by Dataslycer » Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:06 am - Beer gives more hunger which is not good as it fills hunger but provides no FEP.
- Wine needs wine glass which is created from burning sand in a kiln which is easy to access. Beer needs a tankard which is created from tin, which requiring to prospecting a mine, making it less accessible to some players.
- Wine later on becomes vinegar which is used for cheese, one of the best food in the game. Beer is not useful in any other way.
- Wine grinds grapes into grape juice in a wine press and poured in a wine barrel to age into wine. The grape seeds are preserved. To make beer, you need to put wheat in an herbalist table for germinated wheat, then cooked in a kiln for malted wheat, then grinded at a quern for wheat grist, then boiled with hops to make wort before placing in a wine barrel to age into beer. In otherwords you did 3 additional steps you didn't need to do with wine while takes much longer (mostly due to herbalist tables).
The only advantage beer has over alcohol is that beer can be stored in barrels without fear of it being changed into something else making it easier to transport. Otherwise, there is almost no reason to make beer as wine does pretty much everything beer can with much more ease.
The solution that will make beer more useful is to make the tankard a symbel item that can hold beer in it with the table bonus provided dependent on the quality of the beer inside independent from the tankard quality which provides table bonus in itself. Each time, someone eats at a table, a liter of beer is drained. The solution will create the following effect
- Because the table is a highly desired feature of the game, it will be consume at a fast rate.
- It will justify the long production procedure of beer.
- People that are persistant with beer production may find their high quality beer in the barrel may be a good trade commodity even if they do not have the tankard.
- Hops would actually have a use now.
