40d:Soap industry

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 a functioning glass industry to create the glass vials, which in turn requires large quantities of bags made from cloth or leather as well as potash.

Once established, an operating glass industry in a volcanic area is a sustainable industry as neither the sand collecting zone nor the magma used by a magma glass furnace will be depleted through use. Without magma, creating soap will require burning large quantities of wood.

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 + potash 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 x leather to produce 1 x 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

Note: for efficiency, locate empty bags near the furnace and construct the furnace near a tile that can be set as a sand collection activity zone.

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 makepearlash at a kiln or magma kiln - profession: Furnace Operator

Lye

Inputs: trees plus an axe.

• cut down trees to obtain wood - profession: woodcutter
• 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