Well since all soldiers can only carry a water skin with water in it why couldnt we make cans?
With the cans the soldier could take beer,wine,rum etc. with them
What would the cans require?
- A bar of any metal
- a New workshop ( will explain later)
- Some booze
- New job
Why cant the can be made of these items?
-Wood because it isnt a reliable thing you cannot reuse it after use
-Stone Just too heavy to carry 3 to 5 stone cans
-Cloth the booze will go through it
-Leather the Water skins are already made of that
How do you get the cans?
Well you first make a metal bar, then you carry it to the new workshop, You take some booze and carry it also to the new workshop. Then the dwarf with the new job will go there and put the booze into the can
And here you have a booze can which your soldiers can carry around.
The new Workshop would be just like all the other workshops. It just needs one unit of any material to be made off. The name will be maybe the Can Workshop
The new Job will be just like all other jobs. The dwarf with this job (Dunno the name yet) will put beer into the cans.
Another handy thing that could be implemented
After the soldier drank the booze out of the cans, they could then go to the Metal bars storage and put the can there. It will be Re melted or reused if needed. If it isnt remelted the Specific job will take the can and use it again.
To make the booze more worth to trade you could use Leather or cloth to wrap it around the can with some booze mark on it like
-Urist McBrewers Sunshine
There will be no happy thoughts
And if dwarf goes fey or secretive they can make an artifact beer can!
The Artifact beer can Will give happy thought just like by any other Non-weapon Artifact
And what do you think?