Lye

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Description

A mixture made through alchemy, used for making leather out of animal hide.

Method

1. Put water in container.
2. Activate ash.
3. Right click on water in container, create->misc->lye

Tools required

1. Container for water.

Items required

• Ash
• Water

The water:ash weight ratio must be between 9:1 and 30:1.

Usage

Used to turn hide into leather and creating traps.

Tips

• Quality of the lye is capped by the quality of the ash used and affected by your skill in Natural substances.
• The entire quantity of lye is used when making leather regardless of weight.
• A pottery flask with 1 potato and 4 corn in it will hold additional ~0,005kg lye. Keep the lye in a pottery jar or waterskin and fill the flask from there as needed. This way precious high ql lye will last very long.
• An alternative is to have 2 pottery flasks one empty and one with 1 garlic. Filling the empty one first then transferring it to the 2nd one it leaves an almost zero quantity to the first. Depending on what seed has the smallest volume it could be even less. This method used with a garlic results in ~0,0002kg of lye. Keep the lye in a pottery jar or waterskin and fill the first flask from there as needed. This way precious high ql lye will last very long.