Fruit Press

Fruit press
Material	Wood
Stackable	1
Drops	Itself
Blocks

The fruit press is a machine added in the 1.16 Update Homesteading Part 2, which enables the player to squeeze berries and fruit into juice.

Creation

Crafting a fruit press necessitates one ingot, a hammer, and a chisel. The specific metal type is inconsequential; it doesn't need to be the same for all three components.
The primary material for crafting a fruit press is wooden boards, obtainable only through the use of a saw, which, in turn, can only be smithed on an anvil.
While ingredients like resin and fat can theoretically be found as early as the Stone Age, ensuring a sufficient supply may require exploring for pine trees with leaking pine logs, as well as hunting or domesticating wild pigs or bighorn sheep.

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe
1x Hammer 1x Chisel 12x Board 1x Fat 2x Resin 1x Ingot

Juicing

Different areas on the fruit press can be interacted with in different ways.

The fruit press is operated by hand only and cannot be automated. It requires focus to prevent spoilage and waste of ingredients.
To produce juice using the fruit press, the following additional items are required and recommended:

• A bucket or a fired clay jug to collect the fruit juice.
• An appropriate amount of fruit of the same kind - all berries, as well as saguaro fruit, and all fruit that comes from fruit trees (including breadfruit) can be juiced.
• (optional) An empty barrel for transferring the juice.

The fruit press has a total of 3 different places that can be interacted with by the player, as seen in the image:

1. Below the actual press, there is a space meant for a container to collect the juice dripping down. Only buckets or jugs can be used as possible containers, and neither barrels nor bowls will work.
   
2. The fruit press has a middle section that holds the fruit mash to be pressed. Depositing at least four fruits of the same type into this section will convert them into fruit mash. Once the fruits have been converted, they cannot be retrieved. Attempting to take them out of the press will result in fruit mash items being taken out instead.
3. To operate the fruit press, the player will need to use the screw located at the top of the machine. The press requires at least 16 and no more than 32 fruits before it can be started. Once the fruits have been added, the player should hold down the right mouse button to fasten the screw. The screw will then press down to squeeze the mash and extract the juice.

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  The tooltip shows the juicing progress.

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  Fruit pressed without a bucket below will be wasted!

When working with a filled fruit press and squeezing out the juice with a fully wound screw, you will be able to see the juice flow process in the fruit press tooltip. You will get 10 liters of juice after a few seconds.
To make the most out of the available fruit, it is recommended to calculate the available space against the number of required fruits. One bucket can hold 10L worth of juice, whereas one jug can only hold 3L worth. It is possible to process 20 fruit and catch the juice using 2 jugs with minimal losses, however, given the fact that a player able to build a fruit press should be able to craft buckets as well, it is recommended to use buckets instead to minimize juice loss.

Fruit Amount	Mash Layers	Resulting Juice (Litres)
16	4	5.0
20	5	6.2
24	6	7.5
28	7	8.8
32	8	10

Fruit Mash

When inputting fruit into the press it results in fruit mash - this holds true both before and after pressing, however, the amount of mash will reduce after squeezing out juice. Apart from its usage in producing juice, this mash can only be used as fodder for pigs and bighorn sheep.
Fruit mash can be placed in a large trough, with 2 mash equaling 1 portion of feed.

Benefits of Juice

• Fruit juice can be stored in bowls, jugs, buckets, and barrels and therefore potentially uses less storage space than the fruit it was made from.
• Since update 1.16.4-rc.1, both juice and cider in the game will start to decay. The only option for long-term storage is to process the juice first into cider and then into once distilled alcohol. However, in this process, all fruit nutrition value as well as some satiety will be lost.
• 10L of any juice gives 2000 Satiety , which means a bowl of juice will grant the player 200 satiety.

Video Tutorials

Full guide from juice to alcohol