Flax

Flax
Growth Information
Growth Period	0.05 years
Decay Period	0.50 years
Maximum Yield	2.00
Soil Requirements
Nutrient Minimum	64.00
Nutrient Saturation	128.00
Nutrient Starvation	80.00
Environmental Factors
Light Target	96.00
Light Penalty	0.02
Rock Penalty	0.20
Pollution Penalty	1.00
Temperature Tolerance
Frost Growth Threshold	100 (unit unknown)
Frost Rot Threshold	0 (unit unknown)

Flax is a crop that can be grown in your colony. Like all crops, it requires proper soil conditions, adequate lighting, and protection from harsh environmental factors to thrive.

Production

Flax is a native crop that is available to plant from the start of the game. It is slightly more difficult to plant than the other native crops, but carries similar growing benefits. Flax is gentle on the soil's level of nutrients, so farm fallowing or Fertilizer is unlikely to be needed.

Alternatively, Flax can be foraged utilizing a Forage Hut. Natural patches of Flax appearing on the map are consumed once harvested and never regrow.

Usage

Textiles

Flax is the foundation of the textiles supply chain and should be planted early, preferably before the Forage Hut exhausts the local wild supply. Flax can be used to make Woven Cloaks at the Weaver and Rope and Threads at the Flax Spinner.

You do not need to aggressively plant Flax, but you will need to expand farms to support your growing fiber supply chain.

You can heat small Flax farms in the winter to continue growing and harvesting Flax. This may be helpful in the early game to ensure your Whiskers have clothing in the winter.

Trade

Flax has little value (5 coins per flax) so even great surpluses may not be an effective way to pay taxes.