Paper is either made from the processed stalk of the Papyrus crop, from Animal Hides, or from a lengthy process using specific types of Wood. Paper is useful for many things―like Backpacks and Nametags―but most importantly it is required for progression into the Electric Age!
Paper can be directly sourced from the Papyrus crop. Papyrus must first be cut into strips with a Knife...
Then, papyrus strips are soaked in a Barrel of Water.
Then, soaked papyrus strips are woven together in a Loom to make Unrefined Paper. Finally, it must be placed on a log and Scraped to make Paper.
Parchment Paper starts with a Scraped Hide. Parchment requires treatment with a few different items. First, Pumice is needed. Pumice is found on the ground near Volcanoes, rarely from Panning, or from raiding the chests of locals.
Combiner de la pierre ponce, un marteau et une peau grattée donne des sections de Peau traitée.
Treated hide, lime powder, flour, and a fresh egg will complete the treatment process and yield usable paper.
Creating Paper from Wood is an ancient process that requires processing of sturdy types of wood into sheets, which are broken down into a pulp, and then pressed, dried and scraped to make paper.
Note that softer types of wood are not suitable for making paper, only Hardwoods can produce paper.
The process begins by stripping the Hardwood's bark off to expose the internal fibers of the log, You can strip the log by placing it down and Right Click it with an axe.
Next, the stripped wood is shaven with an axe to obtain Hardwood Strips. This can be done using an Axe or more sophisticated methods later.
Then, the individual strips are soaked in a Barrel of Water. This debilitates the structural integrity of the wood so it can be broken down further.
Afterward, utilize the Quern to break down the soaked strips into Hardwood Pulp.
While the quern gives you small piles of pulp, you'll want to combine them together in a Workbench. More advanced methods of crushing the strips yield higher amounts of pulp.
Before the pulp can be processed further into paper, it needs to be broken down further by Boiling it with Lye in a Vat or a Pot.
After broken down by boiling it with Lye, the Thermochemically Treated Hardwood Pulp can be pressed down into a sheet of Soaked Unrefined Paper. You can stomp the treated hardwood pulp in a Stomping Barrel into sheets, or you can use an Anvil.
The final step is Drying the Soaked Unrefined Paper into Unrefined Paper, Which then can be Scraped into Paper as shown before.
Advancing in the Tech-Tree will allow you to create paper from wood with less overall steps, check EMI for the different approaches you can take for making paper with wood.
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