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Use of dung.
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:43 pm
by tiddy ogg
In the wiki it says that dung can be dried and used as fuel. Presumably a drying rack can be used for the processing, but what about the cooking. A fire pit?
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:55 pm
by wulf
Unless I've missed an announcement, drying racks
can't be built at the moment although a solution should be on the way.
What I want to know is if your food will taste funny if you use the same rack for meat and dung...
Wulf
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:04 pm
by tiddy ogg
Drying racks just take wood and string... but the uses listed don't include dung.
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:44 pm
by wulf
... but where do you get string from? As I understand it, materials like "hemp string" or "cotton string" can't presently be used to construct one.
Wulf
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:58 pm
by tiddy ogg
Hemp or cotton, to yarn via spindle, to string via some other m/c widely available whose name I forget.
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:59 pm
by SekoETC
You CANNOT make plain string anymore. Hemp string / Cotton string is NOT "string". Thus you cannot make more drying racks either.
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:03 pm
by Black Canyon
Does that mean there is no real use for dung?
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:09 pm
by Peanut
I have 300g of plain string
Can i make the rack?
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:09 pm
by BlueNine
Black Canyon wrote:Does that mean there is no real use for dung?
Not at the moment there isn't, even if the racks were still makeable, drying dung isn't possible on them
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:35 pm
by wulf
Well, that's just shit then....
Wulf
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:43 pm
by Bowser
Peanut wrote:I have 300g of plain string
Can i make the rack?
Yes, it only takes 120 grams of string to make a drying rack. Once made, you can dry meat to eat. And then people can walk by and say, "you certainly have a nice rack"
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:02 pm
by tiddy ogg
So the wikis wrong then... and my char has been scurrying round collecting the muck and trying to beg hemp/cotton.
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:37 pm
by Agar
Where's the logic of drying dung on a rack?
Firstly you can prepare meat on a drying rack, no dung required! It's called "Jerky"
Secondly, Dung dries naturally. I was under the impression that because we are getting handfuls of "Fresh" dung, that it was going to "age" much like our tools rot. Hopefully, dung will be usable faster than bone knives become un-usable.
It'd be silly to have a machine do what we have the code for and what would make sense.
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:10 am
by Just A Bill
I am with Agar on this one, perhaps Dung should just be left on the ground to dry.
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 2:01 am
by Bowser
maybe we finally will have a purpose for the ever popular tool, the stick... a new weapon called Dung on a Stick