Mead Issues

[Blackkat]

I've made my first batch of mead and I was disappointing to see that the condition was at 9% quality. Is this normal? Is this not normal? Everything my character has crafted starts at 100%. Mead and the mead bottles, are the only things that have been crafted, that start out at very poor quality. I've watched videos of people making mead and theirs comes out as 100% quality. Those videos were just play through videos. They were not really tutorial videos, specifically touching the topic. There is not much on the topic. That's why I am here.

[Wizard of Woz]

Are you sure you didn't already have mead in your inventory? Might have picked it up from a broken cart or bandit camp.

[Morri]

The % you see is the quality of the bottle, not the actual quality of the mead which cannot spoil. It means that when you started making the mead, you had empty bottles of 9% quality.

And if you use fast crafting, the % of the entire batch will come out like the first one in the batch. So even if you have 49 empty bottles at 100% and 1 at 9%, your entire batch might come out at 9%.

[Dutchgamer1982]

Originally posted by Morri:

The % you see is the quality of the bottle, not the actual quality of the mead which cannot spoil. It means that when you started making the mead, you had empty bottles of 9% quality.

And if you use fast crafting, the % of the entire batch will come out like the first one in the batch. So even if you have 49 empty bottles at 100% and 1 at 9%, your entire batch might come out at 9%.

bad beer cause 1 bottle out a batch looks ugly... well well well..
thats certainly an -interesting- mechanism.
it likely also turns all those 50 bottles in 9% ones once they are drunk empty I presume?

well at least villagers won't mind drinking nearly spoiled foods.

[Philtre]

Originally posted by Dutchgamer1982:

well at least villagers won't mind drinking nearly spoiled foods.

It's not spoilage (mead doesn't spoil), it's the durability of the bottle (the number of times you can reuse it).

The "fast crafting" system was added after the game was finished, for the convenience of people who make videos where it would be boring to watch them make 50 of something one at a time. If you don't have fast crafting on, each individual mead you make will inherit the durability of the bottle used for it specifically.

[Philtre]

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[khrywolf]

I've got the same issue. I made sure to use newly crafted bottles. All boxes related to drink are X - ed out. I crafted 20 bottles of mead and placed them in food storage. Tavern is set to craft 5 bottles of mead per day. Stall is set to sell 2 bottles of mead per day. I checked food storage the next day, and there were only 5 bottles of mead in storage. There should have been 23 bottles of mead. I don't understand how this issue is related to percentage of the condition of the bottles.

[*Morri*]

Originally posted by khrywolf:

I've got the same issue. I made sure to use newly crafted bottles. All boxes related to drink are X - ed out.
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There should have been 23 bottles of mead. I don't understand how this issue is related to percentage of the condition of the bottles.

It is not, because you are posting in a thread unrelated to your issue.
Did you also x-out the mead under "food"? Mead has a food content so your people can also consume it for that.

[indian_horse2003]

Originally posted by khrywolf:

I've got the same issue. I made sure to use newly crafted bottles. All boxes related to drink are X - ed out. I crafted 20 bottles of mead and placed them in food storage. Tavern is set to craft 5 bottles of mead per day. Stall is set to sell 2 bottles of mead per day. I checked food storage the next day, and there were only 5 bottles of mead in storage. There should have been 23 bottles of mead. I don't understand how this issue is related to percentage of the condition of the bottles.

Also, things like potion of possibilities requires mead to craft and your herbalist will use them to craft it if you have told them to craft it.