Tea

[Potjeh]

Let's face it, tea sucks. Mostly because it takes up a ton of inventory space and can't be refilled when you're out in the woods. To address that, I propose two things:

Thermos bottle. Takes a glass bottle, a bar of tin and some feathers (for insulation) to craft. Holds 2l of tea and the bottle's cap doubles as a cup (abstracted so you can just drink straight out of the bottle).

Tea box. Carved out of a block of wood, maybe requires a common metal nugget for the hinges. Can hold 50 dried tea leaves, and teacrafting can draw leaves straight from it.

[niltrias]

Let's face it, tea sucks. Mostly because it takes up a ton of inventory space and can't be refilled when you're out in the woods. To address that, I propose two things:

Thermos bottle. Takes a glass bottle, a bar of tin and some feathers (for insulation) to craft. Holds 2l of tea and the bottle's cap doubles as a cup (abstracted so you can just drink straight out of the bottle).

Tea box. Carved out of a block of wood, maybe requires a common metal nugget for the hinges. Can hold 50 dried tea leaves, and teacrafting can draw leaves straight from it.

I havent had tea even once since the map reset. It needs some kinda boost, certainly.
That said, I dont like the Thermos, it is a bit too far out of era to make sense. The tea-box idea I like more...especially if you grind up the tea leaves, then have a recipe that requires ground tea, clay mug, and water...essentially making a cuppa where ever you go, from your tea box and your canteen.

[Potjeh]

OK, the thermos bottle is silly, but it's the first thing that came to mind when I thought about condensing teapot and cup into a single inventory slot.

[niltrias]

I think your basic idea about making tea more transportable is solid. I was just pointing out a possible way to diversify the use of tea:

Industrial use-> needs teapots and cauldrons. 1 tea leaf creates .6 tea, likely of hiq because of ported hiq water.

Transient use-> needs only a mug, or possibly a quern to get started. 1 tea leaf creates .2 tea, likely of low q because of surrounding water.

[Potjeh]

Now that you mention it, I always make my tea directly in the cup IRL

[kimya]

if tea and not water made you hungry, people would drink tea... and the q should matter too, obviously...

[Potjeh]

Dunno, I think that the no hunger thing would be nifty when you're out hunting, especially if you're working on some stat you can't get from roasted meat.

[kimya]

but then you could drink water...

[Potjeh]

Yeah, but that would be a bit too cheap, I think.

[kimya]

yea true...