Silkworm Breeding

The breeding of silkworms

• You can build 'and use' a Silkworm Breeding when you learned the skill Silkworm Breeding learned at School of Art and Music at level 19 of your character.
• Can be found in the menu Workshop -> Projects -> Agriculture -> Silkworm breeding

Cost

• 200 Board: non-toxic
• 25 Papyrus leaf (here called papyrus paper)
• 50 Iron s
• 50 Glass sheet
• 10 Copper Coating
• 1 Thermometer
• 20 Painting: Turquoise
• 20 Painting: Pale Turquoise

Built in a Workshop, uses 11x11 cells.

Using == ==

• Silkworm Breeding can be used to generate silk (considered as silk thread) by feeding silkworms with thistles grown in a Thistle Garden .
• The Silk can be woven into Silk Piece.

• If they are not fed, the worms survive but do not make silk.
• Breeding works in 4-day cycle:
  • 12 hours for a generation to appear.
  • 3 days for the cocoons to hatch: during this period, some type of thistle is required, they must be placed in the farm before hatching.
  • 12 hours for the worms to produce silk (if they have been fed) or simply to survive (if not fed) before the cycle starts again.

• The type of thistle will change with each cycle of silk produced and will be different for each farm.
  • If they are not fed, the type of thistle requested will remain the same in the next cycle unless you use a [[Required :: Silkworm Unguent].

== == Production

• The number of silk produced is not linear and will depend on the number of thistles placed in the breeding:
  • For a small number of thistles, the ratio will be 1 thistle for a silk.
  • For 500-750 thistles, the ration will be 1 thistle for 1.5 silk.
  • After 1,000 thistles, the ratio is 1 to 1.

NdSebilis: for 750 thistles, you will get almost 1000 silk, it is the most classic employee yield