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Nine measures of rough rice woven into a straw bale. It places along any axis like a hay bale, and unties back into nine.
Obtaining
Usage
Into the storehouse
Baling packs nine measures of rough rice into one block. Laid along a storehouse wall, a year of the paddy fits in one row. Untie a bale on the crafting table to get the nine back.
Behavior
Mind the fire
Woven straw burns as readily as a hay bale. Keeping the crop in a storehouse is, in part, keeping it away from the fire.
In the real world
A komedawara is a grain container plaited from rice straw: a woven body mat, a round plaited cap (sandawara) closing each end, and rope hoops around the body. Since the weights and measures act of 1898 one bale of rice has meant four to, about 60 kg — a lying cylinder roughly 47 cm across and 74 cm long.
Differences in game
A real bale holds whatever grain is packed into it; here it is a rough-rice block only, since the contents cannot be chosen. Its real weight — a load for one back — is not modelled either.