Rotten Flax

Rotten Flax
(Item)
Weight 1
Bulk 1

Sources

• In order to make Rotten Flax, you must have the Flax Processing 0 (Skill) and be standing near a body of water.
• In your inventory, click Flax and select Rot flax in the water. once you have selected the number of flax to rot, a buoy belonging to you will appear with a red flag.
  • It takes 5 Teppy minutes to rot flax. Once your flax has rotted, the buoy's flag will change color to white, at which time you can pick up your rotten flax.
  • Alternatively, flax may be rotted in a Tub. However, since tubs crumble with use, this is never done in practice, except when there is no water source nearby.

Cost

• 1 Flax ✓

Buoy Facts

• You can rot as much flax in a single buoy as you want; rotting requires a fixed amount of time (about 5 minutes) regardless of the quantity of flax.
• Rotting flax in sulfur water may take several hours.
• Once placed, a buoy can be guilded or given.
• You can retrieve rotten flax from buoys created by your spouse.
• Ownership of buoys was first introduced in the First Telling by the Flax Processing Co-Operative Law.
• Rotting flax in a body of water does not appear to have any impact on fishing.

Use

• Up to 10 rotten flax can be processed at a time in a Hackling Rake or Flax Comb, or 200 at a time (up to 1200 with upgrades) in a Flax Gin, and separated into Tow, Lint and Straw.
• Up to 10 rotten flax can be dried at a time on a Drying Rack or Flax Hammock to create Dried Flax.

Research and Tuition

• 9000 needed for Seed Registry Research

Production

1 Rotten Flax produced in Water - 300s ✓