Wool Oddities
Erinn
This may be old news but I just noticed it as I don't kill sheep.
Sheering a Wooly Sheep yields 1 wool which you can sell for 22 to 24
gold or spin into 3 balls of yarn which sell for 7 gold each.
Killing a Wooly Sheep yields a pile of 3 wool (plus 3 meat) which is
unsellable but can be spun into a total of 3 balls of yarn which sell
for 7 gold each.
So now there are 2 different kinds of wool just like there are 2
different kinds of cotton. At least they made the 'dead sheep wool'
unsellable so as not to triple the worth of killing a sheep over
sheering one.
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Radnor
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998 15:06:31 GMT, sswe...@HiWAAY.net wrote:
> So now there are 2 different kinds of wool just like there are 2
> different kinds of cotton. At least they made the 'dead sheep wool'
> unsellable so as not to triple the worth of killing a sheep over
> sheering one.
Have you tried separating the wool into separate piles, instead of one
pile of three? Haven't tried it myself, but you may be able to sell the
wool after that.
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Erinn
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:10:49 -0400, k...@bigSpaMfoot.com (Radnor)
wrote:
>On Fri, 26 Jun 1998 15:06:31 GMT, sswe...@HiWAAY.net wrote:
>> So now there are 2 different kinds of wool just like there are 2
>> different kinds of cotton. At least they made the 'dead sheep wool'
>> unsellable so as not to triple the worth of killing a sheep over
>> sheering one.
>
> Have you tried separating the wool into separate piles, instead of one
>pile of three? Haven't tried it myself, but you may be able to sell the
>wool after that.
Yes, I separated the wool first. Something you should always do with
any kind of wool because it will only produce 1 yarn per wool if spun
while stacked. No way no how would the Shopkeeps buy it. I even
bought some wool from them and then sold it back to them to make sure
they actually wanted to *buy* wool. They wouldn't touch 'dead sheep
wool' with a ten foot pole:)
Kirsten
There also are occasional black sheep which produce wool that won't stack
with a white sheep's wool. (The sheep aren't actually all black, but their
faces are darker than the other sheep's.) The wool from this darker breed of
sheep only produces 1 ball of yarn per wool pile. Never tried killing one,
though. Why would you destroy your renewable resource?
Kirsten
Erinn wrote:
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Erinn
>There also are occasional black sheep which produce wool that won't stack
>with a white sheep's wool. (The sheep aren't actually all black, but their
>faces are darker than the other sheep's.) The wool from this darker breed of
>sheep only produces 1 ball of yarn per wool pile. Never tried killing one,
>though. Why would you destroy your renewable resource?
>
>Kirsten
I don't kill sheep, I'm a Tailor:) I would love to have a pet sheep
for the shop but won't go to the trouble until they fix the 'sheer
sheep through the walls' bug.
I ran across a dead wooly sheep while hunting. When I used my dagger
on it, I got that pile of 3 wool. I became very concerned that a dead
sheep was worth significantly more now than a live sheep. So I
checked it out before making a fuss about it <G>.
Boesie
Ok here's the deal as far as i know : there are two sorts of the wool,
both stackable (but not to eachother ofcourse). The first one is a bit
darker i believe, and seems to come from dead sheep. They only yield one
ball of yarn when spun. The second type is ordinary wool, which you get
from sheering sheep. I have a flock of 25 sheep at my house, also some
'dark' sheep, but the wool they yield is the same as the one 'white'
sheep yield. This wool gives 3 balls of yarn (doesn't matter if the wool
is stacked or not, always gives 3 balls of yarn).
The Admirable Boesiebus, GM Warrior, KMP Guild
Catskills