# Too much soap is being used up

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/too-much-soap-is-being-used-up/25584>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [December 30, 2020, 6:09am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/too-much-soap-is-being-used-up/25584 "2020-12-30T06:09:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThinkSome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@ThinkSome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ThinkSome)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 6:09am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/too-much-soap-is-being-used-up/25584/1 "2020-12-30T06:09:24Z")

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1 whole soap bar to wash a t-shirt?!?!

Is there a reason that soap is not implemented as batteries, with which one would “charge” a washing kit?

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**Author:** ![zantanzuken](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zantanzuken/32/10325_2.png) [@zantanzuken](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/zantanzuken)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 6:50am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/too-much-soap-is-being-used-up/25584/2 "2020-12-30T06:50:06Z")

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soap is a very inefficient way to wash clothing, as you’re meant to use it to clean your hands

… y’ever hand wash something?

that aside, you find soap bars in quantities of like 10, where you’d normally expect to find 1 (say, bathrooms), same goes for detergent, you’re assumedly using a ‘whole box’ of detergent when you wash something, but really its just one out of the 20-30 or so you found.

i dont see any problems with how it works right now.

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**Author:** ![ThinkSome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@ThinkSome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ThinkSome)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 6:51am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/too-much-soap-is-being-used-up/25584/3 "2020-12-30T06:51:27Z")

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You find 10 soap bars in a bathroom because it’s a work-around for soap being used up so fast.

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**Author:** ![zantanzuken](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zantanzuken/32/10325_2.png) [@zantanzuken](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/zantanzuken)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 6:54am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/too-much-soap-is-being-used-up/25584/4 "2020-12-30T06:54:26Z")

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basically.

bars of soap/detergent can only be used for cleaning clothes anyway, thats the purpose of it. which is weird because you’d think keeping a water source and soap around for cooking your character would automatically wash their hands before cooking, leading to less likelyhood of contaminating food… but i guess thats also not a feature.  
… could be a feature?

think of it this way, in reality, you’re finding a single bar of soap in the bathroom

… but in CATA, where your character only sees its purpose as ‘cleaning supplies’, its actually 10 pieces of ‘clean my clothes’

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**Author:** ![ThinkSome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@ThinkSome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ThinkSome)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 7:05am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/too-much-soap-is-being-used-up/25584/5 "2020-12-30T07:05:08Z")

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Hence why I suggested making it behave like ammo.

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**Author:** ![zantanzuken](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zantanzuken/32/10325_2.png) [@zantanzuken](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/zantanzuken)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 7:07am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/too-much-soap-is-being-used-up/25584/6 "2020-12-30T07:07:18Z")

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butwhythough.

that means putting it in an unnecessary container, its fine itself as a free item and it works better with crafting

oh, right, soap/detergent can also make soapy water, to unfoul guns.

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**Author:** ![ThinkSome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@ThinkSome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ThinkSome)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/too-much-soap-is-being-used-up/25584/7 "2020-12-30T08:49:21Z")

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I’d work nicely with crafting as well. Recipes already use charges of duck tape for example.

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**Author:** ![zantanzuken](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zantanzuken/32/10325_2.png) [@zantanzuken](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/zantanzuken)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 8:52am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/too-much-soap-is-being-used-up/25584/8 "2020-12-30T08:52:29Z")

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but duct tape is just duct tape, you dont reload it it just has a specific ammount of uses… like singular items. i’m pretty sure theres a reason duct tape is in charge form, i just cant think of it currently.

i mean, yes theres no reason soap COULDNT be in charge form, but you’d have to change it to be that way… and if it aint broke dont fix it.

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**Author:** ![anothersimulacrum](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/anothersimulacrum/32/10770_2.png) [@anothersimulacrum](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/anothersimulacrum)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/too-much-soap-is-being-used-up/25584/9 "2021-01-13T22:44:26Z")

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I don’t know about you, but I tend to keep a couple of bars of soap around so I don’t need to purchase another as soon as one runs out.

Soap(s) could certainly use more granularity in how much a charge consists of, however.

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**Author:** ![ThinkSome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@ThinkSome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ThinkSome)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 6:36am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/too-much-soap-is-being-used-up/25584/10 "2021-01-14T06:36:06Z")

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Yes, same. But I don’t keep around 20.

I suppose this will come once the clothes you wear can become filthy (having to wash oneself and your clothes in-game).