Soot Shovel

[jock]

A shovel made from hard metal bars x2 In a mould. (bars x3 + mould)/4

It is used on a kiln, oven, or smelter to "clean out" the leftover soot(ash)

Quality of ash = quality of fuel hard capped by shovel ql
The amount will be held up to 1kg collected based on how much fuel is burned over time. (1 full bar= 1 full load of ash)

With the recent nerf to firebrand due to botting being the only way to make reliable good ash from it.This adds a new better mechanic that everyone would benefit from and provide a good means to provide bulk ash and a new valuable tool to "soot"

[Massa]

we can have nice things

[vatas]

"Ash from kilns etc." sounds like a decent idea. Hope it gets implemented similar to snow removal; instead of having a special snow plow, you have slightly obscure command to AoE shove snow with a regular shovel.

[Kyrex]

+1
I like this idea

Perhaps even some kind of fireplace/&chimney for soot, by itself, rather than adding complexity to existing structures.

Either way, I like the concept.

[Teilur]

This is exactly how ash making works in Wurm Online since 2017: to get a small amount of ash you just make some fire, to get a barrel of ash you just take the showel and clean your ovens and forges.

[jock]

Bump

[r0ck4ev3r]

The task of cleaning Ovens, Kilns, Tar Kiln, Bonfires, Smelters, Forges and/or Crucibles with a custom tool seems a bit extra. I don't really see an need for more ways to create ash, but if I were to add cleaning- I'd toss it into the leaf menu, click -> clean; like digging, the current shovel types or lack there of affects clean speed and ash quantity.

Although the firebrand change was rude to roll out mid world, the firebrand nerf was needed nonetheless.

[jock]

The task of cleaning Ovens, Kilns, Tar Kiln, Bonfires, Smelters, Forges and/or Crucibles with a custom tool seems a bit extra. I don't really see an need for more ways to create ash, but if I were to add cleaning- I'd toss it into the leaf menu, click -> clean; like digging, the current shovel types or lack there of affects clean speed and ash quantity.

Although the firebrand change was rude to roll out mid world, the firebrand nerf was needed nonetheless.

Tool removes the need for leaf menu's these often are more annoying than helpful. If you don't think we need more ways to create ash you not the target audience for this mechanic as you wouldn't care about quality.

Firebrand was good for most players in the quality regard, the method of it was bad and pushed botting. This gives the same quality advantages without botting incentivisation.

[r0ck4ev3r]

The task of cleaning Ovens, Kilns, Tar Kiln, Bonfires, Smelters, Forges and/or Crucibles with a custom tool seems a bit extra. I don't really see an need for more ways to create ash, but if I were to add cleaning- I'd toss it into the leaf menu, click -> clean; like digging, the current shovel types or lack there of affects clean speed and ash quantity.

Although the firebrand change was rude to roll out mid world, the firebrand nerf was needed nonetheless.

Tool removes the need for leaf menu's these often are more annoying than helpful. If you don't think we need more ways to create ash you not the target audience for this mechanic as you wouldn't care about quality.

Firebrand was good for most players in the quality regard, the method of it was bad and pushed botting. This gives the same quality advantages without botting incentivisation.

Your tool proposal shifts ash Q back to burning sticks with a metal bottleneck; The nerf of firebrand shifted the quality spiral of ash back to bone, while trees slowly race to match before the world wipes. I fail to see how your new tool would magically remove the need for a new leaf menu option.

[jock]

The task of cleaning Ovens, Kilns, Tar Kiln, Bonfires, Smelters, Forges and/or Crucibles with a custom tool seems a bit extra. I don't really see an need for more ways to create ash, but if I were to add cleaning- I'd toss it into the leaf menu, click -> clean; like digging, the current shovel types or lack there of affects clean speed and ash quantity.

Although the firebrand change was rude to roll out mid world, the firebrand nerf was needed nonetheless.

Tool removes the need for leaf menu's these often are more annoying than helpful. If you don't think we need more ways to create ash you not the target audience for this mechanic as you wouldn't care about quality.

Firebrand was good for most players in the quality regard, the method of it was bad and pushed botting. This gives the same quality advantages without botting incentivisation.

Your tool proposal shifts ash Q back to burning sticks with a metal bottleneck; The nerf of firebrand shifted the quality spiral of ash back to bone, while trees slowly race to match before the world wipes. I fail to see how your new tool would magically remove the need for a new leaf menu option.

So it shifted it even more in favour of metal bottleneck and for the top quality bones?
Who cares if the lower quality players get hurt more as long as we double down on the need for more high ql bones, nothing wrong with a dominant strategy with few other options right?

The firebrand nerf was only needed because it incentives botting not because of the quality it gave.

Activate tool right click infrastructure collects ash... no need to have a flower menu at all.