HOW TO MAKE SOAP - Tutorial Soap Industry Guide DWARF FORTRESS

[@haileene703]

For other "plant based" oil, you have Hemp, cotton, flax & kenaf, which all are somewhat superior to olives as they are clothing fibers as well. Hemp is really OP as at some point you swim into so much of those seeds, that you can even mill that into slurry and make paper out of it, meaning you simplify a lot of processes in your farming production chain.

[@nowanilfideme2]

Hemp works for all the processes? If you're lucky, Human factions tend to have it, so when embarking you can try to get a faction with a human trading alliance.

[@xexzersy]

weed powa

[@H_elios]

Meanwhile my dwarves eating all the soap ingredients.

[@demonicsquid7217]

'DO NOT EAT' label on soap instruction ORIGINS.

[@stamasd8500]

I prefer to make soap from other oil crops, like kenaf or cotton (each easily found outdoors in warm embark zones). The advantage over using rock nuts for oil is that for those plants you get multiple seeds from each plant, not just one. With rock nuts, one seed is all you get, and if you grind it to paste you don't have anything left to plant for quarry bush leaves (which are a very good cooking ingredient). With kenaf, cotton, hemp etc you get multiple seeds per plant which means you can grind some for oil and have some left to replant as well. Plus you get plant fiber from those plants, which is valuable for your clothing and paper industry. I reserve all the rock nuts for making bags of leaves. For that I use special stockpiles to feed the quern or mill, where I only allow the other seeds to be stored.

[@professorbean1368]

For the seed based soap production, could you not solve the issue of the kitchen automatically using the rock nuts by only allowing the kitchen to pull from a custom stockpile which does not include ingredients you need for soap?

[@morrisschultz7921]

This should work

[@Sideway8]

Thanks for this, I was trying to make some soap from tallow the other day and was getting annoyed when things weren't working after slaughtering animals for fat... didn't realise the chefs were stealing it to use for cooking

[@Griexxt]

Isn't it a bit weird that stuff like tallow for cooking, and pig tail for brewing aren't set to forbidden as a default? Not very user friendly. I'm finally getting into this game. Made my first steel today. 🙂Also, thanks to your tips about water management, I managed to successfully channel water into my fortress in such a way that I could then build my first functioning water wheels inside the fortress.

[@elbarto6512]

I may mistake. But as i know there is plump helmet. And it checked for coocking by default. This is really user adhesive)

[@corvus_monedula]

Jugs can be made from stone or wood as well

[@petergraphix6740]

So when you say soap lasts a long time you are really underselling it. A bar of soap is 150 uses. For the most part only a bar or two of soap are used per year even is very large forts.

[@elbarto6512]

Are you check it? Df is buggy game. Wiki said that you can glaze clay pots by ash. And one ash block can be used for glazing 150 times. But in reality, you can glaze only once, and then ash bar get curced. If you want to glaze after, your should make another ash bar. And glazing processed with two bars. That bars are immortal. I glaze almost thousand pots for test. May be soap have some kind of immortality bug?

[@wielkiedrzewo]

my savior

[@Ic0nGaming]

It took me myself quite a while to get behind all those nasty little pitfalls. Glad I can help =)

[@sergiovillegas-umana6951]

What about Lye? I thought you could use this for soap process as well.

[@snipechan6573]

I think it isn't mentioned because it's very wood intensive and it's not very efficient. I've been doing soapmaking with ash and lye and it's fine, but I didn't actually know how to make oil until this video.

[@elbarto6512]

You can not make soap without lye. You make ash from wood logs. Then make lye from ash. Then soap from lye and one of two types of fats. May be author don't mention that because it's easy and you have no troubles like a kitchen prepare all your fats to meals

[@joaoaguiar4306]

thanks a lot