Silkfarming
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| Silkfarming | |
|---|---|
 "Ratjik's shirt was sewn, | |
| LP Cost | 1500 |
| Skill(s) Required |
Beekeeping |
| Skill(s) Enabled |
None |
| Hearth Magic(s) Unlocked | None |
| Required By (14) | Death's Head Chrysalis, Gold Cloth Pocket, Golden Cloth, Golden Thread, Monocle, Ranger's Cape, Ranger's Pants, Silk Cloth, Silk Filament, Silk Napkin, Silk Pocket, Silk Purse, Silk Tablecloth, Silk Thread |
| Go to Skills Page | |
"You've been spending time among the mulberries, and have learned how to farm and handle silk. Breed Silkmoths, set their eggs on herbalist tables, feed the worms mulberry leaves, and unravel the cocoons."
Silkfarming allows you to process Silkmoths into silk. Silkmoth can still be caught and bred without this skill.
Production
- Catch a male and a female Silkmoth. They are randomly seen flying around Grassland and Forest Terrain.
- Place the Silkmoths into the same container. 8 males and 8 females per cabinet seems to be optimal for maximum egg production. After 8 hours (real-time), they will die and lay 5-10 Silkworm Eggs. Any Silkmoth without a mate will also die, but without producing eggs. The quality of the eggs will be the average of the parents +/- 5.
- Put Silkworm Eggs onto a Herbalist Table for Game: 1d (Real: 7h 18m) hours (real-time). They will hatch into Silkworms. If the table's quality is below that of the egg, the worm's quality will be reduced.
- Put Silkworms in a cabinet filled with Mulberry Leaves.Each mulberry leaf can be eaten eight times, thus one leaf can feed two silkworms. 42 silkworms/21 Mulberry Leaves per cabinet seems optimal. Silkworms check for and eat the leaves every Game: 12h (Real: 3h 39m). If they miss a meal more than once, they die. Whenever a Silkworm eats a leaf of lower quality than itself, the Silkworm's quality will lower. After eating four, they will turn into Silkworm Cocoons.
- Silkworm Cocoons will hatch into a Silkmoth of a random gender after Game: 2d (Real: 14h 35m). Alternatively, they can be boiled for 1-2 Silk Filament. You have a chance to get second filament with the Gardening and Forestry skills. With Druidic Rite you always get two.
- 10 Silk Filaments can be spun into 1 Silk Thread on a Spinning Wheel, 10 of which can be woven into 1 Silk Cloth at a Loom. (ie. You need 100 filaments for one cloth)
Stacking Note: Do NOT stack silkworms inside a cupboard with mulberry leaves. If they are stacked, they cannot eat the leaves, and they will die. It is okay to stack Mulberry Leaves in a cupboard for feeding.
Gallery
Silk Process (Outdated Pre-W14)
An optimal silk farm (Pre-W14)
Game Development
- World 14 (2022-08-12)◎ >"Reworked the Mulberry leaf mechanic. Mulberry leaves now have a number of "uses" when silk worms eat them, ~50. Aiming to normalize the amount of leaves provided by a single tree."