Ideas for reusing bloody rags

[Woogyu]

I know Jorb is considering this positively.
So, here some ideas.


2 ways to reuse :

1) Boil with ash in a cauldron.

Water mixed with ashes is a typical detergent that has been used for a long time.
If you boil bloody rags with it, you can reuse gauze hygienically.


2) Just wash in water.

This is very simple, but the quality of the gauze is greatly reduced.
And there's a greater risk of infection. Treatment with dirty gauze often worsens wounds.
Boiled gauze with ashes is also at risk of infection, but it's probably a lower probability than gauze washed in water.



All washed gauze can be used after drying at the frame. It can't be used in wet.

[Beezer12Washingbeard]

I'd like to throw on the pile for future consideration: can be given to hunting dogs to get the person's scent, and they can lead you right to them

[shubla]

burn them

[abt79]

I'd like to throw on the pile for future consideration: can be given to hunting dogs to get the person's scent, and they can lead you right to them

totally useful idea

"Oh hey dog that guy I was fighting just happened to be wearing gauze outside his base and happened to drop it in a place that I could easily retrieve it, now use it to go kill him"


Really those blood splotches that animals drop as they flee would be more useful to this end

[Beezer12Washingbeard]

I'd like to throw on the pile for future consideration: can be given to hunting dogs to get the person's scent, and they can lead you right to them

totally useful idea

"Oh hey dog that guy I was fighting just happened to be wearing gauze outside his base and happened to drop it in a place that I could easily retrieve it, now use it to go kill him"


Really those blood splotches that animals drop as they flee would be more useful to this end

Yeah actually that'd be way better

But on the off chance you had someone's bloody gauze, why not that weird edge case too?

[beardhat]

Make them into a curiosity that gets more LP for how much HHP it healed, as you contemplate your own mortality.

[Ukhata]

use them in curios?
drain the blood from them for rituals/making curios.
for nidbanes? special nidbanes? whatever. theres tons of things you can do with a bloody rag.

[LadyV]

Dip them in tar wrap them on a branch and create a torch.

[avros008]

Make them into a curiosity that gets more LP for how much HHP it healed, as you contemplate your own mortality.

I'd like to throw on the pile for future consideration: can be given to hunting dogs to get the person's scent, and they can lead you right to them

Great ideas

[Beezer12Washingbeard]

Use the blood as ink to write on parchment

Send letters and threats to your enemies written in your (or their friend's) blood

Also, alternate red pigment source

edit: also I just realized, you could reasonably "farm" this I think, if you went around knocking people out, then while they're unconscious you bandage them, then take the bloody rags to use later

I'm lolling irl imagining alt bloodfarms, rows upon rows of hearthlings taking turns knocking each other out and soaking up their blood forever, all so the kingdom can have a specific shade of red on their things