Chicken Coop

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= Source =
This building becomes available after you have learned the [[requires::Avian Selection]] tech.

To find a Hen Examine Pale Pampas Grass near the shoreline of any body of water. If you succeed, you will get a msg saying you caught a hen. Roosters are harder to catch and can be found by examining Dark pampas Grass. (Euripedus)

= Cost =

Must be built from a [[Small_Construction_Site|Small Construction Site]]

* 50 [[requires::Boards]]
* 600 [[requires::Bricks]]
* 15 [[requires::Cut Stone]]
* 60 [[requires::Dried Flax]]

= Use =
Chicken Coops house [[produces::Chickens]] (Hens and Rosters), and they can breed and lay [[produces::Eggs]] here.

When an egg hatches into a chicken, it leaves behind a [[produces::Crushed Eggshell]] in the coop. A chicken in a coop can be slaughtered to yield [[produces::Chicken Meat]].

Chickens eat [[Barley]].

From T3:
* Hens eat about 5 Barley each per game day.
** You can keep 20 Hens in a coop.
** Hens produce 1 egg each per game day.
* Roosters eat abut 20 Barley each per game day.
* Eggs hatch 1 Hen (95%) or 1 Rooster (5%) per game day.
** You can put up to 100 eggs in a coop, but only 20 of them will hatch.
** If a rooster hatches, you will only get Roosters that day, and usually just one Rooster.

= Slats (copied from T3) =

The temperature inside a coop changes from hour to hour, depending largely on the Egyptian day/night cycle. As chickens thrive best within a certain temperature range, proper maintenance is an important part of raising poultry. Your tool for regulating temperature is opening and closing the ventilation slats in the coop. Slats can be fully open, mostly open, half open, slightly open, or closed.

* When the slats are '''open''', the coop gets hotter during the day and cooler at night.
* When the slats are '''closed''', the coop cools off during the day and stays warmer at night.

An additional factor to account for is that some days are warmer than others.

== Chicken Coop Temperature Control ==

This page describes the optimum temperatures, obtained by adjusting the Chicken Coop Slats, for obtaining Eggs and hatching Hens and Roosters. Stated briefly, each coop changes it's behavior once every 24 hours, at exactly midnight, and the user needs to adjust the ambient air slats to counteract the 24 hour driver.

This page discusses techniques for achieving a Chicken Coop temperature, at 6:00 AM each morning, that is the most conducive to:

* Hens laying Eggs (Warm at 6:10 AM)
* Eggs hatching to Roosters (Speculation - Warm at 6:10 AM, but only %5 probability)
* Eggs hatching to Hens (Speculation - Warm at 6:10 AM)

The Hens will lay eggs and (speculation the eggs will hatch) at any temperature, but your odds are better when the temperature is between 60 and 100 degrees. The temperature during the remainder of the 24 hour period is unimportant, except that you can't let the temperature get so far from nominal that you can't pull it back into the target range by 6:00 AM.

Hens will continue to lay eggs if Barley is available and the temperature is comfortable. Roosters don't seems to be required for anything. <== Comment from MarvL So you might as well give your Roosters to Balthazarr for reasearch ;) <== Response from Balthazarr
Roosters seem to be required for producing chickens (which you would also expect) - Solaris

Hens will only lay, and eggs will only hatch, if some hens or some eggs have been in the coop for more than 24 hours. If you're short on Barley, you can add Hens at 5:30 AM and remove them again at 6:30 AM, to conserve Barley. Other than temperature, the program only checks the coops once per game day.

If the reported temperatures are not in the 60-100 degree range at 6:00 AM and 6:00 PM, you'll need to reset the slats. The thermometer is capped/bottomed at 120/20 degrees, but the Chicken Coop still knows how hot/cold it really is, and the probabilities are based on the real temperatures.

If your Chicken Coops have stalled, it's because the temperatures have gotten so high or so low that you're repeatedly falling outside of the optimum temperature band at 6:00 AM.

