Gristmill

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Building

General

Grinds plant matter into flour.

With more complicated diet came the idea of multi-stage food processing.

Construction

The building's entrance is on the far right side of one of its long sides.

Construction chain
Forester plants Trees. Lumberjack Flag fells Trees to produce Logs. Lumber Mill \| Industrial Lumber Mill turn Logs into Planks Gear Workshop turns Planks into Gears

Strategy

Gristmills are the only powered food building of the Folktails faction, however both the Grill and the Bakery transmit power so you can avoid complicated use of Power Shafts in your food processing districts.

Gristmill processes Wheat and Cattail Root into Wheat Flour and Cattail Flour respectively.
These flours are Ingredients, they require further transformation in the Bakery, so these buildings should be built close to one another.

A Gristmill producing Wheat Flour provides enough for 2 bakeries producing Bread or 3 bakeries producing Maple Pastry. A gristmill producing Cattail Flour provides enough for 2 bakeries producing Cattail Crackers

Trivia

Gristmills date back over 2,000 years, with early versions powered by hand or animals before water and wind power became common.
The word “grist” refers to grain that is brought to a mill to be ground.
Traditional gristmills use two large stones: the bedstone (stationary) and the runner stone (rotates above it). Grooves carved into the stones (called furrows) help cut the grain while the flat areas crush it.