Vines and Wine

Vines and Wine

Find wild vines, grow your own vineyard, stomp the harvest barefoot — and pour a wine worth a saga.

Vines and Wine adds a whole winemaking craft to Valheim: three grape varieties hidden around the world, vineyards on trellises, a wine press you stomp in with your friends, fermentation, aging — and 24 wines to discover, from a simple Meadow wine to Freyja's Tears, which can cheat death once. No recipe is handed to you: taste, experiment, and hunt for the notes old winemakers left in chests across the tenth world.

The vines

| Grape | Where it grows wild | | --- | --- | | Pale grapes | By abandoned farms, villages and lonely houses in the Meadows | | Dark grapes | On the stone walls of ruined towers in the Black Forest | | Sun grapes | At Fuling camps in the Plains | | Vineberry Cluster | The vanilla Ashlands berry — it goes into the press too; its own growing is unchanged |

Pick a bunch to eat on the road, or bring cuttings home — they fall from wild vines, and Greydwarf shamans sometimes carry a dark one grown into them. Plant a cutting by a trellis: the vine grows with the days of the world, even while you are away, and gives an extra bunch in its native lands.

From grape to goblet

1. Press. Load 12, 24 or 36 fruits into the big wooden vat, take off your boots and stomp — run, jump, or bring

friends to finish the batch faster.

1. Ferment. Two in-game days in a fermentation barrel turn the must into an unknown wine. You see what it was

made of, its colour and a few aroma notes — but not what it is.

1. Taste. The first sip reveals the wine's name and effect — for you alone.
2. Age. Rest a vessel in an aging barrel to earn ★, ★★ and ★★★: every effect lasts longer and hits harder — the

useful, the playful and the harmful alike.

24 wines — and a few ways to fail

• 10 wines that speed up stamina, health or eitr regeneration.
• 11 special wines. The right additives in the press give each one a trait no mead has: staying dry in the rain, a

wider view of the map, a farmer's luck, a second chance from Freyja… The wrong additive spoils the batch.

• 3 playful wines for good company.
• 8 kinds of spoiled wine, from nausea to darkened eyes — you only find out which by tasting. Stars mean aging, not

safety.

Ingredients and ratios are deliberately left out of this page.

The Winemaker's Table

• A shared recipe book. Build a winemaker's table and, like at a cartography table, write down the wines you know

and read what others have discovered. Each table keeps its own book; while the book has records, the hammer can't dismantle the table.

• Leaf through it with your movement keys (A/D by default), the arrow keys or the mouse wheel — LB/RB on a gamepad.

Each of the 24 wines has a page. A wine that is neither in the book nor in your journal stays grey: it shows only which lands it belongs to and the notes bound to it.

• Recipes in chests. Recipe books and winemaker's notes turn up in the chests of dungeons, ruins, camps and

shipwrecks — in the lands where you can already gather everything for that wine; sometimes from the lands before, rarely from the next. The notes are riddles and fragments left by three voices: Thorolf the vintner, Aud the seeress and Bjarni the skald. Put the pieces together, and finish by experiment whatever they don't tell you yet.

• The craft, page by page. Notes about the vines and the craft turn into the book's first chapter — a guide from a

wild vine to an aged wine, found one by one as you explore.

Installation & multiplayer