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Author Topic: wood burning = farmer?  (Read 549 times)

DimmurWyrd

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wood burning = farmer?
« on: October 15, 2006, 06:21:00 am »
I would REALLY like it if wood burning fell under furnace operator/metalsmith instead of farmer because as it stands it's very confusing when half my farmers are really metalsmiths that have spent a long time making charcoal hehe...
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Rondol

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Re: wood burning = farmer?
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2006, 12:49:00 pm »
Agreed- I was quite confused, and then amused when this first happened to me. Some peasant became a farmer, I was like "What?! I only have two guys getting food or doing anything food related, what's he -- oh... wait... what?"
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Wahnsinniger

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Re: wood burning = farmer?
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2006, 12:05:00 am »
I agree its confusing, though the reason a wood burner becomes a farmer is that a Wood Furnace can produce ash, which can be used to make fertilizer for farming, therefore a farmer. Perhaps Making Charcoal and Making ash should fall under two seperate skills, so that they can be seperated into Metalsmithing and farming, respectively. Or just remove the ash-interemediate step for potash/pearlash anyway.
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