Grassroots Coca is a Vintage Story mod by sunnye and fubfubfub. Grassroots Coca adds a coca crop and a multi-stage process for drying, extracting, refining, and recrystallizing its product.
Why this mod is worth installing
This mod suits players who want a risky farming and crafting chain with quality management, timed processing, and temporary effects.
What Grassroots Coca adds
Coca grows from seeds in hot, wet conditions and can also appear naturally in forests and jungles. Harvested leaves must be dried on the ground while protected from rain, then processed in a barrel with limewater for 24 hours.
The extracted solution is combined with rendered fat and salt to create paste. Cooking that paste with sulfuric acid produces cocaine HCl and destroys the cooking pot, while two HCl units can be pressed into a brick.
Purity changes throughout the chain: combining stacks averages their values, and weak material can reduce a good batch. Ordinary crafting reaches 75 purity, while barrel recrystallization with aqua vitae raises it by four points every 12 hours, up to 99.
Pressed bricks preserve their purity better, although stacking or merging them with inferior bricks can still lower the result. Using the finished product consumes a little satiety and grants temporary melee, movement, and hunger-rate effects with a two-hour cooldown; the Grassroots HUD displays purity and timers.
Purity
A process overview shows coca leaves being dried, leeched in a barrel, separated into paste, refined into HCl, and pressed into a brick.
Enjoying
The effect display presents the product's tier, purity, and strength while its temporary benefits are active.
Where to download Grassroots Coca
The official Vintage Story Mod DB page is the right place to get the current release through the in-game mod manager.