Maple Syrup/sugar

[Coriander]

I suggest we be allowed to tap maple trees for the sugary sap.
This sap can be a low grade food, or be processed in a cauldron into maple sugar (or syrup).

Tapping a tree would only require an ax, a stick for the spile, and a bucket.

A good tree tap can produce more than 10 liters in a day, but I recommend 2 liters per day as the norm. The sugar content in the trees I tap each year is high, we get about 1 liter of syrup for every 32 liters of sap (we throw away the ice). A mature tree can support two spiles, or taps, with no harm to the tree.

[loftar]

Yes, we have discussed it, and it would be fun. I just haven't figured out any good way to implement the tap itself.

[Potjeh]

We must get pancakes with syrup, of course.

[Coriander]

The tap may be more complication than necessary. Historically sap was collected from a hatchet slash on the tree that dripped into bark containers.

[Peter]

No, the tap should require five bars of steel and some silk. Plus bear bone for the handle

[jorb]

No, the tap should require five bars of steel and some silk. Plus bear bone for the handle

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[farmchamp]

And perhaps a few druid cloaks. Anyway, they should be like wells, you just build them on a tree like you would a water tile. After that they work like a winepress, but they produce the sap without help from you besides building it.