Alcohol (Im)balance: One Degenerate's Heartfelt Suggestion

[Prof Neils]

My Friends, 

Be it a testament of my love for Vintage Story, that I break from the throes of gaming hedonism in order to share my most humble of suggestions: I want to stay drunk longer.

So passionate am I about this, I did math! With a jug of wine, bucket of wine, a liter of distilled brandy, and a stopwatch. The jug (3L) got me decently drunk for about a minute of playtime (then 30 seconds of light intoxication). 1L of distilled brandy was over 3 minutes (with some noticeable effects after). For the effort, and for the verisimilitude, the laughs, and especially any multiplayer camaraderie after long days of distilling, let the good times roll!

I'm not asking for My Summer Car, where 3L of homebrew could have you drunk for the rest of the in-game day (and shaking in the morning). But should the patch notes ever read that intoxication time has been extended (especially for distilled spirits), know that you would have made this player happy.

With sincere gratitude for everything you do,

Prof 

 

[Streetwind]

Perhaps it's useful to compare the ingame timescale. At default settings, an ingame hour is two IRL minutes. So being completely smashed for over 3 IRL minutes would mean being completely smashed for 1-2 hours ingame.

[Prof Neils]

So without adding any systems for tolerance or hangovers, how long would the typical person typically stay drunk from 5-6 shots of whisky, or 22?

If it takes the body roughly an hour to process each standard drink (shot/glass of wine/beer), then it could be useful to look at the standard drinks in common packaging: 

• 1L spirits = ~22 shots
• 750ml wine = 4-5 glasses
• 0,33 beer = bottle of beer 
• Jug of Wine = YOLO

Personally, if I drank a 3L jug (18-20 large glasses?) of wine, that might be my whole day. If I'm drinking from the actual container? That is, as they say, a vibe. 

[Thorfinn]

47 minutes ago, Prof Neils said:

how long would the typical person typically stay drunk from 5-6 shots of whisky, or 22?

Dunno. 5-6 shots I might be a little tipsy at most. But legally drunk. 22? Never tried it. Closest was a 750 of Yukon Jack that I chased each swig with apple schnapps. (It seemed like a good idea at the time, OK?) It took most of the evening and I paid for it the next day and never repeated it. But definitely drunk.

Edited November 2, 2024 by Thorfinn

[Khornet]

I presume you're of drinking age, so, uh... why not just get drunk IRL and play Vintage Story?
Let me tell you from personal experience that it's... an experience...

[Thorfinn]

Just now, Khornet said:

I presume you're of drinking age, so, uh... why not just get drunk IRL and play Vintage Story?
Let me tell you from personal experience that it's... an experience...

Not really recommended in permadeath. A buzz, sure. Though with 1.20's facehuggers, you need to be a lot more alert. The second tier ones can form in caves and come pay you a visit, and they are pretty darned hard to shake unless you are in fairly thick forest. 

[Prof Neils]

On 11/2/2024 at 11:09 AM, Thorfinn said:

Dunno. 5-6 shots I might be a little tipsy at most. But legally drunk. 22? Never tried it. Closest was a 750 of Yukon Jack that I chased each swig with apple schnapps. (It seemed like a good idea at the time, OK?) It took most of the evening and I paid for it the next day and never repeated it. But definitely drunk.

And drinking from the bottle? 

Never a full one for me, and never on my own. If you stretch half a bottle out, you and a friend could stay veryyyy wobbly for an afternoon and evening. 

So in the end, the solution might be ceramic shotglasses. In the meantime, staying drunk longer than a minute feels fair! 

3 hours ago, Thorfinn said:

Not really recommended in permadeath. A buzz, sure. Though with 1.20's facehuggers, you need to be a lot more alert. The second tier ones can form in caves and come pay you a visit, and they are pretty darned hard to shake unless you are in fairly thick forest. 

Eep! 

This is why I have my covered outdoor drinking table. I might do some light metalwork or field scything drunk -- but no heavy spelunking. Not yet anyway

 

[Prof Neils]

3 hours ago, Khornet said:

I presume you're of drinking age, so, uh... why not just get drunk IRL and play Vintage Story?
Let me tell you from personal experience that it's... an experience...

I am, I do, and it very much is.

[Thorfinn]

11 hours ago, Prof Neils said:

And drinking from the bottle? 

Yep. Both bottles.

 

11 hours ago, Prof Neils said:

Never a full one for me, and never on my own. If you stretch half a bottle out, you and a friend could stay veryyyy wobbly for an afternoon and evening. 

Had a friend who immigrated from Russia shortly after the fall of the USSR. Their custom was you each bring your own bottle, and when you open it, you throw away the cap. His tolerance was such that it didn't seem to affect him much, and he would often finish most of a second bottle. He died of cirrhosis in his early 40s.

 

11 hours ago, Prof Neils said:

This is why I have my covered outdoor drinking table. I might do some light metalwork or field scything drunk -- but no heavy spelunking. Not yet anyway

That's not spelunking. That's surface travel in daylight. Don't know about full sun, but they will definitely come out to play with overcast at noon. Deep drifters, too. Don't know if that's a thing now, or if it's just for purposes of playtesting their AI more extensively. If it sticks around, it makes a lot of sense to close off all caverns in your AO, and only open them when you want to cave. Those Ugly Pluckers (have not come up with a good nickname for them yet) can take you down about half with a single volley. If I read the patch notes properly, an active shield block will completely stop it. I haven't verified that yet.