The Distillation Apparatus is a workstation that allows you to craft certain alcohols. Like the Brewery, it's an Engineering construction you place down and leave to work — but where the brewery makes beers, the apparatus distils moonshines from alcohols you feed into it. It requires wood, Coal, Wood Billets or Charcoal as fuel.
Recipe
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Type | Workstation |
| Crafting Profession (level) | Engineering (21–34) |
| Proper Workshop | Engineer's Workshop |
| Materials | 2 Quartz Glass, 20 Clay, 2 Finished Wood, 10 Chamotte |
| Recipe Acquired From | Capital City Merchant |
What it distils
This workstation creates three grades of moonshine:
- Weak Moonshine
- Moonshine
- Strong Moonshine
Moonshine is distilled from an alcohol you supply as the material — so the apparatus sits downstream of the Brewery and other drinks. Be careful what you put in: making Weak Moonshine (low tier) from Monastic Mead (high tier) is possible, but a waste of an expensive input.
Fuel & heat
Click the bellows button to heat the apparatus up. The temperature automatically decreases over time, so you'll need to return and reheat it to keep a batch running.
- Higher-quality fuels reach a higher temperature and lose heat more slowly than lower-quality fuels.
- Maintain or exceed the recipe's required temperature for crafting to continue automatically — let it drop below and the batch stalls.
- Valid fuels are wood, Wood Billets, Charcoal and Coal.
How to use the apparatus
- Right-click the apparatus in your inventory and place it on the ground — preferably in a Crafting District.
- Select what you'd like to distil, then choose a fuel.
- Click Add Materials and drag the slider to how many you want to make — it automatically pulls all available materials into the materials window.
- Right-click to remove any materials you don't want it to use — for example a high-tier alcohol you'd rather not spend on a low-tier moonshine.
- Click the bellows to bring it up to temperature and start the process.
- Once it begins working you're free to do other things; you don't have to wait at the station — just come back to top up the heat.
Placement
Like every placed workstation, where you set the apparatus down changes how fast it produces — a [Crafting District](/wiki/crafting-guides/destroying-workstations) and a loot zone both raise its speed, and stacking the two is best. Mind a loot zone, though — a workstation placed there can be looted by enemy nation players (your own nation can't touch it), so don't leave large amounts of materials inside.