Lôxin LX - Mushroom Harvester

“What do you have to pay attention to when harvesting mushrooms?” Nîm, the intelligent professor of fungineury at the Mushroom Academy of Tirvox ad Coimi, asked his students.
“Not to step on the mushrooms?” was one student’s questioning answer.
"Maybe, the right posture...", one of the students took a short break to think: "... and, the right cut."
"Very true!" was the professor's answer. He ran to the board where there was a huge blueprint and used his pointer to explain the individual components and functions of a Lôxin LX - one of the most important inventions since the discovery of magic mushroom meadows.

Technical data

Name: Lôxin LX
Inventor: Înin, the researcher in the year 256 AEC
Classification: Walking harvester
Modell: Nù LX-8 (8th Generation)
Output: 20 bis 35 xT (1 Xá-Tîr corresponds to 0,5 kWh)
Manufacturer: Ôldrix
Costs: 480 zo 650 Aelgis

The Invention

As the weather in Âdocoris became warmer and wetter at the end of the Age of the Ancestors, the yield in the Magic Mushroom Meadows increased from year to year, requiring more and more harvest workers. The prospective students of the Mushroom Academy were also deployed in the months with the largest mushroom harvests, although they were little or not used to this hard work. Among them was Înin, the researcher, one of the best students of her time, who had discovered the mushroom magic matrix at a very young age and was therefore one of the rising stars in the Funghineur sky.
During her assignment, Înin learned about the difficulties such as back curvatures, light-footed pedaling and the slow work of mushroom harvesting and began to jot down ideas and small drawings for a harvesting machine on loose pieces of paper. It took her about two years to develop the machine and on the 10th of Lârisâdi 256 AEC she submitted the patent for the Lôxin LX to the Elaqitan Oversight Board for Tinkerer. The original blueprint is now in the Museum of Goblin Technology at Tirvox ad Coimi in Âdocôris.

Blueprint of Lôxin LX by Înin, the researcher
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How the Lôxin LX works
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Appearance, Function & Effects

The 8th generation Nù LX-8 model is approximately two meters high. The machine resembles a giant ant with six long legs and small feet. The feet have an air-filled attachment to prevent them from sinking even in wetter meadows, as well as a narrow tip in the middle. This allows her to move over the magic mushroom meadows without destroying the mushrooms. At the same time, the soil is ventilated through the top.
The Lôxin LX is controlled by a mushroom keeper who sits in a cabin at the "head" of the machine. The engine located at the rear of the walking harvester contains earth magic energy stones for propulsion. The legs and harvesting arms can be controlled individually or simultaneously.
The harvester is equipped with six harvesting arms and one cutting arm, which are fixed to the lower belly. Each arm has two ball joints, which ensures optimal alignment with the mushrooms, and moves in a separate rail system. The harvesting arms have a suction cup at the end that gently docks onto the mushroom caps without destroying them. A small rotating saw blade is mounted at the end of the cutting arm, which cuts the mushrooms just above the ground by moving the arm back and forth on a horizontal rail. Since the mushrooms are not torn out of the ground but cut off, the mushroom harvest is also guaranteed next year.
When the mushrooms have been harvested, the harvesting arms transport them through the vertical rails into a collection container located in the "belly" of the machine. Before the harvesting machines were used, around two tons of mushrooms were harvested annually. Today it is around 13 to 15 tonnes per year.
One harvester replaces up to five harvest workers. Since the machines were used, illnesses such as back curvatures and diseases caused by fungi have been significantly reduced.