== Chicken Coop Characteristics ==

* The temperature of the outside ambient air varies sinusoidally. It is useful to think of the sun as heating up the outside ambient air. The greater the difference between the current coop temperature and the hypothetical ambient air temperature for that time of day, the greater the influence of the slat settings.
** The ambient air temperature is 20 degrees at 6:00 AM
** The ambient air temperature is 120 degrees at 6:00 PM.
** The dotted line on the graph indicates the ambient temperature.

* The user can influence the Chicken Coop temperature by setting the slats to control the amount of ambient air that's admitted.
** Fully Open Slats allow the ambient air to have full influence.
** Mostly Open Slats allow the ambient air to have 50% influence.
** Half Open Slats remove ambient air from consideration.
** Slightly Open Slats have the opposite effect of mostly open slats, who knows how.
** Closed Slats have the opposite effect of fully open slats, who knows how.
** Note that you will have to reverse the slats at 6:00 AM and 6:00 PM to maintain a consistent effect.

* Each Chicken Coop has it's own game controlled air conditioning unit that changes at exactly gameday midnight.
** Hot for this time of day will drive the temperature up for the next 24 hours, but more slowly than fully open/closed slats.
** Warm for this time of day will drive the temperature up for the next 24 hours, but more slowly than mostly open/slightly closed slats.
** There is no neutral mode. You should be so lucky.
** Cool for this time of day is the inverse of Warm.
** Quite Cool for for this time of day is the inverse of Hot.

== Coop Conditions ==
'''Chicken Coop conditions change every six hours'''
* Temperatures are calculated once every 15 game minutes, and individual Coops are not synchronized.
** The sun rises at exactly 6:00 AM, and the effect of ambient air switches to warming mode.
*** The temperature is capped at 120 degrees.
*** The temperature doesn't reset to 120 degrees, if you're running hot, you'll stay at 120 degrees for longer.
** The sun sets at exactly 6:00 PM, and the effect of ambient air switches to cooling mode.
*** The temperature is bottomed at 20 degrees.
*** The temperature doesn't reset to 20 degrees, if you're cold, you're running cold, you'll stay at 20 degrees for longer.
** The profile is vaguely sinusoidal.

* Midnight is the critical adjustment time, as that's when the time of day driver changes.
* Sunrise at 6:00 AM causes the effect of ambient air, and therefore the appropriate slat position, to reverse.
* Eggs are laid and hatched at 6:10 AM.
* Sunset at 6:00 PM causes the effect of ambient air, and therefore the appropriate slat position, to reverse.

== Factors ==
'''The game controlled driver and the user controlled slats are additive'''
* We've been monitoring 5 chicken coops, in adjacent locations, and have never seen mixed hot/cool drivers. They seem to be a mix of Quite Cool/Cool or else Warm/Hot. We haven't explored whether coops throughout Egypt behave this way.
* The 24 hour driver seems to be a constant.
* The effect of the slats depends on the temperature of the ambient air or, more specifically, the temperature differential.
** If you are close to the ambient temperature, the 24 hour driver will act as an offset.
*** This condition usually exists around noon and midnight, when the ambient air temperature is always 70 degrees.
** If you are way off of the ambient temperature, the slat settings will dominate.
*** This condition usually exists at 6:00 AM when the ambient air temperature is always 20 degrees.
*** This condition usually exists at 6:00 PM when the ambient air temperature is always 120 degrees.
** There will be a definite knee at 6:00 AM and 6:00 PM if you don't reverse the slat settings.
* The 24 hour driver and the Slat settings are additive but bounded at a Fully Open or Closed rate of change.
** You can't go up any faster than Hot or Fully Open/Closed during the Day/Night.
** Warm plus Mostly Open/Slightly Open during the Day/Night is the same as Hot.
** Warm/Slightly cool plus Slightly Open/Mostly Open during the Day/Night cancel each other.
** Cool plus Slightly Open/Mostly Open during the Day/Night is the same at Quite Cool.
** You can't go down any faster Quite Cool or Closed/Fully Open during the Day/Night.

== General Slat Setting ==
=== Half Open Slats ===
The following temperature profile was provided by a set of five adjacent Chicken Coops

The movement of these temperature is due entirely to the 24 hour driver. The user controlled flaps were set at neutral, or half open for this test.

