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'''Lye''' is a [[liquid]] used to make [[soap]], and can also be used to make [[potash]] (Although potash is more easily made directly from ash, which is also the precursor to lye). 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]].
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'''Lye''' is made by a dwarf with the [[Lye maker|lye making]] [[labor]] enabled at an [[ashery]], and requires 1 [[bar]] of [[ash]] and 1 [[bucket]]. Ash is made from [[wood]] by a wood burner at a [[wood furnace]].
  
Lye is moved from buckets into a [[barrel]] if you have a [[Stockpile#Food|food stockpile]] with "lye" enabled and a spare barrel. One [[barrel]] can hold 100 units of lye.  
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Lye is used to make [[soap]] and [[potash]], though potash can also be made directly from ash.  Lye is moved from buckets into a [[barrel]] if you have a food stockpile with "misc. liquid" enabled, and a spare barrel. A [[barrel]] can hold 50 units of lye. However, a bucket of lye can also be used directly to make soap.  Lye freezes in cold weather. You'll have to wait until it thaws in order to make soap. Magma helps unfreeze lye.
  
Lye can be ordered in [[trade agreement]]s. Each barrel of lye brought by a [[caravan]] contains 10 units.
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Soapmaking jobs use stacks of lye and not individual units of lye. This doesn't affect lye you produce yourself, but the lye (10) you buy from traders is only good for one bar of soap. On embark, individual units of lye are combined into stacks of five as necessary. One bar's worth of lye will cost you two points, but enough lye for another bar will cost ten points because you need another five units of lye to start a second stack.
  
== Frozen lye ==
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Lye is located under Food -> Misc. Liquids in the Stocks screen.
  
Lye freezes in cold weather – you'll have to wait until it thaws in order to make [[soap]]. Lye can be moved to a warmer [[underground]] location to thaw it. Alternatively, careful application of [[magma]] may be used. However, there is no entry for frozen lye in stockpile menus, so dwarves will not haul a frozen lye barrel to any type of stockpile.
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Barrels containing frozen lye can be moved [[underground]] to thaw by dumping them to a [[garbage dump]], but if you use the [[Designations Menu]] to mark the barrels, the frozen lye stack will be marked for dumping separately, and when it is hauled inside, it will melt into a useless puddle on the floor. Instead, select the barrel and click dump [[File:Dump option icon.png|30px]] on it to mark just the barrel for dumping, and its contents will stay inside.
 
 
 
If your [[trade depot]] is outdoors in freezing weather, frozen lye (or [[milk#Dwarven_ice_cream|milk]]) barrels will appear as empty barrels in the [[Trading]] screen. They can be distinguished from empty barrels by having a price 20☼ higher than the price of the barrel, or by viewing their contents. If purchased, these will also have to be dumped to thaw the lye, or will have to wait for better weather.
 
 
 
[[File:Handmade Soap 1.JPG|thumb|300px|center|Handmade soap made with pure lye.]]
 
 
 
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