Rum
From Puzzle Pirates
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Besides being tasty, rum keeps a pirate ship running smoothly. If your ship runs out of rum, you'll be in for a rough ride until you can get back to port and buy more.
There are three grades of rum: Fine rum, Grog, and Swill. Fine rum is the highest quality rum and is rated at 100 proof. Grog is a mid quality rum rated at 60 proof. Swill is the lowest quality rum and is 40 proof. The higher proof rums are consumed more slowly, while lower quality rums are consumed more quickly.
The amount of rum consumed is dependent on the rank of the pirate, and the amount of time spent at sea. An officer will consume more rum than a cabin person, so you are better off stocking Fine Rum for an officer heavy pillage than Swill.
To find out which is the cheapest to buy per unit, multiply the swill price by 15, the grog by 10, and the fine rum by 6. Whatever price ends up being lowest is the one ye should buy. Or, if your math skills are still stuck in the pirate ages, you can use this handy Rum Calculator.
Rum can be bought dockside from various distillery shoppes or stalls. It can also be ordered in advance in person from those same shoppes and stalls and delivered to the ship while docked in port.
Sometimes ordering ahead of time will save you PoE other times dockside prices are cheaper. Orders will always take time to fill, so if you need rum right away, you'll have to buy dockside. Prices for rum fluctuate over time and prices a generally differ from island to island, so remember to check around for the best price.
Running out of rum will result in rum sickness, and a drop in the efficiency of the sailing, carpentry, and bilging puzzles. In addition, it will fill the outer 2 columns of the SF puzzle with (indestructible) rum jugs during the swordfight after a sea battle.
Rum is made at distillery shoppes and stalls on inhabited islands. If you venture far from civilization, make sure you stock enough rum for the return to an inhabited island.
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[edit] Rum Recipes
Note that each order produces 10 units.
[edit] Swill
- Sugar cane: 7 Units
- Wood: 4 Units
- Iron: 1 Unit
- 2 hours basic distilling labor
[edit] Grog
- Sugar cane: 10 Units
- Wood: 5 Units
- Iron: 1 Unit
- 2 hours basic distilling labor
- 2 hours skilled distilling labor
