Powder

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Powder is any fine-grained loose material, including milled plants, sand, and plaster. To be useful, powder must be stored in a bag; powder that has been dumped from a bag is not recoverable. Caravans will often have various powders available for trade, and further quantities can be requested from the outpost liaison.

In adventure mode, you can pick up pieces of any soil, not just sand, and store them as a powder.

Type	Workshop	Source	Use / Industry
flour	quern or Millstone	a variety of crops	Food industry, used for cooking
sugar	quern or Millstone	sweet pods	Food industry, used for cooking
dye	quern or Millstone	dimple cup, sliver barb, hide root, blade weed	textile industry
sand	Glassmaker	sand bearing tile designated as sand gathering activity zone	glass industry
plaster	Kiln	alabaster, gypsum, satinspar, selenite	Healthcare casts to immobilize broken joints

V · T · E Materials
More: Gems • Metals • Stones
Creature	Blood • Bone • Cartilage • Cheese • Chitin • Egg • Fat • Feather • Hair (Wool • Yarn) • Hoof • Horn • Ichor • Leather • Milk • Meat • Nail • Nervous tissue • Organs • Parchment • Pearl • Scale • Shell • Silk • Skin • Spit • Sweat • Tallow • Tears • Tooth • Wax
Plant	Fiber (Paper • Slurry) • Flower • Fruit • Leaf • Oil • Plant powders (Dye • Flour • Sugar) • Seed (Press cake) • Wood
Creature/Plant	Alcohol • Extract (Golden salve • Gnomeblight • Honey • Royal jelly • Syrup • Venom) • Glob • Soap • Liquids
Inorganic	Metal • Milk of lime • Soil (Clay • Sand) • Stone (Ash glaze • Earthenware • Gem • Gypsum plaster • Porcelain • Quicklime • Stoneware • Tin glaze)
Hardcoded	Amber • Ash • Coral • Filth • Fuel • Glass • Grime • Ice • Lye • Magma • Mud • Pearlash • Potash • Salt • Unknown substance • Vomit • Water
See also: Material science