-Trouble Brewing-

 

Homage to the most underrated minigame that is still being played.

 

 

 

Is there a Minigame out there? One which has some quest and skill requirements? One that will only have people playing it that have gone through the effort to get there? One that requires more teamwork then any other game? One that is so diverse, that even the highest levels that play it for the first time, are completely confused?

 

 

 

There is.

 

 

 

It can be found on Mos le'Harmless. And to get there easily, you can simply buy a bottle of Harmless Rum for merely 20 pesos (pesos = Pieces of Eight), a reward from the minigame itself. Drink it, and you appear right outside the game.

 

 

 

So what do you do?

 

Well, make alchohol, what else :)

 

Tip It has a fine guide on the entire game, which is well worth the read.

 

Although there is lots of jobs to do, some are more important then others.

 

Usually getting Colored Water, along with getting the Monkey Bitternuts is the bottleneck of the entire rum production.

 

To have the best production possible, you should have constantly enough ingredients for the next bottle (atleast 3 logs under each boiler, 1 sweetgrub, 1 scrapey bark, 1 bitternut, 3 colored water, and 5 buckets of water)

 

 

 

Some people find it neccisary to burn bridges and the rum instalations. This isnt needed at all. You stand to gain nothing but firemaking experience, and the other team only loses. Your time is better spend gathering ingredients to help the team. Or, once there are enough ingredients, tons of buckets of water for your own pesos.

 

 

 

You produce about 1 bottle a minute regardless, so the sooner you start producing, the more rum you make, and the more pesos you and your team gets in the end.

 

 

 

So all this difficult stuff, what are the rewards? What can I buy with these pesos?

 

Well next to working in a team, you can buy all kinds of naval clothing and piratical flags, as well as level 2 Clue Scrolls. But personally I go there for 'The Stuff'.

 

 

 

'The Stuff' is an extra ingredient used in Brewing (added just before the main ingredients, and after the water and barley). These allow for my brews to come out matured about half the time. I'll list what some of the mature brews give for stat boosters:

 

 

 

Chefs Delight: +7.5% cooking (normal gives +5%)

 

Dwarven Stout: +2 mining and +2 smithing (normal gives +1 each)

 

Axemans Folly: +2 woodcutting (normal gives +1)

 

Greenmans Ale: +2 herblore (normal gives +1)

 

Wizards Mind Bomb: +4 or +5 magic (normal gives +2 or +3)

 

 

 

to name a few.

 

 

 

It also reduces the chance greatly of any brew ending up as bad ale. I have been using 'The Stuff' since it came out, and I have had only 7 batches of bad ale so far (out of what must be 90+ by now).

 

 

 

Some uses of the ales are quite obvious, but did you know that a single glass of Mature Chefs Delight can get you 20k-45k on the forums? Regular will get you 10k-20k. And if you make a Chefs Delight barrel (flatpacked), it wil easily get you 100k as well as a nice bonus construction xp.

 

 

 

Thinking Potions are better because they have more doses? WRONG again...

 

 

 

If you manage to get your hands on some Calquat tree seeds and can plant it, you can collect quite a bunch of Calquat. These hold 4 drinks of beers. All you need is 1 beerglass to fill up and drink it. So effectivly, you use 1 more invent spot, but the stat boost gained is greater then that of a potion.

 

 

 

So come on down to the ole Rum Factory on world 104, and have some fun with us. The more people are there, the more jobs can be done at the same time, the more rum produced, and so, the more pesos everyone gets.

 

 

 

[EDIT]I COMPLETELY forgot to add the world that his game is played on:

 

WORLD 104[/EDIT]

pretty good... makes me wanna come down there.... oh wait... i dont have 40 farming... nvm.

I have phasmatys flag. :3>

Yeah the requirements are pretty tough, hence only the leetest will go there...

 

 

 

Quests:

 

Cabin Fever

 

Rum Deal

 

Pirates Treasure

 

Zogre Flesh Eaters

 

Jungle Potion

 

Big Chompy Bird Hunting

 

Druidic Ritual

 

 

 

Skills:

 

42 Agility

 

45 Crafting

 

50 Smithing

 

40 Ranged

 

40 Farming

 

50 Fishing

 

47 Prayer

 

42 Slayer

 

8 Herblore

 

20 Strength

 

30 Fletching

 

30 Cooking

 

 

 

And 72 Farming for the Calquat (or 70 with Cider, or 69 with Mature Cider)

Yeah the requirements are pretty tough, hence only the leetest will go there...

