I’ve read a very efficient pre-distillation method: You take a bin like a washbin (a tap makes it easier), then you pour in a sugary yeast-laden solution, the just put a lid over it, doesn’t even need to be airtight. In as little as like 3 days, you reach saturation and can drain it an distill it. This method produces horrifically untasty and high-methanol alcohol, but this method is for producing alcohol easily and cheaply for distillation.
Maybe a distiller could use the same frameworks as cars. You build a frame,metal tanks, ‘plumbing’, a heatsink unit on a pipe, a second tank, stuff like that. Then you fill jerrycans with crushed fruit + water, pour into a tank, drop flammable stuff onto the tank, which burns distilling the alcohol. This framework could open-up easier cleansing and personally intensive purifying of water without batteries, and could introduce a mechanic for hotplates, beakers, hydrogen, salt, etc, for more advanced chemistry crafting. If you didn’t split the codework, you could even make a rolling methlab.
