How to Brew Your First Drink from Start to Finish

Setting Up Your Brewing Station

Start by placing a water cauldron and gathering fermentation ingredients like sugarcane, wheat, berries, or other crops. You'll also need a heat source—a furnace or campfire works well for distillation later.

Fermenting Your Base Drink

Drop your chosen ingredients into the water cauldron. The cauldron will begin fermenting automatically.

Distilling for Quality

Place the fermented bottle back into an empty cauldron positioned above your heat source. Light the heat source and watch carefully—green particles will begin appearing when the distillation reaches peak quality. Remove the bottle immediately when you see these particles to secure a high star rating. Timing is crucial: remove too early for lower stars, or too late and quality drops.

Your First Finished Brew

Congratulations! You now have a distilled drink. You can consume it immediately for status effects, or place it in an aging barrel to develop rare variants over several in-game days for even better results.