Wood Ashes

[DJFergy 8]

So there I was just cooking up some lamb chops. I then thought, 'Why does wood just disappear instead of turning into ash?' Perhaps, in-game, once a log loses its burn it would turn into ash and if there is too much ash the firepit or forge will suffocate and die out. Removing the ash would be a necessity. There are a couple of real world applications of wood ash such as using it as a fertilizer and by converting it to lye, which is used as a preservative for canned fruits.both of these things could be used to great effect in TFC. The wood ash by itself could be used to boost crop yield (not make the crops grow faster). I know food spoilage has been touched on many times, so I won't delve into it, but the preservative qualities of lye could be very useful in the event spoilage is ever implemented.

[callisto8413 19]

And soap! Smelly Frontier life.

[persianpenname 3]

How great would it be to make soap? Then if you got too stinky, all the game could smell you coming and run off.

[aliceingame 114]

In a firepit, ash would most likely never be able to kill the fire, as the logs are always on top of ash.

And if you let run out of log, after many hours, under the ligh ash layer on top of the fire, you will still have ember. If you had a decent size fire, even after 12 hours it will be hot and if you put dry material, you can re-lid a fire.