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DF2010:Soap
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Soap is used by dwarves for both personal cleaning and health care.
Soap is made by combining lye and tallow in a Soap maker's workshop. This command must be entered through the Manager screen j-m-q; the workshop interface is empty. This is a bug that occasionally fixes itself after requesting soap through the manager screen.
One unit of tallow plus one unit of lye creates a single bar of soap. Only lye in barrels will be used, lye in buckets that has not yet been transferred into a barrel will not be used.
Dwarves do not require soap to clean contaminants such as mud and blood from themselves, and instead will use murky pools, artificial pools of water, brooks, or a well. 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 bloodstain. For cleaning wounds and preventing infection after surgery, however, hospitals should be kept stocked with a small amount of soap.
Soap can be stored in a bars/block stockpile.
[edit] Bugs
Note that the dreaded "[animal] cancels clean self:Area inaccessible." message-spam stems from animals trying to clean themselves with soap, typically by putting it in their mouth. Sadly the only remedy seems to be to not produce soap, except for the hospital, soap stored there is safe from animals. Another workaround might be to only have soap in areas separated from animals by doors, but we know how well that works in the long run, don't we? Temporarily forbidding all soap bars through the stock menu seems to stop the madness and the culprits in question will wash themselves at a well or pool.
Now also occurs with dwarves. Bug:1023 Again, the remedy is to forbid soap until your dwarves clean themselves without soap.
