October 2017

2 posts

Recipe - Faering Hull

The recipe presented in the last post is of a small size. Many recipes require much more calculation than soap does (though recall that the definitions for the other recipes that go into it also required their own calculations.)

In this post I'll included screenshots of all of the calculations for the "hull, faering" recipe. I believe this is the largest recipe so far, both in terms of calculation and in number of sub-components.

A faering is a type of rowboat. Since this recipe only calculates the hull, the boat is not complete: there are no seats, no oarlocks, and no oars. Still, there's quite a lot to see, and I'm restricting myself to only those items which are directly being used in the faering hull. I'll show rivets, for example, which are made of copper, but I won't then go and show the copper recipe.

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The Recipe System

Previous posts have addressed the establishment of references to raw materials ("mats") and to various types of artisan, craftsman, and laborer ("services") in the game world; the manner by which importing is done from city to city so that each one ends up with at least a little bit of everything, both mats and services; and how an increased distance from a source for a mat or service X lowers its availability and thus increases its price directly (mat) or increases the price of all goods which are created by a given type of worker (service.)

What we are still missing, however, are the components of the economy system which take us from the finished import step (where the relative availability of mats and services is known for each city) to the price tables which I have posted here (for the most recent version, see this page.)

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