Expand on Juices

[PineReseen]

In my opinion, juices are a very nice mechanic. You can expand a fruit's lifetime by juicing it, and also compress all that storage space space into one barrel, however, currently juices seem... shallow.

Basically, you juice your cranberries, then either drink them or make them into alcohol. Sure, there's brandy and all that, but that's basically it. It would be great if we could do something more, like make some meals with juice? I'm pretty sure berries do have sucrose or some sugar like that in them, so maybe we could concentrate the juice and make sweetened meals for more saturation? Perhaps concentrated juice (made from boiling off water in juice) could be a substitute for jam-making, or honey in general?

It'd be great to have more options regarding what to do with juices. Thanks for reading!

[The Lerf]

If you haven't discovered it already, the mod duo Expanded Foods and A Culinary Artillery will provide you with the addition of syrups for your game. 

I do think that vanilla VS would benefit from allowing fruit juice to be a substitute for honey in jam making though. For me, honey is usually found in the mid-game/ second year, and so I usually don't ever make jams because I get my fruit saturation from convenience foraging for berries during exploration or alcohols/tree fruit. 

Jams are simple though. A large portion of juice per serving of jam can represent reducing the juice during cooking, and it could have less satiety than if you used honey, in order to balance out having only used one type of ingredient. 

I think this would help with early game fruit preservation for winter. For me, if I don't find bees, I usually have to watch my fruit satiety drop to zero over the first winter. It also creates a bit of a decision tree on what to do with fruit for preservation. Once it gets juiced, you can only turn it into alcohols.

[Heegrim]

On 3/16/2026 at 11:53 AM, The Lerf said:

I do think that vanilla VS would benefit from allowing fruit juice to be a substitute for honey in jam making though. For me, honey is usually found in the mid-game/ second year, and so I usually don't ever make jams because I get my fruit saturation from convenience foraging for berries during exploration or alcohols/tree fruit. 

Jams are simple though. A large portion of juice per serving of jam can represent reducing the juice during cooking, and it could have less satiety than if you used honey, in order to balance out having only used one type of ingredient. 

I think this would help with early game fruit preservation for winter. For me, if I don't find bees, I usually have to watch my fruit satiety drop to zero over the first winter. It also creates a bit of a decision tree on what to do with fruit for preservation. Once it gets juiced, you can only turn it into alcohols.

Yeah it is easier to craft a fruit press than finding bees sometimes. It just makes sense to be able to make jam from juice and berries.