Add Sugarcane

[Calecute]

I feel sugarcane is a remarkably appropriate crop for this game.

Processing sugarcane into sugar engages with various gameplay elements with lots of byproducts that also do. You got to extract the juice with a powered presser (historically usually animal powered, but sometimes it was wind or water powered), the leftover is usually used as fuel. The juice, which can be drinked, but spoils very quickly, is then treated with lime to purify it, and the impurities skimmed of it and then boiled in a copper pan to thicken. The thickened juice, which can be left to dry to make a kind of hard candy, is then transfered to a clay vessel with a small opening on the bottom covered with straw, and left to drain. It solidifies into brown sugar, with molasses draining from it. The molasses can be eaten of used for cooking, but also are commonly fermented with water and further distilled into rum(mainly because fermented molasses spoil really quickly). Brown sugar itself can be further refined into white sugar by dilluting brown sugar into water, chemically treating it (frequently with blood! It was hardcore alchemy stuff), and re thickening it and draining more molasses from it.

The hard candy could be a long lasting source of fruit nutrition, the molass a honey substitute, and good for alcohol, sugar could be used for cooking, but as it also had some alchemical and medicinal uses it could be used for more things as the herbs alchemy and medicine systems develop, be something like a more advanced honey in this use case. 

[DUCATISLO]

add God damm sea salt making too why do we have to find halite rocks when we have the OCEAN!!!