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.
