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Require wooden pots & barrels to be treated with a sealant before holding liquids

14 (40%)

Require tanbark to make leather

11 (31.4%)

None of the above

10 (28.6%)

Total Members Voted: 29

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I'm re-adjusting the poll to remove oiling leather. When I started researching it I learned that the grand majority of plant-based oils are inappropriate for leather, so it's not really relevant to this mod.

I like how I can vote for "Require wooden pots & barrels to be treated with a sealant before holding liquids", "Require tanbark to make leather", and "None of the above"

By the way I don't think wooden barrels use a glaze-like sealant; my understanding is that they are carefully shaped then treated with fire to create a resin/sealant from the wood itself.  If a separate glaze was used, then no one would care that such-and-such wine was aged in a barrel made from hundred-year-old oaks.  Of course, radish wine could be aged in anything and still be awful.

Yeah, I can either limit you to one option, or let you pick all options.

According to my research, the reason wooden barrels don't require sealant to hold liquids is that they're built in such a way that when they take in liquid, they seal up their own cracks. So barrels need to be soaked in water for quite a while before they're ready to hold liquids that matter; and again after each time they've been out of use.

Since this is a result of barrels' slatted structure, it obviously doesn't apply to wooden pots or jugs.

Unfortunately, I don't see any way to require it for pots & jugs, and not require it for barrels.