Mods / Soap and Lye

Tags: #Clothing #QoL #Tweak #Utility
Author: Brun
Side: Both
Created: Jun 28th at 9:37 PM
Last modified: 3 days ago
Downloads: 1315
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Recommended download (for Vintage Story 1.20.8 - 1.20.10 and 1.20.11 - 1.21.0-pre.1):
SoapandLyeV1.1.4.zip  1-click install


                                       

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Tired of searching around for limestone hours on end to no avail?

Bought some cloth from that sketchy guy in a wooden caravan and want to make sure it's clean?

Then you've come to the right place! Introducing SOAP the vintage world's number one cleanser!

Features:

 

Wood ash:

  • Can be made from burning any logs with hard woods yielding more product.
  • Mix with water in a barrel to produce liquid lye.

 

Lye (liquid):

  • Used as a suppliment for limewater when soaking hides.
  • Main ingredient for making lye soap bars.

 

Soap bars:

  • The base of all soaps and only requires some fat and lye in a barrel.
  • Lye soap bars are made first and can be used to produce liquid lye soap or scented by adding various flower oils or honey.

 

Liquid soap:

  • Primarily used for removing mordant from cloth and to remove dyes from cloth & leather.
  • Can also be used to clean dirty pots!
  • Scented soaps are worth the extra hassel to craft as they can clean/remove dye for half the cost as plain liquid lye soap!

 

Flower pressing:

  • A selection of flowers found around the world can now be pressed in a fruit press similar to fruit.
  • 16 flowers of the same type are required to produce 5L of oil at a time.
  • The current flower scents are are follows: Chamomile, Catmint, and Heather.

 

Potash:

  • Potash fertilizer can now be made by heating water and wood ash in a cooking pot.

In progress:

 

Next update v1.2.0:

  • Chamomile flower crops, seeds, herbs, and soaps (replaces wild daisy). Done.
  • Lavender flower crops, seeds, herbs, and soaps (replaces catmint). In progress.
  • Hibiscus flower crops, seeds, herbs, and soaps (replaces heather). In progress.
  • Soap-treated bandages that heal more effectively. In progress.
  • Scented bars, liquid soap, and soap-treated bandages buying/selling with traders. In progress.

 

Future update v1.2.1:

  • Calendula flower crops, seeds, herbs, and soaps. In progress.
  • Mint herb crops, seeds, herbs, and soaps. In progress.
  • Scented candles using new oils. In progress.

 

Future update v1.2.2:

  • Rose bushes, petals, and soaps. In progress.
  • Wood dust for extraction of wood oils using aqua vitae. In progress.
  • Wood soaps. In progress.

Notes:

 

  • For the moment this mod is slightly incompatible with Wildcraft Trees being that you can only make wood ash from cooking red wood log sections. Sorry for the inconvenience. I am working with the developer for compatibility.
  • Cleaning dirty cooking pots with soap does not work on game version 1.21.0-pre1 due to the new variants being added. This will be fixed when 1.21 is officially released.

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Mod Version For Game version Downloads Release date Changelog Download 1-click mod install*
1.1.4
1.20.8 - 1.20.10 1.20.11 - 1.21.0-pre.1
268 3 days ago SoapandLyeV1.1.4.zip 1-click install
  • Fixed wood types not being able to create wood ash in firepit.
1.1.3
1.20.8 - 1.20.10 1.20.11 - 1.21.0-pre.1
321 Jul 6th at 12:07 PM SoapandLyeV1.1.3.zip 1-click install
  • Fixed display name of "Heather soap bars".
1.1.2
1.20.8 - 1.20.10 1.20.11 - 1.21.0-pre.1
8 Jul 6th at 11:20 AM SoapandLyeV1.1.2.zip 1-click install
  • Fixed burning log types for wood ash (hopefully).
1.1.1
1.20.8 - 1.20.10 1.20.11 - 1.21.0-pre.1
169 Jul 4th at 3:50 PM SoapandLyeV1.1.1.zip 1-click install
  • Fixed dirty pot barrel recipe.
  • Fixed perishing items for pressed flower mash.
  • Various backend changes.
1.1.0
1.20.8 - 1.20.10 1.20.11 - 1.21.0-pre.1
189 Jul 2nd at 10:13 PM SoapandLyeV1.1.0.zip 1-click install
  • Original soap bar items have been remade causing any old bars to no longer register. They are no longer usable and can be safely disposed of.
  • Changed soap bar item to no longer use durability. Soap bars now come in variants. Lye (original), Honey,  Chamomile, Catmint, and Heather.
  • Lye soap bars can be scented with honey or flower oil. Flower oil is obtainable by fruit-pressing chamomile, catmint, or heather. As with fruit one use of the fruit press requires 16 of the same flowers to produce 5L of flower oil.
  • Soap bars must be turned into liquid form by mixing in a barrel with water in order to use their unique cleaning effect (Thanks to SeniLiX's suggestion).
  • Scented soap bars only require half the amount of liquid soap to clean or remove dyes as apposed to plain lye soap.
  • Liquid soap can now be used to clean out pots (Thanks to SeniLiX's suggestion).
  • Potash can now be made in a cooking pot with 2L of water and 2 wood ash (Thanks to RowanSkie's suggestion).
1.0.1
1.20.8 - 1.20.10 1.20.11 - 1.21.0-pre.1
252 Jun 29th at 5:34 PM SoapandLyeV1.0.1.zip 1-click install
  • Fixed incorrect download.
1.0.0
1.20.8 - 1.20.10 1.20.11 - 1.21.0-pre.1
10 Jun 29th at 5:32 PM Empty SoapandLyeV1.0.0.zip 1-click install

