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Kettle

A kettle is used for reducing various liquids by boiling.

There are two methods used for the kettle:

• non-stoked (load with requirements including wood, leave until complete)
• stoked (load with requirements, stoke with wood and ignite, continue to add wood/stoke as it burns down until the liquid is boiled off)
  • for stoked runs (see details below), you will need 28 wood per kettle (assuming no mistakes), with the total process taking about 14 teppy minutes (30 teppysec per tic).

Output	Input	Method
5 potash	5 ash, 25 water in jugs (jugs not consumed)	stoked
50 Flower Fertilizer	1 catfish, 1 perch fish, 1 tilapia fish, 5 water in jugs, 5 wood	non-stoked, requires Horticulture
50 Grain Fertilizer	1 carp fish, 5 water in jugs, 5 wood	non-stoked, requires Barley Cultivation
50 Weed Killer	1 Toad Skin Mushrooms, 5 water in jugs, 5 wood	non-stoked, requires Barley Cultivation
25 sulfur	25 Sulphurous Water	stoked, requires Desiccation 1
3 salt	25 Coconut Water	stoked, requires Desiccation 2 to configure kettle but not to run it
3 acid	25 Sulphurous Water, 1 salt	stoked, requires Desiccation 3
8 Arsenic	1 Razor's Edge Mushroom, 1 Scorpion's Brood Mushroom, 5 Oil, 5 Wood	non-stoked, requires Toxin Extraction

To build:

Costs:

• 4 copper sheeting
• 1 iron pot

Built: in a compound, uses 5x5 cells

Skill/Tech required: Cooking

Comments

• Use a large array of kettles, ideally placed near water.
• Sulfur can also be made by evaporating sulphurous water in a tub, which does not use wood or require any skills. Basic and Sturdy Tubs break with usage.

Details on operation

One stoked run of the kettle:

1. load requirements
2. Ignite (cost 5 wood)
3. burns off 1 wood in lighting
4. fire burns till 0 (4 wood)
5. at 0 wood stoke 5; water is at 24 now
6. at 0 wood stoke 5; water is at 19 now
7. at 0 wood stoke 5; water is at 14 now
8. at 0 wood stoke 5; water is at 9 now
9. at 2 wood stoke 3; water is at 6 now.
10. let burn out. - to not waste time+wood, make sure that "water" is one more than "wood", otherwise the extra wood will keep burning wasting time.
11. you will get an option to take the product (don't discard ;) )

In total you will need 28 wood per kettle (assuming no mistakes), and it can get rather hectic running multiple kettles if you run out of wood....

Total process takes about 14 teppy minutes (30 teppysec per tic).

If you run out of wood, you can always ignite with more wood after, it may take more time but it works.

You can also stoke the fires before they reach zero, more stokes, but the same amount of wood consumed, as long as you make sure your last round of stokes gives you no more than 1 more water than wood.

In more general terms, it works as follows:
- Once the kettle is ignited, it runs in a series of 30-teppysecond ticks. At the beginning of each tick, it consumes one deben of wood. At the end of the tick, it evaporates one deben of water. (Meaning that most of the time, except for the very beginning and end of the batch, it will consume one wood and one water simultaneously every 30 tsec.)
- The first three ticks after igniting are "warm-up" ticks... wood is consumed, but no water is evaporated.
- If at the beginning of a tick there is no wood left under the kettle, the fire goes out. The batch isn't ruined, but the fire will have to be reignited, and will go through the warm-up process again, wasting time and wood.
- You can stoke the kettle at any time to add wood, but it will only hold up to 5 at once.