Drunkenness

Drinking an alcoholic brew raises your drunkenness. A perfect wheatbeer can add 5 alcohol points; whiskey can add 26; strong absinthe can add 42. Moonshine and Starfall Elixir can each add 40. The amount varies with quality and, for distilled drinks, how many runs you complete. A drink can also have its own effect, separate from alcohol. Check the bottle before you serve it.

As drunkenness rises, you may stumble, feel sick or see your chat come out garbled. At high levels, you may retch and leave a brief patch of soul sand on the ground. The server does not kick you for drinking too much while you are playing, though extreme drunkenness can make reconnecting take more than one try.

Sobering up

Your drunkenness drops over time. Bread lowers it by 4 points and a milk bucket by 2. A perfect coffee can lower it by 6 points and iced coffee by 8. Honey Milk can lower it by 2, Skeleton's Milk by 4, and Morning Mercy by 20. The amount from each bottle depends on its quality; Morning Mercy also needs its distilling run. Water bottles are not a sobriety shortcut here.

Some drinks offer useful effects even without alcohol: coffee can grant speed and regeneration, and hot chocolate can aid mining. Root Beer grants Jump Boost, while Meadow Tea grants Regeneration. Other recipes can add effects such as poison, weakness, nausea or brief levitation. Quality can change how strongly a recipe's effects land, so two bottles with the same name need not feel identical. The menu lists each drink's alcohol and effects.

If you are heading into a fight or setting off on a long trip, check your drink first. A rough landing after a strong pour is a poor way to discover what was in it.

See also

• The tavern menu — current drinks
• How to brew — make your own batch