Alcohol
Alcohol won’t solve your problems. Then again, neither will milk.
Using Alcohol
To get a hold of alcohol in game, just order drinks from the bars like you normally would. The main difference is that those “juice drinks” that you used to get will get you drunk with this mod installed. The more your Sim drinks, the drunker they will become.
Drunk Texting
Whenever your Sim is drunk, wasted or starting to sober up, you can click on your Sims phone and select Drunk Text. The outcome of the reply you will get from these texts is dependent on the additional buffs your Sim has from being drunk. Beware that drunk texting might cause a loss of relationship with the Sim you drunk text.
In addition to this, there are also a couple of optional packages you can choose to keep in your Optional Packages folder, namely these ones:
Real Drink Names
Optional package with real drink names that will replace the juice names with the names of real drinks.
This will also replace the “juice” stuff from the Discover University Expansion Pack with “beer” and various types of beer. This includes beer kegs, beer pong and all the accompanying buffs.
Remove Keg Buffs
Optional package that removes the visibility of the base game buffs you get from drinking from kegs. The added buff FX are still present in your game, this is largely to prevent clogging up your UI with a gazillion buffs.
Bouncers
Bouncer Lot Trait
Place the Bouncer Lot trait on any bar or nightclub in your game.
If your Sim drinks way too much the bouncer might try to kick him or her out of the venue. If your Sim is hotheaded he or she might try to pick a fight with the Bouncer.
Underage Drinking
Select a teen Sim and go to the bar with the Bouncer Lot Trait on it, then start drinking. The bouncer will walk over to your teen and ask for an ID. If your teen can’t show the bouncer an ID he will get kicked out.
To get a hold of a fake ID, you need to buy one from your local neighbouhood drug dealer. Read more about that sketchy fellow here.
If your Teen has a fake ID in his or her inventory the bouncer will not hassle your Teen any longer.
Drunken Adventure
— Currently only available in the Patreon/Premium version of the mod —
If a Sim in your household becomes wasted there is a chance they will wander off on a drunken off-screen adventure.
The adventure has several outcomes with twists and turns and a bunch of corresponding buffs to go for the morning after.
To disable this feature, click on any Sim > Drugs > Settings > Cheats > Disable Drunken Adventure.
Moonshine
So… you want to start making some moonshine, eh? Best get your gear ready then.
How To Mash and Ferment Ingredients
Head over to the Convenience Store that comes with Basemental Drugs by clicking on your Sims phone, go to the Travel tab and select “Convenience Store“.
Purchase the Moonshine Mash Bucket and the following ingredients: Flaked Corn, Crushed Malted Barley and Sugar. Place the bucket on the floor or any surface, and with the ingredients in your Sims inventory, click on the bucket and select “Mash Ingredients“.
This will mash all ingredients together and start the fermentation process. The longer you ferment the mash, the higher alcohol content. A low proof moonshine will not get your Sim drunk quite as fast as a high proof moonshine, there will also be other additional buffs to go with the different proofs.
Be wary when fermenting though, if you leave it for too long you will have to discard the mash.
How To Distill The Mash
Purchase one of the Moonshine Still‘s from the aforementioned Convenience Store. Place it anywhere in the world. Make sure you have a bucket of fermented moonshine in your Sims inventory. Click on the Moonshine Still and select “Start Distillation“.
After distilling for a little while you need to discard the foreshots and heads before continuing the distillation. The foreshots are the first vapours to boil off during distillation, usually containing unwanted compounds like acetone, methanol, and aldehyde volatiles. The heads contain a high percentage of low boiling point alcohols and other compounds such as aldehydes and ethyl acetate. This is why the heads and foreshots must be discarded.
What we want however is what’s called “Hearts“. Which is the desirable middle alcohols from the spirit run. After bottling the hearts and colleting the bottles you could start thinking about how to sell the stuff.
Selling Moonshine
Just like with tobacco, you need to pack the Moonshine Bottles into a cardboard box that fits Moonshine Bottles. head over to the yet again aforementioned convenience store and get yourself a Moonshine Box.
Once you have 10 unused bottles of Moonshine with the same ABV (alcohol content), click on the box (placed in the world) and select “Pack Moonshine“.
Now you have two options in terms of selling it. If you have Basemental Gangs installed and you know a gang member you can sell directly to them. Otherwise you need to get over to a bar and befriend a bartender on duty.
Once your friendship level is high enough you can click on the Bartender and select “Sell Moonshine” as long as you have a packed cardboard box in your Sims inventory.
Raid Risk and Moonshine Crafting Skill
Once you have sold Moonshine you will be on the law enforcements radar. If you keep up a high volume production (without taking a couple of days off ever so often) and high volume sales without laundering your money through a retail store, you will get visited by the SWAT team. They will confiscate your Sims stuff and take them to jail.
The Moonshine Crafting Skill will for the most part net you more bottles per spirit run, but will also give you higher prices when selling. The higher your Skill Level, the higher the cash-out.
Side Effects
Overindulging is never a good thing. I am sure your Sim will drink like a responsible adult, but if that is not the case, here are some of the side effects that might occur.
Alcoholic
Sims who keeps on drinking a bunch of alcohol over a prolonged period of time will eventually run the risk of becoming addicted to alcohol. This starts as a pre-addiction phase where your Sim will get some buffs informing them that they are starting to really enjoy drinking alcohol. If they lay off the booze for quite some time they can steer clear of becoming addicted. If they ignore the warning signs and keeps on drinking however they will quickly find themselves addicted to the substance.
The addiction will show up as a buff. This buff lasts for 5 days and is refreshed every time your Sim drinks more alcohol. If your Sim is not under the influence while the buff is active, he or she might get a lot of negative debuffs until he or she drinks more alcohol.
Drinking Too Much
If your Sim drinks too much alcohol he or she might experience negative effects from it. Vomiting, passing out, etc. Sleeping it off usually helps, though.
