Editing Soap

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[[File:soap_sprite_preview.png|right]]'''Soap''' is a particularly useful type of [[bar]] used for [[clean self|personal cleaning]], which increases happiness ("recently took a soapy bath") and lowers the chances of an [[Health care|infection]] in case of [[wound|injury]], and for cleaning [[wound]]s in [[hospital]]s, preventing infections from developing. It is thus a vital commodity in dwarven [[health care]], and one not traded in [[caravan]]s: you're going to have to make soap yourself.

Soap is stored in Bar/Block [[stockpiles]] with the "soap" option enabled.

Unlike most other items, bars of soap have a "durability" level which allows jobs to partially consume them – each bar starts with 150 units, and cleaning jobs consume varying quantities of soap before ultimately using it up.

== Manufacture ==
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 [[woodcutting|cut down]]. [[Tallow]] is rendered from the [[fat]] from butchered [[creature|animal]]s at a [[kitchen]], requiring either [[Meat industry|livestock]] or [[hunting]] activities, while oil must be [[pressing|pressed]] from [[seed]]s or [[rock nut]]s at a [[screw press]], which first requires [[plant gathering|gathering]] or [[farming|growing]] [[crop]]s 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.

'''NOTE:''' Lye storage suffers from an ongoing bug which can render your lye inaccessible. See the [[lye]] page for information on avoiding/rectifying the problem.

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=== Work Orders ===

Setting up [[work orders]] for soap can be tricky, as two of the recommended conditions are wrong:
* The recommended condition for lye is "lye-containing items", but this is incorrect, as a barrel containing 10 items of lye will only count as a single lye-''containing'' item. Instead, for "Type" select "Liquid" and for "Mat" select "Lye", resulting in a condition on simply "lye".
* The recommended condition for the output is simply "bars", which is rather unhelpful. To make a condition for just soap bars, for "Type" select "Bars", and then go into "Adj" and check "Soap items". While many soap materials are listed under "Mat", make sure none of these are selected, as these will check only for that specific kind of soap.

== Hygiene ==
Dwarves do not require soap to clean [[contaminant]]s such as mud and blood from themselves – if necessary, they will use [[murky pool]]s, 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, [[hospital]]s should be kept stocked with a small amount of soap. Soap will get used up as dwarves wash themselves, and dirtier dwarves consume soap more quickly.

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.  

{{Translation
| dwarven = uben
| elvish  = dathe
| goblin  = snubez
| human   = kamven}}


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