Tar Kiln 101?

[Ukhata]

tar kilns quality indeed softcaps. and the wood/planks used are hardcaps.
q20 wood in a q 10 tar kiln makes q 15 coal.
q 20 wood in a q 40 tar kiln makes q 20 coal.

or so my own tests have confirmed.

[Jacobian123]

Nice necro. Helpful post though, would be good in the tips thread.

[stya]

i can get 80 blocks of any wood into my tar kilns and they all yeild about the same tar and 160 coal every time at about 16ish hours. I have 7 going at once and use w/e logs i can get, no differences noticed between the tar kilns or wood used, all q 10 wild harvest wood of course

Just tar output is different atm. And I asked: tar kilns aren't going to influence the Q so don't use good clay on it

Didn't it softcap the q of the coal and or tar? I thought so

Edit: Fuck got confused by the necro, I had read the first page only sorry. Update OP

[MagicManICT]

would be good in the tips thread.

Why? It's on the wiki.

Didn't it softcap the q of the coal and or tar? I thought so

It's a necro'd thread. We had bad information when that was posted, and this thread is what clarified it.

the wood/planks used are hardcaps

The wood is an input material. When processing, one of four things can happen to the output material: nothing (output = input), softcapped (output diminished if station is lower than input materials, and is usually the average of two values), hardcapped (lowered to the station/skill value instead of averaged), or calculated together with all other variables (think of baking a blueberry pie).

Historically Tar kilns used birch bark to make high quality tar. Perhaps this will be possible in the future? Or maybe it already is, I haven't tried.

Please don't necro help topics for what should go in the C&I forum.