Fermenting Barrel

The fermenting barrel is a crafting station used to make alcoholic beverages.

Usage
The fermenting barrel has a gui with six slots, there is a 2x2 crafting grid in the centre, for putting in ingredients, there is a slot at the left side for placing a bucket of water, which is required for any recipe, and there is a slot on the right side for placing a bottle, which will eventually become the resulting item. The process is not instantaneous, the player must wait a while before the product is made.

The disposition of items in the crafting grid has no effect on the results.

Possible beverages and ingredients

 * Ale: requires four wheat


 * Mead: requires two honey
 * Fine Mead: requires two honey and one enchanted apple
 * Egyptian Beer: requires two bread, one honey and one date
 * Pulque: requires four cactus green

All of these beverages will give the drunk status effect, which gives nauseous and resistant effects to players for 30 seconds. They also give some nutritional value and significant saturation. The Egyptian beer, however, will get you drunk for half the time and is considerably nutritious.

Notes and Trivia

 * The fermenting barrel has a rare chance of spawning four rabbits around it. This is a reference to the 400 rabbits from Aztec mythology, considered gods of alcohol. To be "as drunk as 400 rabbits" was a common saying in Aztec society
 * Egyptian beer was in reality also made to be more nutritious than intoxicating. In Ancient Egypt, beer was more of a broth or a soup than an alcoholic beverage. In fact, because the Nile wasn't the cleanest of water source, and rain wasn't always abundant, it was safer to drink beer than actual water. The workers who built the pyramids were paid in part in beer, being served 4 to 5 litres of it a day.
 * Having an amethyst gem or an amethyst ring in one's inventory will protect the player from drunkenness, but will keep the resistance. This is a reference to a common ancient Greek superstition that amethyst protected people from drunkenness. The Greeks would often engrave amethysts to the side of their drinking cups thinking it prevented excessive drunkenness. In fact, the world amethyst comes from the Greek a- "not" and methyskein "make drunk".