Dwarf speed

[ehyder]

Been playing for hours and just noticed that the dwarves speed up after drinking beer (and yes I now also paid more attention to the reference to productivity in the information on beer). Must be that dwarf physiology, certainly see no evidence of this effect in our household after drinking beer.

[primarccreagor]

Tea as well, caffine and beer things a growing dwarf needs.

[LiketheShore&theSea]

Tea doesn't seem to be something u can produce much of, b/c of its unfortunate recipe requirement for roots. I wish it only required berries and leaves & water and not roots. Save the roots for the magical elixirs plz.

Also, I really feel like we should get the barrel back after the all of the beers from that barrel have been consumed. It uses up iron each time for only 10 beer, which is pretty expensive imo... Doesn't make sense either, that the barrel just vanishes into thin air each time. Maybe make it so you can only have 10 beer per barrel you have made, so if you want 100 barrels on stock @ all time, you have to keep @ least 10 barrels in your inventory.

[ehyder]

Good idea on reuse. And it is unfortunate that the dwarves cannot get wine out of the wine barrel. That just seems wrong. Maybe have the wine barrel be fillable/refillable as well. Tea could perhaps be restorative since it used up precious berries and roots. Tip: If you dig up roots from the earth block after cutting down the trees/bushes/cactus you can get a pretty steady supply of roots.

[LiketheShore&theSea]

Ahh thank for the suggestions ehyder! I absolutely 100% agree on the wine barrel. It's actually kind of confusing when you first craft it, as it just makes so much more sense for it to be in the food section and be reusable (ie. have the barrel go back into your inventory once the barrel is depleted).

In fact, I think it would make more sense for the beer to be dispensed from a keg as well. That way you can place the wine barrel or beer keg in your dining room, watch the dwarves grab a mug/glass from them, and have the barrel disappear into your inventory once it's empty, ready for the next batch to be brewed! Then you can choose to use berries or wheat for your alcohol source too, which could be handy if you're short in one of the other, or if they get tired of drinking the same thing all the time, although it's almost sacreligious for dwarves to become tired of scoffing back ale/beer morning, noon, and night. ;)

Would be neat if you could make meat pies as well, and combine flour with your meat supply. Have a recipe where you can make 10 pot pies from 1 meat like the apple pie recipe. I think that'd be a proper dwarf's favourite meal lol. Beer, meat pie in a bread crust, and apple pie for dessert. They'd prolly like buns too, but that recipe is too inefficent for me to use, at least with the wood requirements for making coal so damn steep. It takes a while to grow enough trees back to replenish your wood supplies after crafting 50 coal or more. Maybe the coal recipe could only require 4 logs, in cardinal directions (above, beneath and beside) the earth chunk. Would make the game less grindy and more fun that way. Or at least tweak the recipes so you get more buns for one coal, for example.

I think apple pie is the most efficient use of coal atm. 20 hunger (10 pies @ 2 hunger each) for 1 piece of coal. The bread recipe is nice but kind of inefficient and it uses a ton of water. I'd rather use that water to make clay, for example, and my one pond I have left is beside the ocean on the right side of the map, @ the top of a mountain lol. I was feeding them salads as well to use up leaves, but it's hard to have enough apples for both. I also feed them cones lol; I have hundreds, hehe. Apple pies and cones would prolly be enough, but it doesn't feel like a proper diet for dwarves. I think I finally have enough coal to make stew, especially as my world is almost fully depleted of ore now. I need so much more mithril, but it's so damn expensive from the store, ouch!

[ehyder]

Agreed, I was just looking at my coal supply and wishing that the coal recipe required more earth (at max in my inventory) and less wood (still waiting for all of the tiny trees to grow).