Moved examine text into the item box, added Description and Usage sections, cleaned up Notes, and improved formatting.
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|name={{PAGENAME}}
|image=ash.png
|examine=Blended with water, this would produce lye.
|result=* '''{{PAGENAME}}''' (0.10 kg)
|creation=Made from a burnt out campfire or charcoal pile
== Description ==
''Blended with water, this would produce lye.''
'''Ash''' is a [[coal-making]] and [[natural substances]] item acquired either from a burnt out [[campfire]]s, [[forge]]s, [[oven]]s, [[kiln]]s, [[smelter]]s, or [[charcoal pile]]s. It is most often used as a component in the creation of [[lye]]. == Usage == * Used with [[water]] to create [[lye]].* Ash can be gathered from a [[forge]], [[oven]], [[kiln]], or [[smelter]] by activating a [[shovel]], right-clicking the recently used burning vessel, and selecting ''Clean''.* Gathering ash from a burning vessel uses the [[firemaking]] skill.* The fire must be snuffed before the item can be cleaned and ash collected.
== Notes ==
*Adding [[log]]s to campfires will '''not''' increase the amount of ash created. Therefore, multiple fires are suggested for the purpose of bulk ash generation.
*To gather ash from a Adding [[forgelog]], s to [[ovencampfire]], [[kiln]], or [[smelter]], activate a [[shovel]], right-click s will not increase the burning vessel that was recently used, and select "clean". A fire must not be actively burning here in order to effectively gather any amount of ashcreated. It is also worth noting that Multiple fires are suggested for bulk ash will not be collectable from the burning vessel unless a fire has first burned there for at least 30 uninterrupted, real-life minutesgeneration. * At the 30-minute mark of a burn, enough material will have been consumed to create a collectable amount of ash. * The actual act [[QL]] of gathering ash with a shovel is capped by the [[QL]] of the item being cleaned.* Lower QL ash may still be produced due to RNG.* Ash can be [[forage]]d from any such burning vessel utilizes the firemaking skill[[rubble]] [[resource nodes]].