Difference between revisions of "Beer Brewing Automation"

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Beer Brewing Automation is a multiple level skill from the School of Body allowing one to brew Beer without having to be near the beer kettle for every stage of the brewing.
One must first learn Beer Brewing Science, which is learned automatically upon barrelling a beer after the release of this skill.

Tuition

At School of Body

Level 0: 100 Candles, 5 Rope✓
- Allows 1 ingredient to be scheduled
Level 1: 250 Candles, 15 Rope✓
- Allows 2 ingredients to be scheduled
Level 2: 500 Candles, 40 Rope✓
- Allows 3 ingredients to be scheduled
Level 3: 1000 Candles, 70 Rope✓
- Allows 4 ingredients to be scheduled
Level 4: 25 Glass Rods✓
- Allows to set a sealing timer, with an Hour Glass

Use

Scheduling Ingredient Addition

Click the "Beer" button, and then click again to refresh the window and show the "Schedule" menu
Each scheduled step requires 1 Candle and 1 Rope, plus the ingredients.
- After indicating the ingredient and the quantity, you must set the time, "After how many seconds". Please note that the prompt should read "At how many 12 second ticks remaining".
Once the item is scheduled to be added, it is removed from your inventory. The schedule can be reviewed before the brewing process is started.
Before brewing has started, there is also the option to "Reset" the schedule. Scheduled ingredients are returned to the player's inventory (but not candle and rope).

Examples

To calculate the number to enter when the interface asks "After how many seconds?", take the number of seconds left on the timer and divide by 12.

Enter 100 to add the ingredients with 100 ticks remaining, at 1200 seconds, for ingredients added at the Start.
Enter 50 to add the ingredients with 50 ticks remaining, at 600 seconds.
Enter 5 to add the ingredients with 5 ticks remaining, at 60 seconds.
Enter 1 to add the ingredients with 1 tick remaining, at 12 seconds, for ingredients added at the Finish.

Scheduling Seal Times

Requires a Sand Timer, (made from an Hour Glass, at a crafting bench, with the Art of the Pipe skill), and Level 4 Beer Brewing Automation
The timer counts in seconds, from the very beginning of the brewing process
- You need to calculate the number of seconds from when you hit "Start" until the kettle is sealed.
The interface will show that the kettle is sealed as soon as the fermentation stage begins. This is to prevent the player from manually clicking the "Seal" button and confusing the microbes.
The sand timer must be of Quality 3000 to be usable (but even then fairly worthless), and will be usable up to (Quality/3)+300 Seconds from the start. Thus, usable timers range from 1300 seconds (from an Hour Glass of Q3000) to 3633 seconds (from an hourglass of Q9999).
- Most likely you will want a Quality >= 6900 (1000 s seal time).

What Quality do I need (Math)

Brewing (20 minutes) -- Ingredients added, would not seal. -> 1200 seconds Fermentation (40 minutes = 2400 seconds)

Seal at 1000 -> (1200 + (2400 - 1000) = 2600) therefore you'd need 2600 seconds on the timer, requiring (2600 = 1/3 Q + 300 -> 2300 = 1/3 Q -> Q = Q6900)
Seal at 750 -> (1200 + (2400 - 750) = 2850) therefore you'd need 2850 seconds on the timer, requiring (2850 = 1/3 Q + 300 -> 2550 = 1/3 Q -> Q = Q7650)
Seal at 0 -> (1200 + (2400 - 0)) = 3600 therefore you'd need 3600 seconds on the timer, requiring (3600 = 1/3 Q + 300 -> 3300 = 1/3 Q - > Q= Q9900)

Examples

For a seal time of 2100, instruct the Sand Timer to seal after 1500 seconds. To get this figure add together:
- 1200 seconds for the brewing stage plus
- 300 seconds into the fermentation stage (the difference between 2400 and the seal time of 2100)
For a seal time of 1600, instruct the Sand Timer to seal after 2000 seconds. 1200 + (2400 - 1600) = 2000
For a seal time of 950, instruct the Sand Timer to seal after 2650 seconds. 1200 + (2400 - 950) = 2650
For a seal time of 756, instruct the Sand Timer to seal after 2844 seconds. 1200 + (2400 - 756) = 2844

Observations

Tale 9

Q7633 Hour Glass --> Sand Timer, Max Timer 2844 --> Seal Times from 2400 to 756 seconds.

