Raeli Oven
Raeli ovens are semi-automated structures used to manufacture Raeli tiles. Raeli ovens are built on patches of clay (from which the tiles are produced) and cannot be built within 50 coordinates (800 feet) of another Raeli oven.
Operation
Raeli ovens continually dredge clay from the ground, accumulating it as unbaked Raeli tiles. The longer the oven is left to dredge, the more tiles it produces (anywhere from 1 to 10 tiles per hour; see below). At any time the owner may start baking the accumulated tiles; this costs 25 charcoal and halts the dredging process. All tiles must be baked together -- it is not possible to bake some tiles and leave the others unbaked. It is not possible to remove unbaked tiles from an oven.
As the Raeli tiles bake, they gradually change color. All tiles begin as White and slowly cycle through a progressively darkening series of colors, ending up as Black after approximately 2 hours. The exact colors that tiles pass through on their transition from White to Black depends on where the Raeli oven was built.
- A Color Map is maintained which shows the colors reported at various ovens across Egypt. Some colors are rarer than others.
The owner of the Raeli oven may interrupt the baking process at any time to stop the tiles at a particular color. Once tiles have stopped baking, they cannot be re-baked later to change their color. After halting the baking process, the Raeli oven can be restarted to dredge new tiles.
Notes
- The rate at which tiles are produced is randomly set when the Raeli is started. If you have a low rate of production (a couple an hour), cook the tiles and restart it.
- The Raeli Oven window updates on its own, so you don't have to click on it to see if the color has changed.
- If you stand too close to another Raeli when attempting to use yours, you may get a message "Another Raeli interferes with the operation". To work around this apparent bug, just move away from the interfering Raeli.
- Where you stand (presumably when you start the oven) can make a slight difference in the colors generated, or timing of colors.
- You must know the Raeli Pottery tech to be able to use this building.
To build:
Construction costs:
Built: in a small construction site placed on clay.
Skill/Tech required: Raeli Pottery
Comments
- Disassemble and rebuild the construction site to get a different random gearbox (worth doing if you get a bad one)
- Color map - tracking which colors are found where
- Raeli Tile trade list
- Range of tile production (please add info):
- Elle: So far, my oven is producing about 5 tiles per hour
- Gada: My oven has been producing from 1 to 10 per hour (changes when you start dredging)
- Sabt-Pestnu: I have record of two ovens that have produced different colors for different people, presumably because of where they stood when they started the oven.