=== The Balanced Approach ===
The optimum strategy is to check your Chicken Coops three times per day.
* Shortly after midnight, to respond to the new 24 hour drivers.
* Just before 6:10 AM to reverse the slat setting. If you switch production modes between all hens or all eggs, you'll lose the next 24 hours of production. There's a 24 hour waiting period when you reconfigure a coop.
* Just after 6:10 AM to collect the Eggs and/or Hens and to add Barley.
** You can actually collect them anytime during the next 24 hours, but you'll be too curious to wait.
** If you have both hens and eggs in a coop, production will stall unless you also have a rooster.
** If there's no Barley, the Chickens will leave.
** When eggs hatch you'll also get eggshells. You can leave them in the coop or gather them. It doesn't effect production.
* Noon doesn't matter, unless your coops have been running cold, and you want to yank the temperatures up a ways.
* Around 6:00 PM to reverse the slat settings.

At 6:00 PM we reversed the slats so that they would continue to balance (oppose) the current 24 hour driver.

We weren't around at midnight when the 24 hour drivers randomly switched from Cold to Hot. Consequently, the temperature zoomed, but we knew we had plenty of wiggle room.

The new hens in coop #T1 were still on a 24 hour production hold, but all of the eligible coops produced eggs.

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Chicken Coop

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60 cubits wool = 1 wool cloth on Student/Hand Loom

Deep Well

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== Source ==
This building becomes available once you have learned the [[Deep Well Construction]] tech.

== Cost ==
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* 200 [[requires::Rope]]
* 400 [[requires::Boards]]
* 300 [[requires::Nails]]
* 20 [[requires::Screw Gear]]
* 500 [[requires::Oil]]
* 2000 [[requires::Leather]]

Built in a [[Medium Construction Site]].

== Use ==
The operation of a Deep Well is similar both to an [[Aqueduct Pump]] or a [[Barrel Grinder]]. The Deep Well has a "Wind the well spring" option, which involves END and STR.

* The END represents how long you have to wait before doing it again. Base timer is 180 seconds.
* The STR represents how much Spring Tension is added. This is calculated at (STR + 1)

A Deep Well can be wound providing the spring tension is below 100.
* This is not the maximum - if you have 25 STR, and the Spring Tension is 99, this will give you 125 Spring Tension.
* Attempting to wind the spring when the Spring Tension is 100 or more will generate the message "The well spring is as tight as you can get it".

After winding, each minute (more like 75 seconds) will...
* Increase the Deep Well inventory by 6 [[produces::Petroleum]]
* Increase the Water Level by between 4 and 6
* Increase the Depth by 1
* Decrease the Spring Tension by 1.

Once it reaches a Spring Tension of 0, the Deep Well will "break", and needs to be repaired.

By this, the keen observer will notice that just str 2 should be sufficient to keep it going. So even a peasant could drink from a aqua tower, and do all the petroleum they wants. Higher end/str just makes it more pleasant.

=== Repair Cost ===
* 50 [[Leather]]
* 50 [[Oil]]

See note on discussion page. -Peshet

== Public Deep Wells ==
Because Deep Wells are large community projects, they are often set "public" for anyone to use. Expect the well to need repair when you arrive.

[[Sinai_Projects|Sinai Projects]] Public Deep Well @ 2791, 4810

Ceremonial Tasting Table

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{{Template:BuildingInfo|image=Tastingtable01.jpg|size=13x6|where=[[where::Compound]]|description=Used for drinking wine and beer.}}

== Source ==
This building becomes available after you have learned the [[requires::Carpentry]] skill.
''(Note: With Carpentry skill, this item is still not buildable, suggesting a requirement for something else as well)''

== Cost ==
* 6 [[requires::Oyster Shell Marble]]
* 20 [[requires::Boards]]

Built in a [[Compound]]. Uses 13x6 cells.

'''Upgrades'''
* Install [[Wine Glass]]es.

== Use ==
For sampling [[Wine]] and [[Beer]].

