Reed Cutters and Papyrus
In Pharaoh you must have papyrus before you can build
schools or libraries. You must have one or both of these forms of education
to evolve your housing to small residence or above. Making papyrus is
a multi-step process, the first of which is cutting the reeds.
Reed Cutters
 You
can place a reed cutters building anywhere on the map, but it won't
do you any good unless there are reeds nearby. Once you have located
reeds and placed the cutters bldg, five reed cutters will go cross country
to the nearest reed patch and start harvesting them. Each cutter will
clear about one map square of reeds. He will then head back to base
and hand his load over to the cartpusher who will deliver them to a
storage yard or a papyrus maker. The cutter will then return to the
patch and harvest more reeds.If other  reed
cutters return with their loads while the cart is gone, they will just
wait until it returns, so the productivity reed cutters depends partly
upon the distance the cart pusher must travel to deliver his load.
The other factors that limit the out put of reeds is
the proximity and size of the reed patch. It seems that each square
of reed patch will yield about one cartload. It takes at least one game
year for reeds to regenerate after being picked.
Papyrus Makers
 Papyrus
makers transform the reeds into papyrus. A papyrus maker can produce
about .48 cartloads of papyrus per month. When a load is ready, the
workshop's cartpusher will deliver it to either a school, library, or
a storage yard. For more information on schools and libraries go here.
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