Wood Treatment Guide - Revision history

BradsBot: clean up, typos fixed: bilty → bility

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Omegaice: /* Board Attributes and Properties */

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Board Attributes and Properties

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Finding Recipes

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Finding Recipes

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An Example

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An Example

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An Example

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 Wood treatment is performed in a [[Wood Treatment Tank]], using small amounts of various chemicals to treat from 1 to 500 [[Boards]] at a time. By adjusting the time of treatment (amount) and order of application of these chemicals, the attributes of the boards can be gradually adjusted until they reach a specified goal.
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 Starting from scratch, you can reduce the Flammability and Cuttability with a dose of Bone Meal. Very cheap, moves both bars quickly, but not all the way on either. 40s on my tank was good.  The obvious next step would be Lime  - favorable, low values for both attributes, near on Cuttability, not too far on Flammability -  so try that. Ten seconds should be plenty to see good movement in Flammability and Cuttability. You may be able move one or both of the bars a little farther with more lime, but who wants to spend more lime?
-Next up? Well, lead will go in the right direction for Cuttability, but wrong for Flammability - it's low, but close to where the bar is now and in the wrong direction, so it will increase Flammability quickly as it lowers Cuttability. Lead's also annoying to make. Try throwing Petroleum on instead - just enough to reach its Cuttability value. Watch how slowly Flammability increases compared to how quickly Cuttability decreases. You may undo a tick of Flammabilty at most.
+Next up? Well, lead will go in the right direction for Cuttability, but wrong for Flammability - it's low, but close to where the bar is now and in the wrong direction, so it will increase Flammability quickly as it lowers Cuttability. Lead's also annoying to make. Try throwing Petroleum on instead - just enough to reach its Cuttability value. Watch how slowly Flammability increases compared to how quickly Cuttability decreases. You may undo a tick of Flammability at most.
 Next will depend on your tank's actual values, but you may be able to get away with solely using cheap, plentiful Charcoal in small increments to get the exact timing right - if not, consider the highly flammable Sulfur. It's not perfect, and it's not as cheap as charcoal, but it will do almost nothing to increase Flammability and a great deal to decrease Cuttability. Exactly what you want. With a combination of the two, you will need no more Lime.

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-! Property !! Very Low<br><=7 !! Low<br>7<X<=21 !! Very High<br>>=58
+! Property !! Very Low<br><= 9 !! Low<br>9 < X <= 24 !! Very High<br>>= 61
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 | '''Flexibility''' || Rigid ||  || Pliable

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 == Finding Recipes ==
-Once you have your K-Values, you can use a simulator to find a new recipe for a given type of boards.
+Once you have your K-Values, you can use a simulator to find a new recipe for a given type of boards. Another option is simply using the Wood Treatment Tank instead of calculating anything - few materials are that expensive, as you get up to 10s of treatment per deben of material and watching the bars move can be fun and helpful to visualize exactly how the process is working.
 '''REMEMBER:''' The closer the value for some attribute is to what the "ideal" for the treatment chemical is, the more effect it will have.

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 '''REMEMBER:''' The closer the value for some attribute is to what the "ideal" for the treatment chemical is, the more effect it will have.
-''To be added''
+This section here was labeled To Be Added, but that's pretty much the most important thing - keep in mind that a particular treatment having a very high value for one attribute, for a board recipe that calls for a very low value for that attribute, or vice versa, is not necessarily a '''bad''' thing - it's often exactly what you want, when it drives your other value(s) in a direction they need to go more quickly.
 === Simulator ===

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 #:<span style="font-family:courier new;">('''72''' - '''7''')<sup>2</sup>/(2*'''460''') = 65<sup>2</sup>/920 = 4225/920 = 4.592391</span>
-  So the Glossiness K-Value in our example wood treatment tank is: 5.0268087
+  So the Glossiness K-Value in our example wood treatment tank is: 4.592391
 At this point, we can see that the beeswax treatment should have also maxed out the '''Water Resistance''' at 72. So to calculate the Water Resistance K-Value, we will need to drop the Water Resistance as low as possible from that high starting point.

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 # Let's assume this takes 460 seconds in this example. This value is the '''ResourceSeconds'''.
 # Calculate the Glossiness K-Value:
-#:<span style="font-family:courier new;">('''72''' - '''7''')<sup>2</sup>/(2*'''460''') = 68<sup>2</sup>/920 = 4624/920 = 5.026087</span>
+#:<span style="font-family:courier new;">('''72''' - '''7''')<sup>2</sup>/(2*'''460''') = 65<sup>2</sup>/920 = 4225/920 = 4.592391</span>
   So the Glossiness K-Value in our example wood treatment tank is: 5.0268087

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 === An Example ===
-We know that an untreated board starts with a '''Glossiness''' of 4 by looking in the table above. If we used beeswax to shift the glossiness higher, it would eventually reach 72, again according to the table. Thus, the '''Start Value''' will be 4, and the '''End Value''' will be 72.
+We know that an untreated board starts with a '''Glossiness''' of 7 by looking in the table above. If we used beeswax to shift the glossiness higher, it would eventually reach 72, again according to the table. Thus, the '''Start Value''' will be 7, and the '''End Value''' will be 72.
 # Put a board in the tank.

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	Wood treatment is performed in a [[Wood Treatment Tank]], using small amounts of various chemicals to treat from 1 to 500 [[Boards]] at a time. By adjusting the time of treatment (amount) and order of application of these chemicals, the attributes of the boards can be gradually adjusted until they reach a specified goal.		Wood treatment is performed in a [[Wood Treatment Tank]], using small amounts of various chemicals to treat from 1 to 500 [[Boards]] at a time. By adjusting the time of treatment (amount) and order of application of these chemicals, the attributes of the boards can be gradually adjusted until they reach a specified goal.

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 === Treatment Chemicals ===
-Boards in the tank may be treated with any or all of the following resources: [[Ash]], [[Beeswax]], [[Bonemeal]], [[Charcoal]], [[Lead]], [[Lime]], [[Oil]], [[Petroleum]], [[Potash]], [[Saltpeter]], [[Sulfur]] or [[Water in Jugs|Water]].
+Boards in the tank may be treated with any or all of the following resources: [[Ash]], [[Beeswax]], [[Bonemeal]], [[Charcoal]], [[Lead]], [[Lime]], [[Oil]], [[Petroleum]], [[Potash]], [[Saltpeter]], [[Sulfur]] or [[Water]].
 Every 10 seconds of treatment consumes 1 deben of the resource (rounded up). (For example, 385 seconds of beeswax treatment would require 39 deben of beeswax.)