Japanese pronunciation: とうげいがま (tougeigama)
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A pottery kiln that uses one log per finished piece. A matching body, surface materials and log start firing automatically.
Obtaining
Usage
Loading one set
Put a body, its required surface materials and a log into the four material slots. When one matching set, a log and output space are available, firing starts automatically. The body and surface materials move into the upper working slots, with one log below. Unneeded surface slots stay empty.
Firing the next set
After completion, the kiln checks the current material slots again. It starts the next firing automatically when a matching set, a log and output space are available. Restocking or replacing the input does not change the reserved set. Recover its working materials to cancel firing midway.
One log per piece
The log stays visible below while the piece fires. It is consumed together with the body and surface materials when firing finishes. Every kind of log pays for one piece; the ware determines how long firing takes.
Behavior
No fire underneath
The log burns inside the kiln, so no separate heat source is needed underneath.
Retrieving the reserved set
You can retrieve items from the pale processing slots but cannot insert anything into them by hand. Removing any part, including the log, cancels firing. Retrieve the rest to allow another set to enter. Changing the material buffer leaves the reserved set unchanged.
One piece at a time
Stacked materials are fired one piece at a time. Each new set needs its own log.
Inputs above and beside, outputs below
Hoppers above or beside feed all four material slots. A hopper below extracts finished ware.
Related guides
In the real world
A climbing kiln is built up a hillside and stoked with wood for days on end. Where a piece stands in it, how the ash falls on it and how the flame licks it are what the finished surface shows.
Differences in game
Satoyama shrinks the kiln to a single block and folds the biscuit firing and the glaze firing into one. Neither the temperature nor the atmosphere is yours to work; what you put in decides what comes out.