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Distilling question

Has anyone figured out how many potato, corn or grain it takes to make hooch?

Posted 13 months ago by Tat2 Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I think if I remember correctly its 490 grain. I think the potatos and corn are worth the same amount as 4 grain...one could be worth 3. I dont remember, I did it last night. I could calculate it but its too early to be doing that. :P 

    Of course the 490 grain, would be the amount to completely fill the machine.
    Posted 13 months ago by Popcorn☺ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 500 grain completely fills the machine, but 10 are left unused. I haven't tried it with potatoes or corn, so I don't know about that.
    Posted 13 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • By the way, a full distiller makes 35 hooch, so 490/35 = 14 grain per hooch.
    Posted 13 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It takes 14 grain or 2 potatoes or 2 corn to make 1 hooch. So basically, 14c worth of goods make 1 hooch.
    Posted 13 months ago by Knitomaton Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You can add 500 grain to a still, how many potatoes can you add?
    Posted 13 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The still holds 500 "units" worth of grain/potato/corn. One grain is equal to one unit. One potato  is equal to 7 units. One corn is equal to 6 units.

    500 / 7 = 71 potatoes, with a little room left over.

    (Updated for corn correctness.)
    Posted 13 months ago by Knitomaton Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Actually, it takes a few more corns than potatoes to fill the still.  They aren't equal.
    Posted 13 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Even with only some players having achieved the fairly easy-to-learn Distilling skill, hooch prices are cratering, already hitting marks below the old vendor price of 10c.   If you have AK7 you can get 10 grain from a chicken every time you squeeze it, making the harvest of 500 grain almost effortless.  Since such a person can run 2 or 3 stills and the still runs while they're doing other activities, I predict that we will all be absolutely awash in hooch in no time.  What's more, 14 grain = 1 hooch = 1 favor, while 10 grain = 1 favor.   Eventually only people who need hooch for drinks or potions will produce it, hoping that some of their excess finds a bit of traction in the auction house. 
    Posted 13 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • According to the wiki:
    grain=1unit
    corn=6units
    potato=7units
    which makes sense as those are the price/energy for each item

    www.glitch-strategy.com/wik...
    Posted 13 months ago by Harley Davidson Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for the correction! I have only used grain and potatoes, so was going off of what someone else said. Now my mental corn calculations are updated!
    Posted 13 months ago by Knitomaton Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Does it produce hooch at the same rate regardless of what you put in it?
    Posted 13 months ago by happyfire Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes, happyfire
    Posted 13 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 WalruZ

    I love being able to make hooch but it's too easy. Maybe if grain, potatoes and corn made a different sort of alcohol each, or it took longer to distill, it would make more sense overall. (But then maybe my view on having lots of hooch will change once I finish learning Tincturing!)
    Posted 13 months ago by Nyx Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Even with Tincturing, I am producing far far more Hooch than I can use, simply because Herb production is so agonizingly slow. Guano fixes growth time, but the yields are still much to low to match the speed of Hooch production.
    Posted 13 months ago by Whym Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes, some folks that grow herbs are needed to show up that aren't tincturing or stockpiling for it.
    Posted 13 months ago by Pasquali Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have multiple stills going, but only because I drink what I don't blend or tincture and nothing beats a night in Hell like 48 jugs of hooch and some stew...
    Posted 13 months ago by MrVolare Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I hope we can eventually use rice in there to make sake!
    Posted 13 months ago by Epilady Subscriber! | Permalink
  • But Hooch also goes in several higher-end cocktails, so I don't think its "rarity" needs to be comparable to herbs.

    Just wait if all the alchemists can't make their Flaming Humbabas anymore :D
    Posted 13 months ago by Wrenlet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • can someone take your still while you are waiting on your hooch to brew?  My still just disappeared and it was fully loaded with grain and making hooch
    Posted 13 months ago by Zelda Rocks Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That sucks zelda, i use my house for nefarious activities!
    Posted 13 months ago by OL. Der Dan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Good idea OL.  I'll do that next time.
    Posted 13 months ago by Zelda Rocks Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like your idea Nyx. I was think along the same lines (and mainly uses a combo of corn tats, and grain in batches) Woochi wants a bottle of cherry cordial!
    Posted 12 months ago by Woochi Subscriber! | Permalink