30 Comments (oldest first | newest first)

💬 CrazedVantaBlack, 11 hours ago

No issue Brun glad i could help.

💬 Brun , 21 hours ago

CrazedVantaBlack
Thank you for the reply! I have just downloaded and comfirmed that wildcraft trees is the culprit for this issue. The mod replaces all of the fire pit "cooking" for almost all of the log types, which in return overrides what I've made. I believe I already know how to fix this problem and I should have an update out sometime tonight.

Update: I've contacted the creator of Wildcraft Trees to see if they can help me implement compatibility. Sorry for any inconvenience in the meantime.

💬 CrazedVantaBlack, 22 hours ago

I can Brun confirm that the update has not fixed the issue. redwood corners are the only thing that registers when you try to make wood ash. i too am using Wildcraft Trees and shrubs and Wildcraft revival. so it might very well be a conflict.

💬 Brun , 3 days ago

Schplim
I've just put out an update (V1.1.4) which should fix this issue. Let me know if your problem still exists.

💬 Schplim, 3 days ago

The mod seems really great but sadly I'm having the same issue as Artor where I can't make wood ash out of anything else than corner redwood logs. My guess is that it's a mod compability problem. (either Trees and Shrubs or Wild Farming revival as those are probably the only 2 ones I currently have that add new logs) But for some reason the mods themselves seem to break the recipe in a way that you cannot use the vanilla logs either.

💬 Brun , 4 days ago

Parf
An interesting idea for sure lol. To be honest I barely know how the repairing mechanic works for broken clutter but I can look into it and see what I can do.

💬 Parf, 4 days ago

love this as a supplement for leather-making! do you think it'd be appropriate to add a cleaning functionality for broken clutter using soap? i know glue repairs it, but this could provide an alternate way of acquiring/fixing clutter with soap on hand.

💬 Brun , 5 days ago

wael6

As practical, realistic, and awesome as that would be I'm not sure of a way to pull it off. It would have to be done in code and could get quite complex; far more than I am capable of doing at this time. I'll keep it in mind for a future update nonetheless. Thanks for the suggestion!

💬 wael6, 6 days ago

could be cool if wood used as fuel could become ash (maybe an item dropping when it finishes to burn or dropping corresponding on the amount you burned when you break the firepit/clean it with a new tool/sticks ?

💬 Brun , Jul 6th at 1:03 PM

Michael00181
I love that idea! I will definitely add it in the next update!

💬 Michael00181, Jul 6th at 12:26 PM

Delighted to hear that Brun, I admit I don't know a thing about coding so the simplest solution for now would lkely be using some ammount of soap with a bandage to make an item like "Bandage and soap portion." Maybe make them heal 5 HP vs the 7HP od the alcahol soaked bandages but without the drying out effect? It'd still make them better than the regular bandages 3HP. 

💬 Brun , Jul 6th at 12:17 PM

Michael00181
I have thought about adding more direct uses for the player. Both of your ideas do seem like they would fit well in this mod but I'll have to see if I can figure out how to implement it. I am still in the learning process of mod development, especially when it comes to coding, but I'll see what I can do!