'''Glass Layout''' 
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Ceremonial Tasting Table

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== Source ==
This building becomes available after you have learned the [[requires::Carpentry]] skill.
''(Note: With Carpentry skill, this item is still not buildable, suggesting a requirement for something else as well)''

== Cost ==
* 6 [[requires::Oyster Shell Marble]]
* 20 [[requires::Boards]]

Built in a [[Compound]]. Uses 13x6 cells.

'''Upgrades'''
* Install [[Wine Glass]]es.

== Use ==
For sampling [[Wine]] and [[Beer]].

'''Glass Layout''' 
[[Image:CTT_GlassLayout.jpg]]

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Anvil

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==Overview==
Used for creating various hammered metal products.

==Source==
This building becomes available to be built after the [[Advanced Blacksmithing]] technology is learned at a [[University of Art & Music]]. (But an anvil can be operated with only the [[Blacksmithing]] tech).

==Cost==
*1 [[requires::Anvil Bed]]
*120 [[requires::Firebricks]]
*4 [[requires::Water in Jugs ]]

Built in a [[Compound]]. Uses 7x13 cells.

Tip: Build your anvil facing east to west instead of north to south because it will be much easier to work materials on the anvil using cartographer's camera from the camera options menu. The front of the anvil needs to face south. If it is facing the wrong direction, make sure you have salvage techniques and then tear it down and rebuild the anvil till you get it right.

==Use==
An anvil is used to create various metal tools by shaping a block of metal into a specific pattern. Using an anvil requires the [[Blacksmithing]] tech.

This uses various smithing tools, each with a different pattern in pushing metal:
*[[Ball Peen Hammer]]
*[[Round Hammer]]
*[[Shaping Mallet]]
*[[Wide Tungsten Chisel]]

The finished products are assigned a quality based on how close they are to the goal. The higher the quality, the more effective the tool, with 9999 being perfect. An anvil can produce the following:

*[[produces::Shovel]] - 10 metal; 4 wood to complete; require 6000+ to be effective
*[[produces::Carpentry Blade]] - 1 metal; requires quality 3000+ to be used
*[[produces::Tools#Hatchet|Hatchet]] - 20 metal
*[[produces::Tools#Resin Wedge|Resin Wedge]] - 7 metal
*[[produces::Sharp Edged Knife Blade]] - 10 metal
*[[produces::Spring]] - 1 metal
from any of the following metals, with stronger metals allowing more hits before the piece becomes too fragile to work.

*[[Copper]] - 160 hit limit
*[[Iron]] - 180 hit limit
*[[Brass]] - 200 hit limit
*[[Bronze]] - 210 hit limit
*[[Steel]] - 220 hit limit
*[[Sun Steel]] - 240 hit limit
*[[Moon Steel]] - 250 hit limit
*[[Thoth's Metal]] - 260 hit limit
*[[Water Metal]] - 250 hit limit
*[[Metal Blue]] - 280 hit limit
*[[Octec's Alloy]] - 320 hit limit

For details on technique, please check out the [[Blacksmithing Guide]].

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Star Rack

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A Star Rack is where you craft [[Star Recipes | Stars]] for Pyrotechnics.

== Source ==
This building becomes available once you have started the [[Test of Pyrotechnics]].

== Cost ==
* 40 [[requires::Boards]]
* 4 [[requires::Copper Wire]]
* 4 [[requires::Canvas]]

Built in a [[Compound]]. Uses 7x7 cells.

== Use ==
The star rack is used to create batches of a specific pyrotechnics star. You must have learned the specific recipe from a University of Art & Music to see the option to create those stars on the rack.

The minimum batch size to avoid rounding of ingredients appears to be '''10'''.

* See the [[Star Recipes]] page for costs of specific stars and where their recipes may be learned.

===Drying times===
The stars will dry at a rate of one star every 30 teppySeconds.

If you make 1 star, it will take 30 teppySeconds. If you make 4 qty, then it will be 2 TeppyMinutes, and so on...

You cannot remove stars while there are some in the batch still drying.

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