It shouldn't even be soap but laundry detergent. And any washboard is pointless, especially with modern detergents, although I might understand that its activation is needed to start the process. Ideally the laundry formula should be like:
- Dirty clothing items (note their total volume)
- Nearby water source. OR. Laundry volume + 5L of water.
- 5ml of laundry detergent per 1L of water used, rounded up to nearest liter.
- Laundry volume x2 more water for rinsing. (at minimum)
- 30 minutes of time.
Forced infinite water source requirement would cut down the math, but then you couldn’t use your water tanks even if you wanted to. I’m still debating internally if fire source (hot water) should be necessary. Feels like a PITA. I would also change the washboard activation to laundry detergent activation.
I think you guys debating the requisite volumes of detergent, etc, seem to be either trolling or missing the point entirely.
What if we just made a reloadable clothes washing machine/board/bucket? Add a recipe for cleaning water that requires soap or detergent and reload the item that cleans with the soapy water?
Or how about we drop the whole idea of virtual laundry altogether? I’d imagine most people do more than enough laundry in their actual lives to want to spend time doing it in their videogames too.
It was an objectively bad idea, and now it’s gone, and it’s not coming back, so just forget about it already.