Wine?

[Hansgruber]

Hello, unfortunately, even after 40 hours of playing, I couldn't make wine in the barrels.

Yes, I understand that I have to collect plants, let them "ferment" in barrels and it could be successful.

Then I tried, but it never worked and my colony always dies of thirst🥹.

Could you please advise how to do this? Thanks 😘

[Philtre]

1. Build a Still (under Build -> Workshops -> Farming)
2. Make sure you have empty barrels (made of wood in a Carpenter's workshop) or pots (made of stone in a Craftdwarf's workshop)
3. Grow or gather fermentable plants or fruit
4. Place an order at the Still to "Brew drink from plant" or "Brew drink from fruit"

If you set one of your dwarves as a "manager" in the Nobles menu, you can set a work order to maintain a stock of drinks, so you don't have to keep placing orders by hand.

[Guided]

isn't the type of booz dependent on the item used to make it,
for example. grain for beer, berries for wine?

[db48x]

Correct, but you just tell them to brew something and your brewer grabs whatever plant or fruit is nearest. Then you get whatever type of alcohol comes from that type of plant.

[Philtre]

Originally posted by Guided:

isn't the type of booz dependent on the item used to make it,
for example. grain for beer, berries for wine?

Yes, but any kind of drink will keep them from dying of thirst, which seems to be the OP's problem. And there are a bunch of different kinds of wine, depending on the fruit/plant used.

[Guided]

also if you have a water source you can set a zone for the dwarfs to collect water to drink, in emergencies.... :/

its not advised long term

[polle]

you need some kind of fruit or plant to make booze..
there is alot of booze in this game and dorfs make booze out of almost everything,
for quick start you can gather fruits and plants from outside but every process will need an empty barrel. so make sure you got some empty barrels about (100) an gather fruit.

[polle]

also it is impossible for a dwarf to die from absence of booze but when the water freeze in winter there is no access to freshwater and this will kill the dorf. booze does not freeze in barrel make sure you got some

[Hansgruber]

Thanks for the quick help :), I'll try it, hopefully it will work :)

So I tried it and it really works :)
Thanks again for the help ;)