Physics Say No

[shubla]

From ONE bucket full of barley seeds you get TEN buckets full of flour?

[MagicManICT]

Going to have to agree with shubla on this. For storage purposes, it should probably be a 1:1 volume ratio. Stored flour settles and actually becomes denser than the grain it was milled from. However, this settling leaves it where a measurement by volume is inaccurate, so it needs to be sifted before use, thus making it much less dense than the grains. 1:1 just seems like a good compromise and "easy" to implement (just need to change one number).

[FerrousToast]

Going to have to agree with shubla on this. For storage purposes, it should probably be a 1:1 volume ratio. Stored flour settles and actually becomes denser than the grain it was milled from. However, this settling leaves it where a measurement by volume is inaccurate, so it needs to be sifted before use, thus making it much less dense than the grains. 1:1 just seems like a good compromise and "easy" to implement (just need to change one number).

would make it actually reasonable to ever store ground flour.

[jorb]

Game convenience says yes?

[Redkat]

Definately

[vatas]

IIRC the amount of flour you got from seeds used to be more realistic. It was changed because people complained that they don't have time/energy to farm 100x100 barley fields.

[Ethan]

Is the suggestion that seeds should produce 10x less flour, or that buckets should hold 10x more flour?

[FerrousToast]

Is the suggestion that seeds should produce 10x less flour, or that buckets should hold 10x more flour?

production was only raised x5 when it got beefed, so dropping it x10 would be idiotic. we are saying it doesn't make sense that the same seeds when ground into flour and discarding the chaff takes up more volume than the seeds themselves. I'm pretty sure people aren't saying we increase the capacity of barrels or buckets, but decrease the amount of space flour (and perhaps tobacco and pepper? all ground products storing better in barrels?) takes up so it's 1-1 rather than 1-10

[Ethan]

Is the suggestion that seeds should produce 10x less flour, or that buckets should hold 10x more flour?

production was only raised x5 when it got beefed, so dropping it x10 would be idiotic. we are saying it doesn't make sense that the same seeds when ground into flour and discarding the chaff takes up more volume than the seeds themselves. I'm pretty sure people aren't saying we increase the capacity of barrels or buckets, but decrease the amount of space flour (and perhaps tobacco and pepper? all ground products storing better in barrels?) takes up so it's 1-1 rather than 1-10

So a bucket should hold 100kg of flour and a barrel 1000kg of flour?

[MagicManICT]

What does volume have to do with weight?