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Flax Gin

Allows automated flax processing (raking).

To operate it, you must be a Student of Art or higher. A single artist may start the gin, or two can do a dual start.

The gin holds up to 200 rotten flax, which will be converted to 200 straw, 200 tow and 200 lint, completing in approximately 6 hours.

A dual start appears to make the gin operate a little faster (see comments section for some timing).

Flax cannot be removed from the gin without stopping it, but more flax can be loaded while it is running.

To build:

Costs:

• 4 baskets
• 150 oil
• 100 leather
• 60 rope
• 40 small gears
• 20 bearings
• 8 flystone
• 2 Cut Turquoise:Full Eye

Built: in a compound, 11x13 cells

Skill/Tech required: Flax Automation

Comments

• There are flax ginning services that will rake your flax for a small fee.

Timing

• We started two fully loaded gins, one with a single student of art, the other with two students (dual start). After 2h25m (as measured by chat timestamps), the dual-started gin had raked 83 flax and the single-started had raked 77 flax. That works out to approximately 1m45s per rotten flax for a dual start and 1m52s per rotten flax for a single start. -- FaceAnkh, Subira, Gumby
• What were the Art & Music titles of the people starting the gins? One might guess that two students starting a gin count the same as one prentice (or two prentices count as one scribe)?
  • Subira is Student of Art (beetles), Yargh is also Student afaik (pyro, driven by Gumby at the time)