40d:Soap industry

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Soap is produced by a soaper in an Alchemist's laboratory.

Soapmaking is a high-technology tertiary industry. Creating soap requires lye and tallow, both of which are manufactured items. Building the Alchemist's laboratory requires the components of a functioning glass industry to create the 3 clear glass vials, which in turn requires sand (on a map which actually contains it), a bag (made from cloth or leather) and pearlash (made from burned wood).

As lye is one of the necessary ingredients, creating soap will require burning large quantities of wood, so a soap industry is best established in a heavily wooded area or a mountainous region with an underground pool or river for growing tower-caps.

Alchemist's laboratory

Soap is made in an Alchemist's laboratory.

• Create 3 x glass vials - requires a glass industry

Clear glass

• cloth or leather bag
• construct a glass furnace or magma glass furnace
• collect sand
• obtain pearlash (trade or see below)
• sand + pearlash at glass furnace produces clear glass - profession: glassmaker
• tallow + lye = soap - profession: alchemist

Bags

Large amounts of animal fat are required to make soap. Slaughtered animals are the only input requied for producing bags from leather. Inputs: butcherable animals

• breed livestock or hunt butcherable wild animals- profession: hunter
• slaughter the animal at a butcher's shop to obtain skin - profession: butcher

Note:these two steps are shared below in producing tallow)

• tan the skin at a tannery - profession: tanner
• use 2 pieces of leather to produce 1 bag at a leather works - profession: leatherworker

Sand

Use the bags from above.

• construct a glass furnace or magma glass furnace
• issue the collect sand task from the furnace

Pearlash

Pearlash is required in creating the glass vials used to build an Alchemist's laboratory. Inputs: Ash or lye from above.

• Produce potash from ashes or lye at the ashery - profession: potash maker
• use potash to make pearlash at a kiln or magma kiln - profession: furnace operator

Lye

Inputs: trees plus an axe.

• cut down trees to obtain wood - profession: wood cutter
• burn wood at a wood furnace to make ash - profession: furnace operator
• use ash to make lye at an ashery - profession: lye maker

Tallow

Inputs: butcherable creatures

• breed livestock or hunt butcherable wild animals- profession: hunter
• slaughter the animal at a butcher's shop to obtain fat - profession: butcher
• render the fat at a kitchen to produce tallow - profession: cook