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+Beer Brewing Automation is a multiple level skill from the '''School of Body''' allowing one to brew [[Beer]] without having to be near the beer kettle for every stage of the brewing. <br>
+One must first learn [[Beer Brewing Science]], which is learned automatically upon barrelling a beer after the release of this skill. <br>
-Beer Brewing Automation is a multiple level skill from the School of Body allowing one to brew [[Beer]] without having to be near the beer kettle for every stage of the brewing. <br>
-One must first learn [[Beer Brewing Science]], which is learned automatically upon barrelling a beer after the release of this skill. <br>
-Automated sealing of the beer kettle has not yet been discovered.
 == Tuition ==
+'''At School of Body'''
 * Level 0: 100 [[Candles]], 5 [[Rope]]<v/>
 ** Allows 1 ingredient to be scheduled
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 ** Allows 4 ingredients to be scheduled
 * Level 4: 25 [[Glass Rods]]<v/>
-** Allows to set a sealing timer
+** Allows to set a sealing timer, with an [[Hour Glass]]
 ==Use==
+===Scheduling Ingredient Addition===
 *Click the "Beer" button, and then click again to refresh the window and show the "Schedule" menu
 *Each scheduled step requires 1 [[Candle]] and 1 [[Rope]], plus the ingredients.
-**After entering in the ingredient and the quantity, you must set the time: "After how many seconds" <s>Please note that the prompt should read "At how many seconds remaining".  If you want the timer to add the finish ingredient 12 seconds from the end, do enter 12.  (in-game prompt being revised)</s> Further testing is supporting the idea that the Automation process is using Ticks, not Seconds.
+**After indicating the ingredient and the quantity, you must set the time, "After how many seconds". Please note that the prompt should read "At how many '''12 second ticks remaining'''".
-***Entering 100 will instruct it to add the ingredient when 100 ticks are remaining, or at 1200 seconds.
-***Entering 5 will instruct it to add the ingredients with 5 ticks remaining, at 60 seconds.
-***Entering 1 will instruct it to add the ingredients with 1 tick remaining, at 12 seconds.
-***For other timings, divide the number of seconds remaining by 12.
 *Once the item is scheduled to be added, it is removed from your inventory.  The schedule can be reviewed before the brewing process is started.
-*Before brewing has started, there is also the option to "Reset" the schedule.  Materials are returned to the player's inventory.
+*Before brewing has started, there is also the option to "Reset" the schedule.  Scheduled ingredients are returned to the player's inventory (but not candle and rope).
+====Examples====
+To calculate the number to enter when the interface asks "After how many seconds?", take the number of seconds left on the timer and divide by 12.
+*Enter 100 to add the ingredients with 100 ticks remaining, at 1200 seconds, for ingredients added at the Start.
+*Enter 50 to add the ingredients with 50 ticks remaining, at 600 seconds.
+*Enter 5 to add the ingredients with 5 ticks remaining, at 60 seconds.
+*Enter 1 to add the ingredients with 1 tick remaining, at 12 seconds, for ingredients added at the Finish.
+===Scheduling Seal Times===
+*Requires a Sand Timer, (made from an Hour Glass, at a crafting bench, with the Art of the Pipe skill), and Level 4 Beer Brewing Automation
+*The timer counts in seconds, from the very beginning of the brewing process
+**You need to calculate the number of seconds from when you hit "Start" until the kettle is sealed.
+*The interface will show that the kettle is sealed as soon as the fermentation stage begins.  This is to prevent the player from manually clicking the "Seal" button and confusing the microbes.
+*The sand timer must be of Quality 3000 to be usable (but even then fairly worthless), and will be usable up to '''''(Quality/3)+300''''' Seconds from the start. Thus, usable timers range from 1300 seconds (from an Hour Glass of Q3000) to 3633 seconds (from an hourglass of Q9999).
+**Most likely you will want a Quality >= 6900 (1000 s seal time).
+==== What Quality do I need (Math) ====
+Brewing (20 minutes) -- Ingredients added, would not seal.  -> 1200 seconds
+Fermentation (40 minutes = 2400 seconds)
+*Seal at 1000 -> (1200 + (2400 - 1000) = 2600)  therefore you'd need 2600 seconds on the timer, requiring (2600 = 1/3 Q + 300 -> 2300 = 1/3 Q -> Q = Q6900)
+*Seal at 750 -> (1200 + (2400 - 750) = 2850)  therefore you'd need 2850 seconds on the timer, requiring (2850 = 1/3 Q + 300 -> 2550 = 1/3 Q -> Q = Q7650)
+*Seal at 0 -> (1200 + (2400 - 0)) = 3600  therefore you'd need 3600 seconds on the timer, requiring (3600 = 1/3 Q + 300 -> 3300 = 1/3 Q - > Q= Q9900)
+====Examples====
+*For a seal time of 2100, instruct the Sand Timer to seal after 1500 seconds.  To get this figure add together:
+**1200 seconds for the brewing stage plus
+**300 seconds into the fermentation stage (the difference between 2400 and the seal time of 2100)
+*For a seal time of 1600, instruct the Sand Timer to seal after 2000 seconds.  1200 + (2400 - 1600) = 2000
+*For a seal time of 950, instruct the Sand Timer to seal after 2650 seconds.  1200 + (2400 - 950) = 2650
+*For a seal time of 756, instruct the Sand Timer to seal after 2844 seconds.  1200 + (2400 - 756) = 2844
 ==Observations==
-I have observed very slightly different beer results when using automatic brewing vs adding ingredients manually at as close to the same time as I can manage - interested to see if this happens for others, as well, and what it might imply about how brewing actually works. (Somebob)
-I brewed a recipe with barley the usual way and got good results.  I brewed with the timer and got very bad results.  After playing with a beer calculator, I discovered that it is likely that the time we instruct it to add the ingredient matches the countdown timer instead of the time elapsed since the brewing started (Peacefulness)
-When scheduling the addition of Wheat, I got very strange results.  Running more tests.  (Peacefulness 01 Jan 2019)
+===Tale 9===
+Q7633 Hour Glass --> Sand Timer, Max Timer 2844 --> Seal Times from 2400 to 756 seconds.
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