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Rotten Flax

Flax, once harvested, must be soaked in water to process it further. This soaking helps to separate the fibers from the less useful parts of the plant. The byproducts of rotten flax eventually become some of the most fundamental items in Egypt, such as rope and canvas.

Making Rotten Flax

In order to rot flax, you must have the flax processing skill, some flax, of course (note: harvested flax, not flax seeds), and be standing near a body of water. The rot flax command is found by clicking on yourself->Special... Once you have selected the number of flax to soak, a buoy belonging to you will appear with a red flag. It takes 5 teppy minutes to rot flax in salt water, and 15 teppy minutes to rot flax in fresh water. Once your flax has rotted, the buoy's flag will change color to white, at which time you can pick up your rotten flax.

Alternatively, flax may be rotted in a tub.

Rotten Flax Uses

• Up to 10 rotten flax can be processed at a time in a hackling rake or flax comb and separated into tow, lint and straw.
• Up to 10 rotten flax can be dried at a time on a drying rack or flax hammock to create dried flax.

Buoys Facts

• You can soak as many flax as you want and the game allows; soaking requires a fixed amount of time regardless of the quantity of flax being soaked.
• You can soak your flax faster in salt water than in fresh bodies of water (see above).
• You can give your buoys to your guild.
• You can retrieve rotten flax from bouys created by your spouse.
• Ownership of buoys was first introduced in our grandparent's Age by the Laws/Flax Processing Co-Operative Law.
• Rotting flax in a body of water does not appear to have any impact on fishing.