[DEVBLOG#69] Vanilla Brewing Expanded - Different types of alcohol (Patreon)

Hello everyone and welcome to another development diary, this time focused on our upcoming Brewing module.

Me and Chowder have been hard at work, making sure that the mod offers a variety of unique alcohols, each with a different method of fermentation and effects upon consumption, as well as ways to profit off of those. Today we will discuss what Ambrandy is.

This is Ambrandy mush - it's made by mushing Ambrosia on a brewing bench. Once mushed, Ambrandy mush needs to be placed somewhere warm to allow it to rot.

Once rotten, Ambrandy mush turns into Ambrandy must - a resource that needs to be inserted in a special Ambrandy still.

Ambrandy still is a massive, 2x2 fermenting still made out of gold. It's incredibly expensive and valuable for all the right reasons. Ambrandy takes a long time to make in it, but the longer you have it in the still, the higher the quality of the alcohol (from poor to legendary).

Ambrandy is by far the most valuable alcohol in the RimWorld universe. Each batch creates a very small amount of those bottles, and each bottle is worth even more money based of the quality (so how much time it spent in the barrel).

That is not however it's best trait. Ambrandy gains beauty based on the time it spent fermenting too - with normal quality being as beautiful as an excellent jade sculpture. Legendary quality Ambrandy is enough to raise the beauty of any office a thousandfold. 

So Ambrandy is the alcohol you ideally want to forbid and just leave it on the shelf for people to look at. It's valuable, extremely so, but difficult to obtain as Ambrosia only sprouts as part of an event.

And now the item description:

 “Also known as “liquid sunshine” ambrandy is a double-fermented, distilled liquor of the highest calibre. Glitterworld aristocrats are known to send entire private militias to assist in shipping singular bottles. Inexplicably, this liquor is galaxy renowned to never cause the traditional negative effects of inebriation. The bottle itself is a beauty to behold, when hit with even the tiniest amount of light golden flecks are seen dancing in the liquid within, like sparks rising from a campfire.” 

I hope you enjoyed this devblog and I can't wait to show you the rest!