Short answer
The Distillation Cube is an auto-crafter in the Alchemy Lab. Research Alchemy, Distillation (5 red, 5 green, after Alchemy, Basic) and build it for 2 Wooden Plank, 2 Bronze Detail and 12 Brick. It has 9 recipes — Melted Fat, Fragrance and Alcohol — each burning 20 Fuel and running on its own. The best input is Wine: 4 Alcohol per batch, 7 with the Cube distillations perk.

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Build cost and unlock
Technology: Alchemy, Distillation — column 4 of the Anatomy and Alchemy tree, 5 red and 5 green tech points. It also unlocks Melted Fat and the Starter Alchemist's Kit, and leads to Reanimation.
Build it in the Alchemy Lab for 2 Wooden Plank, 2 Bronze Detail and 12 Brick.
It is an Anatomy station (mastery 1–3) that a zombie can work.
Melted Fat and Fragrance
Melted Fat: 1 Fat + 2 Clay Plate + 20 Fuel → 4 (7 with the perk), 6 ticks, mastery 1.
Melted Fat: 3 Seed oil + 2 Clay Plate + 20 Fuel → 3 (5 with the perk), 8 ticks.
Fragrance: 2 Rhododendron + 2 Clay Urn + 20 Fuel → 3 (5 with the perk), mastery 2. Unlocked by Church Smells I.
Melted Fat goes into 11 recipes, including Oiled Plank, Polished Bronze, Ink and both incenses.
Alcohol — which drink to distil
All Alcohol recipes need 2 Clay Urn and 20 Fuel, take 8 ticks at Anatomy mastery 3, and unlock with Reanimation Liquid.
Any Wine → 4 Alcohol (7 with the perk). By far the best return.
Beer or Blueberry Cider → 2 (3 with the perk).
Mead, Apple Cider or Berry Cider → 1 (2 with the perk).
Alcohol makes Dynamite, Solution for Zombies and Injection for Zombies, and is an alchemy ingredient (3 blue runes).
The Cube distillations perk
An Anatomy talent perk for 1 inspiration point, after the first Anatomy mastery upgrade.
Melted Fat 4→7 or 3→5, Alcohol 4→7, 2→3 or 1→2, Fragrance 3→5.
It leads to the Formula one perk.
Fuel
Every recipe burns 20 Fuel. A Firewood shed turns every 2 Firewood into 20 Fuel, so each batch costs about 2 Firewood.
Original diagram of the wood-to-fuel chain. Every Distillation Cube batch burns 20 Fuel.
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Sources
- communitywikily.gg — Distillation Cube
- communitywikily.gg — Alchemy, Distillation
- communitywikily.gg — Cube distillations
- communitywikily.gg — Melted Fat
- communitywikily.gg — Fragrance
Related pages
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