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Overview

Potash is a chemical substance which has a variety of uses, but is most valued as one of the ingredients in glass. It is created in a kettle by taking normal ash from bonfires, adding it to water, then boiling off the water to remove the impurities. A kettle can convert 5 ash into 5 potash.

Uses:

• As an ingredient in glassmaking, along with sand and lime.
• As a catalyst in paint mixing.
• Used in an acid bath, along with acid and water, to convert metals into metal salts.
• As an ingredient in wood treatment.

Producing Potash

One run of the kettle:

1. requires 25 water and 5 ash to start.
2. Ignite (cost 5 wood)
3. burns off 1 wood in lighting
4. fire burns till 0 (4 wood)
5. at 0 wood stoke 4; water is at 24 now
6. at 0 wood stoke 5; water is at 20 now
7. at 0 wood stoke 5; water is at 15 now
8. at 0 wood stoke 5; water is at 10 now
9. at 0 wood stoke 5; water is at 5 now.
10. let burn out. - to not waste time+wood, make sure that "water" and "wood" are at the same amount, otherwise the extra wood will keep burning wasting time.
11. you will get an option to take the 5 potash.

In total you will need 29 wood per kettle, and it can get rather hectic running 8 kettles if you run out of wood....

Total process takes about 14 teppy minutes (30 teppysec per tic). Suggestion is to run as many as you can.

• I was cooking potash today when my internet connection dropped at 4 water & 4 wood. If this happens to you, don't panic, you can relight the fire with 5 wood and continue boiling it down. zebediah 7/09/2005