Fruit Juice

Fruit Juice
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Fruits that “When cooked, it loses some of its flavor” can be Juiced instead

Mechanics

Fruits like Lemons, grapes, oranges, coconuts, etc, instead of being cooked in the fire pit, can be put into the cauldron as a reagent and combined with fresh or salt water (there is a difference) as a catalyst. Neutral fruits are also included in this system

Fresh water can be bottled in fountains or lakes within islands. Food merchants can also sell it
Salt water can be bottled within the ocean, and some rivers that connect to the ocean from within an island.

Juices

Fresh water when combined with a fruit that shouldn’t be cooked produces a juice, it drastically increases the hunger restored. However unlike food, Juices cannot extend the food bar past its 100 hunger cap, they also never have buffs associated with them.

The possible juices are:

  • Orange Juice
  • Lemonade
  • Limeade
  • Coconut water
  • Banana Juice
  • Grape Juice
  • Peach Syrup
  • Melon Water
  • Mango Juice
    sky fruits are sky + Drink name ( e.g. Sky Lemonade)

Spirits

Salt water when combined with a Fruit produces a ‘Spirit’.

Fruit spirits will always have a weak version of a buff, but will cost hunger to use.
Spirits have a unique mechanic similar to seasonal items. The longer they go unused and “age” the stronger their effects will be. This also increases the hunger taken away when using them.
Aged Spirits also sell for higher prices.

Drinking Spirits when below half hunger gives the player a ‘nauseous’ buff, causing them to get blurry vision and be unable to eat.

Excessively strong ‘legendary’ spirits can have hunger costs that are more than 100, requiring the player to overfill their hunger bar to use safely

these downsides are to prevent players from ignoring the food system entirely and just making spirits and juices for the buffs.

Spirits are just the fruit + spirit at the end. So for example “Grape Spirit”
This is to avoid any association with real life substances.

Ciders

You can also juice things that taste better when cooked like mushrooms or apples to create ‘Cider’ , ciders have unchanged food values and can use salt water or fresh water to make.

They do not age, but tend to sell for a higher value than the ingredients by themselves

Ciders are generally the drink version of a “mistake”, since the legit inedible version of a drink would probably be called “poison” which would be its own system.

The kinds of Ciders that can be made are as follows:

  • Apple cider
  • Sour cider
  • Mushroom cider
  • Cursed cider
  • Tomato cider (yes this is a thing, and yes it makes me want to vomit)
  • Pear cider
  • Marula cider
  • Sky cider (any “tastes much better when cooked” sky fruit will make Sky Cider)
  • Pumpkin cider

Reason to add/change

I feel like making Brewing its own skill like cooking is a fun idea, and to bolster that. Giving it a foundation based on “rejects” of the food system in the fruits that you can’t cook is a good way to do that.

Currently there are pretty much no good uses for bottles of water, and this also provides a very robust use for the 70+ empty bottles we have.

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I think that the foods that “lose flavor” on being cooked should be used as modifiers for potions that either add status effects or modify existing effects in potions similar to spices and seasonings in cooking.

Brew in a cursed mushroom or two and you can have the kool-aid.

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Creative take on improving cooking although the name

might not be roblox appropriate

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Trying to figure out a good way to sneak it in there, I was thinking it be really really funny if by “spirits” it was literally a fruit flavored Soul/glowing orb in a bottle.

Like a fairy in a bottle from zelda.

The joke is that it kinda sounds like an alcohol thing, but its actually the literal spirit of the fruit.
drawn out by the properties of the magic polluted sea water.

edit:
also if you really like it a vote means alot. Shows people like my ideas.

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Lemme juice

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You didn’t add banana drinks man

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The possible juices are:

  • Orange Juice
  • Lemonade
  • Limeade
  • Coconut water
  • Banana Juice
  • Grape Juice
  • Peach Syrup
  • Melon Water
  • Mango Juice
    sky fruits are sky + Drink name ( e.g. Sky Lemonade)

I did. Banana Juice.

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Good, because today I ate eight bananas.

Im gonna die from eating that much :skull:

Eat cookies :cookie:

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Brilliant idea! I really like the spirits and cider part of it!

isnt drinking salt water like REALLY bad?

this is making me hungry

Oh how I miss the autumn. That’s when I get to enjoy some tasty apple cider, but overall good suggestion!

Now we get to enjoy fruit juices in the heat of spring.
And water. Lots of water.

This is an amazing idea, that expands on the cooking system so much.

I’ve always felt kinda salty about stacking up thousands of coconuts, knowing i won’t use them , since they give less hunger, then the tons of meals I’ve created. This is a system that seems to not be neither to imbalanced (as in not that complicated to balance) and also quite simple to implement.
The best feature to add to the game I’ve seen so far.

Yes please.
We have all these food items
But no beverages?
That’s not a travesty, that’s a fucking warcrime.
Add this or I swear to god vetex I will make sure the next thing you add in your patchnotes is a custom magic for yourself.

finally
roblox alcohol

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let me make magic gatorade

This is one of the best ideas I’ve ever seen, it makes so much sense and adds a ton to the game without being complicated. The juice is just adorable, and the spirits are SUCH a good idea. Making disguised alcohol by talking about the “spirit” of the fruit? I love it, both for how it connects to the lore and how people will understand instinctively that it gets stronger as it ages. and the aging mechanic could easily borrow the code used to make fish rot (ages in X hours X minutes)
the only thing I’m not sure of is the cider, seems like a complicated system for something that’s considered a mistake and won’t be used much. still very high effort
I believe with the simplicity of the suggestion and the systems that can be borrowed from other places in the game, this won’t be very hard to implement at all

Apple juice looks like piss