Heirloom Brewing
Heirloom Brewing is SolarCiv's ingredient-driven brewing system. Instead of following fixed recipes, you choose up to 6 ingredients. The main category of those ingredients decides what kind of drink you get, and their Brix, Tannin and Acidity balance decides the quality.
Looking for the classic recipe-based brewing instead? See Brewing (BreweryX).
Stations
Stomping Tub
Setup: a composter with a granite block underneath. Holds up to 6 ingredients.
Boiling Pot
Setup: a cauldron with a campfire or soul campfire underneath. Only needed for grain brews (beer and ale). It's the same Boiling Pot used for cooking.
Fermentation Station
Setup: a cauldron with a blast furnace underneath.
Distillery (Copper Still)
The Distillery is 2 blocks wide and 3 blocks tall: two columns built right next to each other. Any type of copper works, including waxed and oxidised.
| Column | Bottom | Middle | Top |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input column | Cut Copper Stairs | Lightning Rod | Brewing Stand (this is what you use) |
| Heating column | Cut Copper Stairs | Cut Copper | Campfire |
Making a base brew
- Put up to 6 ingredients in the Stomping Tub.
- Jump on the tub 15 times.
- Grain brews only: boil the result in the Boiling Pot.
- Ferment it for 3 minutes in the Fermentation Station.
The most common category among your ingredients decides the base:
| Brew | Ingredients | Steps | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fruit Brew | Mostly fruit | Stomp → Ferment (3 min) | Wine / cider-style fermented drink |
| Grain Brew | Mostly grain | Stomp → Boil → Ferment (3 min) | Beer / ale-style drink |
| Sugar Brew | Mostly sugar | Stomp → Ferment (3 min) | Mead / rum-style fermented drink |
| Vegetable Brew | Mostly "other" ingredients | Stomp → Ferment (3 min) | Vegetable spirit base |
| Mixed Brew | No single main category | Stomp → Ferment (3 min) | Mixed fermented drink |
Advanced brews
Take a finished base brew further:
| Drink | Inputs | Station & time | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Champagne | Finished Wine + Sugar + Brown Mushroom | Fermentation Station, 3 min | Sparkling Champagne |
| Distilled Spirit | 1 fermented drink (Mixed, Rum-style or Cider-style) | Copper Still, 3 min | Higher-ABV spirit |
Quality ratings
Every drink gets a rating from 0 to 5 stars. Each ingredient has three values:
- Brix: sweetness / sugar
- Tannin: bitterness and dryness
- Acidity: sourness
Balance the three across your ingredients to raise the quality of the base. The tables below list every ingredient's values.
Ingredients
Items marked (Heirloom) are custom crops. See the Food Guide for how to get them.
Heirloom grapes
| Grape | Brix | Tannin | Acidity | How to grow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Gralladina Fran Grape | 8 | 4 | 5 | Plant on fences |
 Cranerlet Nuala Grape | 6 | 9 | 3 | Plant on fences |
Fruit
| Ingredient | Brix | Tannin | Acidity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple | 6 | 3 | 5 |
| Enchanted Golden Apple | 10 | 1 | 2 |
| Glistering Melon Slice | 9 | 1 | 2 |
| Glow Berries | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| Golden Apple | 9 | 2 | 3 |
| Melon Slice | 8 | 1 | 3 |
| Sweet Berries | 5 | 4 | 6 |
| Tomato (Heirloom) | 4 | 3 | 7 |
Grain
| Ingredient | Brix | Tannin | Acidity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beetroot Seeds | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Corn (Heirloom) | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| Melon Seeds | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Pitcher Pod | 4 | 6 | 4 |
| Pumpkin Seeds | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| Rice (Heirloom) | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Wheat | 5 | 6 | 2 |
| Wheat Seeds | 3 | 4 | 2 |
Sugar
| Ingredient | Brix | Tannin | Acidity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Honey Bottle | 10 | 1 | 2 |
| Honeycomb | 9 | 2 | 2 |
| Sugar | 10 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Sugar Cane | 10 | 1 | 1 |
Other
| Ingredient | Brix | Tannin | Acidity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beetroot | 6 | 3 | 4 |
| Brown Mushroom | 2 | 7 | 3 |
| Cactus | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Carrot | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| Dandelion | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Dried Kelp | 3 | 6 | 3 |
| Fern | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| Golden Carrot | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| Kelp | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| Lettuce (Heirloom) | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Nether Wart | 3 | 8 | 5 |
| Poisonous Potato | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Potato | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Pumpkin | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Red Mushroom | 2 | 6 | 4 |
| Short Grass | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Sunflower | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| Tall Grass | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Drunkenness
Drunkenness runs from 0 to 100 and goes down by 2 points per minute, including while you're offline.
| Level | Effect |
|---|---|
| 10+ | Chat becomes distorted and movement stumbles |
| 30+ | Nausea |
| 60 - 119 | Vomiting |
| 70+ | Logging out has a 50% chance of a blackout. You log back in near, not at, where you left |
| 95+ | 10% chance each chat message is blocked entirely |
| Very high at login | You may be refused login until enough drunkenness has worn off |
Sobering up
| Item | Drunkenness removed |
|---|---|
| Bread | 4 points |
| Milk Bucket | 2 points |
| Dying | 20 points |