Your first drink

This guide takes you from a fresh world to your first glass of red wine, then on to an aged one. You need only vanilla materials to start; the grapes come in along the way. Each step links to the page with all the details.

1. Find wild grapes. Wild plants grow in patches out in the world, each in its own kind of place. For wine you want Wild Red Grapes: break one by hand for Red Grapes.

   Wild crop	Grows in	Drops
   Wild Barley	plains and savannas (temperature 0.3 or warmer); never in mushroom fields and caves. With Biomes O' Plenty also: Field, Pasture and Prairie	Barley (20% chance) Barley Seeds, more with Fortune
   Wild Red Grapes	forests and plains (temperature 0.6 to 1); never in mushroom fields and caves. With Biomes O' Plenty also: Mediterranean Forest and Orchard	Red Grapes, more with Fortune
   Wild Hops	forests and rivers (temperature 0.5 to 0.8); never in mushroom fields and caves. With Biomes O' Plenty also: Woodland and Seasonal Forest	Hops, more with Fortune
   Wild White Grapes	forests and mountain slopes (meadows, cherry groves) (temperature 0.4 to 0.6); never in mushroom fields and caves. With Biomes O' Plenty also: Lavender Field and Lavender Forest	White Grapes, more with Fortune

   Can’t find any? Village farmers and the wandering trader sell grapes, and village chests often hold some. See Villages & taverns.

2. Plant a few bushes. Plant the grapes on grass, dirt or farmland, like sweet berries. A bush grows on its own; once it’s ripe, right-click it to pick 2 to 3 grapes. It drops back a stage and fruits again, so you never need to replant. Bone meal speeds it up.

   A grape bush growingPlay

   1. planted
   2. growing
   3. flowering
   4. ripe

   One batch of juice takes 4 grapes and a sugar, so a handful of bushes is plenty to start. More on Crops.

3. Build a Brew Kettle and put it over a fire. The Brew Kettle is made of copper. It brews only while the block right below it is hot: a lit campfire works from day one. It stands on an iron tray above the flames.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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4. Brew grape juice. Right-click the kettle to open it and put in 4 grapes and a sugar. The arrow fills while the kettle is hot, steam curls out from under the lid, and after 10 s the gauge shows 4 servings of Grape Juice. If you put in more, it keeps brewing batches. See Brew Kettle.

   

   

   

   

   

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   Brew Kettle10 s4 servings0.35 xp

5. Take it out. Right-click the kettle with a glass bottle for one serving, or with a bucket for 4. Grape juice is already a drink of its own: it takes the edge off Tipsy.

6. Fill an Aging Barrel. Place an Aging Barrel and right-click it with the bucket or the bottles. It holds 8 servings: two buckets fill it to the brim. Topping it up with more of the same juice while it ferments is fine.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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7. Wait for it to ferment. After 1 day the juice has become Red Wine. The barrel tells you how it’s doing: the glass airlock on top bubbles while it ferments, and a right-click with an empty hand shows a status line such as Red Wine · 8 servings · fermenting, ready tomorrow morning. The clock runs on game time, so sleeping through the night counts. See Aging Barrel.

8. Tap a glass. Right-click the barrel with an empty Wine Glass to tap one serving. Wine goes in a glass, beer and cider in a Mug; the barrel tells you if you hold the wrong one.

   

   

   

   

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9. Drink it. Red Wine gives you Regeneration3 min and one level of Tipsy. You keep the glass. Drink at the same moment as a friend nearby and you get a Cheers!: everyone’s buff lasts 20% longer.

10. Let the rest age. Leave the barrel alone for 3 days more and what’s left becomes Aged Red Wine: a deeper red that shimmers, and Regeneration II5 min. A soft cork pop and a red wax seal on top tell you it’s done.

Can't wait?

Every glass you tap during the aging stage is one less that ages. Fill two barrels: drink from one, and leave the other alone until it’s aged. Or find a village tavern, whose barrels are already full, a couple of them aged. See Villages & taverns.

Where to go next

• Brew the other drinks: hops and barley for ale, wheat and hops for wheat beer, sweet berries for sweet berry wine. See Drinks and Crops.
• Put a few barrels side by side and build a proper cellar: Building a cellar.
• Mind your limits: what each level of Tipsy does, and how to sober up.
• With Farmer’s Delight, brew over its stove and cook with your wine: Farmer’s Delight.