💬 Michael00181, Jul 6th at 12:06 PM

would you ever consider some other benefits to soap? such as a temporary buff from cleaning yourself with soap that reduces animal detection range or perhaps a buff to healing effectiveness for some time after cleaning yourself with scented soaps? Perhaps making a cleaned bandage that isn't as good as the alcahol saoked one but is still good as you've portioned some soap with it to clean wounds. 

💬 Brun , Jul 6th at 11:00 AM

Artor
I'm not sure what you mean. From what I can see everything looks normal. If it's liquid lye you're trying to make you have to click on the white liquid first in order to see the barrel recipe.

Edit: I just realized what you meant and I believe I have fixed the problem with log variants not cooking into wood ash. These changes take place in version 1.1.2

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💬 Artor, Jul 6th at 8:43 AM

1.20.12

https://imgur.com/a/8GDAYnQ

 

Just ain't working.

💬 Brun , Jul 3rd at 1:48 AM

Aeonsteel

I'm glad you like the mod! I'll be sure to add trading in the next small update along with the next two flowers/soaps. 😊

💬 Aeonsteel, Jul 3rd at 1:04 AM

This mod seems really cool! Can't wait for traders to buy them, I always like immersive production of items to trade for rusty gears. This will help scratch that itch, since Book Trader is currently broken.

💬 Brun , Jul 2nd at 3:09 AM

Artor
What version are you playing on? I just tested on both 1.20.12 and 1.21.0-pre.1 with no issues.
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💬 Artor, Jul 2nd at 2:51 AM

 So for some reason I can only seem to make wood ash from redwood trees.

💬 Brun , Jul 2nd at 1:30 AM

I've ran into some minor issues and had a lot of stuff to deal with irl so the next update will be later on this week but definitely out by the weekend. I've already implemented RowanSkie's suggestion for potash as well as a new soap bar and liquid system based off of SeniLiX's ideas for the mod! Next up on the list is buying/selling soap bars and bottled liquid soap to traders.

💬 Brun , Jun 30th at 7:13 PM

RowanSkie
I can work on that this afternoon and hopfully have an update tonight. There are some other things I'd like to add/change as well so if not tonight then definitely tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestion!

💬 RowanSkie, Jun 30th at 2:48 AM

This can potentially replace this other mod if only it were able to make potash. 

💬 Brun , Jun 30th at 12:01 AM

SeniLiX
Very interesting ideas! I think soapy water would be a great way to make the cleaning process more realistic. I suppose I'll have to think up another use for bars of soap then since I could just create the liquid soap in a barrel in the first place. Maybe the bars could be colored/scented with various flowers and be sold to traders or collected as displayable items.

💬 SeniLiX, Jun 29th at 10:48 PM

A couple of suggestions:

Instead of simply combining the mordanted cloth with a piece of soap in a crafting grid, how about introducing soap water?

Step 1: X number of litres of water in a barrel. Dump a piece of soap in it and it becomes soap water.

Step 2: Have the cloth soak in the barrel for X amount of time.

 

Second suggestion:

Use Soap water to let the player clean a dirty pot by soaking it for X amount of time.

💬 Brun , Jun 29th at 8:04 PM

Hydromancerx
At a glance it would appear that floralrat's "Oils! From seed to Substance" mod takes a more complex approach at turning grains and vegetables into oils with many uses. His mod also has a lot more uses and recipes for soap and oil. My mod takes a more basic approach to soap and lye while maintaining similar functionality. At the moment "Soap and Lye" is just a small mod that stems from a much larger code mod I'm developing called "Vintage Prehistory". While in development I thought it might be a good idea to release this mod as I had not seen a similar mod and I thought people might enjoy these features on thier own.

💬 Hydromancerx, Jun 29th at 6:56 PM

How's this mod compare to the soap from the Oils mod?

💬 Brun , Jun 29th at 5:36 PM

Astella
I have fixed to download for real this time 😅. Thank you for pointing it out!

💬 Astella, Jun 29th at 4:11 PM

Hi! I was trying to download this mod but its not downloading as a winzip!

💬 Brun , Jun 29th at 1:29 PM

Moon_Dew
Thanks for the heads up! I've fixed the download now so everything should be working. Let me know if you discover any other issues!

💬 Moon_Dew, Jun 29th at 8:18 AM

You're probably gonna want to reupload your mod, it's not downloading as a zip file.

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