Lye

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Lye is a material used to make soap, and can also be used to make potash*. Lye is made by a lye maker at an ashery, and requires 1 bar of ash and an empty bucket; ash is made from wood by a wood burner at a wood furnace.

(* Although potash is more easily made directly from ash, which is also the precursor to lye.)

Lye is moved from buckets into a barrel if you have a food stockpile with "lye" enabled* and a spare barrel. One barrel can hold 100 units of lye.

Lye freezes in cold weather - you'll have to wait until it thaws in order to make soap. Careful application of magma can help to unfreeze lye.

* Be aware: Lye is located under "Misc. Liquids" on the 2nd page of the Food Stockpile screen, and under "Liquid" in the [z] Stocks screen.

Pre-soap.

Raws

[MATERIAL:LYE] - reconstructed from data extracted from memory [STATE_COLOR:ALL:CLEAR] [STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:frozen lye] [STATE_NAME_ADJ:LIQUID:lye] [STATE_NAME_ADJ:GAS:boiling lye] [STATE_NAME_ADJ:SOLID_POWDER:frozen lye powder] [STATE_NAME_ADJ:SOLID_PASTE:lye slush] [BUILD_COLOR:7:0:0] [TILE_COLOR:7:7:1] [MATERIAL_VALUE:2] [SPEC_HEAT:4181] [MELTING_POINT:10000] [BOILING_POINT:10180] [SOLID_DENSITY:920] [LIQUID_DENSITY:1000]

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