# Drinking & Getting Drunk

Brewing is only half the fun — drinking has real effects.

## Getting drunk
Alcoholic brews raise your **drunkenness**, and stronger drinks raise it faster:
- Your screen **stumbles and wobbles** as you walk.
- Your **chat gets slurred** — and so do private messages.
- Drink too much and you will **throw up**, and the very drunk may be **unable to log back in** until they sober up.

## Effects
Many brews carry **potion effects**, good or bad — coffee gives a speed boost, fire whiskey warms you, and absinthe is genuinely poisonous. Check a recipe before downing a bottle.

## Sobering up
- **Eat bread** or **drink milk** to bring your drunkenness down quickly.
- Otherwise it wears off on its own over time, and heavy sessions leave a lingering **hangover**.

> It is all part of the roleplay — but pace yourself, especially before a big build or a dragon run.