Varks are milimetrical-thick sheets of gold/silver. Varks are used to make silver/gold-foiled sweets. Varks, thus, become high-tier ingredients for food.
Pound one silver/gold nugget, get 100 gold/silver varks. One vark is enough to foil one sweet. The foil is so thin that the metal consumption is too few to produce any noticeable health effect (several micrograms per kilogram of sweets).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vark
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Granger
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Re: Golden/Silver Vark
OK. Now that we have the packaging, what's the next step?
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Re: Golden/Silver Vark
That is certainly opulent. Not sure.
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Re: Golden/Silver Vark
At a glance I almost like this idea, the thought of adding more uses to gold and silver is always nice in my mind. Especially if they behaved like pepper in regards to buffing foods or something. The game could use a more steady and dedicated use for spending these metals. But I'm just not quite sure fully.
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Re: Golden/Silver Vark
Precious metals need more uses for sure or they will slowly just lose value with no sink.
Eating too many of these fine foods should give you poisoning.
Pretty sure they use gold sheets or shavings for sausages too.
Eating too many of these fine foods should give you poisoning.
Pretty sure they use gold sheets or shavings for sausages too.
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Re: Golden/Silver Vark
semi related: Youtube - The Making of Gold Leaf
The history of gilding is long and interesting, and a skilled artisan can make gold leaf that is see-through.
E: as an aside, 100% pure gold/silver is chemically inert and thus completely non toxic. It's the many compounds and derivatives of these elements which enables the heavy metal poisoning. I wouldn't however expect iron age hearthlords to be able to produce 100% pure gold and silver.
The history of gilding is long and interesting, and a skilled artisan can make gold leaf that is see-through.
E: as an aside, 100% pure gold/silver is chemically inert and thus completely non toxic. It's the many compounds and derivatives of these elements which enables the heavy metal poisoning. I wouldn't however expect iron age hearthlords to be able to produce 100% pure gold and silver.
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Re: Golden/Silver Vark
Silver, maybe, not entirely sure about that, but gold is entirely biochemically inert afaik.azrid wrote:Eating too many of these fine foods should give you poisoning.
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Re: Golden/Silver Vark
Indeed.ricky wrote:E: as an aside, 100% pure gold/silver is chemically inert and thus completely non toxic. It's the many compounds and derivatives of these elements which enables the heavy metal poisoning. I wouldn't however expect iron age hearthlords to be able to produce 100% pure gold and silver.
Mercury gold extraction when?
Soon(tm).
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