Legacy:Kiln

A kiln is required mainly to burn clay goods to ceramics. It will hold up to 25 (5 x 5) unburnt items.

Keep in mind that you need certain ceramics for prospecting, cheesemaking, masonry and planting trees, and other kiln products to make tea and glass and to process iron.

How to Acquire

You'll need:

• 45 Clay
• Pottery skill
• a 3x3 paved area to place it (see Lay Stone in Terraforming)

1. Plow a 3x3 area.
2. Lay Stone on the plowed area.
3. Learn the Pottery skill.
4. Acquire clay. Keep in mind that the kiln has a quality value, determined as the average of the used clay quality.
5. Build -> Construction -> Kiln to place the construction site.
6. Place clay from your inventory in the construction site dialog box. (Note: construction sites disappear if you leave without putting anything into them first.)
7. Repeat steps 4. and 6. until you have 45 units of clay in the building site.
8. Click Build and wait for your character to finish constructing it.

Alternatively, click "Build" after adding every new load of clay. This will stop people from nicking your clay off the kiln building site.

Placement tips:

• When built, the Kiln will need Branches or blocks of wood as fuel for the fire; constructing your Kiln near trees is a good idea.
• Many Kiln products require further clay. As clay quality may vary within a short trip distance, both building a permanent settlement next to a high quality clay node and running clay digging trips are considerable actions.

How to use

Adding fuel:

1. Left-click a Branch in your inventory.
2. Right-click the Kiln.(Hold down shift to avoid repeating step one.)
3. Continue adding Branches (or blocks of wood, which raise the bar faster) this way until you have as much fuel as you'll need (it's going to take 5 or more branches.)
4. Right-click the Kiln without a branch to see the Kiln's inventory and fuel indicator (the bar on the right.)

Adding the unburnt object:

1. Create an unburnt object such as the ones in the Craft -> Ceramics menu. Alternatively, obtain blocks of wood, sand or germinated wheat seeds.
2. Right-click the Kiln.
3. Drag the unburnt object from your inventory to the Kiln's inventory. Alternatively, place blocks of wood, clay, sand or germinated wheat seeds in the kiln to obtain charcoal, bricks, raw glass or malted wheat.

Click Light to start the process. Seems to take about an hour. (Editor's note: would be nice to have a list of durations here, and/or in individual items' pages.)

Note: burning clay and sand together with ceramics goes well, as bricks and raw glass don't take damage on overburn. Burning wood to charcoal or malting wheat should be done under control, less you burn valuable organic materials to ashes.