What is flax grain for?

[Falonious]

Answer appreciated.

[Goldi:AI]

To make more flax. And to sell it.

[omnidextrious]

You can plant more flax with it, or sell the excess for sweet, sweet cash moneys. I believe it is also an ingredient in some baked goods, but I'll double check that and get back to you on that.

[casavage24]

Weight for $ flax seed is probably the best cash crop in the game. You can use a sh*t ton of flax stalks in making clothes and bows so I have a lot of fields and then sell the excess seed around tax time - makes that $3k+ bill easier to swallow!

[Pengchon]

flax produce seeds and stalk, seeds to replant, and stalks to produce thread for clothings. Or just sell for money.

[johnmoon49]

i have a field of flax but you still need the tons of ferterlizer

[El_Chucko]

Originally posted by casavage24:

Weight for $ flax seed is probably the best cash crop in the game. You can use a sh*t ton of flax stalks in making clothes and bows so I have a lot of fields and then sell the excess seed around tax time - makes that $3k+ bill easier to swallow!

QFT

Flax grain => taxes $, replanting
Flax stocks => linen thread
Linen Thread => weapons $$$, fabric $$
Linen Fabric => clothing $$$

I haven't ran the numbers on buying fertilizer needed for replanting (though I'm sure it's been done), but profitability makes sense at this point. That will need a second look when dev's fix farming (no more free tools, seeds, and fertilizer).

[thelostkitten]

It'd be nice to see some updated information on this since the field workers now require that you provide seeds and fertilizer to work the fields.

[Xian]

A 10x10 Flax field produced 996 Flax.
That becomes 896 Flax seed to sell and 100 for the replant.
I have barter 1 so my prices are 10% better then base.
I sell the Flax @ 6 each x 896 = 5,376.
Fertilizer costs me 7 each and I need 100 to plant the field making my cost 100 x 7 = 700.
So my profit on a 10x10 field is 5,376 - 700 = 4,676.
So my cost % would be 700 / 5,376 = .13 or 13% is the cost to plant the field if I only sell the seed.
There is still the 996 flax stalk that can be made into linen thread. So looking at this I would say the Fertilizer cost is minimal vs what you get out of it.

[sleepygamer]

keep pigs
manure = free fertiliser
animal feed from planting rye oats and wheat its all free after the initial outlay for your first harvests
plus buy a mummy piggy and daddy piggy then they have baby piggies, sell off the older ones once the babies grow up and you get your money back on the initial purchase ;)
obviously there will be an initial purchase of fertiliser to get yo u started but it doesn't need to be an ongoing cost

[rhwilson1953]

Animal feed is made from oats, rye and straw. The straw can be obtained from oats, rye, wheat or reeds, once you gather the reeds from the lakes and rivers they become straw.

[subwaybananas]

I think all the questions are answered after 1 1/2 year

[INCONCEIVABLE]

I don't see how you can replant the flax from harvesting. while other crops give seeds, it seems that flax does not and you have to go buy more flax seed. Is this correct?

[pdoan8]

Originally posted by INCONCEIVABLE:

I don't see how you can replant the flax from harvesting. while other crops give seeds, it seems that flax does not and you have to go buy more flax seed. Is this correct?

Nope. You need a barn to be able to thresh flax to get flax stalk and flax seeds.

[Dutchgamer1982]

Originally posted by INCONCEIVABLE:

I don't see how you can replant the flax from harvesting. while other crops give seeds, it seems that flax does not and you have to go buy more flax seed. Is this correct?

No.. there are 3 items
flax
flax seed
flax stalk

when you harvest a field of flax, you be getting flax.
this flax you than can trash in a barn to get flax seed + flax stalk.
it's the stalk thats in the sewing hut is turned into linnen.. and the seed that can be used to grow the next crop.