Raw cotton cloth

[Kandarim]

sorry guys but i don't understand your problem here. I have usually about 24-30 fields of cotton and cleaning/replanting takes not more than an hour. You can speed up cotton farming a lot if you set up storages/looms close to your cotton fields.

I for one have to admit that until very recently, I was running a 100 cotton fields for silver gains. Even with two characters working at it non-stop, that still takes a good hour and a half for everything, 2/3's of which is cleaning the cotton. I don't agree that it's a thing that must be changed, but just making the point that cleaning IS the larger part of cotton farming.

[martinuzz]

To save time, but seeing how cleaning the cotton is generally considered the most arduous tasks of cotton farming in colonial farming, I'm going to say no thanks.

Then gimme black slaves, for more realistic colonial cotton farming

[Dallane]

To save time, but seeing how cleaning the cotton is generally considered the most arduous tasks of cotton farming in colonial farming, I'm going to say no thanks.

Then gimme black slaves, for more realistic colonial cotton farming

Yeah thats real classy martinuzz

[Snowpig]

recipe for a shipload of black slaves (as done in real life):

- create a shipload of cotton
- load the ship and let it sail sail to England
- sell the cotton
- buy a shipload of small, glittering and otherwise completely useless junk
- sail to west-africa
- trade glittering and otherwise completely useless junk to random chieftain/warlord for a shipload of slaves
- let the ship sail to New-England
- rinse & repeat

[DarkNacht]

- trade glittering and otherwise completely useless junk to random chieftain/warlord for a shipload of slaves

Don't forget to sell them some old guns to make it easier for them to get more slaves to sell you.

[Potjeh]

Seriously guys, cotton gin

A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.[2] The fibers are processed into clothing or other cotton goods, and any undamaged seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil and meal.

Although simple handheld roller gins have been used in India and other countries since at least 500 AD,[3] the first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793, and patented in 1794. It used a combination of a wire screen and small wire hooks to pull the cotton through, while brushes continuously removed the loose cotton lint to prevent jams. Whitney's gin revolutionised the cotton industry in the United States, but also led to the growth of slavery in the American South, and has been identified as a contributing factor to the outbreak of the American Civil War.[4] Modern automated cotton gins offer far higher productivity than their hand-powered forebears.[5]

[Snowpig]

from the same link:

The earliest versions of the cotton gin consisted of a single roller made of iron or wood and a flat piece of stone or wood. Evidence for this type of gin has been found in Africa, Asia, and North America. The first documentation of the cotton gin by contemporary scholars is found in the fifth century AD, in the form of Buddhist paintings depicting a single-roller gin in the Ajanta Caves in western India.[3] These early gins were difficult to use and required a great deal of skill. A narrow single roller was necessary to expel the seeds from the cotton without crushing the seeds. The design was similar to that of a metate, which was used to grind grain. The early history of the cotton gin is ambiguous, because archeologists likely mistook the cotton gin's parts for other tools.[3]

this would imho suit more...

[Potjeh]

I just like Whitney's gin because it tended to rip arms off careless operators

[pistolshrimp]

Whitney's gin tended to rip arms off careless operators

So did Whitney.

[iotuegli]

Whitney's gin tended to rip arms off careless operators

So did Whitney.

and kill characters


PS: that's what devs want