Increase charcoal Q?

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Bonsoy
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Increase charcoal Q?

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So, how do you increase board Q? And furthermore, how do you increase charcoal Q? Increasing your carpentry stats doesn't seem to help.
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burgingham
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Re: Increase charcoal Q?

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Carpentry is only softcapping the quality of your logs. So get better trees and a better saw to imrpove your boards. For coal the q of the kiln and the fuel are important as well.
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Re: Increase charcoal Q?

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Better saw -> better boards. And you need good q kiln. Dunno if i'm right, but i think formula is:
coalQ=(kilnQ+boardQ+fuelQ)/3

So, to get high Q boards you need to rise your carpentry and get high Q saw.
Use high Q fuel, you can use the same boards.
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Re: Increase charcoal Q?

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It's very strange though, I have a Q73 bone saw and just normal Q10 trees = Q27. Thanks for your help! Guess I will have to plant more trees to be happy. (And not waste more points on carpentry, haha).
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Re: Increase charcoal Q?

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Bonsoy wrote:I have a Q73 bone saw and just normal Q10 trees = Q27.
I use 112q saw with 30 carpentry and get 32Q boards from 10q tree, not great difference. Yes, try better Q trees.
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Board q = sqrt (saw q * lumber q), softcapped by carpentry of course.
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Re: Increase charcoal Q?

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Nobody wrote:Better saw -> better boards. And you need good q kiln. Dunno if i'm right, but i think formula is:
coalQ=(kilnQ+boardQ+fuelQ)/3

So, to get high Q boards you need to rise your carpentry and get high Q saw.
Use high Q fuel, you can use the same boards.
it's actually (kilnQ+fuelQ+boardQ+boardQ)/4
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You guys know everything, thanks!
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If your kiln is higher Q than your boards, you can use two boards as fuel/raw material to make to pieces of charcoal, which you can then use as fuel when making more charcoal to push quality a little higher.
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Re: Increase charcoal Q?

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Lol, yeah I only just figured that out yesterday!

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