The Vineyard
The Vineyard lies west of your house, across a broken bridge. Larry points it out when you first look over your garden: “Looks like they grew grapes there. Probably for wine.” Up top you grow grapes and hops on vine trellises and keep bees. Underneath is a cellar, and it matters more than the vineyard itself: every drink in the game is brewed or pressed there.
The bridge
Repair the bridge with a hammer: 4 Wooden Planks, 1 Polished Bronze and 4 Pieces of stone, Building mastery 2. The repair itself needs no technology, but Polished Bronze does (Bronze Polishing).
Up top
| Build | Technology | What for |
|---|---|---|
| Vine Trellis (5 Sticks, 3 Peat) | Vineyard | Grows Grapes and Hops; nothing else will grow on a trellis |
| Beehive | Beekeeping | Honey |
| Gardener Stand and the Grapes and Hops tablets | Zombie Vineyard | A zombie plants and harvests the trellises for you |
| Porter Station | Zombie Vineyard | A zombie carries grapes, hops and honey down to the cellar |
| Vineyard Upgrade | Vineyard Improvement | Repairs the vineyard and raises how well the trellises grow, from 6 to 11 |
How the trellises grow, and why the upgrade’s promised speed-up does nothing, is on the Farming page.
The cellar
A stair leads down from the vineyard. The four drink stations can be built only here:
| Station | Technology | Makes |
|---|---|---|
| Vine Press | Cold Pressing | Apple, berry, blueberry and grape juice from 6 fruit and an empty bottle |
| Fermentation Barrel | Cider Brewery | Cider from juice |
| Brewing Stand | Brewing or Mead Making | Beer from 5 hops, Mead from 5 honey, and Soldier’s ale |
| Wine Barrel | Winemaking | Wine from 4 grape juice, in the grapes’ quality |
The cellar also opens onto the underground. Two blockages lead from it to the Factory; clearing the one next to the factory hall counts as finding the factory, and clearing both unlocks a Porter Station that carries the cellar’s beer and wine onto the factory’s drinks pallet.
Notes
- No cellar, no drinks of your own. Beer, mead, cider, juice and wine have no other recipe anywhere. You can buy some: beer from Januarius, and beer, cider, mead and wine from the town’s Brewery and Tavern stalls once built. Juice is never sold.
- Wine keeps the grapes’ quality. Juice from ★3 grapes makes ★3 wine, which is what the monks at the Royal Foundry ask for.