Vat
The Vat is where fluid crafting starts - it mixes a base fluid (usually Water) with raw ingredients into a fresh drink or wort, and if that result can be fermented, it'll carry straight on fermenting it too.
It comes in all 6 wood types, each crafted with 5 matching Planks and 2 Iron Ingots.
The Vat holds up to 16000mb (16 buckets) of fluid, and has 7 ingredient slots. Ingredients can get in two ways:
- Throwing items at the Vat - anything dropped within about a block of it gets automatically pulled into an empty ingredient slot.
- Placing them directly into the ingredient slots in the GUI.
The base fluid goes in through the fluid slot, using a bucket or any other fluid container - there's a Fill/Drain button that switches whether that slot is filling a held container from the tank, or draining a held container into the tank.
Hovering over the arrow between the ingredient slots and the tank shows what's currently going on. If nothing in the tank/ingredient slots matches a recipe, it just says so:
Once the fluid and ingredients match a recipe, mixing starts automatically and takes 5 seconds, with the arrow showing progress and time left:
No more ingredients can be added while it's mixing, or once there's already a finished/in-progress drink sitting in the tank - only a matching raw base fluid can still be topped up.
When mixing finishes, the ingredients are consumed and the tank's fluid turns into the recipe's output. If that fluid can be fermented, the Vat carries straight on fermenting it, same progress-style tooltip:
Alcohol only ferments twice in the Vat - once it's reached that point, leaving it sitting around longer doesn't do anything more useful, it'll start turning into vinegar instead (the tooltip switches from "Fermenting" to "Spoiling" once this starts). Move it to a Barrel once it's finished fermenting rather than leaving it in the Vat.
Slurry is left over from Distilling. If there's at least 4000mb of it sitting in the Vat, it'll slowly harden into Dirt - 1 Dirt per 4000mb, taking 30 minutes by default (adjustable by a server admin). The tooltip shows this as "Hardening" rather than "Fermenting". Once it's fully hardened, the Dirt can be collected by right-clicking the Vat.
Ingredients aren't matched by exact item - each one is matched against one or more Ore Dictionary tags, so any item any mod registers under a matching tag will work, not just the specific item shown below. Some ingredients accept more than one tag (Grapes, for example, match cropGrape, foodGrapesPurple, or foodGrapesRed), mainly for compatibility with other mods that might tag similar things differently.
A server admin can change which oreDict tags each ingredient accepts through the Config - editing a recipe's tag list there replaces the built-in defaults entirely, rather than adding to them.
Corn Wort, Rice Wort, Honey Wort, Pineapple Juice, and Banana Juice can't be made in vanilla + this mod alone - Corn, Rice, Honey, Pineapple, and Banana aren't vanilla items at all, so there's nothing to tag. These five need another mod that adds a matching item (a farming/food mod like Pam's HarvestCraft is the usual source).
| Output | Base Fluid | Ingredients (oreDict tag) |
|---|---|---|
| Coffee | 4000mb Water | 7x Coffee Beans (cropCoffee) |
| Cannabis Tea | 4000mb Water | 7x Cannabis Leaf (leafCannabis) |
| Coca Tea | 4000mb Water | 7x Coca Leaf (leafCoca) |
| Peyote Juice | 4000mb Water | 7x Dried Peyote (peyoteDried) |
| Bitter Wheat Wort | 16000mb Water (full) | 5x Wheat (cropWheat), 2x Hop Cones (cropHops) |
| Wheat Wort | 16000mb Water (full) | 7x Wheat (cropWheat) |
| Corn Wort | 16000mb Water (full) | 7x Corn (cropCorn) |
| Potato Wort | 16000mb Water (full) | 7x Potato (cropPotato) |
| Grape Juice | 16000mb Water (full) | 7x Grapes (cropGrape, foodGrapesPurple, foodGrapesRed) |
| Rice Wort | 16000mb Water (full) | 7x Rice (cropRice) |
| Honey Wort | 16000mb Water (full) | 7x Honey (dropHoney) |
| Juniper Wort | 16000mb Water (full) | 3x Juniper Berries (cropJuniperberry), 1x Sugar (listAllsugar), 2x Grapes (cropGrape, foodGrapesPurple, foodGrapesRed), 1x Wheat (cropWheat) |
| Sugarcane Wort | 16000mb Water (full) | 7x Sugar Cane (sugarcane) |
| Sweet Cider | 16000mb Water (full) | 7x Apple (cropApple, foodApple) |
| Pineapple Juice | 16000mb Water (full) | 7x Pineapple (cropPineapple) |
| Banana Juice | 16000mb Water (full) | 7x Banana (cropBanana) |
| Milk Wort | 16000mb Milk (full) | None |
Once mixed, alcoholic worts progress through the same stages - fermenting twice in the Vat, then either maturing in a Barrel, distilling in a Distillery, or both. Non-alcoholic drinks (Coffee, Cannabis Tea, Coca Tea, Peyote Juice) don't progress any further once mixed.
| Fluid | Mixed | Ferment 1 | Ferment 2 | Maturing | Distilling | Distilling & Maturing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bitter Wheat Wort | Bitter Wheat Wort | Bitter Wheat Half Wash | Green Wheat Beer | Wheat Beer | Wheat Beer | Wheat Beer |
| Wheat Wort | Wheat Wort | Wheat Half Wash | Wheat Wash | Wheat Wash | Wheat Vodka | Wheat Whisky |
| Corn Wort | Corn Wort | Corn Half Wash | Green Corn Beer | Corn Beer | Corn Vodka | Corn Whisky |
| Potato Wort | Potato Wort | Potato Half Wash | Potato Beer | Potato Beer | Potato Vodka | Poteen |
| Grape Juice | Grape Juice | Wine Half Wash | Wine Wash | Wine | Wine Brandy | Wine Brandy |
| Rice Wort | Rice Wort | Rice Half Wash | Young Rice Wine | Rice Wine | Rice Brandy | Rice Brandy |
| Honey Wort | Honey Wort | Honey Half Wash | Young Mead | Mead | Honey Brandy | Honey Brandy |
| Juniper Wort | Juniper Wort | Juniper Half Wash | Juniper Wash | Juniper Wash | Gin | Gin |
| Sugarcane Wort | Sugarcane Wort | Sugarcane Half Wash | Young Basi | Basi | Young Rum | Rum |
| Sweet Cider | Sweet Cider | Half Sweet Cider | Hard Cider | Hard Cider | Apple Brandy | Apple Brandy |
| Pineapple Juice | Pineapple Juice | Pineapple Half Wash | Young Pineapple Wine | Pineapple Wine | Pineapple Brandy | Pineapple Brandy |
| Banana Juice | Banana Juice | Banana Half Wash | Banana Beer | Banana Beer | Banana Brandy | Banana Brandy |
| Milk Wort | Milk Wort | Milk Half Wash | Blaand | Blaand | Arkhi | Arkhi |
Leaving a fully-fermented (Ferment 2) drink sitting in an open Vat too long turns it into vinegar instead of moving on to maturing/distilling - move it to a Barrel or Distillery once it gets there.
All of these timings - mixing, fermenting, distilling, maturing, and the time before turning to vinegar - can be changed per fluid by a server admin through the Config, including disabling vinegar entirely for a given fluid.