 

 

 

Quests:

 

Cabin Fever

 

Rum Deal

 

Pirates Treasure

 

Zogre Flesh Eaters

 

Jungle Potion

 

Big Chompy Bird Hunting

 

Druidic Ritual

 

 

 

Skills:

 

42 Agility

 

45 Crafting

 

50 Smithing

 

40 Ranged

 

40 Farming

 

50 Fishing

 

47 Prayer

 

42 Slayer

 

8 Herblore

 

20 Strength

 

30 Fletching

 

30 Cooking

 

 

 

LOL>.... only thing i dont have is the farming.... cant stand farming... lvl 9 farming ftw :P

I only have the red naval top and bottom clothes, maybe I should go get the red naval hat to... :-k

The game always did look fun but it's so far away! It looks fairly intricate and thus would be a put off to more people.

Hmm, never tried the game. Maybe I should give it a go. Is there a world (official or not) for the game?

 

 

 

Nvm, found the info. World 104 apparently, for those who wondered.

The game always did look fun but it's so far away! It looks fairly intricate and thus would be a put off to more people.

 

 

 

Its not THAT far away. You can go to Moss le'Harmless via the charter system, and drink a bottle of rum you can buy right there.

The game always did look fun but it's so far away! It looks fairly intricate and thus would be a put off to more people.

 

 

 

Its not THAT far away. You can go to Moss le'Harmless via the charter system, and drink a bottle of rum you can buy right there.

 

 

 

MY LIVER!!! IT BURNS!!

Some people find it neccisary to burn bridges and the rum instalations. This isnt needed at all. You stand to gain nothing but firemaking experience, and the other team only loses. Your time is better spend gathering ingredients to help the team. Or, once there are enough ingredients, tons of buckets of water for your own pesos.

 

Oh how I wish everyone understood this..

 

 

 

This game really is fun, and it is decent crafting/firemaking/cooking experience, especially if you make 15+ rums a game.

 

 

 

Freshwacka, ill have that flag soon :evil:

Some people find it neccisary to burn bridges and the rum instalations. This isnt needed at all. You stand to gain nothing but firemaking experience, and the other team only loses. Your time is better spend gathering ingredients to help the team. Or, once there are enough ingredients, tons of buckets of water for your own pesos.

 

Oh how I wish everyone understood this..

 

 

 

I know, burning bridges hurts both the enemy team and your team. If you want to burn something of the enemy, burn something where it hurts, especialy the hoppers.

The game always did look fun but it's so far away! It looks fairly intricate and thus would be a put off to more people.

 

 

 

Its not THAT far away. You can go to Moss le'Harmless via the charter system, and drink a bottle of rum you can buy right there.

 

 

 

MY LIVER!!! IT BURNS!!

 

 

 

Actually, its for blue:

 

MY LIVER! I FEEL IT SMELTING!

 

 

 

and for red rum:

 

ARGHH! IT TASTES LIKE BURNING!

It's a decent mini game, got my black naval shirt and the pants there. Not sure if I may return though, finding people to play with was horrible (even on world 104), and i'm not too interested in anything else.

It's a decent mini game, got my black naval shirt and the pants there. Not sure if I may return though, finding people to play with was horrible (even on world 104), and i'm not too interested in anything else.

 

 

 

It is one of the reasons i made this post...

 

 

 

I wish more people would play this awesome minigame :)

Hmm, I might check it out sometime, I wanna get that black naval bottom and top :)

I spent a couple of days there... I thought it was going to be boring but it was actually quite fun, Full Black Naval :D

Am i the only one down there for 'The Stuff' ?

Some uses of the ales are quite obvious, but did you know that a single glass of Mature Chefs Delight can get you 20k-45k on the forums? Regular will get you 10k-20k. And if you make a Chefs Delight barrel (flatpacked), it wil easily get you 100k as well as a nice bonus construction xp.

 

 

 

It might be me, but I've never seen anybody selling this. (But to be honest I'm not much on trading so it's probably my fault).

 

So how big is the demand for those drinks?

The personal reward ruins the entire game cuz most ppl just bring water instead of helping the team. Couldn't stand ppl being so selfish so I only played a few rounds there (10ish).

same here, i got the black top and then got bored of people only getting the water and not caring whether we won or lost.

The drinks arent sold a lot. Usually because noone bothers to make more then what they need themselves.

 

 

 

As for the water only:

 

You could only get 100 pesos with just water, no matter how much you added.

 

Helping the team produce rum increases the max you can get (up to 100 + 2 * bottle of rums made), as well as some Firemaking, Crafting and Cooking xp.

 

 

 

So it helps it get a few bitternuts, or flowers for colored water, enough to keep production going.

Love this game. Most ppl get 100 waters for the PoE then get the other ingredients for the extra. I have all the mature ales (except Cider) thx to the stuff =)

I'm trying to like CW at the moment, but when I'm out of entangle runes I'll drop by.

I just luv this minigame, it's got a sort of warm atmosphere that castlewars or most other combat-based minigames could never produce. At least for me...

 

Full black naval outfit here :3>

 

In the future I'll go for the phasmatys flag (6000 poe) :