Barrel

Barrel
Vital statistics
Size	1 x 1
Liquid Size	100 ltr
Skill(s) RequiredSpecific needed skills.<br>The default skills every hearthling starts off with, Oral Tradition, Primitive Tools & Wilderness Survival), are ignored.	Carpentry
Object(s) Required	Board x5
Repaired With	Board
Can be Lifted	Yes
Has Quality	No
Hit Points	50
Soak Value	(None)
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A barrel is a container that holds up to 100 liters of liquid, 100 kg of powder, or 10,000 seeds. See the Powders, Liquids, and Seeds category for a list.

How to Use

• To fill a barrel, left-click anything you want to put in the barrel, and right-click the barrel. You can hold shift to automatically transfer similar items.
• You can fill up a barrel with water quickly by lifting the barrel and right-clicking on a water tile. You can do this from a boat.
• You can lift the barrel and right-click containers like Tanning Tubs, Curding Tubs, Cauldrons (metal and clay) to fill them with various liquids.
• It is possible refill your waterskin by carrying a barrel of water overhead and then right clicking the barrel with your waterskin. It is also possible to mine while carrying a barrel over your head. This is useful for mining with a pickaxe in your hands since you cannot also wear a bucket.

Tips

• You can use a barrel of milk to feed baby animals if you accidentlly kill off their mother or if there is no lactating adult female present.
• Swill of varying quality can be stored in barrels for micro management of swill allocation. Additionally, they are better than bucket for averaging out swill in troughs.

Notes

• Added: Legacy 2009.
• For most stuff that can be put in a barrel or bucket, there is an Empty option. This option is not available for, for example, ashes, black pepper, cave dust, Pipestuff.

Variations

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  Ash

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  Barley flour

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  Barley/Wheat Grist

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  Batter

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  Beer

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  Birch Sap

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  Black pepper

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  Cave dust

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  Frogspawn

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  Grape juice

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  Green pigment

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  Hartshorn

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  Honey

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  Linseed oil

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  Milk from all animals

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  Opium

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  Pipestuff

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  Poppy grist

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  Purple pigment

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  Red pigment

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  Rennet

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  Hemp seeds

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  Poppy seeds

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  Slime

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  Swill

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  Tar

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  Tea

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  Vinegar

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  Water/Spring water

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  Wheat flour

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  Wine

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  Wheat/barley wort

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  Yellow pigment

Game Development

• Loose Velvet (2023-06-22)◎ >""Food Trough"s are now effectively implemented as a specific type of barrel, meaning they will present the same GUI as barrels, complete with, most importantly, an "Empty" button."

• Pocket Bundle (2023-01-17)◎ >"If you play the chord Ctrl-Shift-RMB on a barrel containing some substance, you will attempt to draw as much as possible of the substance from the barrel, rather than the normal single unit Shift-RMB would give you. Would be really cool if these chords were documented somewhere in a tooltip, or w/e(whatever)."

• Stuffed Fireplace (2021-05-09)◎ >""Barrel"s and "Cistern"s, and "Demijohn"s now present the full tooltip for their contents in their interfaces, including quality, food buffs, &c."

• Leek Whistle (2018-03-15)◎ >"You can now use carried barrels to draw from sap taps."

• Phrygian Barrel Basket (2018-02-08)◎ >"You may now craft directly from barrels. A side effect of this is that items reserved/marked for someone else's crafting are now highlighted in red, rather than your own green. Suggested here, among other places. You're welcome."