Flax

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Mature flax

Flax is both a source of food as well as a source of flax fiber that can be used in various technologies.

Obtaining

Sources of flax seeds

Flax can be found growing in the wild in temperate to warm climates and can be harvested by breaking the flax plants with an empty hand, knife, or scythe. Fully mature plants will yield flax grain, flax fibers and at least one seed when harvested. Harvesting immature plants may yield no or little grain or fiber and may or may not provide a seed.

Flax seeds can be used in farming and can be harvested in the same way as wild flax. Flax crops take 2 months (18 days) to grow at default 9-day-per-month settings. It goes through nine growth stages, and uses 50% K nutrients from its block of farmland. It survives in temperatures from -5° to 40°C.

Flax seeds can also be found in seed and farming loot vessels located in ruins. They may also be sold by the agricultural trader .

Sources of flax fibers

Flax fibers can be harvested by breaking mature wild or farmed flax plants with an empty hand, knife, or scythe. They may or may not drop from breaking immature flax plants.

They may also drop by butchering dead drifters by shift clicking with a knife in the active hand until the process is complete and the GUI opens to allow players to remove dropped items.

Flax fibers can also be found in forage and farming loot vessels located in ruins.

Usage

Food

Flax
Flax.png
Stackable 64
Food
Satiety 30
Category

Grain

Transitionable
Fresh Time 90 days
Transition Time 9.3 days
Transition Ratio 0.25
Items


Flax grain can be eaten without cooking with a satiety value of 30 but can also be ground into flour using a quern either manually or with automated milling . This flour, like flour from other grains, can be made into a dough with water which can then be baked into bread and pies. Flax bread has a satiety value of 160. Flax grain can also be used as an ingredient in the advanced cooking recipe for porridge.

See Cooking's main page for more details on food and satiety

Flax grain and bread have the lowest satiety values of the grains (see table below) and therefore flax grain is often used as feed for domesticated animals rather than in cooking.

Crop Grain satiety Bread satiety
Flax 30 160
Spelt 60 300
Rye 60 300
Sunflower 60 300
Rice 60 330
Amaranth 60 300
Cassava 100* 300

*Though you can make flour out of dried cassava, cassava is a root, not a grain.

Flax grain stays fresh for 90 days in your inventory, then it takes 9.3 days for it to turn into rot . A full pile of 64 flax grain will turn into 16 rot.

Fiber

Flax fibers
Grid Flax fibers.png
Stackable 64
Items


Flax fibers can be used to make flax twine which in turn can be used to make linen , both of which unlock important technology.

You can fit twice as many flax fibers in the form of flax twine.

Flax fibers

Flax fibers

Flax fibers

Flax fibers


Flax twine








Flax fibers can also be used to make parchment . This requires a barrel , a bucket , water and a sieve .

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