Flax Gin
The flax gin is an automated machine which turns rotten flax into straw, tow, and lint. The device appears to have a 200 rotten flax capacity normally, and a 600 capacity with the hopper upgrade. The processing appears to be 1 rotten flax per 2 minutes.
To Operate
One person starts the gin. You get a pop up indicating that it needs to be stabilized. A second person clicks on the gin and selects stabilize.
- I was able to start the gin with a level 19(w/ the tech) and a level 18 (w/o the tech)
- The time to stabilize is long enough that one person can start the gin on one character, then log onto their spouse and stabilize it.
- When started by a level 19 and a level 18, the gin processes one rotten flax per two minutes. The gin holds 200 rotten flax which takes just under 7 hours to process.
- A level 22/21 combination gives the same rate of 1 flax / 2 min
- At level 9 with the Automation and Mechanics skill 1, it says "come back when you have more experience".
- I've been told a level 10 could start a gin. This is second hand info though. This is true (thanks oDiS for helping me test it out) - Narathena
- Can not add flax while flax gin is running, used to be able to in T2 :/
To Build:
Costs:
- 4 baskets
- 150 oil
- 100 leather
- 60 rope
- 40 small gears
- 20 bearings
- 8 flystone
- 2 Full Eye Turquoise.
Skill/Tech Required: Flax Automation
The Flax Gin can be upgraded if you know Structure Reinforcement. This needs:
- 4 copper sheeting
- 400 concrete
It expands 3 cells on all sides, no change to reserved grid area
Tuning
Flax gins can now be tuned using Mechanics up to level 7. Each level of tuning appears to decrease time by a factor of 6/7. Standard time to completion for a fully loaded, upgraded flax gin is about 10 hours = 600 minutes. Tuning 7 should reduce this to about 205 minutes. Applying Gear Oil on top of tuning should make tuning 13 possible, reducing time to completion to about 81 minutes.
