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Suggestions / Material Ash
« on: May 22, 2017, 08:19:48 PM »
Dear Saami,
How about instead of having fires burn out to leave 'ash' as something that can be picked up. Perhaps with some ratio to the amount of wood burned. Ash as in the remains from a burned fire.
Not sure what the ratio of burned stuff to ash should be. (possible research assist )
This could lead to change in how agriculture fertilizing is done. Rather than needing to make a fire at every tile you could bring over the ash.
Ash as resource now becomes something modders can use in other construction
It also means you might have a role-play chore of cleaning out your cabin's fireplace.
There is some risk of data bloating though as every fire you make travelling leaves ash. I've not yet thought of a suitable logic process for removing excess ash. You would want to make it possible to store ash so that farmers could make a winter stockpile for putting on the fields in the summer or that crafter's could store for use.
One different approach would be to harvest a burned out fire to give you some ash. Tile then shows a 'harvested' burned out fire. However, if you relight a fire on the same place how would you record more ash being there?
How about instead of having fires burn out to leave 'ash' as something that can be picked up. Perhaps with some ratio to the amount of wood burned. Ash as in the remains from a burned fire.
Not sure what the ratio of burned stuff to ash should be. (possible research assist )
This could lead to change in how agriculture fertilizing is done. Rather than needing to make a fire at every tile you could bring over the ash.
Ash as resource now becomes something modders can use in other construction
It also means you might have a role-play chore of cleaning out your cabin's fireplace.
There is some risk of data bloating though as every fire you make travelling leaves ash. I've not yet thought of a suitable logic process for removing excess ash. You would want to make it possible to store ash so that farmers could make a winter stockpile for putting on the fields in the summer or that crafter's could store for use.
One different approach would be to harvest a burned out fire to give you some ash. Tile then shows a 'harvested' burned out fire. However, if you relight a fire on the same place how would you record more ash being there?