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Replace Stout hero effect with fire resistance#209

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@Alatyami Alatyami commented Jul 11, 2026

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Summary

  • replace Stout Ale's Hero of the Village II effect with Fire Resistance I for three minutes
  • keep the Stout ingredients, output, color, and fermentation processing time unchanged
  • update the Ales and Lagers guide with the new Stout effect and clearer default grain instructions
  • document Starter Culture in Yeast and Cultures and add the first-culture workflow to the Culture Jar chapter

Rationale

Hero of the Village represents recognition for defending a village and does not make thematic sense as a portable fermented effect.

Stout requires roughly 11 minutes of machine processing and 12–15 minutes of practical player workflow for a one-bucket batch, which yields two drinks. A three-minute Fire Resistance effect matches the standard vanilla potion duration while attaching a substantially longer production cost to the early-game advantage.

Validation

  • manually confirmed the filled Stout applies Fire Resistance
  • manually reviewed the updated Patchouli pages in game
  • parsed the updated Patchouli JSON
  • ./gradlew.bat test --tests growthcraft.test.RecipeResourceTest --tests growthcraft.test.RecipeRuntimeCatalogTest -x createMinecraftArtifacts
  • ./gradlew.bat test -x createMinecraftArtifacts
  • git diff --check

Closes #192

@Alatyami Alatyami marked this pull request as ready for review July 11, 2026 22:10
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Well I'm not happy with the choice as fire resistance does have some effect on game progression - that is, we are used to not having fire resistance when we first enter Nether. We get that capability only after returning from the fortress.

I even considered FR in loot bottles and decided against it.
How about slow fall? Uncommon but does not affect gameplay much. Resistance would be on theme with the name but we have that covered at least once. Resistance III plus mining fatigue? I'd drink that before bottle. We could have two effects.

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Affecting game play is the point of all mods. Otherwise there isn't a reward for spending 15 minutes on a task to get an edge before entering the nether with 5 minutes of Fire Resistance, which in the Nether goes by fast.

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After doing a fair amount of analysis, I am going to change it to match the 3:00 from the vanilla potion. The vanilla potion takes around 1 minute to actually process in the Brew Stand, once you have the ingredients. It yields 3 potions.

While the Stout will give an edge in the nether to find your first ingredients, setting Stout to also be 3 minutes will balance out the level of effort ratio for the player. With the stout you only get two drinks per 1 bucket of processing which clocks in actually at 11 minutes.

@Alatyami Alatyami merged commit 221620d into development Jul 12, 2026
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Replace inappropriate Hero of the Village effect on Stout Ale

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