DF2014:Soap
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Soap is a particularly useful type of bar used for personal cleaning, which increases happiness ("recently took a soapy bath") and lowers the chances of an infection in case they are wounded, and for cleaning wounds in hospitals, preventing infections from developing. It is thus a vital commodity in dwarven health care, and one not traded in caravans: you're going to have to make some soap yourself. Since soap is considered to be a bar, it can be used to make constructions and workshops.
Manufacture[edit]
Soap is made of two components, lye and fat (either tallow or oil), and requires a dedicated workshop, the soap maker's workshop. It has a somewhat complicated production process; lye must be produced at an ashery from ash, which in turn must be created at a wood furnace from wood logs that must first be cut down. Tallow is rendered from the fat from butchered animals at a kitchen, requiring either livestock or hunting activities, while oil must be pressed from seeds or rock nuts at a screw press, which first requires gathering or growing crops and then processing them at the farmer's workshop. One unit of tallow or oil plus one of lye creates a single bar of finished soap.
| Soapmaking procedure | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chop wood | Butcher an animal | Mill seeds with a quern or millstone | Press oil from olives (fruit) in a screw press | |||||||||||
| Make ash in a wood furnace | Render fat in a kitchen | Press oil from seed paste in a screw press | ||||||||||||
| Make lye at an ashery | Tallow | Oil | ||||||||||||
| Lye | Tallow or Oil | |||||||||||||
| Make soap at a soap maker's workshop | ||||||||||||||
| Soap | ||||||||||||||
Hygiene[edit]
Dwarves do not require soap to clean contaminants such as mud and blood from themselves - if necessary, they will use murky pools, artificial pools of water, brooks, or a well. However, using soap will often generate the happy thought "recently took a soapy bath". It is possible to construct bath-houses (rooms containing pools of water, a soap stockpile, and perhaps a few nice statues) so dwarves living deep underground need not venture to dangerous cave pools or surface brooks to clean off a little mud or some bloodstains. For cleaning wounds and preventing infection after surgery, however, hospitals should be kept stocked with a small amount of soap. Soap will get used up as dwarves wash themselves; the current rate seems to be 1/10th of a bar per washing, so each bar lasts quite a while.
Dwarves have an internal "dirtiness" level, which slowly builds up over time, gets lowered when they have a bath, and lowered further when they have a soapy bath. This "dirtiness" value is connected to the chance of getting an infection if the dwarf is injured, making soap useful as a preventative as well as treatment.
Soap is stored in bar/block stockpiles with the "soap" option enabled.
A convenient way to keep an emergency stockpile of soap is to use it as a building material for workshops or constructions such as walls. When/if you need more soap, you can deconstruct and get the soap bars back. Since soap in a hospital is reserved for hospital use, this is especially useful in case you start to produce soap before setting up a hospital.
"Soap" in other Languages 
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| Raws | |
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[MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SOAP_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_COLOR:ALL_SOLID:CREAM]
[STATE_NAME:ALL_SOLID:soap]
[STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:soap]
[STATE_COLOR:LIQUID:CREAM]
[STATE_NAME:LIQUID:melted soap]
[STATE_ADJ:LIQUID:melted soap]
[STATE_COLOR:GAS:CREAM]
[STATE_NAME:GAS:n/a]
[STATE_ADJ:GAS:n/a]
[DISPLAY_COLOR:7:0:1]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:1]
[SPEC_HEAT:800]
[IGNITE_POINT:10508]
[MELTING_POINT:10078]
[BOILING_POINT:NONE]
[HEATDAM_POINT:10250]
[COLDDAM_POINT:9900]
[MAT_FIXED_TEMP:NONE]
[SOLID_DENSITY:500]
[LIQUID_DENSITY:NONE]
[MOLAR_MASS:NONE]
[IMPACT_YIELD:10000]
[IMPACT_FRACTURE:10000]
[IMPACT_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
[COMPRESSIVE_YIELD:10000]
[COMPRESSIVE_FRACTURE:10000]
[COMPRESSIVE_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
[TENSILE_YIELD:10000]
[TENSILE_FRACTURE:10000]
[TENSILE_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
[TORSION_YIELD:10000]
[TORSION_FRACTURE:10000]
[TORSION_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
[SHEAR_YIELD:10000] no data
[SHEAR_FRACTURE:10000]
[SHEAR_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
[BENDING_YIELD:10000]
[BENDING_FRACTURE:10000]
[BENDING_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:100]
[MAX_EDGE:0]
[ABSORPTION:100]
[REACTION_CLASS:SOAP]
[IMPLIES_ANIMAL_KILL]
[SOAP][SOAP_LEVEL:2]
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| Materials | |
|---|---|
| Creature | Blood • Bone • Cartilage • Cheese • Chitin • Egg • Extract • Fat • Feather • Hair • Honey • Horn • Ivory • Leather • Meat • Milk • Nail • Nervous tissue • Parchment • Royal jelly • Scale • Shell • Silk • Skin • Soap • Tallow • Wax • Wool • Yarn |
| Plant | Booze • Dye • Extract • Flour • Flower • Fruit • Leaf • Oil • Paper • Plant fiber • Press cake • Seed • Slurry • Wood |
| Inorganic | Ceramic (Earthenware • Porcelain • Stoneware) • Clay • Gem • Gypsum plaster • Metal • Milk of lime • Ore • Quicklime • Sand • Soil • Stone |
| Hardcoded | Amber • Ash • Coral • Filth • Fuel • Glass • Grime • Ice • Lye • Magma • Mud • Pearlash • Potash • Salt • Tears • Unknown substance • Vomit • Water |
| Industry | |
|---|---|
| Primary Industries | Beekeeping • Farming • Fishing • Gathering • Meat • Poultry • Stone • Wood |
| Secondary Industries | Alcohol • Armor • Arms • Ceramic • Extract • Finished goods • Fuel • Furniture • Gem • Glass • Metal • Paper • Soap • Textile |
| Tertiary Industries | Military • Health care • Noble • Trade |
