How to brew drinks in Dwarf Fortress

In Dwarf Fortress, your dwarves won’t simply work hard without playing hard. If you want happy dwarves, you’ll need plenty of drinks to go around. Without their booze, your dwarves won’t work hardly as efficiently, and they’ll get rather grumpy. Here is how to brew drinks in Dwarf Fortress.

How to brew drinks in Dwarf Fortress

What you’ll need

In order to start brewing drinks, you’ll need a few things first:

• A Still
• Plants or fruit
• Empty barrels

You can construct the Still in your outpost through the workshops menu in the building tab. You will need one resource of your choosing to build it.

You can use the gathering tool to select a large swathe of ground to order your gatherers to pick up all the fruits and plants in that area. They will deposit everything they find in a plant barrel.

For you to brew drinks effectively, you may want to create a new stockpile that only allows barrels of food and / or drink. Make a whole bunch of barrels and shove them all in the stockpile to make room for the drinks.

Once everything is in order, you can begin!

Related: How to get drinkable water in Dwarf Fortress

Brewing

All you need to do in order to brew drinks is click on the Still and add a new task. You can make drinks from either fruit or plants, plants will generally be more accessible. A local dwarf will hobble on over to get the task done.

They will collect an empty barrel and some ingredients and will get to brewing. As soon as they are done, they will place the barrel in the corresponding stockpile, and all the dwarves will drink as they please.

It is important to keep your drink levels in good supply, your dwarves rely on drinks to keep their mood and workrate high. Without available drinks, they will get grouchy and will work less efficiently.

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