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Jervous

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I can't make soap?!
« on: October 04, 2009, 09:49:25 am »
Oh dear god it's the end of the world. I can't make soap.


I have tons of buckets filled with lye, and I know I have lots of tallow, but it keeps cancelling the work order saying I need a lye bearing item. How I make soap?
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Quietust

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Re: I can't make soap?!
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2009, 10:57:32 am »
The lye must be stored in barrels first, so you'll need a food stockpile that accepts lye and allows at least 1 barrel.
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Jervous

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Re: I can't make soap?!
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2009, 11:00:37 am »
How would I get them to put the lye in buckets into barrels?
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Re: I can't make soap?!
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2009, 12:31:35 pm »
Should be automatically done by the dwarves as they store the lye in the stockpile.
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Re: I can't make soap?!
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2009, 10:11:56 pm »
There's cheaper things to trade with the elves/humans that might work better...
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Re: I can't make soap?!
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2009, 10:54:10 pm »
Yea soap-making is kinda degenerate at this point.
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Re: I can't make soap?!
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2009, 11:14:48 pm »
Quote from: Shadowex3 on October 04, 2009, 10:11:56 pm
There's cheaper things to trade with the elves/humans that might work better...

I assume you mean "humans/dwarves" since, last I checked, trading soap to the elves would make them throw a hissy fit due to the fact that you had to burn trees into ashes to make the lye you used to make the soap.
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Quote from: Lord Dakoth on September 17, 2009, 10:47:58 pm
It's amazing how dwarves can make a stack of bones completely waterproof and magmaproof.
Quote from: Neruz on September 18, 2009, 06:58:26 am
It's amazing how they can make an entire floodgate out of the bones of 2 cats.

Nidokoenig

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Re: I can't make soap?!
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2009, 11:29:38 pm »
I just had this problem in my current fort. It might just be a matter of being patient, but I just enabled carpentry on a few random layabouts and immigrants and set them to work making barrels so I'd have a surplus. If you're short of barrels or they're in high demand, this might help. Check on your amount of food haulers, too.

Yeah, megabeast fat aside, soapmaking is more a fun thing to do than profitable. But the opportunity to make bear tallow soap mega constructions surely stirs something in even the coldest hearts? Plus, you need to cut down a shedload of trees, and pissing off the elves is always good, at least once they've brought the bears and such.
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