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[t-lor]

Just some random idea i had.

I just enabled harder farming, and promptly lost my first fort in years due to "not enough booze/food"
Rethought my aproach. dropped armor and fighterd but did bring tons of food and 4 growers, and got instantly kicked into submission by some gnolls 

Amazing wat consequences a few slow growing mushrooms have
Anyway Take 3 is relativley succeeding, witch brings me to a new problem.
Since farminng is much harder its actually worth the hastle to try to fertilize.
But im in a desert with no trees, constant sieges and no caravans so far.

So i would love to have a way to make fertilizer out of something none wood based
either coal. or something completely different (5 stacks of mushroom is 1 fertilizer ?)

Or am i missing something and is there already a way to do that ?

[smakemupagus]

Dwarf mode burn vermin or bodyparts to ash at the crematorium;
Orc mode you can buy it at the caravanserai.
Elf mode you will indeed get a compost pile

[Meph]

You just need potash, which is made from ash... and ash is made from:

Burning wood.
OR: Burning wooden items. Burning leather items. Or bone items. Or cloth items. Or vermin remains. Or corpses. You could farm plants, make thread, make cloth, burn it for ash.

You can also just farm trees in a farmplot

And, BONUS: You can use slag and lye to make 4 units of fertilizer/potash in the slagpit. Probably too much, but if you smelt metals, you have tons and tons of fertilizer.

[Werdna]

Lye always becomes my bottleneck, slagpit is great. 

[Navatar]

Orc mode you can buy it at the caravanserai.

Really? why waste money on that?  Its a byproduct of burning crap in the smelt, its where my orcs get all their potash.

[smakemupagus]

Yep, true enough.  I probably don't build enough Molten Pits.

[Navatar]

Only way to train up weaponsmiths and armorsmiths... between the molton pit and the factory, its relatively easy to get legendary smiths. Mind you, there isnt that much point having legendary smiths, as eventually my legendary warriors will make the higher tier weapons.