*** New for version 2.0.0 ***

This is a very significant update.

NOTE: You must pick up and place down existing Stills in order for them to continue working after the update.

This mod has been almost completely rewritten in order to drop all previous dependencies in favor of using Content Patcher. It has the same basic features as the previous version, as well as:

• Automatic transition from older mod items to current mod items - just place the older items in your inventory and they *should* update
• Automatic transition from older bundler modification to current - this requires no user interaction
• Bush Bloom Mod is now an optional dependency - if you aren't using it, Holly will be required instead of Juniper Berry for making Gin
• Supports i18n translations, only English for now
• Basic integration with CJB Item Spawner - you can pull correctly priced, named, and flavored items now
• Added a new Piña Colada recipe - you must have the Still recipe and have 6 hearts with Gus to receive it
• Slightly rebalanced some item prices
• Flavored items (Vodka, Gin, and Brandy) have lightly-colored sprites now
• Slightly reworked various sprites.
  

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The goal of this mod is to add more endgame variety to processing crops, beyond the typical ancient fruit or starfruit wines, without adding a huge amount of new items or complexity.

To accomplish this, the mod includes a new machine, the Still, which:

• Process wines and juices into alcohols.
• Unlocks at Farming level 9, from a letter the next day.
• Is built using 10 Copper, 5 Iron, and 1 Iridium.
• Requires 1 Coal and takes about 1 day for all operations.
  

Currently included products and processes:

• Distill 4 Wine into 1 Brandy.
• Distill 4 Juice into 1 Vodka.
• Distill 1 Vodka and 1 Juniper Berry into 1 Gin.
• Forage bushes for Juniper Berries during Fall 21-24.
• Distill 4 Cactus Fruit Wine into 1 Tequila Blanco.
• Keg Tequila Blanco into Tequila Añejo.
• Distill 4 Corn Juice into 1 Moonshine.
• Keg Moonshine into Whiskey.
• All alcohols retain the input product quality.
• All alcohols can be put in casks to improve quality.
  

New in version 1.0.3:

• Keg Unmilled Rice into Sake, replacing Unmilled Rice Juice (did anyone ever make that on purpose anyways?)
• Distill 4 Sake into 1 Soju
• Distill 4 Beet Juice into 1 White Rum
• Keg White Rum into Dark Rum
  

New in version 1.0.6:

• Moved Juniper Berry logic to Bush Bloom Mod in order to increase compatibility with other mods.
  

Sake mimics Beer and Pale Ale both by having a higher than typical price given the input product, and by replacing the base crop Juice.
Each of these operations yield a minor or major product value improvement. In the base game, juices are significantly less profitable than wines so this mod uses a large multiplier when processing juices in order to allow them to compete with wines. If you are using another mod that balances crop prices, enable this mod's option "Adjust for Balanced Prices" in order to use the same multiplier when processing both juices and wines. This is handled automatically in v1.0.1! If you are using another mod that balances crop prices, this mod will appropriately adjust it's multipliers to keep everything in line.

Since these processes essentially concentrate 4 wine or juice into a single product, this also means you need less casks overall to increase your product quality. Simply put the final product in your casks. It takes a full season to age from normal quality to iridium quality, the same as wine.

The end result is that Tequila, Whiskey, and Gin are reasonable alternatives to Ancient Fruit or Starfruit Wine. Brandy keeps the same overall profit-per-day ratio as Wine, but still benefits from the improved cask usage.

Lastly, if no other mod has made changes to The Missing bundle, this mod will swap the silver-quality Wine for a silver-quality Brandy.

Source: ncarigon/StardewValleyMods (github.com)

My mods:
Copper Still
Garden Pot - Automate
Passable Crops
Bush Bloom Mod
Ore Berries