Emperor: Ministry Tabs/ Agriculture/ Lacquer Refinery

## Desirability

It can be damaged/destroyed by nearby Fires, Floods, Military attack. It is invulnerable to Earthquake. It and Fields don't require Inspector service.

### Placement info

The Lacquer Refinery should be placed to take advantage of the best Water Table(Hotkey[T]) tiles on the map for the 8x8 tile area. Whatever is under the Lacquer Refinery and connecting roadway is unimportant. Only what is under the Fields will be used for calculating the crop yields.

See Emperor: Crop Yield Calculation for detailed information.

Lacquer Refinery prefers trees, grass & dirt, dislikes rocky areas & ore. Click the Infobox Feng Shui link for more information.

### Field placement info

There is a small inefficiency of a having a Lacquer Refinery fully populated with Fields. Usually, 5~6 front rows of the 8 rows possible is best. Overlapping crop areas is possible, but be careful with Irrigation. Do not overlap across irrigation ditches unless short pathways across the ditches are available.

See Emperor: Ministry Tabs/ Agriculture/ Lacquer Refinery/ Field for more information.

### Employment info

Lacquer Refinery needs employment; shortly before the growing season begins; until the last is harvested. Check the Expandable Table below for specifics. You can shift the employees elsewhere when needed to quickly get an industry going. Just takes a little anticipatory planning on your part.

Lacquer Refineries may be turned off by Right Clicking them to bring up a Dialog. Within the Dialog press the **Working** button to toggle it to **Not Working**. Reverse the process when needed. Also, ensure full employment when needed by setting Agriculture to a high priority in the Industry Ministry(Hotkey[3] pressed twice).

### Right Click Dialog

The dialog can be accessed by Right Clicking the Lacquer Refinery graphics in the City View Map area. Useful information is contained here.

* Amount of Lacquer Commodity stored.
* Current number of Employees(# needed) & the **Working/Not Working** toggle button.

* The Button can be used to micromanage employment when desired. No sense in wasting employment on unproductive months. Just remember to turn it ON before the growing season begin.

## Lacquer Tree TenderTending & Harvesting

Maximum # of Tenders is unknown but assume employee limits. There is no differentiation between the modes until they reach the field.

### Tending

3 tenders initially generated beginning of growing season.
Services up to 6 Fields for 8 days each.
Doubles on each re-spawn which takes 2 days during the growing season, perhaps none during harvest season as harvesters may get re-generated instead.

### Harvesting

3 harvesters generated beginning of harvest season.
Services up to 3 Fields for 8 days each.
Doubles on each re-spawn which takes 2 days during the harvest season, perhaps none during non-harvest season.

### Special situation note

If a mission ends before the Lacquer Tree Tenders have finished their yearly harvest, then a bumper crop may be realized in a continuation mission. Trees maintain there level of completion. The Refinery doesn't shuts down due to the year change, but continues issuing tenders for the new growing season.

## More info

There is a season and yield rating listed in the above Table. Harvested yield is dropped off at the Lacquer Refinery when the harvesting Tender returns to the building. There is a graphical indicator within the Lacquer Refinery that shows how much has accumulated.

When 4 loads have accumulated, a Deliveryman is spawned to take the commodity to a connected Lacquerware Maker, Warehouse or Trading facility. This Deliveryman will push/guard the commodity around the city for 2 years before vaporizing.