Building a cellar

Two rows of Aging Barrels, the top row resting on the bottom one

One barrel is a start. A cellar is a row of them, filled from a kettle that runs by itself, with drinks you tap without thinking. This guide builds one up in the order you’ll want it; each part links to the page with every detail.

Plan the batch

How much do you need? Pick a drink and a number of servings, and you get the whole order: what to grow, how many kettle batches, how many buckets and bottles, how many barrels, and how long to wait. The buttons step a barrel at a time.

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A brewhouse that runs itself

A Brew Kettle standing on a hopper over a fire

The Brew Kettle works with hoppers on every side:

Underneath, a hopper does two jobs. It passes the heat of the fire below it up to the kettle, and it pulls out the filled bottles and buckets. So: fire, hopper, kettle, stacked.
On top, a hopper feeds the ingredients and empty bottles or buckets. Keep it for ingredients only: anything the recipe doesn’t use, even a leftover from another recipe, stops the kettle until you take it out.
From the sides, hoppers feed empty bottles or buckets.
The kettle keeps brewing as long as ingredients come in, up to 64 servings.

Racks and walls

A cellar along the tavern wall: barrels joined into a rack, a second row stacked on top.

Racks: Aging Barrels placed side by side on the ground, facing the same way, join their cradles into one long rack.
Walls: a barrel on top of another rests on chocks instead of a cradle, so you can stack them into a wall. Your first stacked barrel earns Cellar Master.
Name them. Rename a barrel in an anvil and the name shows in its status line, so Wedding Wine is easy to find. The name stays when you break and place the barrel again.
Read them at a glance: the bung on top says how far along each barrel is (cork, bubbling airlock, red wax), and the sight glass on the front how full it is, in the drink’s colour.
Comparators read a barrel’s servings, from 1 for one serving up to 15 when it’s full.

Filling and tapping by machine

A hopper on top pours bases in. It only pours what the barrel takes right now, so the wrong base simply waits in the hopper.
Hoppers at the sides feed in empty mugs or glasses; the barrel taps them full. Mugs for beer and cider, glasses for wine: the wrong ones get stuck until you break the barrel.
A hopper below pulls out the tapped drinks and the empty buckets and bottles left over from pouring. Keep one there, or finished drinks block the next ones.
Dispensers facing a barrel tap a serving with an empty mug or glass, or pour in a bucket or bottle of base.

Where to build it

In the Overworld. Barrels run on game time and sleeping through the night counts, but in the Nether and the End there’s no night to skip.
Away from creepers. An explosion can destroy a barrel, batch and all.
Anywhere you like otherwise: barrels keep aging while you’re far away or offline, and they never catch fire. You only miss the soft cork pop when a batch turns aged.
Fill two of each. It takes 1 day to ferment and 3 days more to age, and every glass you tap in between is one less that ages. Drink from one barrel and leave the other alone.

Serving a round

Set the table: sneak and right-click the top of a block with a mug or glass to put it there, up to four per block. Aged drinks shimmer even on the table.
Cheers! Finish a drink at the same moment as your friends nearby and everyone’s buff lasts 20% longer. See Drinks.
Mind the levels. Every drink adds a level of Tipsy. Keep some Grape Juice or water around: each one takes a level off.