Maple pastries

Maple Pastries are a processed food good in Timberborn. They are produced by combining wheat flour and maple syrup and baking the mixture in a bakery. Maple Pastries require a chain of production steps and specific producers and buildings to transform raw crops and tapped syrup into the finished food item.

Producing maple pastries begins with wheat farming. Farmers working from a farmhouse plant, tend, and harvest wheat. The harvested wheat must be processed into wheat flour by grinding it; the game requires the wheat to be ground before it can be used in the pastry recipe. Maple syrup is obtained by assigning a tapper to fully grown maples; tappers harvest maple syrup only from maples that have reached maturity. Once both wheat flour and maple syrup are available, a bakery combines and bakes these inputs to create maple pastries.

• Maple Pastries are classified as a processed food good and thus require finished inputs rather than raw crops.
• Required producers and buildings: farmers (at a farmhouse) to grow wheat, a mill or other grinder to convert wheat into wheat flour, a tapper to harvest maple syrup from fully grown maples, and a bakery to bake flour and syrup into maple pastries.
• The maple syrup input must come from fully grown maple trees tapped by a tapper; immature maples do not yield syrup.
• The wheat input must be harvested and then ground into wheat flour before it can be used in the bakery recipe.

Maple Pastries serve as a manufactured food item that depends on the agricultural and production infrastructure of a settlement. Planning for their production involves allocating farmland and farmers, placing and staffing a tapper near mature maple trees, ensuring a mill or grinding facility handles wheat-to-flour conversion, and providing a staffed bakery for the final baking step.