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v0.31:Soap
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Soap is used by dwarves for both personal cleaning and health care.
Soap is made by combining either Template:L and Template:L, or lye and Template:L, in a Template:L. One unit of tallow/oil plus one unit of lye creates a single bar of soap.
Lye in Template:L can be used; lye in buckets that has not yet been transferred into a barrel may not be usable (see the Bugs section).
Dwarves do not require soap to clean Template:L such as mud and blood from themselves, and instead will use murky pools, artificial pools of water, brooks, or a Template:L. However, using soap will occasionally generate the happy thought "recently took a soapy bath." It is possible to construct bath-houses (rooms containing pools of water, a soap stockpile, and perhaps a few nice statues) so dwarves living deep underground need not venture to dangerous cave pools or surface brooks to clean off a little mud or bloodstain. For cleaning wounds and preventing infection after Template:L, however, Template:Ls should be kept stocked with a small amount of soap.
Soap can be stored in a bars/block stockpile.
Lye Container Difficulties
Lye that is in a bucket which also contains another substance, such as water, cannot be used for the reaction. As a workaround, view the contents of the bucket, select the water and forbid it, then order the bucket be brought for trading at the depot. A small puddle of water will remain on the floor, which your dwarves will never clean up.