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Alcohol is the favored drink of dwarves; without it they will soon become unhappy. Thoughts imply that dwarves like to have some variety in what they drink. Many dwarves have a favorite drink, selected at first from among the 4 types of alcohol made from underground crops, but including drinks brewed from surface plants once dwarves have been exposed to those beverages.

Contents 1 Acquiring Alcohol for your Dwarves 2 Variety 3 Consequences of a Sober Fortress 4 Brewable plants 4.1 Grown inside 4.2 Grown Outside

[edit] Acquiring Alcohol for your Dwarves

There are three methods of acquiring alcohol, only two of which are available after embark.

• At embark, alcohol may be purchased with embark points.
• Traders that visit the fortress will often have alcohol of some sort to sell.
• The third and most reliable method requires a brewer, a still, and a working farm plot. Most crops can be brewed into valuable alcohol.
  • In a pinch you can also gather plants and brew them at a still in the same way you would with crops.

[edit] Variety

Variety in booze keeps away unhappy thoughts, it also keeps dwarves drinking! For example, if Urist McThirsty drinks nothing but dwarven ale, he'll get unhappy and will stop drinking ale. This might clarify:

Urist McThirsty: Bah, why do we have only ale? Urist McManager: Becase we only have pig tails. Urist McThirsty: By my beard, Armok and all that's dwarvenly, until I find some booze other than ale, I shall drink nought but water, even if that means slowing this fortress to a grinding halt and causing the death of everyone in it!

[edit] Consequences of a Sober Fortress

As dwarves are highly dependent on alcohol, a lack of booze over a prolonged period of time will result in a loss of speed in almost every activity, including basic movement. For this reason, a steady supply of alcohol is highly recommended for any attempts at a productive fort.

Dwarves will also wait longer before drinking from a non-alcoholic water source, resulting in negative thoughts from thirst.

[edit] Brewable plants

[edit] Grown inside

Ingredient	Beverage Produced	Beverage Value
Pig tail	Dwarven Ale	2
Cave wheat	Dwarven Beer	2
Sweet pod	Dwarven Rum	2
Plump helmet	Dwarven Wine	2

[edit] Grown Outside

Ingredient	Beverage Produced	Beverage Value
Sun berry	Sunshine	5
Whip vine	Whip Wine	3
Rope reed	River Spirits	2
Fisher berry	Fisher Berry Wine	2
Longland grass	Longland Beer	2
Wild strawberry	Strawberry Wine	2
Bloated tuber	Tuber Beer	2
Prickle berry	Prickle Berry Wine	1
Rat weed	Sewer Brew	1
Sliver barb	Gutter Cruor	1
Muck root	Swamp Whiskey	1