients | Liquid used | Time | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yeast | Sugar + Wheat | ½ L water | 10 min | 2 × Yeast |
| Cream | Bowl | 1 L milk | 5 min | 1 × Cream |
| Butter | Cream | — | 5 min | 1 × Butter |
| Cheese | Butter | — | 5 min | 1 × Cheese |
| Cider | Apple + Yeast | 1 L water | 2 min | 1 L cider in the tank |
| Wine | Sweet Berries + Yeast | 1 L water | 2 min | 1 L wine in the tank |
| Grape Juice | Grapes + Yeast | 1 L water | 2 min | 1 L grape juice in the tank |
| Beer | Yeast + Hops | ½ L water | 2 min | 1 × Beer |
Yeast is the gateway item — three of the four drinks need it, so it is usually the first thing you brew.
The dairy chain runs milk + bowl → Cream → Butter → Cheese, five minutes a step. Cheese has a 3% chance of coming out as a Rotten Cheese Slice instead. The spoil roll only happens when the output slot is empty, so a stack of cheese already building up keeps growing safely.
Note that Hops are not obtainable in survival yet, so beer is effectively creative-only for now. Everything else is fully reachable.
Getting things out
Bottling a drink. Cider, wine and grape juice come out as liquid in the barrel’s drinks tank rather than as items. Right-click the barrel with an Empty Wine Bottle to draw off one litre as the matching drink item. If there isn’t a full litre in there, the barrel just opens its menu instead.
An Empty Wine Bottle is crafted from a glass bottle surrounded by four glass panes in a diamond.
Emptying the input tank. Sneak-right-click with an empty Bucket to drain the input tank. If there is a full litre in there you get a Water Bucket or Milk Bucket back; if there is less than that, it is simply tipped out.
Breaking the barrel drops everything in its item slots.
Drinking: Tipsy and Drunk
Wine, Beer and Grape Juice are alcoholic, and the mod tracks how much you’ve had.
- Your first drink gives Tipsy for 30 seconds.
- Every drink after that gives Drunk for 30 seconds instead, and the level goes up by one with each additional drink — up to level 9.
- The counter resets after 10 minutes without a drink.
Both effects bring hidden Slowness and Nausea with them (hidden so you only see the one Tipsy or Drunk icon, not three). Drunk’s nausea is stronger, and Drunk removes Tipsy when it lands, so you never have both.
Drunk also delays and inverts your movement. Your input is buffered and played back reversed after a delay that starts at 0.4 seconds and grows by 0.2 seconds per level — so a heavily drunk player is steering roughly two seconds in the past, backwards. Walking home is the hard part.