Flax Gin

Flax Gin
(Building)
Location
Compound
Requirements
Flax Automation
Cost to Build Bearings 20 Clay Bricks 800 Flystone 8 Full Eye Sunstone 2 Leather 100 Oil 150 Papyrus Basket 4 Rope 60 Brass Small Gears 40

Turns up to 200 Rotten Flax automatically, but slowly, into Lint, Straw and Tow. Needs *two* characters to start - one must Start the flax gin, while the other picks the Stabilize option on the Flax Gin's menu. The timing for this is not particularly tight - notably and conveniently, you will likely be able to spouse-log and have your spouse Stabilize the gins you Start. It is the only building in the game that absolutely and always requires two players to operate, and is a questionable anomaly in the modern game. (Yeah, that's editorializing. True though)

Flax processing 3/3 is required to build the flax gin, and may be necessary to operate/stabilize one

Can be tuned with the Mechanics skill.

Upgrade the base and hopper

Improves the capacity to 600 Rotten Flax.

• 400 Concrete
• 4 Copper Sheeting

Further upgrade the base and hopper

Improves the capacity to 1200 Rotten Flax.

• 300 Board
• 800 Concrete
• 30 Steel Sheeting

Other Upgrades

Flax Gins may be tuned using the Mechanics skill to run more quickly, and/or further upgraded with a Springbox to run more quickly still. Flax Gins with Springboxes may display unusual behavior: They process flax multiple units at a time, and simply stop if there is less Rotten Flax in the hopper than their unit for that step. It is seemingly possible to have a flax gin processing a non-integer amount of flax per step behind the scenes - this causes alternating amounts processed in successive steps, e.g. a gin processing 3.x will produce 3 flax one step, then 4 flax the next.